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Watson Siding (South). Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 11/12/81 to 10/10/82.
In a search for possible concealed Olympic Dam type base metal deposits within an area located 80 km north-west of Yalata, the licensee investigated several previously identified contiguous magnetic and gravity anomalies by performing ground magnetic...-
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Published: 16 Dec 1982
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Bunabie Rockhole, Hughes and Nullarbor Plain. Progress reports and final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 20/10/1980 to 19/10/1982.
Roxby Downs - type base metal deposits, potentially associated with linear and discrete magnetic anomalies of unknown origin in the basement, were the prime targets of exploration in an area extending between Koonalda and Hughes, adjacent to the SA/WA...-
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Koonalda. Progress reports for the period 7/8/79 to 18/7/82.
Following an airborne magnetic/radiometric survey, two rotary percussion holes totalling 819 m were drilled on negative magnetic anomalies to reach pre-Mesozoic basement (gabbro and meta-sandstone) in the Koonalda area of the Nullarbor Plain. No...-
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RB 90/00029 Seismic study of the offshore Denman and Eucla Basins.
Four horizons were mapped (top of basement, top of Permian, top of Cretaceous and Sea Floor). The Denman Basin is a 50 km wide, north-south trending depression in Early Palaeozoic - Precambrian bedrock, infilled with up to 400 metres of Permian...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1991
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RB 93/00003 Evidence of Late Jurassic to earliest Cretaceous sedimentation from Maralinga 6 well, northernmost Bight Basin.
This report is the text of a paper submitted for inclusion in the AGSO Journal of Australian Geology & Geophysics - special issue devoted to 'The Mineral Potential of Major Provinces'. In this final form the paper was submitted to AGSO in...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1993
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RB 92/00021 Petrological data on the evolution of the Great Australian Bight.
Sedimentation in the Great Australian Bight (GAB) has occurred in a variety of settings from the initial intra-cratonic rift to the modern carbonate shelf. An extensive palaeodrainage system, remnants of which are still preserved, supplied clastic...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1992
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Murrawijinie, Denman, Koonalda and Cook [Wigunda]. Progress and final reports for the period 7/7/80 to 27/7/81.
Cretaceous sediments in the Eucla Basin portion lying within South Australia's far west were investigated for their oil shale potential. This search was prompted by a recorded occurrence of a thick, oily Cretaceous shale horizon intersected in a...-
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Published: 10 Jun 1981
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Stratigraphy and palynology of the Great Australia Bight Basin, offshore South Australia.
This frontier basin lithostratigraphic and biostratigraphic correlation study is largely based on the petrographic examination of 104 thin sections of samples from rocks intersected in the three Shell offshore exploration wells drilled on the northern...-
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EPP 11, Eucla and Bight Basins. Progress and technical reports for the period 8/11/68 to 26/4/77.
EPP 11 was taken up by Shell in mid-1968 as high risk, potentially high reward frontier acreage over very deep water (200 to 2000 metres) in the Great Australian Bight outer continental shelf / continental slope region of South Australia. At that...-
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Published: 26 Apr 1977
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Final report, South Australia offshore permits SA.10 and SA.11.
The R 10 Marine Seismic Survey was conducted during March, 1976 within EPPs 10 and 11 to detail the previously indicated Galah, Kookaburra and Rosella-Jabiru leads. This survey defined three structurally sound closures, Galah, Kookaburra East and...-
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Great Australian Bight Basin, offshore South Australia.
EPPs 10 and 11 currently comprise 239 graticular blocks (approximately 17 000 sq km) in the Great Australian Bight Basin. No wells have yet been drilled in these permits which lie entirely in water depths greater than 200 m and ranging down to 1 500...-
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EPP 10, Eucla and Bight Basins. Progress and technical reports for the period 8/11/68 to 26/4/77.
EPP 10 was taken up by Shell in mid-1968 as high risk, potentially high reward frontier acreage over very deep water (200 to 2000 metres) in the Great Australian Bight outer continental shelf / continental slope region of South Australia. At that...-
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Published: 26 Apr 1977
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PEL 33, Eucla and Denman Basins. Progress reports for the period 25/6/85 to 18/4/89.
Contains interpretation reports on satellite imagery remote sensing and reprocessed aeromagnetic data, plus other brief interpretative statements by the contract operator contained within some quarterly tenement reports.-
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Published: 18 Apr 1989
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1987 seismic surveys, Denman and Denman 'B', final reports.
Denman Seismic Survey - AIM: This seismic survey of 4 lines totalling 40.0 line kms coverage was conducted in the southern Denman Trough, in the vicinity of Outback Oil's Denman 1 well drilled in 1966, in order to fulfil the Licence Year 2 work...-
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RB 00780 Brief study of the Eucla Basin, with recommendations for further petroleum work.
This report provides a brief summary of the geology and petroleum potential of the onshore, South Australian portion of the Eucla Basin at the time of termination of PEL 4, with the aim of providing a starting point for more thorough studies.-
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Published: 31 Jan 1900
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RB 2007/00011 Original full content version of] OOLDEA, South Australia, [geological map] sheet SH52-12. South Australia. Geological Survey. 1:250 000 Series - Explanatory Notes.
The OOLDEA 1:250 000 map area, in the far west of SA, includes portions of the Maralinga Tjarutja Aboriginal Lands, Maralinga Prohibited Area, and Nullarbor Regional Reserve. It is traversed by the Trans-Australian Railway. There is no significant...-
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Published: 01 Jun 2007
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RB 2018/00028 PACE Copper Coompana Drilling Project: U-Pb dating of basement and cover rocks
In 2017, the Geological Survey of South Australia, in partnership with Geoscience Australia, undertook a regional drilling program in the far west of South Australia: the Coompana Drilling Project. The project sought to obtain geological information...-
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Published: 01 May 2019
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RB 2017/00045 PACE Copper Coompana Drilling Project: Drillhole CDP008 preliminary field-data report.
The Geological Survey of South Australia, in partnership with Geoscience Australia, is undertaking a regional pre-competitive geoscience research drilling program in the far west of South Australia called the Coompana Drilling Project. The Coompana...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2017
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RB 2017/00041 PACE Copper Coompana Drilling Project: Drillhole CDP005 preliminary field-data report.
The Geological Survey of South Australia, in partnership with Geoscience Australia, is undertaking a regional pre-competitive geoscience research drilling program in the far west of South Australia called the Coompana Drilling Project. The Coompana...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2017
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RB 2018/00036 Regional geochemistry of the Coompana area.
The Coompana area is characterised by several thick basin cover sequences dominantly composed of limestone, and forms the topographically flat Nullarbor Plain. Consequently, this region was previously considered too challenging for mineral...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2018
