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Watson Siding (South). Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 11/12/81 to 10/10/82.
In a search for possible concealed Olympic Dam type base metal deposits within an area located 80 km north-west of Yalata, the licensee investigated several previously identified contiguous magnetic and gravity anomalies by performing ground magnetic...-
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Published: 16 Dec 1982
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Monburu Tank area. Progress reports for the period 2/11/1972 to 1/11/1973.
2 holes totalling 175 ft were abandoned due to sand.-
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Bunabie Rockhole, Hughes and Nullarbor Plain. Progress reports and final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 20/10/1980 to 19/10/1982.
Roxby Downs - type base metal deposits, potentially associated with linear and discrete magnetic anomalies of unknown origin in the basement, were the prime targets of exploration in an area extending between Koonalda and Hughes, adjacent to the SA/WA...-
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Koonalda. Progress reports for the period 7/8/79 to 18/7/82.
Following an airborne magnetic/radiometric survey, two rotary percussion holes totalling 819 m were drilled on negative magnetic anomalies to reach pre-Mesozoic basement (gabbro and meta-sandstone) in the Koonalda area of the Nullarbor Plain. No...-
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Lake Bring. Quarterly reports, first joint annual report (with SML 710) and joint final report to licence full surrender, for the period 1/9/1971 to 31/5/1973.
TARGET: Sedimentary uranium associated with high order radiometric anomalies over lakes on the edge of the sand dune country, east of the Nullarbor Plain. EXPLORATION: Closely spaced (300-500 m), low level (65 m altitude) aerial scintillometer...-
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Published: 26 Jun 1973
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Lake Dey Dey, Lake Maurice, Ooldea Range, Waldana, Lake Maurice West, Leemurra, Punthanna, Yadina and Lake Maurice East. Joint progress reports and final report to licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 25/4/1979 to 15/11/1982.
The exploration concept was based on searching for secondary uranium mineralisation that might be derived from the Musgrave Block basement rocks and that could have become precipitated within calcrete horizons from ponded uraniferous surface drainage...-
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Chimpering Rock Hole, Moornaba Rock Hole, Euria Well, Koonibba Mission and Lake Tallacootra (part of the Eucla Basin Heavy Minerals Project). Annual report, January 1990 to January 1991.
348 reconnaisance air-core drillholes were completed on the subject ELs between 5 July and 3 October 1990. The best heavy mineral sand intersections were found near Immarna (EL 1602), with some zones approaching ore-grade percentages. Unfortunately,...-
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Project proposal - Sceale Bay gypsum development. Summary of development program.
This project proposal relates to the potential for mining a vast gypsum deposit located adjacent to Sceale Bay, about 14 km south of Streaky Bay on the west coast of South Australia. Preliminary estimates put the ore reserves of gypsum of 88% purity...-
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Photogeological investigation of Early Cainozoic coastal landforms in the eastern Eucla Basin, SA.
A reconnaissance photogeological investigation of the eastern margins of the Eucla Basin has been carried out using small-scale (RC9 and RC10) aerial photographs, with results being compiled onto 1:100,000 scale base plans. The study has confirmed...-
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SEGY Eucla Basin Workstation ready dataset.
This download package contains the workstation-ready 2D SEGY dataset for the Eucla Basin, SA. Coordinates in trace headers reference GDA2020 / MGA zone 52. Included in the package: -SEGY files -JPEG files -Shapefile layer for the 2D seismic lines...-
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Published: 29 Jun 2022
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RB 37/00143 Report on the geological reconnaissance survey of the southern portion of the Eucla Basin and of part of the Warburton Ranges.
The Eucla Basin (or Nullarbor Plains Basin) is the name that has been given to that sedimentary basin which corresponds to much the same area as the geographical region, the Nullarbor Plains of Australia. Since one of the major rock-types of the basin...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1954
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RB 39/00085 Geological reconnaissance of the Eucla Basin.
This investigation of the Eucla Basin was carried out for a dual purpose: (1) to determine whether there is any evidence indicating a thick sedimentary basin north of the Transcontinental Railway line; and (2) to locate, if at all possible, any...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1954
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RB 51/00142 Report on tank sites for EWS Department, secn 94 Hd Lincoln.
It is proposed to construct a 2 million gallon tank on the north western slopes of North Side Hill as a high level storage for water from the Lincoln Basin. Seven test pits were sunk in the area to include the proposed site of a second 2 million...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1960
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RB 60/00030 Report on reconnaissance seismic refraction survey in the South Australian portion of the Eucla Basin, 1964.
A reconnaissance seismic refraction survey was carried out in the South Australian portion of the Eucla Basin, to determine the general shape of the basin and to assess the feasibility of using seismic methods in the area. Some of the refractors...-
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Published: 18 Feb 1965
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RB 60/00099 Testing of bores from the Eucla and Officer Basins for sedimentary phosphate.
Phosphate testing of bores from the Eucla and Officer basins showed that phosphate is distributed throughout the sediments in only small amounts, usually less than 1% P205. The highest values of P205 recorded were 1.65% obtained from Nullarbor no. 8...-
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Published: 18 May 1965
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RB 49/00026 Lincoln Basin investigations preliminary report.
There is no abstract created for this record-
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Published: 01 Jan 1961
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RB 48/00128 Report on groundwater prospects, section 97 Hd Wanilla - A.E. Gameau.
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Published: 01 Jan 1959
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RB 48/00065 Review of the occurrences of lignitiferous sediments within the Lincoln and Uley-Wanilla Basins.
A review of drilling in the Lincoln and Uley-Wanilla basins has shown that low grade coaly or lignitic sediments of Tertiary age exist in depressions within the late Tertiary land surface. The coaly sediments encountered are of a low grade and beneath...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1960
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RB 88/00014 Petroleum exploration and development in South Australia (5th edition).
In South Australia since 1958, 140,400 km of seismic have been recorded (75,500 onshore) and 882 wells drilled (of which 16 are offshore wildcats and 238 are development wells). Exploration and development have taken place in three distinct phases....-
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Published: 01 Mar 1988
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RB 85/00013 Latest Eocene palynofloras of the Pidinga Formation, Wilkinson no. 1 well, western South Australia.
Diverse palynomorph assemblages were recovered from Wilkinson 1 and are correlated with the latest Eocene Sparganiaceaepollenites barungensis Zone (Harris 1971) in South Australia and the upper Nothofagidites asperus Zone (Stover and Partridge 1973)...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1985
