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RB 78/00155 Rufus River aquifer test, Lake Victoria, NSW (Client - EWS Department).
Lake Victoria is an off-river water storage in western N.S.W. and the Rufus River is its outfall channel to the River Murray. Very saline groundwater seeps into the Rufus River and hence enters the River Murray system. A groundwater pumping scheme is...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 79/00017 Completion report irrigation well for D.J. and N.P. Mount, secn 11 Hd Kingsford, Co. Chandos.
The well has been drilled into an area of low salinity groundwater occurring within the Tertiary limestone aquifer at Karte, north-west of Pinnaroo. A 48-hour well test was carried out at an average pumping rate of 2600 m3/day (23,800 gals/hr), and...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 96/00015 Regional groundwater impacts of irrigation development in the eastern Riverland.
A regional groundwater model has been constructed of the Loxton Sands watertable aquifer in the eastern Riverland, over an area extending eastwards from Overland Corner to the State border. It is being used to quantify the salt load impacts on the...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1995
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RB 99/00009 Loxton irrigation area. Groundwater modelling of ground water / river interaction.
A combined groundwater and solute transport model (MODFLOW and MT3D) was constructed of the Loxton Irrigation Area to determine the future impacts on groundwater levels and salt loads to the river and floodplain for a range of local irrigation...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1999
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RB 96/00017 River Murray water resource management. Assessment of salt load impacts and drainage hazard for new irrigation development along the River Murray in South Australia.
The Murray-Darling Basin Commission (MDBC) has a commitment in the national interest to managing the health of the River Murray and floodplain environment by mitigating both decreases in river water quality and associated environmental degradation...-
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Published: 01 May 1996
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Lilydale, SA. Progress report and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/4/1969 to 31/3/1971.
An airborne scintillometer reconnaissance with ground-based follow-up, a geochemical study of groundwater, and open-hole rotary mud drilling (10 vertical holes, total 3205 feet) plus downhole wireline geophysical logging failed to locate significant...-
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Postmark. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 7/5/1970 to 5/5/1972.
Exploration for possible economic sedimentary uranium deposits in the Postmark area on the northern margin of the Murray Basin in South Australia comprised two airborne radiometric and scintillometric surveys together totalling approximately 1350...-
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Mannum area (including the Anna and Sedan coal deposits). Data release at licence expiry/renewal : coal exploration progress reports and data, plus Sedan coal deposit mine planning management progress reports, for the period 13/11/1978 to 20/8/1992.
TARGET: Possible Tertiary brown coal deposits near Sedan, in the western Murray Basin. EXPLORATION: Evaluation of data as obtained earlier by SADM/SADME drilling and more recently by subject licensees Thiess/CSR from rotary mud vertical open hole and...-
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RB 00738 Chowilla Project. Reservoir geological investigations. Progress report no. 2. Proposed study of effects on groundwater regime, Co. Hamley.
It has been appreciated since the first geological report by Johnson, Hiern and Steel (RB 51/00136) that the filling of the proposed Chowilla Dam would cause some flushing downstream of saline groundwater present in sands beneath the Murray River...-
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Published: 01 May 1900
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RB 2022/00003 Zircon provenance and sedimentary transport processes – implications for the late Neogene evolution and heavy mineral deposits of the western Murray Basin, South Australia.
Strandlines or elevated shorelines, located across the Murray Basin in south-eastern Australia, trace the preserved remnants of former emergent coastlines that developed during the Late Miocene (c. 7 to 4 Ma) marine regression. Strandline traces...-
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Published: 01 May 2022
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Bull 035 The Hydrology of the Murray Basin Province in South Australia ( Vol 1 and 2)
This report covers an intensive survey of the groundwater resources of the southeastern portion of the State and is an important contribution to the study of the hydrology of Australian groundwaters. The State possesses a major economic asset, in a...-
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RB 2021/00011 Models, geology and exploration of heavy mineral deposits in South Australia.
This study draws together diverse aspects of South Australia’s heavy minerals (HM) resources geoscience to provide an overall context for evaluating their occurrence, economic significance and origins. Two main objectives are addressed by the subject...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2021
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RB 74/00152 Investigation of potential evaporation basins, Upper Murray, South Australia. Progress report 1. Appendix Analogue model experiments to determine saline groundwater flow into the Murray River system
Groundwater flow in the Upper Murray region is generally towards the River Murray except in the Noora area where contours show a depression in the water table surface. The Noora area appears to be the most suitable site for an evaporation basin for...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1974
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RB 75/00127 Investigation of Noora evaporation basin, Upper Murray, South Australia.
Further drilling and pump testing between the proposed Noora evaporation basin and the River Murray has provided data for determining aquifer parameters. Using the Boulton delayed yield method a transmissivity of 100 m2/day was obtained for one...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1975
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RB 76/00016 Investigation of potential evaporation basins, Upper Murray, South Australia. Progress report no. 3.
Further drilling and aquifer testing between the proposed Noora evaporation basin and the River Murray yielded an average value of about 100 m3/day/m for transmissivity of the Loxton Sand aquifer. It is therefore expected that initial effects of such...-
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Published: 16 Feb 1976
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The Padthaway Ridge Sedimentary Uranium Project. Joint annual technical reports to licences' combined full surrender, for the period 30/1/2008 to 3/9/2013.
A package of fourteen mineral exploration tenements were taken up that straddled the north-eastern and south-western sides of the Padthaway Ridge, to allow the licensee to explore both the Tertiary Murray Basin and Gambier Basin sediments where they...-
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Published: 16 Jul 1913
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Mantung (part of the Murray Basin Project). Second partial surrender report, for the period 14/10/1997 to 15/10/2013.
A block comprising 319 square km or ~12.7% of the north-western corner of EL 5223 has been relinquished due to its now perceived diminished prospectivity for containing economic heavy mineral sands mineralisation, due to the apparent general absence...-
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RB 2003/00013 North-western Murray Basin geological synthesis, South Australia.
The Murray Basin is an intracratonic basin filled with Cainozoic fluvial to shallow marine sediments. Deposition in the Eocene and early Oligocene was characterised by floodplain and swamp deposits, emplaced with occasional interbeds of shelly clays...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2003
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RB 2000/00038 Qualco Sunlands groundwater control scheme - Stage 1: Aquifer testing for inter-aquifer leakage.
Aquifer testing at two sites in the Qualco Sunlands Irrigation Area showed there is no detectable leakage between the Loxton Sands perched aquifer and the underlying Murray Group Limestone aquifer, provided that representative readings were obtained...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2000
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RB 2000/00037 Qualco Sunlands groundwater control scheme - Stage 2: QS9 drilling and well testing completion report.
The contract drilling of three production wells, three combined interflow/production wells, three interflow wells, one observation well and seven drainage wells was carried out by Thompson Drilling Company as part of Stage 2 of the Qualco Sunlands...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2000
