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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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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 47/00020 Subsurface stratigraphy of the Maralinga area, South Australia
Logging of sludge samples taken from 18 water bores drilled in an area of previously unknown stratigraphy located between Watson and Maralinga has established a sequence of about 1000 feet of Marinoan shales and sandstones resting on diorite. These...-
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Published: 23 Jul 1958
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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 92/00024 Aboriginal stone tools: a geological study of source, nature and distribution in the Nullarbor Plain region.
Examination of the lithologies of Aboriginal artefacts from western South Australia has been undertaken and the lithologies categorised. Stone tools were manufactured from a range of indurated silicified materials, derived from abundant local...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1992
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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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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 00731 Hughes-Denman Stratigraphic Drilling Project of Outback Oil Company NL. Subsurface stratigraphy and micropalaeontological study and Outback Oil Hughes and Denman wells. Palynological report.
The four stratigraphic wells completed in the Eucla Basin within 20 miles of the Hughes and Denman Railway Sidings intersected a sequence of Tertiary, Lower Cretaceous, probable Palaeozoic, and possibly some Proterozoic rocks. The ages of the...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1900
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RB 2007/00011 Original full content version of] OOLDEA, South Australia, [geological map] sheet SH52-12. South Australia. Geological Survey. 1:250 000 Series - Explanatory Notes.
The OOLDEA 1:250 000 map area, in the far west of SA, includes portions of the Maralinga Tjarutja Aboriginal Lands, Maralinga Prohibited Area, and Nullarbor Regional Reserve. It is traversed by the Trans-Australian Railway. There is no significant...-
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Published: 01 Jun 2007
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RB 2017/00040 PACE Copper Coompana Drilling Project: Drillhole CDP004 preliminary field-data report.
The Geological Survey of South Australia, in partnership with Geoscience Australia, is undertaking a regional pre-competitive geoscience research drilling program in the far west of South Australia called the Coompana Drilling Project. The Coompana...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2017
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ExpNotes BARTON: Explanatory Notes BARTON
Shallow Precambrian crystalline basement underlies the greater part of the BARTON 1:250 000 map area. Thicker Neoproterozoic, Cambrian and Carboniferous Permian sediments occur in the northwest, with the southern margin bounded by the Karari Fault...-
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Ooldea. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/11/1972 to 15/11/1973.
In a search for possible economic roll-front sedimentary uranium deposits thought to be hosted by Middle Eocene Pidinga Formation fluvial and lacustrine terrestrial sediments deposited in the eastern Eucla Basin, 13 scout RAB/RC open holes were...-
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Bunabie. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 18/5/1972 to 17/11/1972.
In a search for carbonate mineral bulk raw materials suitable for use at the BHP Whyalla blast furnace as fluxes in steel-making, 5 exploratory vertical rotary core holes totalling 200 m were drilled on the Nullarbor Plain near the coast and 28 km...-
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Chundie Swamps. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 29/11/1974 to 7/7/1976.
As part of a continued 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, Pechiney conducted geological reconnaissance, ground...-
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Koonalda. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 18/5/1972 to 17/11/1972.
In a search for carbonate mineral bulk raw materials suitable for use at the BHP Whyalla blast furnace as fluxes in steel-making, 5 exploratory vertical rotary core holes totalling 130 m were drilled on the Nullarbor Plain near the coast and south of...-
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OEL 33. Technical reports and quarterly progress reports for the period 20/1/1964 to 19/1/1969.
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Nullarbor. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/5/1972 to 17/11/1972.
In a search for carbonate mineral bulk raw materials suitable for use at the BHP Whyalla blast furnace as fluxes in steel-making, 5 exploratory vertical rotary cored holes totalling 189 m were drilled on the Nullarbor Plain near the coast just west of...-
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RB 2022/00011 Eucla Basin and peripheral paleovalleys.
The Cenozoic Eucla Basin is located on the southern margin of the Australian continent, with a present-day basin onshore edge which extends for over 2,000 km from Western Australia into South Australia. The basin’s sediment fill comprises a thin...-
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Published: 01 Nov 2022
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ExpNotes OOLDEA: Explanatory Notes OOLDEA
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