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Blanchewater Hill. Progress and final reports for the period 11/8/80 to 10/8/82.
Drilling of two percussion holes (aggregate 400 metres) near Yerila, south of Lake Blanche, failed to give encouragement to the search for possible Permian coal and Tertiary uranium in the southern Eromanga Basin / Lake Blanche Lineament uplift area...-
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Lake Carnanto. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 30/11/1978 to 11/2/1983.
The south-eastern Lake Frome Embayment in the vicinity of Quinyambie Station was explored for Upper and Lower Tertiary 'blanket' or 'roll front' type sedimentary uranium, via the drilling of 75 open vertical rotary mud holes with a total penetration...-
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RB 83/00076 Palynology of selected Cainozoic samples from Tarcoola 1:100 000 map sheet.
An Eocene age is determined for one sample from Tarcoola TPS-13R bore, a Pliocene age for a sample from Tarcoola TPS-15 bore, and a Plio-Pleistocene age for a sample from Tarcoola TPS-17 bore. A sample examined from Tarcoola TPS-14 bore contained no...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1983
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RB 83/00051 Palynology of selected samples from Lake Eyre Bore 8A and Jackboot Bore.
A Palaeocene age is determined for 2 samples from Lake Eyre bore 8a, and a Late Cretaceous age for 1 sample from Jackboot bore. Both of these holes are located in the Lake Eyre South region.-
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Published: 01 Jul 1983
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RB 83/00104 Data base for the Cainozoic of the Lake Eyre Basin, and proposed drilling project with Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics.
Includes surface and subsurface stratigraphic data, and a geological map at 1:500 000 scale. 18 bores were re-logged.-
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Published: 01 Dec 1983
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RB 77/00064 Palynological examination of material from Delhi - Santos Poolowanna no. 1 water bore.
Palynological preparation of organic material taken from sediments sampled over the depth interval 140-148 metres KB failed to yield any identifiable organic residue, so no biostratigraphic age determination was possible.-
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Published: 28 Jun 1977
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RB 90/00015 Correlation and depositional environment of Tertiary strata based on macrofloras in the southern Lake Eyre Basin, South Australia.
Plant macrofossils from silicified Cainozoic fluvial sediments on CURDIMURKA occur in 2 discrete suites. One suite has been found only in outcrops of silicified Eyre Formation in the Poole Creek Palaeochannel. This suite and the macroflora of the...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1990
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RB 89/00046 Preliminary palynological dating of macrofloras from Eyre Formation, Nelly Creek, Lake Eyre Basin.
A sample of carbonaceous mud was assigned a Middle Eocene age. The date also provides maximum age for the silcrete which indurates the upper part of the formation in the creek.-
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Published: 01 Jul 1989
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Paralana Creek (part of the Beverley Project). Annual reports for the period 29/9/2009 to 15/11/2015.
Work undertaken on EL 4378 during the 2009-2010 reporting year included the drilling of 478 vertical rotary mud holes totalling 132,960 m, and core drilling totalling 4117 m performed in 16 of these holes for stratigraphic unit / resource...-
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Published: 24 Dec 1915
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Starvation Lake. Progress reports and final report on regional exploration programme at licence surrender, for the period 13/1/1972 to 31/7/1972.
In a search for possible economic roll-front, blanket style uranium deposits within Tertiary sediments in part of the eastern Frome Embayment, the licensee undertook 1:75,000 scale geological mapping and exploratory auger drilling of the Quaternary...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Paralana Creek (part of the Beverley Project). Annual reports and technical reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 29/8/1992 to 28/9/2009.
In the reporting period to 30th June 1995 for Exploration Licence 1944, Heathgate Pty Ltd completed no fieldwork, however geological evaluation work was undertaken. This work consisted of laboratory testing of drill core from a 1991 drilling program...-
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Published: 18 Jun 1910
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Wilpena Creek. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 26/7/1977 to 25/7/1978.
A licence area centred approximately 150 km north of Yunta, and bordering the south-eastern Flinders Ranges, was taken up to try to locate basinward extensions of a previously found Lower Tertiary palaeochannel sequence, in order to evaluate the...-
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RB 00753 Kalladeina bore - Lithological sequence, surface to 1 210 feet.
The near surface section encountered in Kalladeina 1 contains a thick Plio-Pleistocene section, whilst the Lower Tertiary sediments ubiquitously present in the Cooper's Creek Basin, are either absent or very thin. Of particular interest is the...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1900
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RB 00742 Delhi-Santos Moomba 4 well. Lithological sequence, surface to 1 000 feet.
In connection with the issue of design for well casing installations in potential gas wells in the Coopers Creek Sub-basin, the SADM Petroleum Section was approached by the Petroleum Engineer to supply a lithological description of the top 1000 feet...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1900
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Lake Callabonna / Petermorra (part of the Lake Elder Project). Annual reports for the period 19/3/1998 to 30/4/2015.
Exploration Licence 2494 was granted in March 1998 to Paladin Energy Minerals NL and Brightstar Power Corporation Pty Ltd - the Paladin Brightstar Joint Venture (PBJV), with Paladin Resources NL as manager. The target commodity being explored for by...-
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Published: 20 May 1915
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EL 4005 - EL 4011, Lake Blanche Project. Combined annual technical reports for the period 16/12/2007 to 16/12/2011.
The Lake Blanche Project lies on the western edge of the Eromanga Basin in South Australia to the north Frome Embayment. The Eromanga Basin of central Australia is a major oil-producing, sedimentary basin of Mesozoic age. Sediments in this basin...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Blanchewater Hill, Camp Hill, Murnpeowie and Ooloo Hill (the Marree Uranium Project). Joint annual reports for the period 10/8/2005 to 9/8/2016.
An extensive area of Tertiary Lake Eyre Basin and Mesozoic Eromanga Basin sediments lying immediately to the north of the uranium-rich Mount Babbage and Mount Painter inliers is being explored for possible economic roll-front style palaeochannel...-
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Published: 15 Dec 1916
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RB 2012/00004 MARREE, South Australia, [geological map] sheet SH54-5. South Australia. Geological Survey. 1:250 000 Series - Explanatory Notes.
The MARREE mapsheet area includes the south-western portion of the Strzelecki Desert plus parts of the Tirari Desert, north-western Flinders Ranges and north-eastern Willouran Ranges, between latitudes 29 to 30 degrees S and longitudes 138 to 139...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2012
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Palaeodrainage and Cenozoic coastal barriers of South Australia (2nd edition).
Since the first edition of this map was released in May 2007, the collection by the Department's Geological Survey of much new geoscientific data and interpretations arising from South Australian regional surveys and exploration activities has...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1912
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Lake Callabonna. Progress reports for the period 11/6/1970 to 10/6/1971.
Exploration for possible sedimentary uranium deposits buried within the Tertiary fluvial sequence deposited to the west and south-west of Lake Callabonna comprised part of a regional aerial scintillometric survey, and the drilling and gamma logging of...-
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Published: 12 Oct 1970
