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Shallow groundwater quality monitoring program for the Onkaparinga Catchment Water Management Board area.
The Onkaparinga Catchment Water Management Board (OCWMB) is responsible for an area of approx. 920 square km which includes the Onkaparinga Catchment in the Adelaide Hills and the Noarlunga and Willunga sedimentary embayments south of Adelaide, South...-
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Klein Point. Limestone exploration. Progress reports for the period 19/1/1982 to August 1982.
14 rotary percussion holes were drilled to test for extensions of the Klein Point limestone deposit. In the area drilled, Tertiary bryozoan limestone horizons were found to have an average vertical thickness of 28 m; their quality is comparable to...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1982
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RB 38/00087 Report on results of test boring in a brick clay deposit at Golden Grove.
Geological mapping of seven contiguous mineral claims at Golden Grove held by the SA Builders' and Contractors' Association revealed three areas of potential brick clay. A programme of test boring was carried out to define the deposits and obtain...-
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Published: 26 Oct 1954
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RB 60/00022 Palynological observations on Eocene sediments from two bores in the northern Adelaide Plains.
Microfloras from Eocene marine and non-marine sediments, intersected in two deep bores in the Adelaide Plains Basin, can be placed within two distinct assemblage units. The correlative value of these as time-stratigraphic units is discussed.-
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Published: 03 Feb 1965
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RB 60/00051 Stratigraphy and micropalaeontology of three deep bores, Hd Port Gawler.
Three relatively deep bores, drilled recently on the northern Adelaide Plains in the Hundred of Port Gawler, about 20 miles north of Adelaide, have intersected useful complementary sections of the Cainozoic succession, ranging from 560 feet to 1148...-
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Published: 15 Mar 1965
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RB 60/00055 Auger boring of Hackham clay deposit.
Near horizontally bedded Upper Eocene sediments comprising Blanche Point Marls, Tortachilla Limestone and South Maslin Sands, have been test bored at Hackham in the Noarlunga Basin, in the search for a bentonite - type clay deposit which might provide...-
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Published: 16 Mar 1965
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RB 86/00023 Geological investigations for construction sand - Mid North of South Australia, 1984 and 1985.
Production of construction sand between Port Pirie, Booleroo Centre, Jamestown and Yacka has averaged 11 000 tonnes / year for the past 6 years with- 49% from Holocene stream channels- 34% from an abandoned Pleistocene stream channel- 9% from crushing...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1987
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RB 83/00090 Low alkali shale investigation Rapid Bay - Delamere area. Results of auger drilling 1983 - Adelaide Brighton Cement Ltd.
Reconnaissance clay sampling and 30 holes have outlined areas of weathered silty shale and greywacke suitable for use in the manufacture of low alkali cement clinker.-
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Published: 01 Nov 1983
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RB 87/00108 Shellgrit resources, eastern St Vincent Gulf - Port Gawler to Port Wakefield.
Series of beach ridges are of Holocene age, ranging in age from 6600 years to present and composed predominantly of shell fragments, average 78% calcium carbonate. Total recorded production from the deposits is 1.16 million tonnes. Auger drilling of...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1987
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RB 87/00133 Port Gawler 3. Well completion report and revision of the geology around Port Gawler.
312 metres of Cainozoic overlie Precambrian bedrock : ABC Range Quartzite (312-587 metres) conformably overlying finer-grained Brachina Formation (587-682 metres). The drilling and former seismic data permitted reinterpretation of bedrock structure...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1987
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RB 79/00003 Fine tailings investigation. Drilling of tailings dams and the results of laboratory evaluation. Report no. 2, Gawler.
A total of 0.5 million cubic m of fine tailings, weighing 0.7 million tonnes, and averaging 44.8% solids, are impounded in 10 tailings dams at three sand deposits near Gawler, 35 km north-east of Adelaide. The dams are still in use, and pose a major...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 99/00011 Physical properties of construction sands from the Adelaide area.
In response to a request for assistance from the State Heritage Branch, a suite of 56 sand samples has been collected from all major currently producing sand pits in the outer metropolitan area. Physical properties including grain size, grain...-
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Published: 01 May 1999
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RB 97/00014 Aquifer storage and recovery, MFP Australia, The Levels. Progress report no. 1.
Mines and Energy South Australia (MESA) was commissioned by MFP Australia to undertake an investigation into the feasibility of establishing an Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) scheme at The Levels site. The programme is being carried out in two...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1997
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RB 89/00007 Shellgrit resources, eastern Spencer Gulf, South Australia - 1984 drilling and sampling programme.
A series of arcuate beach ridges, lie within 1 km of the coastline between Port Germein and Tickera. These Holocene ridges range in age from 4400 years to present and are composed of shell fragments. Sporadic production from Hundreds Pirie and...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1989
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RB 90/00013 Offshore sand prospects for metropolitan beach replenishment interpreted from shallow seismic profiles.
Shallow penetration, high resolution seismic profiling, with simultaneous sea floor coring found large areas of sea floor to be barren of unconsolidated Holocene sediment, or to be unsuitable for beach replenishment. Four prospects are identified...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1990
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Investigation into public risks from potential landfill gas migration and abandoned underground clay mine workings in the Saint Agnes district of Adelaide.
Field investigations including drilling and soil gas sampling, carried out as part of a subsurface hazard assessment for a parcel of land at Saint Agnes, did not indicate any significant risks to an intended building development.-
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Published: 27 Feb 1903
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Proposed residential development at the disused Brompton Gasworks site. Landfill environmental assessment and rehabilitation reports for the period August 1986 to December 1990.
The disturbed soil profiles at 29 historic light to heavy industrial sites in the city of Hindmarsh were investigated to determine their respective levels of hazard contamination and suitability after rehabilitation for undergoing residential...-
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Published: 18 Dec 1990
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Kainton, Melton and Paskeville (the Melton Project). Joint annual reports for the period 27/8/2007 to 26/8/2019.
Exploration for possible buried sandstone-hosted uranium mineralisation which could have formed within early Tertiary palaeochannel sediments of the northern Saint Vincent Basin is being carried out in a small area near Kainton on north-eastern Yorke...-
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Mount Compass. First annual report and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 6/2/2001 to 5/2/2003.
Buried Tertiary sand in the Mount Compass area, ~50 km south of Adelaide, was the target of exploration performed adjacent to the existing Glenshera sand pit. Aircore drilling (31 vertical holes, total 1269 m) defined an area containing a deposit of...-
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White Lagoon. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 17/10/2001 to 2/10/2004.
Exploration for possible marine placer heavy mineral sands deposits within Recent sediments laid down across a large part of east-central Kangaroo Island, due south of Kingscote, has comprised a literature survey, limited field geological...-
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Published: 17 Jun 1905
