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Mount Willoughby, Marla, Nicholson Hill, Hope, Manya, Emu, Moorefield, Lake Meramangye, Dingo Claypan and Alinya (Officer Basin). Progress, technical and partial relinquishment reports for the period 20/8/1980 to 19/8/1985.
TRONA EXPLORATION: Of the 9 rotary/diamond holes drilled, only the first, Meramangye 1, intersected a unit equivalent to the Observatory Hill Beds, which was the target horizon for trona. Drillholes Manya nos 2-6 and Marla 7 intersected Cambrian red...-
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Frome Downs and Curnamona. Respective progress reports, annual reports and JV partner's final report to licences' joint expiry/renewal, for the period 11/2/1971 to 12/2/1973.
77 rotary / diamond holes drilled by Pacminex (total 9385 m, including 196 m cored) plus another 53 holes drilled within SML 544 by joint venturer Esso (total 7029 m) indicate that a highly prospective radioactive mineralised zone occurs within...-
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Mulyungarie. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 13/5/1972 to 12/5/1973.
Ongoing exploration for possible economic sandstone-type uranium deposits formed in Tertiary palaeochannels in the Yarramba area, 50 km north-west of Cockburn, has included further open hole rotary drilling and downhole geophysical logging (176 holes...-
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RB 60/00082 Coober Pedy Opalfield.
Mapping of the Coober Pedy Opalfield has shown that opal occurrence, although erratic, is not entirely unpredictable. Several groups of workings are present in an area of about 150 square miles. The host rock is a distinctive pink and white...-
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Published: 30 Apr 1965
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RB 86/00076 Siltstone from the Curdimurka area with possible affinity with the Winton Formation.
The sediment is a mature siltstone with weak bedding and unabraded quartz, with high clay content. Reaction with groundwater saturated with gypsum may account for a high degree of chemical alteration. It is probably lacustrine and may be part of the...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1986
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RB 81/00017 Sarda Bluff, Ouldburra Hill and England Hill opal diggings.
These diggings have produced precious opal within weathered Cretaceous Marree Subgroup, infilling fractures in claystone, capped by ?Miocene silcrete. At Sarda Bluff and Ouldburra Hill opal with colour also cements coarse sandstone, some of which may...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 84/00034 Petrography of three rocks from Curdimurka.
Sandstone cemented by limonite near Cockatoo Bore represents the uppermost unit of Algebuckina Sandstone (Late Jurassic or Early Cretaceous). 2 sandstones replaced by haematite from Finniss Springs station represent either Cadna-owie Formation or...-
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Published: 01 May 1984
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RB 85/00014 Dissolution by pore fluids and the introduction of a variety of minerals as new matrices in sediments from CURDIMURKA.
5 rock samples indicate arenaceous sediments have been subject to strong dissolution by pore fluids at a time after lithification. The resultant high porosity has either remained open, or has been filled or partially filled by dolomite, mixed sulphate...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1985
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RB 80/00103 Lambina opal diggings.
Small quantities of precious opal have been mined 1977-79. Opal and potch occur as opaline-silica cement within Cretaceous sandstone lenses, and as thin seams and fracture infillings within Cretaceous claystone, clasts and vein infillings within...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1980
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RB 80/00128 Toodla no. 1 well completion report. Report no. 3 of the Eromanga Basin Study Group.
SADME Toodla 1 stratigraphic/exploration well was drilled near the south-western margin of the Eromanga Basin, at a site 18 km ENE of Mount Dutton, in the area between SADME reflection seismic survey shotpoints DK6 and DK7 located at the northern end...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 90/00022 Calcareous channel sand from the Etadunna Formation near Wangianna.
Specimens illustrate deposition by intermittent drainage in a possibly migratory channel. Well-sorted quartz grains from a mature sediment were deposited with a carbonate mud as matrix in the channel and silty mud precipitated in backwaters....-
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Published: 01 Mar 1990
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Abminga Diamond Project. Data release made at licence renewal [and project cessation]: progress reports and annual reports for the period 25/10/1993 to 17/3/2004.
The Abminga Diamond Project, undertaken by Caldera Resources NL, was granted exploration project status, including permission for EL joint reporting, in July 1996. This event followed up to two years of work by other operators on a number of...-
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Special Core Analysis Final Report of Cooper Basin Paleozoics.
This final report presents the details of a Core Analysis Study performed on samples from the Cooper Basin, Paleozoic zone. The program was commissioned on 14th January 1999 by Primary Industries and Resources SA. Chapter 2 of this report summarizes...-
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Published: 16 Feb 1999
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Yarramba and South Eagle (the South Eagle / Honeymoon Project). Joint annual reports for the period 27/8/2007 to 25/9/2015.
Continuing uranium exploration within the Honeymoon district of South Australia, under new project owner Uranium One Australia Pty Ltd (a subsidiary of Uranium One, Inc.) has continued to target sandstone-hosted uranium mineralisation, primarily...-
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Published: 22 Sep 1915
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[Petrographic] descriptions of [34 samples] of Cretaceous, Tertiary and Recent sediments from the area east of Lake Eyre, South Australia.
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Published: 11 Feb 1972
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Oolgelima Hill. First partial surrender report, for the period 15/7/1983 to 14/7/1984.
Investigation of a reported occurrence of magnesium and sodium sulphates in a black shale at the base of the Cretaceous Bulldog Shale, found previously about 50 km north-east of Coober Pedy near the western margin of the Eromanga Basin, was initially...-
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Published: 24 Aug 1984
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Petrological study of Mesozoic reservoirs in the Merrimelia Field, Cooper-Eromanga Basin.
Two drill core samples from each of the four reservoir units in the Merrimelia Field, the Murta Member, Namur Sandstone Member, Hutton Sandstone and Nappamerri Formation, were examined to determine their petrological and porosity characteristics and...-
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Published: 29 Nov 1983
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Merrimelia Field studies. Technical reports and data.
A petrological study was carried out on a number of drill cuttings and core samples from the gas and oil producing Merrimelia Field, Cooper-Eromanga Basin.-
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Petrology of three sedimentary rocks from Clayton 3 borehole.
The bulk mineralogy of 3 drill cores from 54, 58.5 and 76.2 metres were determined and an unknown green mineral was identified as smectite.-
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Published: 16 Aug 1985
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Core analysis, Nungeroo 1, Garanjanie 2 and Dirkala 2. Preliminary report.
5 core plug samples from the Murta/Namur oil reservoir interval 4143-4182 feet KB in Nungeroo 1, 4 core plugs from the Patchawarra wet gas reservoir interval 6601-6652 feet KB in Garanjanie 2, and 3 core plugs from the Epsilon wet gas reservoir...-
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Published: 26 Aug 1986
