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Farina. Progress reports for the period 28/2/82 to 29/8/82.
An area of approximately 1791 square km located to the north and north-west of the Leigh Creek Coalfield was taken out under licence by ETSA for one year, to enable the conduct of a joint ETSA/SADME coal exploration programme over alluvium-covered...-
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RB 35/00052 Open-cut mining of Leigh Creek coal (27/3/1952).
It is proposed to raise the production rate at the Leigh Creek Coalfield from half a million tons to two million tons per annum. From an economic point of view as well as from the point of view of rate of production open cut mining would be preferable...-
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Published: 27 Mar 1953
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RB 36/00077 Leigh Creek Coalfield. North Field, Lobe C.
Coal has been proved at Lobe C to a depth of 220 feet of overburden in an arcuate area along the southern and western margins of the basin. Within the suggested open cut area the coal seam averages 35 feet in thickness, has a weighted average ash...-
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Published: 26 Oct 1953
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RB 37/00028 Leigh Creek Coalfield: Report on exploration of the north-eastern margin - Telford Basin area 'Telford Opencut, extension east'. (CONFIDENTIAL)
An area located on the north-eastern margin of the Telford Basin, to the east of the present extent of theTelford Open Cut mine main pit, which is known to contain potentially mineable buried coal seams, has been examined geologically and...-
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Published: 03 Mar 1954
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RB 37/00068 Leigh Creek Coalfield, central area - Upper Coal Series. Report on scout drilling.
In the Triassic coal measures of Telford Basin occurring 1000 + (?) feet stratigraphically above the main (Telfod) seam are a number of coal seams - the "Upper coal series" - which further add to the opencut coal reserves at Leigh Creek Coalfield....-
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Published: 19 Mar 1954
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RB 37/00157 Leigh Creek Coalfield - Exploration of the southeastern margin, Telford Basin area (Telford Main Seam eastern margin, southern extension).
The area under review is situated in the south-eastern section of Telford Basin between co-ordinates 8,000 and 34,000, and is a southern extension of the main (Telford) coal seam proved previously on the eastern margin. Coal has been proved by close...-
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Published: 14 Jul 1954
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RB 39/00080 Leigh Creek Coalfield central area - Telford Basin.(29/6/1954).
The Upper Goal Series have been proved over a length of 19,000 feet round the north eastern half of the periphery of a closed pound structure in the Central Area of Telford Basin. A number of coal seams have been disclosed by close boring operations...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1956
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RB 41/00062 Leigh Creek Coalfield - Exploration of the southern margin, Telford Basin area, southeast margin.
The area recently proved extends along the south eastern margin of Telford Basin between N-S lines 300 and 9200 and is a western extension of the main (Telford) seam coal proved previously in the south eastern sector of Telford Basin. Boring...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1957
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RB 83/00021 Coal exploration in the Leigh Creek Farina area, South Australia. EL 938, final report.
The subject exploration licence was taken up for a 1-year term to enable ETSA and SADME to jointly conduct exploration for possible Triassic coal basins that might be concealed beneath alluvial cover in sparsely drilled areas to the north and...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1983
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RB 83/00034 Underground gasification of inaccessible Leigh Creek coal measures - A preliminary evaluation of the geological structure of Telford Basin.
The Telford Basin is an asymmetrically shaped synclinal basin containing sediments of upper Triassic-Jurassic age, which cover a 25 square km area. Sub-bituminous coal occurs in three major series of seams which are informally termed the Leigh Creek...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1983
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RB 77/00083 Palynological report on three samples from the Late Triassic of the Telford Basin, Leigh Creek.
Palynological analysis was undertaken on two coal samples and a shale sample from within and just above the Lower Series Coal Seams of the Telford Basin, Leigh Creek.- The lowermost coal was dominated by monolete spores and the upper coal by...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 78/00140 Correlation and depositional history of the Leigh Creek coal measures.
Attempts have been made previously to correlate coal seams and interpret depositional environments and tectonics relative to the four Triassic coal deposits at Leigh Creek (Parkin 1953; Taylor 1954; Johns 1970, 1975; Johns and Townsend 1975). This...-
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Published: 08 Nov 1978
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RB 95/00028 SAEI Triassic Coal Exploration Program. Exploration Licence Application ELA 382/92, Leigh Creek - Lyndhurst area, South Australia.
A data review undertaken by MESA to assess the prospectivity of the northern Flinders Ranges intramontane basins for concealed Triassic coal, highlighted four main areas as having the best potential for a discovery. Of these, the alluvium-covered...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1996
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Northern Flinders Ranges (the Leigh Creek Corridor Project). Joint annual reports to licences' combined full surrender, for the period 2/11/2004 to 1/11/2009.
Exploration for possible economic brown coal occurrences within inferred concealed northern extensions to known coal-bearing Triassic intramontane basins in the Leigh Creek district has consisted of the conduct of semi-detailed, 1 km x 500 m gravity...-
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Published: 12 Nov 1909
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Leigh Creek Coalfield, Lobe B coal deposit: SADME/ETSA 1978 coal appraisal drilling program. Data package of coal seam representative sampling results [to be augmented as relevant retained records become rediscovered and made available].
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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NERDDC Project 590 : [ Research into the feasibility of ] Underground gasification of [ mining inaccessible ] Leigh Creek coal. Reports on field investigations and geotechnical studies.
During the first few months of 1985, field investigations were undertaken at Leigh Creek by consultants Golder Associates to provide quantitative data on the strength and permeability characteristics of the geological profile of the Main Series coal...-
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SADME/ETSA 1978 Leigh Creek coal appraisal drilling programme : drillhole lithologs.
As part of its Triassic coalfield assessment work, 194 coal exploration rotary drillholes and two stratigraphic drillholes were drilled by ETSA at the Leigh Creek Coalfield during 1978, utilising field geological assistance provided from SADME to log...-
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Published: 05 Nov 1978
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RB 00797 Stratigraphic drilling for coal in the Copley Basin, 1974-75.
The Copley Basin is one of four small Upper Triassic basins occupying a folded Adelaidean depression in the Leigh Creek area. It covers approximately 7 square kilometres. Thirteen rotary drillholes totalling 1810 m were put down in 1974-75, which...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1900
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SADME/Amdel mineral research project : Leigh Creek Coalfield - coal petrology investigations. Progress reports for the period April 1979 to June 1980.
Coal samples collected by the SADME Fossil Fuels Div. from the Leigh Creek Coalfield during its recent drilling programme have been examined and analysed according to preset parameters to allow comparison of average coal quality between this field and...-
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Published: 04 Jul 1980
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Leigh Creek Coalfield. Report on company scout drilling for sedimentary uranium, undertaken during July 1970.
Three scout holes totalling 1245 feet were rotary drilled in Lobe B of the Leigh Creek Coalfield to test for any subsurface extension to a previously identified radioactively anomalous surface area. Although the Late Triassic clastic sediments...-
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