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RB 79/00146 Exploration for underground gas storage targets in South Australia.
Geophysical and geological surveys and drilling in the Northern Adelaide Plains of South Australia have located a Tertiary palaeochannel incised within Proterozoic bedrock. Present data indicate favourable reservoir and seal conditions for the...-
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RB 81/00107 Heavy minerals at Golden Grove, report no. 2. Results of 1980 drilling programme. Hd Yatala, Co. Adelaide.
During drilling of construction sand and clay in 1976 and 1977, an accumulation of heavy minerals was discovered in an embayment on the eastern margin of the Tertiary basin. Heavy minerals, mainly ilmenite, rutile,and zircon, with lesser amounts of...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1981
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RB 94/00009 Soils, stratigraphy and engineering geology of near surface materials of the Adelaide Plains.
Metropolitan Adelaide is founded on a wide variety of soils that overlie sediments and rocks. Some of the soils and sediments react to seasonal and human-induced changes in water content with marked changes in volume. The black earths and...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1996
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RB 99/00011 Physical properties of construction sands from the Adelaide area.
In response to a request for assistance from the State Heritage Branch, a suite of 56 sand samples has been collected from all major currently producing sand pits in the outer metropolitan area. Physical properties including grain size, grain...-
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Published: 01 May 1999
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RB 97/00025 Preliminary report of palaeodrainage in the St Vincent Basin and Mount Lofty Ranges.
Generalised contouring of the Mount Lofty Ranges aimed at reconstructing the Tertiary landsurface topography has identified the locations of a number of possible buried fluvial valleys and channels associated with the St Vincent Basin palaeodrainage,...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1997
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RB 95/00004 Willunga Basin. Review of hydrogeology and water budget.
The Willunga Basin is a groundwater resource being stressed by groundwater abstraction for agricultural purposes. The Southern Vales Water Resources Committee, in conjunction with MESA, DENR and SA WATER, are developing groundwater management...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1995
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Investigation into public risks from potential landfill gas migration and abandoned underground clay mine workings in the Saint Agnes district of Adelaide.
Field investigations including drilling and soil gas sampling, carried out as part of a subsurface hazard assessment for a parcel of land at Saint Agnes, did not indicate any significant risks to an intended building development.-
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Published: 27 Feb 1903
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Kersbrook. Progress report for the period 14/2/91 to 13/8/92.
The target was gold in Tertiary gravels in the vicinity of the Easter Gift gold mine.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1992
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Baker Gully. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/11/1979 to 12/11/1980.
The licence was taken up to test the alluvial diamond potential of Tertiary gravels exposed in quarry workings at Baker Gully, which were interpreted as having been deposited by an ancestral Onkaparinga River. The surface gravels were bulk sampled (3...-
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Published: 08 Jan 1981
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RI 030 The Construction Sand Industry in the Adelaide Metropolitan Area
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RB 73/00162 Test drilling of Alberts sand deposit.
Albert's Sand Pit Pty. Ltd. is producing sand suitable for construction purposes from the basal Tertiary North Maslin Sands near Maslins Beach. Drilling during 1972 and 1973 has outlined the following reserves of sand under 4.21 million cubic metres...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1975
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RB 61/00098 Construction sand industry in the Adelaide metropolitan area.
Most of the sand utilised for civil construction aggregate in the Adelaide Metropolitan area is supplied from the Golden Grove – Highbury basin, the Willunga Basin and the Gawler – Rowland Flat area. The northern rim of the Willunga Basin, east of the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1967
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RB 74/00112 Scout drilling for construction sand, secns 151 and 152 Hd Willunga. Pioneer Concrete Pty Ltd. Maslin Beach extractive industry zone.
Drilling for construction sand near the northern margin of the Willunga Basin intersected the Eocene succession unconformably overlain by Quaternary units. Two of three holes penetrated into the target North Maslin Sand, but were abandoned before...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1974
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RB 76/00067 Price sand deposit.
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Published: 20 May 1976
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RB 2000/00030 Tea Tree Gully Golf Course desktop hydrogeological study.
The City of Tea Tree Gully is seeking to establish an Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) project at the Tea Tree Gully Golf Course, which is located approximately 20 km north-east of the city of Adelaide. The application of ASR would enable the golf...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2000
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Hamley Bridge (North Adelaide Plains). Progress and relinquishment reports for the period 27/7/1981 to 26/4/1982.
In a search for possible economic heavy mineral - bearing buried Tertiary beach sand deposits, similar to the recent Golden Grove discovery made in Eocene fluviatile sediments of an adjacent sub-basin, 20 vertical percussion stratigraphic drillholes...-
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ExpNotes MAITLAND: Explanatory Notes MAITLAND.
The MAITLAND Special 1:250,000 scale geological map covers the greater part of South Australia's Yorke Peninsula. The rocks in the map area comprise deformed Palaeoproterozoic and early Mesoproterozoic basement of the south-eastern Gawler Craton, and...-
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Published: 01 Jul 2006
