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Lady Buxton. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 22/7/1968 to 21/7/1970.
As part of a continuing regional search for economic deposits of uranium and other radioactive minerals within alluvial fan sediments deposited adjacent to and east of the Mount Painter Block basement outcrops, 32 rotary holes (total 16,218 feet) were...-
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Published: 21 Jul 1970
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Frome Downs and Curnamona. Respective progress reports, annual reports and JV partner's final report to licences' joint expiry/renewal, for the period 11/2/1971 to 12/2/1973.
77 rotary / diamond holes drilled by Pacminex (total 9385 m, including 196 m cored) plus another 53 holes drilled within SML 544 by joint venturer Esso (total 7029 m) indicate that a highly prospective radioactive mineralised zone occurs within...-
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RB 86/00025 Report on mapping of the northern sector of the Wangianna 1:100 000 map sheet area.
The lowermost outcropping unit is the Bulldog Shale, overlain by the Coorikiana Sandstone, which includes a number of facies, ranging from quiet water marine to shoreline and possibly fluvial. Above is the Oodnadatta Formation. Tertiary units include...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1986
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RB 87/00059 Palynological dating and correlation of Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous sediments around part of the southern margin of the Eromanga Basin.
Investigation aimed to evaluate environments of deposition and problems of dating the Cadna-owie Formation and basal Bulldog Shale.-
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Published: 01 Mar 1987
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RB 85/00055 Preliminary report on the palynostratigraphy of SADME Toodla no. 1 well, southwestern Eromanga Basin.
5 spore / pollen zones and 3 dinoflagellate zones are recognised in Toodla 1, ranging from late Jurassic to Late Albian. The Mesozoic units penetrated by this well on palynological evidence are younger than traditionally recognised in other parts of...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1985
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RB 86/00087 Palynological dating of selected samples from Early Cretaceous rocks near the southeastern margin of Lake Eyre South.
5 of 9 outcrop samples produced variably preserved palynofloras. 3 from the Crowsnest Bore area and 1 from lower Morris Creek (all from Mackunda Formation) are correlative with the middle part of the Phimopollenites pannosus Zone and are thus of...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1986
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RB 96/00006 Palynological dating and correlation of Mesozoic sediments from the ABMINGA 1:250 000 sheet, SA.
The sample from A68 E427190/53J N7068100 is Early Cretaceous (uppermost Barremian) in age and correlative with the Cadna-owie Formation. Open marine conditions are indicated, this being typical of the upper part of the formation in the southwestern...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1996
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RB 89/00028 Palynological dating of Early Cretaceous sediments in the Dalhousie Springs area.
Three grab samples of calcareous concretions were assigned an Early Aptian age.-
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Published: 01 May 1989
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RB 89/00061 Palynological examination of Early Cretaceous sediments from outcrop in the southwestern Eromanga Basin.
Ten outcrop samples, including carbonaceous muds, siltstone and limestone concretions, were collected as part of a study of Early Cretaceous palaeoclimate. The samples were all of Bulldog Shale from a shallow water marine environment, except for...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1989
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RB 89/00033 Well completion report - Finniss 2, Alford 1, Crowsnest 2.
Three shallow fully cored stratigraphic holes were drilled in 1985 by the SADME Regional Geology Branch to gather subsurface information for inclusion on the CURDIMURKA 1:250000 geological map describing stratigraphy on the southern margin of the...-
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Published: 01 May 1989
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RB 89/00031 Palynological analysis of Early Cretaceous sediments east of the Peake and Denison Ranges.
Samples of calcareous concretions, mudstone, siltstone and sandstone were assigned an Aptian age.-
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Published: 01 May 1989
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RB 96/00021 Palynological dating and correlation of Mesozoic sediments from the ABMINGA 1:250 000 sheet, SA.
Palynological evidence indicates that all 13 submitted drill core sedimentary rock samples, excepting one (taken at 138.2 metres depth in hole A68-1), are late Aptian to earliest Albian in age. The sediments were deposited in environments ranging...-
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Published: 01 May 1996
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RB 97/00040 Western Prospects Seismic Survey application in the Coongie Lakes Control Zone. Assessment report and recommendations.
The high environmental values of the Coongie Lakes area are recognised through their inclusion in the Register of the National Estate, their inclusion as a wetland of international importance under the Ramsar Convention, and wider acknowledgement that...-
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Published: 31 Jul 1997
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Lake Arthur West. Final report at licence surrender for the period 29/8/2006 to 3/4/2009.
An area located 55 km east of Marree was explored for possible sedimentary uranium deposits hosted by Tertiary piedmont sediments shed from granitic basement outcrops of the northern Mount Babbage Inlier. A study of available regolith stratigraphic...-
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Published: 06 Apr 1909
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Naarack, Mabel Creek and Wintinna (part of the Arckaringa Basin Project). Respective final reports at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 26/3/2008 to 2/4/2010.
In a search for postulated Tertiary heavy mineral sands marine placer deposits that may have been formed outside of the presently known north-eastern extent of such age sedimentary basins (i.e. along a proto Eucla Basin coastline existing within the...-
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Notes on the genesis of uranium deposits in the Yarramba Channel [on] EL 85 South Eagle and EL 98 Yarramba.
It is proposed that the buried Tertiary Yarramba Palaeochannel feature hosting the sedimentary uranium mineralisation was incised into Cretaceous and Precambrian basement rocks. Within the channel, quartzose sands and abundant detrital organic matter...-
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Published: 02 Jan 1974
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Paralana Creek (part of the Beverley Project). Annual reports for the period 29/9/2009 to 15/11/2015.
Work undertaken on EL 4378 during the 2009-2010 reporting year included the drilling of 478 vertical rotary mud holes totalling 132,960 m, and core drilling totalling 4117 m performed in 16 of these holes for stratigraphic unit / resource...-
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Published: 24 Dec 1915
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Frome Downs Homestead. Progress and technical reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 1/1/1969 to 31/12/1970.
Reconnaissance shallow stratigraphic drilling with subsequent borehole geophysical electric and radioactivity logging in the south-western Frome Embayment (21 rotary mud partly cored holes, total 8841 feet), over areas lying adjacent to outcropping...-
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Published: 31 Dec 1970
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Dewatering investigations, Lake Phillipson area, South Australia.
An initial investigation programme aimed at obtaining hydraulic data from part of the Lake Phillipson Permian coal field been successfully completed. The initial area under consideration for mining is of approximately 130 hectares within the Western...-
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Lake Frome [part of the Paralana Plains Uranium Project joint venture area]. Progress reports and technical reports to licence surrender/re-issue over a different area, for the period 22/4/1971 to 21/4/1973.
Exploration on SML 564 has consisted of a continuation of deep rotary mud open hole, plug and core drilling plus washing-out of existing, older Petromin "P...w" series drillholes to allow new generation downhole geophysical logging, aimed at further...-
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