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RB 37/00028 Leigh Creek Coalfield: Report on exploration of the north-eastern margin - Telford Basin area 'Telford Opencut, extension east'. (CONFIDENTIAL)
An area located on the north-eastern margin of the Telford Basin, to the east of the present extent of theTelford Open Cut mine main pit, which is known to contain potentially mineable buried coal seams, has been examined geologically and...-
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Published: 03 Mar 1954
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RB 47/00010 Report on the East Boolcunda Triassic basin.
The East Boolcunda Basin was examined in order to map the Triassic rocks in detail and to assess their coal-bearing potentiality. It was found that these rocks conform to a true basin structure, similar in most respects to the Leigh Creek and...-
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Published: 04 Jul 1958
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RB 95/00028 SAEI Triassic Coal Exploration Program. Exploration Licence Application ELA 382/92, Leigh Creek - Lyndhurst area, South Australia.
A data review undertaken by MESA to assess the prospectivity of the northern Flinders Ranges intramontane basins for concealed Triassic coal, highlighted four main areas as having the best potential for a discovery. Of these, the alluvium-covered...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1996
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RB 95/00029 Leigh Creek Coalfield, Lobe E coal deposit. Geological report.
In 1993 an exploration drilling program was undertaken jointly by The Department of Mines and Energy (MESA) and ETSA Corporation (ETSA) over areas considered prospective for coal within the vicinity of the existing infrastructure of the Leigh Creek...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1996
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RB 95/00030 SAEI Triassic Coal Exploration Program. Exploration Licence Application ELA 228/93, Hawker - Quorn area, South Australia.
The results of a data review by MESA in 1992 to assess the prospectivity of the northern Flinders Ranges for concealed Triassic coal highlighted four main areas as having the best potential for a discovery. Following exploration for coal by MESA/ETSA...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1996
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Northern Flinders Ranges (the Leigh Creek Corridor Project). Joint annual reports to licences' combined full surrender, for the period 2/11/2004 to 1/11/2009.
Exploration for possible economic brown coal occurrences within inferred concealed northern extensions to known coal-bearing Triassic intramontane basins in the Leigh Creek district has consisted of the conduct of semi-detailed, 1 km x 500 m gravity...-
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Published: 12 Nov 1909
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Leigh Creek Coalfield, Lobe B coal deposit: SADME/ETSA 1978 coal appraisal drilling program. Data package of coal seam representative sampling results [to be augmented as relevant retained records become rediscovered and made available].
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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Weira Plain - Carrieton area (part of the Walloway Project). Annual reports to licence full surrender, for the period 23/8/2010 to 2/9/2014.
A small area located ~90 km east-northeast of Port Augusta has been explored for possible economic Tertiary lignitic coal deposits that may have formed in the northern part of a now uplifted, ~50 km long x ~15 km wide intramontane sedimentary basin,...-
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Published: 13 Aug 1914
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Orroroo (part of the Walloway Project). Annual reports to licence full surrender, for the period 18/3/2010 to 14/5/2014.
A large area consisting of two separate sub-blocks that were centred ~90 km east and 110 km south-east of Port Augusta has been explored for possible economic Tertiary lignitic coal deposits that may have formed in the southern part of a now uplifted,...-
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Published: 13 Aug 1914
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Walloway (part of the Walloway Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/5/2008 to 11/5/2014.
An area centred ~90 km south-east of Port Augusta has been explored for possible economic Tertiary lignitic coal deposits that may have formed in the southern part of a now uplifted, ~50 km long x ~15 km wide intramontane sedimentary basin, the...-
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Published: 11 Jul 1914
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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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SADME/ETSA 1978 Leigh Creek coal appraisal drilling programme : drillhole lithologs.
As part of its Triassic coalfield assessment work, 194 coal exploration rotary drillholes and two stratigraphic drillholes were drilled by ETSA at the Leigh Creek Coalfield during 1978, utilising field geological assistance provided from SADME to log...-
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Published: 05 Nov 1978
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Morgan. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 28/11/1977 to 1/9/1978.
During Dampier's exploration conducted near Morgan township in the western Murray Basin, the main target was possible economic coal measures in Cretaceous or Tertiary sediments, with the base metal potential of pre-Mesozoic basement rocks constituting...-
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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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Bendleby. Information status at licence surrender, for the period 1/11/2011 to 27/2/2013: no work performed.
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Yadlamalka. Combined first annual/final report to licence full surrender, for the period 13/6/2013 to 16/7/2014.
A very small area centred ~60 km north-east of Port Augusta has been explored for possible economic buried lignite and also for Burra type porphyry intrusive - related secondary copper mineralisation or for kimberlitic diamonds. During the first...-
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Published: 27 May 1914
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Bute. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 28/11/1977 to 27/2/1979.
Stratigraphic deep drilling carried out by the South Australian Government since 1968 in the Bute - Port Broughton region of northern Yorke Peninsula (in total 21 diamond drillholes and 16 rotary drillholes) has outlined the nature and subsurface...-
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SADME/Amdel mineral research project : Leigh Creek Coalfield - coal petrology investigations. Progress reports for the period April 1979 to June 1980.
Coal samples collected by the SADME Fossil Fuels Div. from the Leigh Creek Coalfield during its recent drilling programme have been examined and analysed according to preset parameters to allow comparison of average coal quality between this field and...-
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Published: 04 Jul 1980
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Coward Cliff. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 16/1/1976 to 19/10/1976.
Three exploratory vertical rotary mud holes totalling 203 m were drilled on the southern margin of the Mesozoic Great Artesian Basin, to the north-west of Finniss Springs Station, to search for possible thicker, basinward extensions of a thin coal...-
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Published: 22 Jul 1976
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Mypolonga, Oakbank and Sturt Vale (part of CRA's Murray Basin Project). Final report at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 7/7/1980 to 20/6/1983.
As part of ongoing exploration of three areas in the western and northern Murray Basin, an open-file data review, in conjunction with the acquisition and interpretation of previous aeromagnetic and gravity data, provided a basis for CRAE's siting of 5...-
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Published: 04 Mar 1983
