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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 80/00026 Opal in South Australia.
Enlarged written version of a talk on the geology of opal, its occurrence and mining methods prepared for public presentation.-
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Published: 01 May 1980
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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 80/00103 Lambina opal diggings.
Small quantities of precious opal have been mined 1977-79. Opal and potch occur as opaline-silica cement within Cretaceous sandstone lenses, and as thin seams and fracture infillings within Cretaceous claystone, clasts and vein infillings within...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1980
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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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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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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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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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RB 2009/00001 Explanatory Notes for [the] CALLABONNA 1:250 000 Geological Map, sheet SH 54-6.
The CALLABONNA map area includes the southern end of the Strzelecki Desert and the north- eastern Flinders Ranges, between latitudes 29° to 30° S and longitudes 139° 30' to 141° E. Cameron Corner adjoins New South Wales and Queensland in the...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2009
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Geology of the Stuart Creek - Charlie Swamp area, northern South Australia.
As a B.Sc. Honours project with the Geology Department of the University of Adelaide, which was sponsored by the South Australian Department of Mines and Energy, the author during 1978 carried out geological mapping of a nearly 400 square km area...-
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Marree. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 31/8/1977 to 10/2/1979.
Exploration conducted over an area stretching westwards and eastwards from Marree, along the south-western margin of the Great Artesian Basin, addressed the potential for possible economic sedimentary deposits of trona, sodium bentonite, chlorite,...-
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Curdimurka. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 11/8/1977 to 10/4/1979.
An area located along the Marree - Alice Springs Railway in the region of Curdimurka was selected to be explored on the basis of its potential to contain deposits of bedded trona in closed basins, and to have sodium carbonate brines present in near...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 5 partnership DPY5-03 - Benagerie Ridge Joint Venture area iron oxide - associated copper-gold mineral prospects. Project final report.
PACE drilling collaboration proposal DPY5-03 was formulated to drill test two gravity - (magnetic) anomalies located by 500 m x 500 m spaced gravity data which had been read by Newcrest Operations along the crest of the buried Benagerie Ridge basement...-
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