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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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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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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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Late Eocene - Pliocene stratigraphy of the Langhorne Sub-basin (north-western Padthaway Archipelago, South Australia).
The following Tertiary units were identified : Kongorong Fm, Narrawaturk Fm, Buccleuch Fm, Ettrick Fm, Mannum Fm, Kalibar Limestone, Parilla Sand and North West Bend Fm. All of these units are separated by unconformities. Erosional surfaces,...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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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 36/00104 Hydrology of the Lower South-East.
Report presents results of the first regional hydrogeological survey of the Lower South-East area of South Australia, aimed at providing guidelines for optimising groundwater prospecting, use and protection during the period of strong urban,...-
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Published: 27 Jun 1953
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RB 35/00069 Preliminary report on palaeontological examination of sludges from Canopus bore, (depth interval) 0-706 feet.
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Published: 29 Apr 1953
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RB 37/00083 Microspore content of certain Tertiary sediments in a bore at Canopus Station, South Australia.
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Published: 27 Apr 1954
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RB 37/00082 Stratigraphical and faunal sequence in Canopus bore no. 1, PL 1644, north of Renmark, South Australia.
In the stratigraphic sequence penetrated by Canopus Bore No. 1, five formations are present. From the surface to a depth of 185 feet, the boring passed through Recent surface sand and kunkar followed by medium to coarse sands of Plio-Pleistocene age....-
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Published: 27 Apr 1954
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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 39/00090 Brief summary of Tertiary correlation in southern Australia, 1955.
As considerable difficulty is still being experienced by field geologists engaged on regional, hydrological, and stratigraphical surveys in assimilating the rapid advances which have been made by Australian Tertiary palaeontologists over the last few...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1955
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RB 41/00058 Mid-Tertiary sequence at Mannum, South Australia.
Excavation for the pumping station at Mannum exposed a mid-Tertiary sequence of calcareous sandstones and clays with an abrupt change in sedimentation within the sequence. Three marine formations are recognized: the Mannum Formation, the Finniss Clays...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1955
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RB 41/00102 Tertiary outcrops in the Hundred of Anna and Brownlow, TRURO military sheet.
Remnants of transgressive mid-Tertiary limestones occur at 413 feet above sea level (513 above datum level Port Adelaide, relative to bench mark 20/A, Truro R.S.) in and to the north of Levi's Creek, Section 229E, Hundred of Anna, and on Section 26,...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1955
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RB 51/00121 Chowilla Dam site, River Murray. Stratigraphy and micropalaeontology.
Five stratigraphic bores at Chowilla Dam Site intersected Post-Tertiary river sands and silts, equivalents of the Loxton Sands grading downwards into highly glauconitic siltstone of the Bookpurnong Beds and, in two bores, Shelly glauconitic marls,...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1960
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RB 52/00078 Revision of the Tate molluscan types: Pelecypoda - Nuculidae and Nuculanidae.
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Published: 01 Jan 1961
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RB 53/00101 Report on site investigation proposed SA Cooperative Bulk Handling Ltd silo site, railway yards, Keith, Hd Stirling.
The site of a proposed silo at Keith was investigated by means of one cable tool hole 16m deep. The hole encountered very strongly cemented limestone of the Padthaway Formation to 3m, overlying calcareous sand and sandy limestone of the Coomandook...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1961
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RB 53/00152 Report on site investigation for a proposed grain silo to be constructed in the railway yards at Waikerie.
The site of a proposed silo at Waikerie was investigated by means of one cable tool hole 17m deep. The hole encountered Woorinen Formation dune sand and clayey sand of the Blanchetown Clay overlying calcareous sand or sandy limestone of the Norwest...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1961
