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 Borehole Number: BH10177

 
 Coordinates Type: WGS 84
 Coordinates Format: Decimal Degrees (DD)
 Coordinates: -24.72321 , 24.37782
 Location: Kang
 Location Description: KANG

 
 Start Drill: 2005-03-01
 End Drill: 2005-04-12
 Borehole Type: Groundwater
 Drilling Method: Percussion
 Drilling Rig(s): N/A
 Sample Type: Water
 Depth of Surface Casing: N/A
 Hole Inclination: N/A
 Estimated Yield: 59.4 M3/hr
 Static Water Level: 139.72 m
 Borehole Water Strike: 401 Metres
 End of Hole (Depth): 401 Metres
 Hole Diameter: 203 Millimetres

 
 Log Formation:
No.From (m)To (m) Log Formation
1.0 38Sand very fine-fine-medium, loose, purplish
2.38 42Silcrete reddish brown and dark grey
3.42 49Silcrete as above with calcrete
4.49 70Sandstone, calcretised, whitish
5.70 81Sandstone, calcareous, reddish brown, friable
6.81 100Mudstone, light green with red and kaki shales
7.100 108Mudstone, reddish brown silty
8.108 130Mudstone, greyish purple
9.130 221Shale light grey to greenish laminated
10.221 228Shale, interbedded with fine-medium sandstone whitish grey and reddish brown
11.228 230Shale, light grey with minor sandstone
12.230 236Sandstone interbedded with shale, light grey and purple silty
13.236 274Sandstone, clean, whitish micaceous fine-medium
14.274 281Sandstone, fine interbedded with coal and carbonaceous black mudstone
15.281 295Sandstone, fine-medium with siltstone and minor coal, black and carbonaceous mudstone
16.295 311Coal, black and carbonaceous mudstone
17.311 333Sandstone, fine-coarse felspathic micaceous and pyritic, grey
18.333 336Sandstone, very coarse -gritty, feldspathic, pyritic, micaceous
19.336 371Sandstone, fine -coarse, greyish with minor carbonaceous mudstone
20.371 401Sandstone, very fine-fine, occasionally interbedded with carbonaceous mudstone at 371-373m, 391-392m

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