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Mount Willoughby, Marla, Nicholson Hill, Hope, Manya, Emu, Moorefield, Lake Meramangye, Dingo Claypan and Alinya (Officer Basin). Progress, technical and partial relinquishment reports for the period 20/8/1980 to 19/8/1985.
TRONA EXPLORATION: Of the 9 rotary/diamond holes drilled, only the first, Meramangye 1, intersected a unit equivalent to the Observatory Hill Beds, which was the target horizon for trona. Drillholes Manya nos 2-6 and Marla 7 intersected Cambrian red...-
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RB 80/00022 Marla-1A, Marla-1B well completion report. Report no. 5 of the Officer Basin study group.
Marla 1A and 1B reached 215.30 metres and 379.40 metres respectively, penetrating aeolian sands overlying the Bulldog Shale, Cadna-owie Formation an d Observatory Hill Beds. In contrast to Byilkaoora 1, oil shows and calcite pseudomorphs after...-
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Published: 01 May 1980
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RB 79/00088 Wilkinson 1. Well completion report.
Wilkinson 1 stratigraphic well was drilled by the SA Department of Mines and Energy in mid-1978, about 250 km south-west of Coober Pedy, in the Tallaringa Trough. Here a thick section of Cambrian claystones, limestones and evaporites, at least 594 m...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1979
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RB 99/00031 Assessment of zinc-lead prospectivity on the Murnaroo Platform and in the Manya Trough, eastern Officer Basin, South Australia.
The Neoproterozoic to Palaeozoic Officer Basin is located on and adjacent to the northwestern margin of the Gawler Craton. Deposition of the basin began in Adelaidean time, before and during the breakup of the supercontinent Rodinia. The...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1999
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RB 95/00011 Hydrocarbon shows in Comalco mineral drillholes, Officer Basin.
The Officer Basin covers some 350,000 square km of central southern Australia, extending from the Yilgarn Block in Western Australia east to the Gawler Craton in South Australia. During the early 1980s Comalco Aluminium Limited explored the eastern...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1995
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PEL 30. Progress reports from 12/2/85 to 12/2/88.
Exploration for sodium carbonate, base metals and petroleum included detailed logging and sampling of Byilkaoora 2, seismic survey (76 km of 60 fold Vibroseis data recorded at 30 metre intervals), and drilling and shooting of 10 upholes, geologically...-
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ELs 730 - 739, Great Victoria Desert (CRAE Wyola Project). Progress and final reports for the period 6/10/1980 to 14/9/1981.
Compilation and re-interpretation of open file data from the Eucla Basin - southern Officer Basin region preceded exploratory and stratigraphic percussion drilling undertaken in an area north of the Trans Australian Railway (6 holes, total 1032 m)....-
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Published: 09 Jul 1981
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Wilkinson Lakes South. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 5/9/1980 to 4/2/1982.
TARGET: Possible Irish Plains type carbonate-hosted base metals, and sylvite, hosted within the evaporite sequence of the Early Cambrian Observatory Hill Formation in the area immediately south of the Wilkinson Lakes. EXPLORATION: Two percussion...-
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North-eastern Officer Basin area. Progress reports and final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 20/8/1980 to 8/11/1986.
Exploration for trona and base metals was centred on the Marla region. Work included regional gravity and magnetic studies, acquisition of airborne magnetic and multi-channel radiometric data, with follow-up ground magnetic and gravity surveys,...-
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