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Peake and Malinong. Final report at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 7/7/1980 to 6/8/1982.
In a search for economic Tertiary brown coal in the south-eastern Murray Basin, a large reconnaissance drilling programme was undertaken during February-April 1981 to test known carbonaceous sediments reported as encountered by previous drillholes and...-
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Published: 06 Sep 1982
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Karoonda. Final report at licence full surrender, combined with related partial surrender reports for Peake, Swan Reach, Waikerie and Malinong, covering the period 7/7/1980 to 6/7/1981.
Within the surrendered sections of the subject exploration licences in the Karoonda, Marmon Jabuk, Swan Reach, Blanchetown and Cooke Plains areas, following the conduct there of a 45.4 line km gravity survey and the drilling and geophysical logging of...-
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Published: 12 Jun 1981
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Yumali. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 7/6/1978 to 18/10/1983.
Base metal exploration activities undertaken by Thiess Brothers in the Yumali - Coomandook area investigated several coincident regional gravity and aeromagnetic anomalies arising from concealed Palaeozoic basement rocks. These anomalies are part of a...-
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Published: 14 Nov 1983
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RB 78/00114 Report on visits to the State Electricity Commission of Victoria and the University of Wollongong, April 1978.
Visits in Victoria included the Herman Research Laboratory and Exploration Geology Group of the State Electricity Commission of Victoria, and the Latrobe Valley Coalfields. The S.E.C.V. system of classifying brown coal on the basis of colour, texture,...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 78/00089;Env 02960 Appraisal drilling results, Anna Coalfield, Murray Basin, South Australia.
At the Anna Coalfield, the November 1976 appraisal drilling by SADME of 2 rotary mud, partly cored vertical boreholes with a total penetration of 159.62 m (including 28.36 m of continuous ?NQ coring over the coal-bearing section) has confirmed the...-
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Published: 11 May 1978
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RB 96/00001 Mineral exploration and development in South Australia.
This mineral promotional brochure reviews significant historical developments in South Australia's mineral industry and canvasses the currently recognised mineral potential within the State, for the benefit of local and overseas interested companies...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1996
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Blackford. Information status at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 23/2/1993 to 22/2/1998: no work performed.
There is no abstract created for this record-
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Lochaber. Data release : final report at licence full surrender, for the period 29/8/2006 to 6/7/2009.
EL 3623 is located 220 km south-east of Adelaide, and lies to the west of the township of Naracoorte. The tenement is also located ~35 km to the south-east of the much larger Kingston lignite deposit contained within the subject licencee's related EL...-
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Published: 02 Sep 1909
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Interpretation of Murray Bridge - Narrung airborne geophysical surveys, South Australia.
As part of CRAE's programme for brown coal exploration in the Murray Basin in South Australia, airborne magnetic and radiometric surveys were undertaken in the vicinity of Lakes Albert and Alexandrina by contractors Geosearch and Geoex. Various...-
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Published: 24 Mar 1981
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Blackford and Lochaber (the Kingston Lignite Project). Individual licence reports and a joint annual report, plus final report at the full surrender of the remaining (Blackford) licence, for the period 3/8/2005 to 20/2/2015.
The Kingston coal (lignite) deposit, delineated by Western Mining Corp. in the early 1980s, has been re-assessed for the energy generation potential its coal represents, viewed in the context of recent increased demand for liquid transport fuels and...-
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Published: 02 Mar 1915
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EL 6259 (previous EL 5089) - Sedan area. Annual technical reports for the period 16/11/2012 to 15/09/2023.
The subject licence was taken up to allow for for technical and commercial evaluation of the coal resource existing at Sedan on the western margin of the Murray Basin. During licence Year 1, consultant Lindsay Curtis was engaged to compile and report...-
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Published: 19 Apr 1918
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Treatment of coal from Moorlands for the removal of soluble salts.
Tests on leaching of soluble salts from the coal showed that most of the chloride and an insignificant proportion of the sulphur could be removed, but this would be impractical as: 1) large volumes of water are required, i.e. 12 times the mass of the...-
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Moorlands. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 15/1/1979 to 30/11/1984.
Adelaide Brighton Cement took up tenure of the Moorlands lignite deposit during September 1976 in order to conduct confirmatory drilling of the published coal resource, to prepare a mining study for Lobe 'E', and overall, to assess the coal's...-
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Published: 23 Nov 1984
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Blackford (WMC's Kingston Lignite Project). Data release made in lieu of submitting area-specific reports for this licence's third and fourth partial surrenders: progress reports and related technical reports for the period 23/2/1988 to 22/2/1990.
Ongoing coal exploration conducted by Western Mining Corp. in the upper South-East region has targeted commercial-grade lignite occurrences within the Tertiary upper Dilwyn Formation, which may have formed in geological settings similar to that of the...-
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Blackford. Second partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 3/11/1978 to 19/12/1987.
Shallow Tertiary coal deposits were the target in the area north of Kingston SE lying between Tilleys Swamp and Coola Coola Swamp. Within this area, 44 rotary mud vertical open exploratory holes totalling 3658 m were drilled and geophysically logged....-
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Feasibility level geotechnical and hydrogeological studies, Moorlands coal deposit, Lobe E, Moorlands SA.
Drilling (132.8 metres) included fully cored geotechnical hole to basement to estimate mine planning constraints for open cut mining. The unconfined aquifer above the lignite must be dewatered for mine slope stability. Overburden contains 2 layers of...-
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Moorlands. Progress reports to licence expiry, for the period 5/1/1990 to 4/7/1990.
A feasibility study into mine development, and coal marketing research, were undertaken. Further investigations into the possible uses of Moorlands deposit coal are required.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1990
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Milang. First partial relinquishment report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 13/11/1979 to 21/2/1985.
Within the now relinquished portion of the licence area, four gravity traverses totalling 34.4 line km and 11 rotary mud drillholes for 593.2 m were completed by CRA in a search for possible sedimentary roll-front type uranium deposits formed within...-
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Published: 15 Apr 1985
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Bungunnia. Drillhole 81MBR47, Murray Basin coal drilling. Palynological report.
A lignite drill core sample taken from 120 - 122 m depth in this hole is of Late Eocene to Early Oligocene age, and correlates stratigraphically to the top of the Renmark Beds.-
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Published: 13 Mar 1981
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Full surrender of Swan Reach and partial relinquishment of Kakoonie : combined final and progress report for the period 7/7/1980 to 7/9/1984.
As part of a search for economic lignite occurrences formed near the western edge of the Murray Basin, available drill hole data and regional aeromagnetic and gravity data were used to interpret the basement structure and to define areas favourable...-
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Published: 14 Nov 1984
