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Lilydale, SA. Progress report and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/4/1969 to 31/3/1971.
An airborne scintillometer reconnaissance with ground-based follow-up, a geochemical study of groundwater, and open-hole rotary mud drilling (10 vertical holes, total 3205 feet) plus downhole wireline geophysical logging failed to locate significant...-
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Oakbank, Balah, Sergeant's Dam and Record Dam (Basin Minerals' Oakvale Project). Joint annual reports plus joint final report at the latest licence's full surrender, for the period 3/12/1997 to 1/4/2004.
Heavy minerals in the Pliocene Loxton - Parilla Sands marginal marine sequence of the western Murray Basin were the targets of exploration in an area 130 km north of Renmark. During March 1998, a trial 571 line km low-level aeromagnetic survey was...-
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Published: 02 Jun 1904
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Pine Valley. First progress/final report at licence surrender for the period 29/4/1971 to 8/7/1971.
Exploration of the Tertiary sediments on the north-western margin of the Murray Basin was undertaken as part of a regional search for possible economic sedimentary uranium deposits which might be derived from the outcropping Willyaman primary uranium...-
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Oakvale Station. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 28/3/1988 to 10/9/1990.
TARGET: Possible economic Pliocene or younger heavy mineral sand deposits in the Oakvale Station region of the north-western Murray Basin. EXPLORATION: Acquisition and processing of the major part of 33,000 line km of low-level airborne magnetic and...-
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Published: 24 Sep 1990
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Postmark. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 7/5/1970 to 5/5/1972.
Exploration for possible economic sedimentary uranium deposits in the Postmark area on the northern margin of the Murray Basin in South Australia comprised two airborne radiometric and scintillometric surveys together totalling approximately 1350...-
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Sturt Vale. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 25/4/1979 to 24/4/1980.
Continued uranium exploration in this area of the northern Murray Basin was aimed at following up anomalous radioactivity encountered during previous work, and further delineating the nature of the Tertiary sand development and associated uranium...-
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Published: 07 May 1980
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Mannum area (including the Anna and Sedan coal deposits). Data release at licence expiry/renewal : coal exploration progress reports and data, plus Sedan coal deposit mine planning management progress reports, for the period 13/11/1978 to 20/8/1992.
TARGET: Possible Tertiary brown coal deposits near Sedan, in the western Murray Basin. EXPLORATION: Evaluation of data as obtained earlier by SADM/SADME drilling and more recently by subject licensees Thiess/CSR from rotary mud vertical open hole and...-
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RB 2022/00003 Zircon provenance and sedimentary transport processes – implications for the late Neogene evolution and heavy mineral deposits of the western Murray Basin, South Australia.
Strandlines or elevated shorelines, located across the Murray Basin in south-eastern Australia, trace the preserved remnants of former emergent coastlines that developed during the Late Miocene (c. 7 to 4 Ma) marine regression. Strandline traces...-
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Published: 01 May 2022
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The Padthaway Ridge Sedimentary Uranium Project. Joint annual technical reports to licences' combined full surrender, for the period 30/1/2008 to 3/9/2013.
A package of fourteen mineral exploration tenements were taken up that straddled the north-eastern and south-western sides of the Padthaway Ridge, to allow the licensee to explore both the Tertiary Murray Basin and Gambier Basin sediments where they...-
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Published: 16 Jul 1913
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Morgan and Waikerie (part of the Mindarie Heavy Mineral Sands Project and later the Murray Basin Project). Joint final report at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 30/4/1998 to 24/9/2015.
In the last phase of exploration for possible buried economic heavy mineral (HM) sands marine placer deposits in the district extending between Waikerie, Blanchetown and parts of the north-western Murray Mallee, the only field work undertaken was...-
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Published: 27 Aug 1915
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Tailem Bend. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 28/7/2005 to 24/9/2015.
An area covering the valley of the River Murray between Murray Bridge and Jervois has been explored for possible economic placer occurrences of heavy mineral (HM) sands that may have formed within the Late Tertiary Murray Basin shallow marine clastic...-
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Published: 25 Aug 1915
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Wynarka. Early annual reports, plus final report at licence full surrender, for the period 28/5/2007 to 24/9/2015.
An area centred on the township of Wynarka in the Murray Mallee, and which extended NW-SE along the northern side of the Padthaway Ridge, has been explored for possible economic placer occurrences of heavy mineral (HM) sands that may have formed...-
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Published: 27 Aug 1915
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Mantung (part of the Murray Basin Project). Second partial surrender report, for the period 14/10/1997 to 15/10/2013.
A block comprising 319 square km or ~12.7% of the north-western corner of EL 5223 has been relinquished due to its now perceived diminished prospectivity for containing economic heavy mineral sands mineralisation, due to the apparent general absence...-
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Murray Bridge. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 26/7/2005 to 24/9/2015.
An area covering the valley of the River Murray between Murray Bridge and Mannum, and also extending for a considerable distance eastwards into the Murray Mallee (across farmland on the counties of Younghusband, Burdett and Ettrick), has been explored...-
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Published: 25 Aug 1915
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RB 2003/00013 North-western Murray Basin geological synthesis, South Australia.
The Murray Basin is an intracratonic basin filled with Cainozoic fluvial to shallow marine sediments. Deposition in the Eocene and early Oligocene was characterised by floodplain and swamp deposits, emplaced with occasional interbeds of shelly clays...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2003
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Murray Basin Project. Joint annual reports, plus individual licence final reports at their respective full surrender, for the period 19/12/1997 to 30/6/2018.
Previous investigations of the Late Tertiary Murray Basin shallow marine littoral zone clastic sedimentary sequence (Loxton and Parilla sands) for heavy mineral sand (HM) placer accumulations have discovered numerous occurrences of economic to...-
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The Mindarie Heavy Mineral Sands Project. Joint and combined annual reports, for the period 19/12/1997 to 31/12/2010.
An assessment of the Late Tertiary Murray Basin shallow marine clastic sedimentary sequence (Loxton and Parilla sands) for heavy mineral sand accumulations has discovered numerous occurrences of economic to sub-economic amounts of heavy minerals...-
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Published: 19 Apr 1911
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Mannum. First partial relinquishment report for the period from 13/11/1978 to 12/5/1979.
Nine rotary mud open holes with a total penetration of 499.3 m were drilled, chip sampled and geophysically logged in a search for Moorlands - type coal in Eocene Renmark Beds to the south-east of Murray Bridge. Although the target horizon was...-
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