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RB 90/00077 Skeleton 2. Well completion report.
Skeleton 2 penetrated sediments of the eastern Lake Eyre Basin, the Frome Embayment, and granitic basement of the Mount Painter Ridge. The hole records the southernmost known occurrence of Cadna-owie Formation in the Frome Embayment. Unexpectedly,...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1990
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Paralana Creek (part of the Beverley Project). Annual reports for the period 29/9/2009 to 15/11/2015.
Work undertaken on EL 4378 during the 2009-2010 reporting year included the drilling of 478 vertical rotary mud holes totalling 132,960 m, and core drilling totalling 4117 m performed in 16 of these holes for stratigraphic unit / resource...-
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Published: 24 Dec 1915
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Lake Frome South, Central Lake Frome and Lake Frome North areas (the Lake Frome Potash Project). Joint annual reports plus final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 5/1/2015 to 26/4/2018.
The entire extent of the main Lake Frome salina was taken up in early 2015 with three contiguous licences covering a total area of 2718 square km, to explore for a salt lake brine potash resource which might be economic to develop to supply the local...-
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Published: 30 Apr 1918
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Lake Frome [West]. First partial surrender report, for the period 18/10/2013 to 17/10/2016.
An area on the south-western edge of the Frome Embayment, that is centred ~100 km south of the Beverley uranium mine, has been taken up to explore for possible buried palaeochannel and sandstone hosted roll front style secondary uranium mineralisation...-
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Published: 02 Nov 1917
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Paralana Creek (part of the Beverley Project). Annual reports and technical reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 29/8/1992 to 28/9/2009.
In the reporting period to 30th June 1995 for Exploration Licence 1944, Heathgate Pty Ltd completed no fieldwork, however geological evaluation work was undertaken. This work consisted of laboratory testing of drill core from a 1991 drilling program...-
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Published: 18 Jun 1910
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : North Mulga, Wooltana and Paralana areas (Frome Basin Project). Joint annual reports for the period 24/9/2012 to 31/12/2018.
The continuation of Heathgate's programme of exploration for economic buried Tertiary sediment-hosted uranium mineralisation within part of the north-western Frome Embayment during 2012-2013 has comprised exploratory drilling of 36 vertical rotary mud...-
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Warrioota Creek. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 7/6/1978 to 6/6/1980.
Exploration undertaken in an area of practically no outcrop that is situated south of the Ediacara Range, on the eastern side of Lake Torrens, has aimed primarily at investigating the Viburnum Trend (Mississippi Valley) - type mineral potential of...-
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Published: 12 Mar 1980
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RB 74/00025 Geology of the FROME 1:250 000 geological map and adjacent regions.
The Frome 1: 250 000 map covers the northern part of the South Australian portion of the Frome Embayment. The embayment is essentially the eastern portion of a Mesozoic basin, developed on Palaeozoic and Precambrian rocks during Upper Jurassic time by...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1974
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 4 partnership DPY4-13, Lake Frome area Holocene and Neogene calcrete - hosted uranium mineral prospects. Project interim and final reports.
Surficial sedimentary uranium deposits are estimated to comprise about 4% of world uranium resources. Calcrete deposits form approximately 5% of Australia's total uranium reserves and resources. Exploration for calcrete - hosted uranium of Neogene age...-
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Published: 11 Jun 1908
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Lake Callabonna / Petermorra (part of the Lake Elder Project). Annual reports for the period 19/3/1998 to 30/4/2015.
Exploration Licence 2494 was granted in March 1998 to Paladin Energy Minerals NL and Brightstar Power Corporation Pty Ltd - the Paladin Brightstar Joint Venture (PBJV), with Paladin Resources NL as manager. The target commodity being explored for by...-
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Published: 20 May 1915
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RB 2009/00001 Explanatory Notes for [the] CALLABONNA 1:250 000 Geological Map, sheet SH 54-6.
The CALLABONNA map area includes the southern end of the Strzelecki Desert and the north- eastern Flinders Ranges, between latitudes 29° to 30° S and longitudes 139° 30' to 141° E. Cameron Corner adjoins New South Wales and Queensland in the...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2009
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Curnamona (part of the Siccus JV Project). Annual reports and final report to licence surrender, for the period 4/8/1997 to 7/11/2001.
Sedimentary uranium orebodies within Tertiary palaeochannels were the target of exploration in the area of the Siccus River, south of Lake Frome. Extensive research into available open file past exploration data allowed the identification of both...-
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Beverley Uranium Project - Groundwater resources, management and monitoring.
The technical development and operational commencement stage of the Beverley in situ leach uranium mining project are herein discussed from the viewpoint of hydrogeological factors. The author summarises the uranium deposit's hydrogeological setting...-
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CALLABONNA 1:250 000 geological map released.
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North Mulga. First partial relinquishment report for the period 25/8/2003 to 24/8/2004.
Drilling of fourteen exploration holes has been completed to date within the subject licence area, in a search for economic roll-front uranium occurrences within Tertiary sediments. Based on the current available data, the eastern portion of the...-
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Published: 02 Mar 1905
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Lake Frome East. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 13/11/79 to 12/5/80.
As part of a wider search over SA for possible continental salt lake occurrences of NaCO3-rich brines and of fossil crystalline trona beds, presumed to be equivalent to the Lake Magadi (Kenya) / Green River Basin (Utah - Wyoming) style Tertiary...-
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Published: 30 Apr 1980
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Mount Michael. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 28/11/1977 to 27/11/1979.
As part of a regional search for possible economic sodium carbonate (trona) evaporite mineralisation formed within buried Miocene lacustrine sediments in an area located east of Lake Torrens, ground magnetic and gravity surveys were run along four...-
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Published: 15 Nov 1979
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Woolatchi Creek. Progress, partial surrender and technical reports to licence surrender, for the period 12/4/1982 to 27/8/1985.
Diamond drillhole WC1 was drilled by Marathon to a total depth of 173.5 m over the Woolatchi Creek aeromagnetic anomaly, as part of an ongoing search for uranium and base metals in the north-eastern Flinders Ranges and Lake Frome Plains region....-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 2 partnership DPY2-11, Lake Blanche region Quaternary palaeochannel / palaeolake margin calcrete - hosted or roll-front style uranium mineral prospects. Project final report.
Approved PACE project DPY2-11 was an attempt to find calcrete or roll-front type sedimentary uranium mineralisation in Quaternary fluvial channels that drain the northern and eastern margins of the uranium-enriched Mount Painter and Mount Babbage...-
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Published: 20 Sep 1906
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Woolatchi Creek. Progress and annual reports for the period 20/2/80 to 11/4/83.
41 open-hole rotary drillholes (total 5999 metres) were drilled and geophysically logged to search for possible sedimentary uranium occurrences in the Early Cretaceous Parabarana Formation and in overlying altered Miocene sands, over an area of the...-
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