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South Eagle [part of a joint licence area with Kalabity]. Uranium exploration progress and technical reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 15/5/1974 to 14/2/1976.
During the EL 132 tenure, work has consisted of a mineability evaluation of the Honeymoon uranium deposit, plus additional U exploration over the South Eagle farmout. Initially, 5 rotary holes (total 594.9 m) were drilled to the north of the...-
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Preliminary evaluation of in situ leaching on MTA [Minad-Teton Australia's] uranium deposits in the Lake Frome area, SA.
In-situ leaching of a uranium orebody can only be successful if the deposit meets a number of essential criteria. These criteria are: 1. The ore occurs in a generally porous and permeable horizontal bed underlain and overlain by impermeable strata;...-
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RB 80/00026 Opal in South Australia.
Enlarged written version of a talk on the geology of opal, its occurrence and mining methods prepared for public presentation.-
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Published: 01 May 1980
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Honeymoon Project - pilot wellfield drilling, January-March 1982.
Drilling was undertaken at the Honeymoon deposit, as allowed for under Miscellaneous Purposes Leases 14 and 15 and Retention Leases 10, 11 and 12, located within EL 597. This drilling was carried out as part of the construction of the 6 litre/second...-
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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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Report on Honeymoon deposit coring programme, June 1975 - South Eagle portion of EL 132, SA.
This report summarises the drilling and coring operations conducted during June and July 1975 to obtain representative core samples of the Honeymoon sedimentary uranium deposit. The work was carried out to determine uranium content, associated...-
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Published: 21 Oct 1975
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Honeymoon project - hydrological report on the HC 9 pumping test conducted February-March, 1980.
Regional and site-specific geological and hydrological factors are discussed, and a groundwater model is proposed for the Honeymoon uranium deposit, based on the results of the HC 9 drilling and testing programme, and on other existing data. A...-
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Jacks Find, Kopi Flat, Thurlooka, Yalkalpo East, Moolawatana, Billeroo, Frome, Coonee, Yalkalpo and Prospect Hill South (the Curnamona Uranium Project). Joint annual reports for the period 1/6/2007 to 31/5/2015.
A dispersed group of tenements covering the known and inferred subcrop extent of the Tertiary Yarramba Palaeovalley in the eastern and northern Lake Frome Plains region is being explored by Curnamona Energy, in a search for possible economic...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Curnamona Project (uranium exploration spinoff). Joint annual reports for the period 1/1/2009 to 31/12/2011.
During the fifth year of the Curnamona - Uranium Project JV, during the 2009 calendar year, Curnamona Energy drilled a total of 124 holes for an aggregate depth of 11,777 m on EL 4262 (including RL 123). The drilling tested “blanket sands” at Oban...-
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Lake Frome South and Lake Frome North (the Wertaloona Project). Joint annual reports to licences' surrender, for the period 8/11/2010 to 3/9/2013.
The southern half of Lake Frome salina, centred about 80 km south-southeast of the Beverley uranium mine, has been explored for possible commercial quantities of dissolved lithium and uranium. Interest in the former commodity was engaged by the...-
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Published: 11 Oct 1913
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RB 2015/00011 Uranium and uranium mineral systems in South Australia – Third edition.
South Australia is well recognised as being significantly enriched in uranium. During 2013–2014, South Australia produced 4399 t of uranium, representing 80% of Australia’s total uranium production of 5512 t, and equating to 9.2% of the world’s total...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2015
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RB 2012/00009 Uranium and uranium mineral systems in South Australia – Second edition.
South Australia is well recognised as being significantly enriched in uranium. During 2010–11, South Australia produced 4276 t of uranium, representing 60% of Australia’s total uranium production of 7035 t, and equating to 11% of the world’s total...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2012
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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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RB 2009/00014 Uranium and uranium mineral systems in South Australia.
South Australia is well recognised as being significantly enriched in uranium. During 2008/2009, South Australia produced 4 613 t of uranium, representing 45% of Australia's total uranium production of 10 311 t, and equating to 9.5% of the world's...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2010
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Honeymoon Uranium Project update.
The Honeymoon and East Kalkaroo sedimentary uranium deposits, located approximately 400 km north-east of Adelaide and 75 km north-west of Broken Hill, are natural concentrations of uranium minerals occurring in the Tertiary age Yarramba Palaeochannel,...-
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Wittakilla. Progress reports to licence surrender for the period 17/10/1977 to 16/10/1978.
As part of a regional search for buried Olympic Dam - type base metal deposits, Western Mining attempted to test an isolated but sharply defined aeromagnetic anomaly noted just to the east of the southern end of Lake Callabonna. After first acquiring...-
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Murnpeowie. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 15/1/1970 to 9/2/1973.
Greenfields uranium exploration of Mesozoic and Cainozoic sediments was carried out over an interpreted synclinal feature on Murnpeowie Station, in an area located between the Mount Babbage Block and the Willouran Ranges. The target was possible...-
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ExpNotes MARREE: Explanatory Notes MARREE
A new generation, second edition MARREE 1:250 000 scale geological map and its explanatory notes have been published. These documents represent the conclusion of the Geological Survey of South Australia's latest geological mapping program (1993 to...-
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