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Bundulla. Progress reports for the period 24/5/79 to 19/10/82.
Airborne and ground magnetic surveys were conducted in the Bundulla area of the Nullarbor Plain (SA), prior to drilling a prominent circular aeromagnetic feature. 2 percussion/rotary mud holes, each drilled to TD 369.5 m, penetrated crystalline...-
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Bunabie Rockhole, Hughes and Nullarbor Plain. Progress reports and final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 20/10/1980 to 19/10/1982.
Roxby Downs - type base metal deposits, potentially associated with linear and discrete magnetic anomalies of unknown origin in the basement, were the prime targets of exploration in an area extending between Koonalda and Hughes, adjacent to the SA/WA...-
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Lake Tallacootra. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 21/9/1972 to 20/9/1974.
In a search for possible Proterozoic - Cainozoic unconformity - related, concealed sedimentary uranium deposits in an area of the Eucla Basin located 60 km north of Fowlers Bay, 42 rotary mud drillholes totalling 1432.4 m were put down on 5 traverses...-
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Published: 12 Nov 1974
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Ifould Lake. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 21/9/1972 to 20/9/1974.
Continuing exploration for possible buried economic Tertiary sediment-hosted uranium deposits in the vicinity of Ifould Lake consisted of ground truthing of aerial radiometric anomalies by scintillometer surveys and chemical analysis of auger...-
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Published: 12 Nov 1974
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Koonalda. Progress reports for the period 7/8/79 to 18/7/82.
Following an airborne magnetic/radiometric survey, two rotary percussion holes totalling 819 m were drilled on negative magnetic anomalies to reach pre-Mesozoic basement (gabbro and meta-sandstone) in the Koonalda area of the Nullarbor Plain. No...-
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RB 60/00030 Report on reconnaissance seismic refraction survey in the South Australian portion of the Eucla Basin, 1964.
A reconnaissance seismic refraction survey was carried out in the South Australian portion of the Eucla Basin, to determine the general shape of the basin and to assess the feasibility of using seismic methods in the area. Some of the refractors...-
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Published: 18 Feb 1965
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RB 79/00083 Ooldea no. 1 and Reid nos 1 and 1A. Well completion reports.
Three stratigraphic wells (Ooldea no. 1, Reid no. 1, and Reid no. 1A) were drilled by the South Australian Department of Mines during 1976 in an area that includes margins of the Officer, Arckaringa and Eucla basins. Principal objectives were to test...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 99/00026 TEM survey on the Nullarbor Plain near Hughes, South Australia.
A TEM survey that was carried out across the area between an extensive linear topographic depression in the western Nullarbor Plain and the Trans Australian Railway line corridor has identified the expected 50 metre thick resistive layer (Nullarbor...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1999
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RB 90/00029 Seismic study of the offshore Denman and Eucla Basins.
Four horizons were mapped (top of basement, top of Permian, top of Cretaceous and Sea Floor). The Denman Basin is a 50 km wide, north-south trending depression in Early Palaeozoic - Precambrian bedrock, infilled with up to 400 metres of Permian...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1991
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RB 89/00010 Groundwater supply, Yalata Community.
A replacement well for Tallowan 1 was drilled 100 metres east of Tallowan 2 to a depth of 72 metres. Production tests showed that the well was capable of producing 3.5 L/s with 6.4 metres of drawdown. Groundwater with a salinity of about 10 000 mg/L...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1989
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Pidinga Lakes. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/12/1969 to 17/12/1970.
Shallow drilling of sediments on the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin (in 7 vertical rotary mud holes with a total penetration of ~110 m) to test for secondary uranium mineralisation, although limited by drilling difficulties, has resulted in the...-
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Published: 05 Jan 1971
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Sahara Prospect. Final report, Model Test and Core Scanning. Project ADI RD02-270 [Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2022].
This report summarises exploration conducted by Western Areas between May 2021 and October 2021, under the ADI Agreement ADI: RD02/270-ED Sahara Prospect Model Test and Core Scanning. The discovery of magmatic Ni-Cu sulphide at Sahara in 2020,...-
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Published: 31 Oct 1922
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Murrawijinie, Denman, Koonalda and Cook [Wigunda]. Progress and final reports for the period 7/7/80 to 27/7/81.
Cretaceous sediments in the Eucla Basin portion lying within South Australia's far west were investigated for their oil shale potential. This search was prompted by a recorded occurrence of a thick, oily Cretaceous shale horizon intersected in a...-
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Published: 10 Jun 1981
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PEL 4, Eucla, Denman and Bight Basins. Progress and technical reports for the period 13/9/68 to 18/4/74.
PEL 4 was granted to Outback Oil Co. NL on 14/11/68 to succeed the onshore part of the former OEL 33 in the Eucla Basin region, and allow continuity of exploration in a little known petroleum province. Early in licence Year One Outback Oil succeeded...-
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Published: 08 Apr 1974
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Chundie Swamps. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/8/1986 to 19/8/1987.
The heavy mineral potential of Tertiary sediments in the Chundie Swamps was investigated with 2 drill traverses (43 RC open vertical holes totalling 863 m) and reconnaissance soil mineralogical sampling. Heavy mineral contents were very low.-
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PEL 33, Eucla and Denman Basins. Progress reports for the period 25/6/85 to 18/4/89.
Contains interpretation reports on satellite imagery remote sensing and reprocessed aeromagnetic data, plus other brief interpretative statements by the contract operator contained within some quarterly tenement reports.-
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Published: 18 Apr 1989
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1987 seismic surveys, Denman and Denman 'B', final reports.
Denman Seismic Survey - AIM: This seismic survey of 4 lines totalling 40.0 line kms coverage was conducted in the southern Denman Trough, in the vicinity of Outback Oil's Denman 1 well drilled in 1966, in order to fulfil the Licence Year 2 work...-
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Eucla Basin Stratigraphic Drilling Project. Well completion reports.
Four wells, drilled within 36 km of the Hughes and Denman Railway Sidings, explored for a possible Palaeozoic section and/or Upper Proterozoic or older basement, that was expected from Outback's regional gravity survey data to occur at or around...-
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RB 00663 Exoil Eyre no. 1 and Gambanga no. 1 wells, Western Australia. Subsurface stratigraphy and micropalaeontological study.
Eyre 1 (total depth 1719 feet KB) and Gambanga 1 (TD 1283 feet KB) oil exploration wells, drilled in WA in the western part of the Eucla Basin, penetrated a succession of marine mainly Upper Eocene and Cretaceous rocks before entering crystalline...-
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Published: 06 Dec 1960
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RB 00714 Cook no. 1 well subsurface stratigraphy.
Cook 1 well, drilled on the Nullarbor Plain to a total depth of 915 feet KB, intersected approximately 470 feet of Tertiary sediments followed by unfossiliferous sands, and then limestones and sands of possible Lower Cambrian age, in which drilling...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1900
