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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 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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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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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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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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Tertiary geology of the Coward Cliff area, between Lake Eyre and Lake Torrens, South Australia.
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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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 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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RB 74/00025 Geology of the FROME 1:250 000 geological map and adjacent regions.
The Frome 1: 250 000 map covers the northern part of the South Australian portion of the Frome Embayment. The embayment is essentially the eastern portion of a Mesozoic basin, developed on Palaeozoic and Precambrian rocks during Upper Jurassic time by...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1974
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RB 76/00027 Explanatory Notes for the FROME 1:250 000 geological map.
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Published: 01 Mar 1976
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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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Murnpeowie. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 15/1/1970 to 9/2/1973.
Greenfields uranium exploration of Mesozoic and Cainozoic sediments was carried out over an interpreted synclinal feature on Murnpeowie Station, in an area located between the Mount Babbage Block and the Willouran Ranges. The target was possible...-
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Report on geological reconnaissance, Oil Exploration Licence 12, South Australia.
The portion of OEL 12 covered by the geological reconnaissance is approximately 2800 square miles in area. Of this area, about half was examined over the period from 13 October to 1 November 1958 by making fairly close spaced traverses along...-
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Northern Willouran Ranges. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 12/3/1970 to 11/9/1971.
Exploration for possible economic stratabound/stratiform copper, zinc and vanadium mineralisation occurring within a large area located south-west of Marree has consisted of geological field mapping and regional stream sediment sampling (3470...-
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Published: 10 Jun 1971
