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Lake Carnanto. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 30/11/1978 to 11/2/1983.
The south-eastern Lake Frome Embayment in the vicinity of Quinyambie Station was explored for Upper and Lower Tertiary 'blanket' or 'roll front' type sedimentary uranium, via the drilling of 75 open vertical rotary mud holes with a total penetration...-
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RB 60/00107 Stuart Range no. 3 bore, Coober Pedy, stratigraphy and micropalaeontology.
Stuart Range No.3 bore, which was deepened by rotary drilling during January-March 1965 in a search for additional underground water supplies for the Coober Pedy Opalfield, and which was completed as a stratigraphic bore (with some bottomhole rotary...-
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Published: 26 May 1965
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RB 82/00092 Margin of the Eromanga Basin South Australia. A review.
The geology is reviewed, with emphasis on exposure and surface expression of the basin and regional geological mapping aspects. Prior to 1978, the term Great Artesian Basin was used to refer to the Eromanga Basin in SA. Discusses early contributions...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1982
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Old Hut area (part of the Marree Uranium JV Project). First annual report for the period 30/6/2009 to 29/6/2010.
Exploration for possible Beverley - type Tertiary sedimentary uranium deposits associated with the north-western margin of the Mount Babbage Inlier, being undertaken within a small licence area centred approximately 120 km east of Lyndhurst, has...-
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Published: 16 Sep 1910
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Organic petrology of a suite of samples from Merrimelia 15 and a comparison with Merrimelia 6 and 7.
Ten samples of drill cuttings from Merrimelia 15 were examined in polished section under normally incident white light and under reflected light UV fluorescence mode. Brief descriptions of the dispersed organic matter contained in each sample, plus...-
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Oil Prospecting Licence 4, Lake Cootabarlow area. Progress reports to licence full surrender, for the period 18/11/1948 to 9/1/1950, plus technical correspondence and results of drill sample analyses, as later submitted to the SA Department of Mines.
A 50 square mile area centred immediately south-southeast of Lake Cootabarlow, and lying ~12 miles south of the Moolawatana 1 water bore, was taken up by Australian - based holding company Frome - Broken Hill Co. Pty Ltd as an Oil Prospecting Licence...-
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Benagerie. Progress reports and annual reports, plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 13/11/1979 to 9/3/1989.
TARGET: Sedimentary uranium in Tertiary sandstone, plus Olympic Dam type copper-gold mineralisation and Broken Hill or Mount Isa type stratiform base metal mineralisation in the underlying basement rocks. EXPLORATION: Stratigraphic drilling (162...-
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Petroleum geochemistry and source-rock potential of the Arrowie, Pedirka, Cooper and Eromanga Basins, central Australia.
Samples of ?Ordovician to Cretaceous sediments taken from 5 Pedirka Basin petroleum exploration wells, and of crude oils recovered from the Jurassic Poolowanna and Triassic Peera Peera Formations intersected in Poolowanna 1, were examined. The...-
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1981 and 1982 seismic surveys, Wertaloona and Christmas Creek-ARR, final report.
Wertaloona Seismic Survey - AIM:The 1981 Wertaloona Seismic Survey programme was designed by the PELs 5 and 6 Arrowie Block partners to provide the first high quality, multifold seismic reflection data in the area of likely preserved thick Cambrian...-
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Results of the Modified Fischer Distillation extraction of crude oil compounds from selected Cretaceous shale drill cuttings samples recovered from 11 water bores in the southern Eromanga Basin, South Australia.
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Published: 11 Feb 1981
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Cretaceous stratigraphy of the southwestern Eromanga Basin - Part 1: general introduction, formation tops and log correlation diagrams for the interval Toolachee Formation to 'C'-Horizon.
This company study of the Eromanga Basin sequence within PELs 5 and 6 and ATP 259P was designed to provide the Delhi Petroleum exploration consortium with data on the following: (a) thickness and correlation of Aptian-Albian units throughout the...-
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RI 051 Andamooka Opal Fields The Geology of the Precious Stones Field and The Results of the Subsidised Mining Program
Since discovery of the opal field in 1930, Andamooka, 640 km by road north of Adelaide, has been a major world producer of precious opal. All workable opal at Andamooka has been found in the Marree Formation, a sequence of marine sediments of...-
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RB 00655 Delhi-Frome-Santos Innamincka no. 1 well. Subsurface stratigraphy and micropalaeontological study. Final report.
Innamincka no. 1 well was drilled to a depth of 12,638 feet KB and penetrated a sedimentary sequence of Mesozoic and Palaeozoic rocks ranging in age from Cretaceous to ?Devonian. Marine Cretaceous (Albian) carbonaceous mudstones and siltstones were...-
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Published: 08 Feb 1960
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RB 00658 Delhi-Frome-Santos Betoota 001 well. Subsurface stratigraphy and micropalaeontological study.
Betoota No. 1 Well was drilled to a depth of 9824 feet and penetrated a sedimentary sequence of Cretaceous and Jurassic rocks to 5757 feet before entering steeply dipping red bed conglomerate and sandstone the age of which is uncertain. Marine...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1960
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RB 00626 Santos Oodnadatta no. 1 well. Micropalaeontological examination.
The fossil microfaunal assemblage in the Oodnadatta 1 petroleum wildcat well has been examined as a basis for correlation and possible zonation of the Lower Cretaceous sequence in the South Australian portion of the Great Artesian Basin. 112 samples...-
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Published: 01 May 1900
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RB 00679 Delhi-Santos' Dullingari 1 subsurface stratigraphy and micropalaeontological study. Progress report.
Dullingari 1 to a depth of 2798 metres has intersected a sedimentary sequence of Tertiary, Mesozoic and Permian rocks, the age of the sediments below 2756 metres being at present uncertain. This report presents lithological data and stratigraphic...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1900
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Bull 040 Cretaceous Biostratigraphy of the Great Artesian Basin in South Australia
After its formation as a single sedimentary entity the Great Artesian Basin provided a marine environment only during the Cretaceous Aptian, Albian and early Cenomanian in South Australia. Santos' Oodnadatta 1 well (1957), continuously cored through...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Mount Yerila. Annual reports for the period 26/8/2002 to 25/8/2009.
Exploration licence 3001 “Mount Yerila” is situated in the northern Flinders Ranges in the Moolawatana area, approximately 140 km east of Marree. The target commodity sought by Quasar Resources is uranium mineralisation in Tertiary sands and...-
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Published: 20 Nov 1909
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RB 2012/00004 MARREE, South Australia, [geological map] sheet SH54-5. South Australia. Geological Survey. 1:250 000 Series - Explanatory Notes.
The MARREE mapsheet area includes the south-western portion of the Strzelecki Desert plus parts of the Tirari Desert, north-western Flinders Ranges and north-eastern Willouran Ranges, between latitudes 29 to 30 degrees S and longitudes 138 to 139...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2012
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Betoota 001, Queensland. Well completion report.
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Published: 01 Jan 1960