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Lilydale. Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial surrender report : progress reports, annual reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal over a much reduced area, for the period 5/1/1988 to 4/1/1993.
Initial exploration carried out near Lilydale Homestead, 80 kilometres south-east of Yunta, targeted possible Starra-style gold in the Braemar Ironstone facies. Flying of an airborne semi-detailed magnetic and radiometric survey identified magnetic...-
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Mutooroo [Station]. Progress reports to licence full surrender, for the period 11/9/1989 to 6/9/1994.
Exploration for possible heavy mineral sand marine placer deposits within Tertiary sediments on the northern margin of the Murray Basin comprised aircore drilling (28 holes, total 744 m) in the Mutooroo station area, 50 km south-east of Olary. The...-
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Murray Bridge. Progress reports, annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 15/7/1991 to 14/1/1994.
Exploration was undertaken by BHP along the western margin of the Murray Basin, between Lake Alexandrina and Cambrai township, for possible economic heavy mineral sands and for exhalative sedex-style volcanogenic/stratabound base metal deposits, both...-
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Goolwa - Strathalbyn - Murray Bridge - Mannum area. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender/re-issue as part of a larger tenement, for the period 13/11/1979 to 21/2/1985.
A multi-commodity mineral exploration programme carried out over an area between Mannum and Strathalbyn, seeking buried targets concealed in Tertiary sediments and basement rocks, comprised aerial magnetic, radiometric and EM surveys; groundwater,...-
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Published: 01 May 1985
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RB 37/00084 Tripoli occurrence, Hundred of Murtho (17/3/1954).
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Published: 01 Jan 1956
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RB 37/00111 Petrography of the Canopus bore.
A study of the drill cuttings samples obtained down to 641 ft depth from this vertical cable-tool drilled hole indicates an organic origin for a large part of the sediments, and a marine environment of deposition.-
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Published: 12 Feb 1954
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RB 60/00026 Chowilla Dam Project, rip-rap investigation, Lowbank quarry site. Progress geological report, February 1965.
A quarry site located near Lowbank on the River Murray, 7 miles east of Waikerie, has been geologically mapped and partly explored by drilling 14 vertical diamond holes with a total depth penetration of 702 feet. Marine sandy limestone and calcareous...-
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Published: 12 Feb 1965
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RB 83/00017 SADME Oakvale 1. Well completion report.
The fully rotary cored Oakvale 1 vertical stratigraphic drillhole was drilled by SADME Regional Geology Branch, 13 km east of Oakvale Station homestead in the north of the Murray Basin within SA, over the period 22/5/1981 to 10/6/1981. The hole was...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1983
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RB 84/00102 Silica sand deposits near Lake Alexandrina.
4 Quaternary silica sand deposits were assessed by 47 auger holes. The deposits comprise backshore dunes marginal to the lake and are a potential source of replenishment sand for metropolitan beaches. Only 1 deposit is mined at present, Nalpa no. 1...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1984
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RB 86/00059 Berri East groundwater interception scheme hydrogeological investigation.
This detailed investigation evaluates data from both SADME drilling and investigations, and EWS drilling primarily in the alluvial sediments on Martins Bend. The aim was to determine aquifer properties, confirm water table gradients toward the river...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1986
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RB 86/00052 Sugar Loaf Hill quarry - Geological investigations and machine auger drilling, 1985.
Sugarloaf Hill quarry 18 km NE of Barmera has been operating since 1949. Pleistocene dolomitic Bungunnia Limestone has been the source of aggregate, and underlying bimodal Pliocene Loxton Sands, the source of construction sand. Production has been...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1986
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RB 81/00088 Naracoorte sand deposit. Results of geological investigations and auger drilling, 1981. Block.108, Hd Hynam. EMLs 3394 and 3395 (D.G. and V.A. Pitt).
Coarse construction sand, formed by reworking Pliocene Loxton Sands is part of a beach and foredune of the East Naracoorte Dune of Pleistocene Bridgewater Formation. Production totalled 52 305 tonnes from 1965 - 1980. 210000 tonnes of sand conforming...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1981
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RB 83/00052 Production and sources of filter sand and gravel in South Australia.
4 deposits with recorded production from Tertiary filter sand and gravel at Rowland Flat, Loxton and Berri and Quaternary sand at Murbko are described. Quaternary sand at Naracoorte is potential site. Sand is used for filtration of metropolitan water...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1983
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RB 87/00035 Overland Corner Limestone (Cornerstone) Quarry mineral tenure, production and geology, sections 33, 73, 75, Hd Parcoola, Co. Young.
Cornerstone quarry, 180 km NE of Adelaide, was excavated in Miocene Morgan Limestone in the northern bank of the Murray River for building stone to construct the Overland Corner Hotel in 1858. From 1945 to 1958, 6 000 tonnes of ashlars were produced...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1987
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RB 87/00077 Waikerie - Ramco building stone deposits. A review of the geology, history and production.
As part of a project to document all building stone deposits in South Australia, 3 quarries and McLellands sand pit near Waikerie and Ramco were mapped on 19-20 June 1985 and the fourth quarry (Toolunka) was inspected. The upper portion of late...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1987
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RB 87/00111 McLelland sand pit - Secn 240, Hd Makaranka, Co. Young.
Coarse, quartz sand within Early Pleistocene, Blanchetown Clay, has been mined for construction sand near Waikerie, with overburden of Bakara Soil which was used for road construction. Production totals 685 tonnes of construction sand, mined in...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1987
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RB 80/00151 Geology of the Olary region.
The area includes the Willyama Inlier and surrounding Adelaidean 300 km NE of Adelaide. The Willyama Complex is separated by NW trending faults into blocks of metasedimentary rock of upper amphibolite grade with amphibolite, migmatite and granitoid....-
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Published: 01 Jan 1981
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RB 98/00025 Hydrochemistry of groundwaters in the South Australian-Victorian Designated Area - Groundwater Border Agreement Act.
Hydrochemical data from a total of 165 bores along the 40 kilometre wide strip of the South Australian - Victorian Border Designated Area were used to provide a spatial, and temporal, hydrochemical framework of the groundwaters from the three main...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1998
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RB 91/00015 Murray Basin Basement Transect Project. 1990 well completion reports.
During the period March to June 1990, 9 stratigraphic rotary mud/diamond cored holes with a total penetration of 3056 m, including 433.25 m of NQ or HQ cored diamond tails, were drilled by SADME in three cases and by its contractor Rockdril for the...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1991
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RB 89/00040 New occurrence of mafic igneous rocks beneath the northern Murray Basin.
SADME Nanyah 1 (hole synonym M154), a Murray Basin hydrogeological observation bore, was extended beneath the sedimentary cover to reach basement in order to investigate the source of a prominent aeromagnetic anomaly. A 3-metre bottomhole core of...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1989
