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Chimpering Rock Hole, Moornaba Rock Hole, Euria Well, Koonibba Mission and Lake Tallacootra (part of the Eucla Basin Heavy Minerals Project). Annual report, January 1990 to January 1991.
348 reconnaisance air-core drillholes were completed on the subject ELs between 5 July and 3 October 1990. The best heavy mineral sand intersections were found near Immarna (EL 1602), with some zones approaching ore-grade percentages. Unfortunately,...-
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RB 81/00107 Heavy minerals at Golden Grove, report no. 2. Results of 1980 drilling programme. Hd Yatala, Co. Adelaide.
During drilling of construction sand and clay in 1976 and 1977, an accumulation of heavy minerals was discovered in an embayment on the eastern margin of the Tertiary basin. Heavy minerals, mainly ilmenite, rutile,and zircon, with lesser amounts of...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1981
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RB 94/00022 Review of heavy mineral sand exploration in South Australia - Eucla Basin.
The Cainozoic Eucla Basin has been the focus of recent heavy mineral exploration due to the recognition of Tertiary coastal features including the Ooldea Range. Hypsometric and Landsat data, together with detailed work on the Tertiary stratigraphy of...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1994
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Meribah, Halidon, Mantung, Karoonda and Woolpunda (parts of the Murray Basin HMS Project). Individual licence first or second partial surrender reports, describing relevant subsets of exploration work performed between 29/9/1997 and 5/9/2018.
Portions of the Tertiary shallow marine clastic sedimentary sequence (Loxton and Parilla sands) deposited in the central western Murray Basin within SA's Murray Mallee district have been explored for possible economic heavy mineral sand (HMS)...-
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Chimpering Rock Hole, Yarrana Hill, Moornaba Rock Hole, Euria Well, Koonibba Mission, Lake Tallacootra, Dunn Hill, Wallala Hill, Mount Centre and Nalara. Quarterly and annual progress reports plus technical reports, for the period 25/7/1989 to 24/7/1992.
Hitherto untried exploration for heavy mineral sands on the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin, conducted by the Ceduna Joint Venture partners since 1989 over ten contiguous licence areas in the Ooldea - Barton area centred 150 km north-west of Ceduna,...-
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Gilles Downs. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal (as part of a larger area), for the period 12/3/1979 to 11/3/1981.
Ongoing diamond exploration by Stockdale over the PORT AUGUSTA 1:250,000 mapsheet area has concentrated on country to the east and south-east of Lake Gilles, where some microdiamonds and kimberlitic indicator minerals were discovered during the period...-
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Published: 18 Mar 1981
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Olary Project (latterly part of the Lodestone Project). Licence individual annual reports, plus related project joint annual reports, for the period 4/11/2009 to 20/1/2019.
Iluka Resources is exploring for possible economic heavy mineral (HM) deposits that may have formed in the northern Murray Basin, with a strategy of targeting any mineralised Loxton-Parilla Sand formation sediments deposited during the Pliocene marine...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Warramboo (part of the Eyre Peninsula Project). Diamond exploration farminee's final report for the period July 1997 to 31/10/1998.
Investigations of the likely diamond potential of a part of the central Eyre Peninsula were conducted under a farm-in joint venture agreement which was in place for about fifteen months. Work comprised the collection of six drill cuttings bulk...-
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Ifould Lake. Progress and relinquishment reports for the period 20/8/86 to 19/8/88.
TARGET: Heavy mineral sands in the Ooldea Range. EXPLORATION: Stream sediment sampling and RC drilling traverses (55 holes totalling 864 m). RESULTS: Low grade heavy mineral values were recorded in several drill holes.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1988
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Alawoona. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 29/4/1987 to 28/4/1991.
TARGET: Possible economic heavy mineral sand accumulations in Pliocene raised beach strandlines developed along the south-western margin of the Murray Basin. EXPLORATION: Acquisition of an airborne magnetic and radiometric survey during November...-
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Published: 13 May 1991
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Manunda Homestead. Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 25/6/1979 to 24/6/1980.
Diamond exploration over an area located approximately 35 km south-east of Yunta was undertaken to assess an interpreted structural environment that may be similar to one existing nearby to the west close to Terowie, in which shallowly buried,...-
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RB 75/00142 Heavy mineral-rich sediments within the Kanmantoo Group, Kangaroo Island.
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Published: 04 Dec 1975
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RB 76/00110 Investigation of heavy mineral sands, Morrison Beach, Kangaroo Island.
Heavy mineral sands are mined at Morrison Beach for their rutile and zircon content, with ilmenite and staurolite recovered as by-products. There appears to have been only one main period of heavy mineral deposition, which occurred during a high...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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Ooldea Range (part of the Eucla Basin Project). Annual reports, including those for the commencement of licence joint annual reporting for the Eucla Basin Mineral Sands Tenement Group 1, for the period 5/3/2002 to 28/2/2009.
The geomorphic feature known as the Ooldea Range, a prominent Eocene dune formed at the limit of the marine transgression on the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin, has now been taken under licence by WA-based company Iluka Resources to explore for...-
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Halidon (part of the Mindarie Project). Second partial surrender report, for the period 2/1/2008 to 24/9/2015.
A portion of the Tertiary shallow marine clastic sedimentary sequence (Loxton and Parilla sands) in the central western Murray Basin within SA's Murray Mallee is being explored for possible economic heavy mineral sand (HM) accumulations. Two separate...-
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Mantung (part of the Mindarie Project). Third partial surrender report, for the period 14/10/1997 to 24/9/2015.
A portion of the Tertiary shallow marine clastic sedimentary sequence (Loxton and Parilla sands) in the central western Murray Basin within SA's Murray Mallee is being explored for possible economic heavy mineral sand (HM) accumulations. Two adjacent...-
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Oakbank Dam (part of the Lodestone Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 4/11/2010 to 1/8/2016.
An area centred ~70 km south-southeast of Olary has been explored for buried mineral sands placer deposits that may have formed within the Cainozoic Murray Basin sedimentary cover, as well as for possible economic stratabound iron ore occurrences that...-
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Blanchetown. First partial surrender report, for the period 25/2/2008 to 27/5/2009.
Two separate licence portions together totalling 270 square km or ~33.5% of the former area of EL 4052 have been partially relinquished due to their perceived diminished potential to contain shallow Tertiary heavy mineral sands occurrences. Licensee...-
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Hamley Bridge (North Adelaide Plains). Progress and relinquishment reports for the period 27/7/1981 to 26/4/1982.
In a search for possible economic heavy mineral - bearing buried Tertiary beach sand deposits, similar to the recent Golden Grove discovery made in Eocene fluviatile sediments of an adjacent sub-basin, 20 vertical percussion stratigraphic drillholes...-
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......[Key SAMREF record for accessing referenced reports and data via DEM Content Manager - SPOT]...... Mount Toondina. Annual reports and final report to licence surrender, for the period 13/2/1995 to 15/8/1998.
The Mount Toondina structure, a small but pronounced vertically fault-bounded inlier of Permian sediments within a flat-lying Mesozoic sequence, is represented by an annular magnetic feature located 45 km south of Oodnadatta. A single gravity profile...-
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