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RB 96/00001 Mineral exploration and development in South Australia.
This mineral promotional brochure reviews significant historical developments in South Australia's mineral industry and canvasses the currently recognised mineral potential within the State, for the benefit of local and overseas interested companies...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1996
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Lochaber. Data release : final report at licence full surrender, for the period 29/8/2006 to 6/7/2009.
EL 3623 is located 220 km south-east of Adelaide, and lies to the west of the township of Naracoorte. The tenement is also located ~35 km to the south-east of the much larger Kingston lignite deposit contained within the subject licencee's related EL...-
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Published: 02 Sep 1909
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Blackford and Lochaber (the Kingston Lignite Project). Individual licence reports and a joint annual report, plus final report at the full surrender of the remaining (Blackford) licence, for the period 3/8/2005 to 20/2/2015.
The Kingston coal (lignite) deposit, delineated by Western Mining Corp. in the early 1980s, has been re-assessed for the energy generation potential its coal represents, viewed in the context of recent increased demand for liquid transport fuels and...-
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Published: 02 Mar 1915
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Moorlands. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 15/1/1979 to 30/11/1984.
Adelaide Brighton Cement took up tenure of the Moorlands lignite deposit during September 1976 in order to conduct confirmatory drilling of the published coal resource, to prepare a mining study for Lobe 'E', and overall, to assess the coal's...-
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Published: 23 Nov 1984
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Moorlands. Progress reports to licence expiry, for the period 5/1/1990 to 4/7/1990.
A feasibility study into mine development, and coal marketing research, were undertaken. Further investigations into the possible uses of Moorlands deposit coal are required.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1990
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Moorlands coal deposit conceptual mining study.
Coal seam thickness averages 9.55 metres. In situ reserves are 8.85 MT. Recoverable coal reserves are 8.6 MT. Capital required to bring the mine into operation is $15.2 M. The real average cost of production is $13.69 / T.-
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The Murray Basin Project. Joint progress reports and joint final report to remnant licences' full surrender, for the period 7/10/1980 to 6/12/1984.
Thirteen contiguous exploration licences located along the western margin of the Tertiary Murray Basin were taken up by CRA to search for economic buried brown coal / lignite deposits of the type already known from small discoveries that had been made...-
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Published: 07 Mar 1985
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Padthaway - Black Range area. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 15/5/1979 to 28/3/1980.
Exploration for possible economic lignite and coal that may occur within Tertiary sediments of the western Murray Basin covering the crest of the Padthaway Ridge, consisted of drilling 14 rotary mud vertical holes, 4 being partially diamond cored,...-
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Published: 12 May 1980
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Sedan lignite deposit. Geological investigations and review of resources.
In October 2000 GTL Energy Pty Ltd began commercial investigations into the feasibility of establishing within Australia newly proven [coal] gas-to-liquids technology for combining power generation and synfuel production, by identifying potentially...-
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Sedan. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/2/1998 to 23/6/2011.
In a study made of the Palaeozoic magmatic province underlying the Murray Basin, all available geophysical, geological and geochemical data was evaluated by Shell's technical consultants, who identified six conceptual targets which could reasonably be...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1911
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Sedan lignite deposit. Technological investigations and commercialisation of resources.
The Sedan lignite deposit was discovered in 1979 and was subsequently investigated as fuel for an onsite conventional thermal power station. At that time, predicted high future energy demand by the 1990s required the state government to put in place...-
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Sedan and Anna coal deposits (the Mannum Project). Data release upon the surrender of a subsequent licence (EL 4269): Coal mining feasibility studies. Expert reports plus supporting data for the period February 1981 to June 1987.
Deposits of low rank Tertiary brown coal formed in the Sedan area on the western margin of the Murray Basin, ~80 to 100 km north-east of Adelaide, have been investigated as potential sources of fuel for electricity generation. Attention has been...-
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RB 2003/00013 North-western Murray Basin geological synthesis, South Australia.
The Murray Basin is an intracratonic basin filled with Cainozoic fluvial to shallow marine sediments. Deposition in the Eocene and early Oligocene was characterised by floodplain and swamp deposits, emplaced with occasional interbeds of shelly clays...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2003
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Moorlands. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 10/9/1976 to 9/9/1978.
Work consisted of gathering all available information and advice on, and assessing the problems associated with, treatment of the Moorlands deposit low rank brown coal to make it a fuel suitable for use in cement manufacture within a newly constructed...-
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Blackford. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 25/9/1999 to 24/9/2003.
The Kingston coal deposit, located within a geographic area that extends between 20 and 40 km north-east of Kingston (South-East) township, comprises 985 Mt of lignite shallowly interbedded in Tertiary sediments, in a series of seams that now (in a...-
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Published: 08 Dec 1903
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Moorlands. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 29/7/1974 to 28/7/1975.
The natural organic compound Montan wax, extracted from drill core samples of lignites that are present in the Moorlands Coalfield, has been tested in West Germany by the Hoechst GmbH company. The wax was found to be of poor quality, with excessive...-
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Published: 25 Aug 1975
