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RB 59/00113 Light 001 well completion report.
Light No. 1 was drilled on shot point E126 subsequent to the Middle Beach Seismograph Survey. The purpose of the well was primarily to determine the depth to basement, to assist the correlation of seismograph records, and to further stratigraphic...-
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Published: 11 Nov 1964
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RB 86/00086 Bowmans coal deposit. 1986 drilling programme data report.
Drilling within preferred mining area of the deposit was undertaken to obtain coal quality and tonneage data.18,100 mm diameter cored holes (554 metres) and 18 open holes (3138 metres) were drilled to delineate optimum mining area (6529 : 4 MW558 -...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1986
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RB 78/00013 Northern Adelaide Plains gas storage study. Barabba gravity low.
The Barabba Gravity Low in the Northern Adelaide Plains has been interpreted as a southerly dipping trough-like depression in Precambrian bedrock, infilled with Tertiary and covered by a blanket of Quaternary sediments. All margins of this feature are...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 93/00011 Artificial recharge potential at Precinct 1, Northfield residential development, Adelaide, South Australia.
Investigations of the Tertiary Sand and the basement aquifer underlying Sections 789 and 873 Hd Yatala, indicate that only the basement aquifer has the potential to store storm water for subsequent reuse. Well equations to describe the behaviour of a...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1993
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Kainton, Melton and Paskeville (the Melton Project). Joint annual reports for the period 27/8/2007 to 26/8/2019.
Exploration for possible buried sandstone-hosted uranium mineralisation which could have formed within early Tertiary palaeochannel sediments of the northern Saint Vincent Basin is being carried out in a small area near Kainton on north-eastern Yorke...-
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Lake Bumbunga. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/5/1985 to 16/5/1991.
TARGET: Coal in the northern Saint Vincent Basin. EXPLORATION: Rotary open hole and core drilling plus detailed geological and geophysical logging of 24 holes on Lake Bumbunga, designed to achieve coal sampling to 500 m centres in the area lying south...-
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Published: 07 Apr 1991
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South Australia. Miscellaneous, non-tenement related SADM and BMR - authored technical reports for the period 1940 to 1969.
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Port Wakefield (the Clinton Coal-to-Liquids Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/8/2007 to 15/8/2015.
Ground covering the known extent of three shallowly buried Eocene lignite deposits located in the Port Wakefield district was taken up to allow their delineation in tonnage and quality terms, to modern industry standards (i.e. meeting the Joint Ore...-
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Ardrossan. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 16/11/1981 to 15/11/1982.
Exploration of an area of covered Proterozoic basement extending northwards from Ardrossan was undertaken to search for possible Stuart Shelf - type stratiform base metal occurrences at unconformity surfaces developed near the base of the Adelaidean,...-
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Published: 27 Jan 1983
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Lochiel coal deposit bulk sampling programme, 1982.
A 210 tonne bulk sample of soft brown coal was obtained from the southern margin of the deposit using large diameter coring techniques. The recovered sample stratigraphy is consistent with a 6.4 metre coal seam overlain by clay and carbonaceous silty...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1983
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Northern Saint Vincent Basin, Port Wakefield and Lake Bumbunga areas. Coal deposit appraisal reports, plus pre-mining economic feasibility studies, for the period 4/10/78 to 28/7/90.
TARGET: Coal in the northern Saint Vincent Basin. EXPLORATION: Rotary open hole and core drilling of over 700 holes, including large diameter core and bulk sampling at the Lochiel and Bowmans trial pits. RESULTS: The Lochiel and Bowmans coal resources...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1991
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Harbour investigations Gulf of St Vincent areas A and B.
Investigated bottom and shallow sub - bottom conditions, suitability for installation of harbour facilities and dredging. No materials encountered should impede dredging operations. High resolution and standard boomers were used for sound sources.-
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Lochiel coal deposit. 1984 bulk sampling geological report.
A large diameter coring programme obtained a bulk coal sample for combustion testing from two sites within the coalfield. The major portion (227 tonnes) represented "average " quality coal from the proposed mining area, while a poorer quality...-
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Lochiel coal deposit geological report.
In 1982 ETSA carried out an exploration programme which lead to the discovery of the Lochiel brown coal deposit. Over 10,000 metres of drilling have been completed within the deposit. Reserve and resource calculation and hydrogeological and...-
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Bulk sampling programme for the Lochiel coal deposit.
The reasons and procedures for the collection of a 210 tonne bulk sample from the Lochiel coal deposit are outlined, and the geology and hydrogeology are summarised.-
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Ardrossan. Progress and final reports from 15/5/83 to 14/2/85.
Exploration by CRA for Mississippi Valley type deposits in Cambrian limestone included image processing of existing aeromagnetic data, ground follow up of 3 aeromagnetic anomalies in areas of interpreted shallow Precambrian basement, and Sirotem...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1985
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Maitland [second JV programme]. Progress reports for the period 17/8/81 to 14/5/84.
Continuing mineral exploration work over central Yorke Peninsula under a new joint venture arrangement with a different company, now targetting possible Phanerozoic sedimentary uranium in Cambrian and Tertiary strata, has consisted of investigations...-
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Northern Saint Vincent Basin [Port Wakefield area]. EL 1113 first partial surrender [and project third overall] - coal exploration data for the period 27/5/1974 to 24/2/1986.
Within the 1160 square km of presently relinquished ground, 66 exploratory rotary drillholes totalling 6178 m were completed between 1975 and 1986, of which 43 holes tested the Snowtown coal deposit centred about 10 km north-east of Snowtown. With...-
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Northern Saint Vincent Basin. EL 782 first partial surrender report [and project second overall] - ETSA coal exploration data for the period 27/5/1974 to 11/1/1983.
TARGET: Economic Tertiary brown coal seams associated with possible depressions in the pre-Tertiary basement. EXPLORATION: Following the acquisition by SADME of a detailed gravity survey (2030 stations on a 1.5 by 0.75 km grid) over previously...-
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Merriton. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 2/8/1984 to 1/8/1985.
In a search for possible economic coal seams buried under the Broughton River Valley, 6 open rotary drillholes totalling 668.6 m of penetration have intersected a quite thick sequence of Tertiary carbonaceous sediments, deposited within a narrow basin...-
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