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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 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 98/00019 Spencer Regions strategic water management study.
The availability of adequate water supplies is crucial to future development, particularly in the arid areas of the State. Primary Industries and Resources South Australia (PIRSA), as part of the Spencer Regions Strategic Water Management Study, has...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1998
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Lake MacFarlane. Combined first annual / final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/1/2016 to 19/1/2017.
Laboratory analysis of 18 samples of groundwater seepage brine collected from Lake MacFarlane during June-July 2016 indicated that the lake was unlikely to host an economically viable potash resource, and therefore the mineral exploration licence...-
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Published: 30 Nov 1916
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Port Augusta - Lake Torrens area. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 28/11/1979 to 29/10/1986.
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Lake Torrens. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 13/4/1973 to 12/4/1975.
Continuing exploration by Delhi of the industrial salt potential of subsurface brines in the Lake Torrens basin aimed to ascertain the potential reserves of NaCl in the southern part of the lake, and to confirm the availability of suitable brine...-
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Uro Bluff. First partial surrender report, for the period 19/4/1982 to 18/4/1984.
A block comprising 727 square km or ~44.5% of EL 1003, being most of its northern portion, has now been relinquished due to its perceived diminished prospectivity for sedimentary copper mineralisation or diamonds. 11 percussion holes which were...-
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Santos Wilkatana Project. Annual report for 1956. Exploration drilling operations.
There is no abstract created for this record-
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Published: 01 Jan 1957
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Nilpena area. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 26/2/91 to 16/8/91.
Exploration for possible diamonds and base metals in Cambrian sediments of the Beltana Sub-basin, east of the Ediacara Range, consisted of an appraisal of existing geophysical data, and drainage gravel sampling. No encouraging results were obtained.-
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Published: 23 Sep 1991
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Commodore. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 22/9/1980 to 21/10/1986.
Multicommodity exploration undertaken in the Commodore - Parachilna area of the west-central Flinders Ranges, just outside of the western boundary of the newly proclaimed national park and the included Heysen Range, has comprised limited gravel...-
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Lake Torrens, Stuart Creek Homestead, Mount Bayley and Lake Torrens West. Licence-specific progress reports and final reports to licences' respective expiry/full surrender, for the overall period 11/11/1986 to 1/3/1989.
TARGET: In an untested area immediately west of Leigh Creek, extending as far as the eastern side of Lake Torrens, ETSA was aiming to find buried deposits of Late Palaeozoic or Mesozoic coal of a rank at least equal to that of Leigh Creek coal (and...-
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Point Paterson - Port Pirie area. Progress, technical and final reports for the period 22/1/1970 to 10/12/1971.
Reports on the investigation of potential northern Spencer Gulf coastal sites for the solar evaporative production of seawater salt, principally as a feedstock for the proposed petrochemical plant which was being considered by Dow Chemical Corp. for...-
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Published: 10 Dec 1971
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Warrioota Creek. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 7/6/1978 to 6/6/1980.
Exploration undertaken in an area of practically no outcrop that is situated south of the Ediacara Range, on the eastern side of Lake Torrens, has aimed primarily at investigating the Viburnum Trend (Mississippi Valley) - type mineral potential of...-
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Published: 12 Mar 1980
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Andamooka. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 26/3/1970 to 25/3/1971.
Exploration for supergene Cu-Pb-Zn mineralisation within the Cambrian Andamooka Limestone, 12 miles north-east of Andamooka, comprised broad scale surface geochemical sampling (302 samples), detailed mapping of the resulting prospects, bulldozer...-
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Published: 28 Apr 1971
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ExpNotes PARACHILNA (v2): Explanatory Notes PARACHILNA (second edition, 1999)
The PARACHILNA map area (31 to 32°S, 138 to 139.5°E) occupies the central Flinders Ranges which are made up of folded, mostly marine sedimentary Neoproterozoic and Cambrian rocks of the Adelaide Geosyncline, and adjoining plains underlain by Cainozoic...-
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RB 73/00304 Summary of certain sedimentary basins in South Australia. (For AIMM petroleum volume).
This report is a geological review of the Arckaringa Basin, the Arrowie Basin, Pirie Torrens Basin, From Embayment, Pedirka Basin, Murray Basin and associated infrabasins.-
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Published: 17 Dec 1973
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Yarley. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/8/2009 to 18/8/2012.
A small area located on the southern Lake Torrens Plains immediately west of the ABC Range was taken up to allow evaluation of its potential for having buried economic sedimentary coal and/or uranium mineralisation occurrences. There are no...-
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Published: 02 Sep 1912
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Merna Mora. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/10/2006 to 8/10/2013.
A small licence area located on the Flinders Ranges piedmont plain south-east of Lake Torrens was taken up by Jim Allender to investigate the IOCG potential of a discrete regional gravity anomaly which he had identified from data in the public domain,...-
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Published: 20 Nov 1913
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Lake Torrens Station and Hawker West (the Torrens Project). Joint annual reports, plus separate final reports to licences' respective full surrender, for the period 30/4/2003 to 1/6/2010.
Olympic Dam style copper-gold mineralisation was the target of exploration in two adjoining areas which lie about 100 km north-northeast of Port Augusta and 55 km west of Hawker, on alluvial plains adjacent to south-eastern Lake Torrens. All of the...-
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Published: 30 Nov 1910
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Lake Torrens Areas 1 and 2, Lake Torrens South and Lake Torrens North (the Lake Torrens Brine Potash Project). First joint annual report plus final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 5/1/2015 to 16/6/2016.
Much of the eastern side of the very large, 5,745 square km saline playa Lake Torrens, which occupies one of the most arid parts of Australia, was taken under licence by a Northern Territory - based company with the intent of systematically sampling...-
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Published: 14 Jun 1916
