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Exploration opportunities, Otway Basin, South Australia.
Four areas (OT95-A to D) located in the South Australian sector of the onshore Otway Basin, are available for application until 30/6/95 as Petroleum Exploration Licences. The areas range in size from 255 sq km to 2 023 sq km, and seismic line...-
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Petroleum geochemistry of the Otway Basin, and the significance of coastal bitumen strandings on adjacent southern Australian beaches. Volumes 1 to 5 source rock studies.
The standing of crude oil on the beaches of southern Australia was first recorded approximately 150 years ago. This material, known locally as coastal bitumen, was used by the early maritime visitors and settlers to caulk their vessels and is the...-
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RB 60/00011 Examination of bore samples for sedimentary phosphate (in the) Murray Basin and Gambier Embayment of the Otway Basin.
In a reconnaissance survey for sedimentary phosphate, sludges and cores were examined from 100 widely-scattered bores in parts of the Murray Basin and the Gambier Embayment of the Otway Basin that are located in South Australia. Microscopic inspection...-
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Published: 25 Jan 1965
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RB 83/00063 Allens sand quarry, section 715, Hd Blanche). Results of auger drilling, 1981 - 82 - I.A. and C.H. Allen.
18 auger holes have outlined probable reserves of 80 000 tonnes of construction sand in Middle Eocene Tartwaup Formation below 57 000 tonnes of overburden. Allens Quarry (formerly Knight's Quarry) is the only exposure of Early Tertiary sediments in...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1983
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RB 78/00041 Naracoorte planning study engineering geology investigations - B. Turner and Associates.
Naracoorte Corporation area straddles two northwesterly trending dune ridges and their corresponding flats. Cemented limestones of the Bridgewater Formation and Gambier Limestone, occasionally mantled by windblown sands, form the two ridges; younger...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 89/00052 Flint report.
Flint occurs in 4 geological settings in the South-East - beds and dykes in the Gambier Limestone, bouldery conglomerate of the Bridgewater Formation, Holocene surface lag deposits and Holocene beach deposits. Pebbles from beach deposits between Cape...-
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Published: 01 May 1989
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RB 90/00078 South Australia - Exploration Towards 2000. Seminar, Adelaide, 13 December, 1990. Extended abstracts.
A seminar designed to heighten industry interest in South Australia as a place in which to search for minerals and petroleum was organised by the Department of Mines and Energy at the Australian Mineral Foundation on 13 December 1990. A number of data...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1990
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RB 89/00026 Naracoorte filling sand and rubble pit EML 5526. Sections 700 and 701, Hd Naracoorte - D.G. and V.A. Pitt.
Since 1956, filling sand and limestone rubble have been mined from a former Railway Reserve, 2.5 km ENE of Naracoorte. The rubble pit is in Tertiary Naracoorte Limestone Member of the Gambier Limestone. Fine-grained sand (probably Molineaux Sand...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1989
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RB 92/00066 South Australia - Otway Basin Area S92-1 petroleum prospects.
A promotional brochure for vacant offshore Otway Basin petroleum exploration acreage, designed for release overseas to potential corporate bidders, prior to gazettal of the area for permit applications in November 1992. Area S92-1 covering 4736 square...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1992
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RB 95/00040 Otway Basin aeromagnetic/radiometric test survey.
A test aerial spectrometric and subsidiary aeromagnetic survey of the onshore Otway Basin in SA was proposed in 1991 by APIRA, the Commonwealth Government's petroleum research authority. Initially it was aimed at utilising possible signature responses...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1995
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RB 89/00074 Industrial and non metallic minerals - Operations in South Australia.
This data package discusses mining and processing operations of the major non metallic and industrial mineral commodities in South Australia and is of interest to those in the industry and to manufacturers and suppliers of a range of machinery and...-
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Published: 01 May 1989
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RB 97/00039 Lineament tectonic data, South Australia, with a focus on the Cooper Basin.
The lineament mapping methods used by E.S.T. (Tim) O'Driscoll, which were a crucial factor in the discovery of Olympic Dam, the world's largest known Cu-U-Au-Ag deposit, and of several other lesser Australian metallic orebodies, have now been applied...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1997
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Marcollat. Progress, annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 23/9/2002 to 9/10/2008.
Exploration of an area located 50 km south-southwest of Keith aimed to test the potential of known Cambrian siliceous volcanic rocks for hosting massive base metal sulphide deposits plus possible disseminated and skarn-related precious metals,...-
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Published: 24 Nov 1908
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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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PPL 62 Katnook and Ladbroke Grove Gas Fields. Technical study reports. Katnook Pretty Hill Initial Reservior Pressure and Gas in Place.
Contains a report describing how MESA estimated the initial pressure and gas-in-place of the Pretty Hill Sandstone reservoir in the Katnook Field.-
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Published: 18 Apr 1990
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Gambier. Final geological report on drilling.
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Published: 09 Aug 1999
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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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EPP 23, Otway Basin, South Australia. Evaluation report.
In order to examine the prospectivity of EPP 23, for which they assumed the operatorship by a 65% farm-in in August 1990, BHP Petroleum have examined well palynological and geochemical data in and around the permit and have interpreted over 600 km of...-
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PEL 27 permit review.
This compilation of available geological and geophysical data pertaining to PEL 27, and open file plus traded data from adjoining tenements, assembled in June 1992, was instigated by the PEL 27 joint venture to provide a comprehensive basis on which...-
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Otway EV 68 Land Gravity Survey OEL 22, South Australia.
The Otway EV68 Gravity Survey was comprised of 2088 new gravity stations recorded over tracks and roads covering the entire OEL 22 licence area. Stations were recorded at approximate half mile intervals during December 68 and January 1969 for Esso...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1969
