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RB 99/00002 Risk assessment modelling for irrigation development in the Angas Bremer irrigation area.
Recently imposed water resource management controls in the Angas - Bremer Irrigation Area have reduced the local irrigators' aggregate groundwater allocation to within the sustainable limits of the basin, primarily by conversion of their licences...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1999
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Review of Mineral exploration activity, 2003 and 2004.
2003 activity: Expenditure by companies on mineral exploration licences in South Australia for calendar year 2003 was $37.0 million, a slight increase on the $35.7 million spent in 2002. Mineral exploration drilling metreage, a key indicator of...-
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Karoonda and Parrakie. Joint first partial surrender report, for the period 2/9/1986 to 1/9/1987.
The southern portions of both subject licences, comprising ~58.5% of the former area of EL 1356 and ~38% of the former area of EL 1357, have now been relinquished. Preliminary work consisted of collecting 9 surface grab samples of exposures of...-
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Karoonda and Parrakie. Individual licence progress reports to licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/9/1986 to 13/6/1991.
TARGET: Possible economic heavy mineral sand accumulations in Pliocene raised beach strandlines developed along the south-western margin of the Murray Basin. EXPLORATION: Aerial photo interpretation, regional sedimentological studies, preliminary...-
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Published: 05 Jun 1991
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Bordertown. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 1/4/1969 to 31/3/1971.
A wide-ranging geochemical exploration programme has continued, testing soils of the region for mercury emissions from possible stratiform base metal sulphide orebodies that may exist in the Cambrian volcanic/metasedimentary basement, by performing...-
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Published: 27 Apr 1971
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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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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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Murray Basin mineral sands infrastructure planning study.
The final report of the Murray Basin Mineral Sands Infrastructure Planning Study was presented to Senator Nick Minchin and the three State Ministers responsible for Mines and Energy Resources on 3 August at Mildura. The study, by consultants Sinclair...-
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Malcolm Plains (Ashville gypsum deposits). Report on geological investigations carried out during 1991 and 1992.
Gypsum in economic quantities and grades has been discovered in two swamps located close to the Princes Highway near Ashville, about 135 km south-east by road from Adelaide. The two deposits, designated Warnes and Lihou, were discovered in 1991 by...-
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Bordertown - Naracoorte area. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 1/4/1969 to 31/3/1971.
A wide-ranging geochemical exploration programme has continued, testing soils of the region for possible mercury emissions from basement, by performing laboratory analyses of samples of the soil vapour after these were first trapped in shallow auger...-
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Published: 23 Apr 1971
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Report on airborne magnetometer survey, Bass Strait and Encounter Bay areas.
Contains the survey geophysical contractor's review of the aeromagnetic techniques and magnetic data interpretation procedures used, plus a discussion of the resulting magnetic signatures (basin definition, internal structural trends, data anomalies,...-
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Published: 14 Sep 1962
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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
