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Saw Mill. Progress and final reports for the period 22/2/1973 to 22/2/1974.
Investigations included drilling in the eastern part of EL 41, costeaning and close space drilling near Nob Well and Apollonaris anomaly, water well sampling, and ground search for carnotite.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1974
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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 60/00040 Geology of the MARREE 1:250 000 map area.
The MARREE mapsheet area lies in arid country about 400 miles north of Adelaide, South Australia. It includes the town of Marree, on the Alice Springs railway line, and part of the Birdsville and Strzelecki tracks. The area is covered mainly by flat...-
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Published: 03 Mar 1965
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RB 80/00038 Vesuvius opal diggings.
Small quantities were mined from 1977 to 1978. The opal infills joints in leached and weathered Cretaceous shale. Considerable potential exists for further small finds of opal.-
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Published: 01 May 1980
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RB 84/00047 Origin and formation of matrix opal from Andamooka, South Australia.
Two specimens were probably formed by partial dissolution of Andamooka Limestone erratics within Cretaceous marine sandy clay, followed by replacement of the remaining carbonate rock by fine grained silica together with growth and deposition of silica...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1984
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RB 83/00007 Coober Pedy Opalfields - Results of the subsidised exploration programme, 1981.
221 shafts were drilled. Precious opal or potch was found in 11 shafts and good sandstone prospective for opal in 34 shafts. A new field, Southern Cross, was established subsequent to the discovery of potch in subsidised shaft 85.-
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Published: 01 Mar 1983
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RB 79/00006 Opal at the Stuart Creek, Charlie Swamp and Yarrawurta Cliff diggings. Report no. 12 on geological investigations and Calweld drilling of the Stuart Creek Precious Stones Field.
Small quantities of precious opal have been mined from sediments of the Early Cretaceous Marree Formation at Stuart Creek, 50 km north of Andamooka. These sediments appear to have been unaffected by the Early Tertiary deep weathering and bleaching...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 78/00086 Andamooka Opalfields. A geological guide for the opal prospector.
During May - September 1978, 66 shafts were sunk under subsidised mining programmes to encourage testing of new areas. The new fields of Stans Hill and Yarloo West were established subsequent to the discovery of opal in Shafts 17 and 49.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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Bopeechee. Annual reports, first partial surrender report and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 24/9/2007 to 23/9/2009.
An area located approximately 60 km west of Marree was taken up to explore for possible economic roll-front style sedimentary uranium mineralisation formed within the Bopeechee Palaeochannel, which drains strongly disrupted Adelaidean metasediments,...-
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Published: 18 Nov 1909
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Lake Arthur East, Lake Arthur West and Lake Arthur (the Lake Surprise Project and the Mumpie Project). Data release made in lieu of submitting partial surrender reports : annual and joint annual reports for the period 29/8/2006 to 28/8/2014.
A wide basinal area located east of Marree and bordering the northern Willouran Ranges is being explored afresh for sedimentary uranium occurrences in response to market conditions and the demonstrated prospectivity of the local cover rocks, which...-
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Published: 30 Oct 1914
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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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Lake Arthur East and Lake Arthur (the Lake Surprise Project). Data release - as updated - made in lieu of submitting these licences' third partial surrender reports : joint annual reports for the period 29/8/2014 to 28/8/2018.
A wide basinal area located east of Marree and bordering the northern Willouran Ranges is being explored afresh for sedimentary uranium occurrences in response to market conditions and the demonstrated prospectivity of the local cover rocks, which...-
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Published: 10 Jul 1918
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Mount Distance. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 3/9/1970 to 2/9/1971.
In a search for possible roll-front type secondary uranium deposits emplaced in piedmont alluvial sediments over an area adjacent to the north-western edge of the Mount Painter Block, the licensees drilled 6 scout vertical rotary holes totalling 2151...-
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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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Purni 1. Test reports.
Contains results of government consultants' palynological and palaeontological studies of drill cuttings and cores, plus data obtained from DST fluid sample water and gas analyses and from conventional core analyses and source rock analytical...-
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Lake Coontayunta. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 4/1/1979 to 18/12/1979.
An exploration licence area covering the projected northerly trending, buried portion of the Precambrian Benagerie Ridge basement was taken up by CRA to explore principally for possible secondary sandstone-hosted uranium mineralisation in Tertiary and...-
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Published: 30 Nov 1979
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RB 2018/00001 Regolith hand specimen atlas for South Australia
This regolith material hand specimen atlas displays 246 images of 212 regolith samples which have been collected over the last 30 years by the authors, present and past Geological Survey of South Australia (GSSA) staff and members of the Cooperative...-
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Published: 01 May 2018
