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Lake Carnanto. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 30/11/1978 to 11/2/1983.
The south-eastern Lake Frome Embayment in the vicinity of Quinyambie Station was explored for Upper and Lower Tertiary 'blanket' or 'roll front' type sedimentary uranium, via the drilling of 75 open vertical rotary mud holes with a total penetration...-
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Frome Downs. Progress reports and partial relinquishment reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 20/6/1978 to 14/9/1982.
153 rotary mud open holes (total 19,689 m) and 11 cored holes (total 1384 m) have been drilled during the reporting period to evaluate the Goulds Dam uranium deposit and to further explore the region to its north and south for sedimentary uranium...-
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RB 81/00024 Progress report, CURNAMONA 1:250 000 sheet - Platform rocks, Benagerie Ridge and their Mesozoic and Cainozoic cover.
The Benagerie Ridge is a basement high which has been actively shedding detritus since Adelaidean times. It includes porphyry, with thin cover of Adelaidean rocks, flanked by Cambrian and possible Adelaidean sediments. The Cainozoic blankets the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1981
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Lake Frome [part of the Paralana Plains Uranium Project joint venture area]. Progress reports and technical reports to licence surrender/re-issue over a different area, for the period 22/4/1971 to 21/4/1973.
Exploration on SML 564 has consisted of a continuation of deep rotary mud open hole, plug and core drilling plus washing-out of existing, older Petromin "P...w" series drillholes to allow new generation downhole geophysical logging, aimed at further...-
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Yarramba. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 8/3/1976 to 7/3/1978.
Ongoing exploration for sedimentary uranium ore deposited in buried 1.5 - 6 km wide and 50 m thick Tertiary palaeochannels in the Yarramba area, located adjacent to the SA-NSW border 50 km northwest of Cockburn, included three detailed and...-
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Published: 17 Apr 1978
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Paralana Creek and Four Mile Creek [part of the Paralana Plains Joint Venture area]. Progress reports for the period 15/4/1968 to 14/4/1971.
A licence area covering the flat alluvial Paralana Plains extending out eastwards from the northern Flinders Ranges was taken up by the the consortium of Exoil NL, Petromin NL and Transoil NL to explore for possible economic buried occurrences of...-
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Report on drilling results, Beverley prospect, SML 564, Paralana Plains, SA.
Following the February 1972 farm-in of US-based company Western Uranium Ltd (WU) for 42 months to SML 564 in the Lake Frome area of South Australia, a drilling programme was undertaken by it to evaluate a series of buried fluvial uranium occurrences...-
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Data release - as updated : Lake Carnanto (part of the Curnamona Project). Annual reports to licence full surrender, for the period 13/1/2004 to 14/7/2014.
An area located ~140 km north-northeast of Olary has been explored for possible economic buried sedimentary uranium mineralisation hosted by Tertiary palaeochannel sands of the Callabonna Sub-basin. Previous exploration activities had partly defined...-
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Published: 07 Mar 1914
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Jones Dam [Mutooroo Station]. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 4/1/1979 to 3/1/1981.
81 closely-spaced rotary mud vertical open drillholes (total penetration 9218 m) evaluated known low grade palaeochannel uranium mineralisation previously detected in Miocene sand sequences adjacent to the Anabama - Redan Fault by Tricentrol Australia...-
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Willouran Ranges Stratiform Copper Project. Quarterly, annual and surrender reports for the period 4/4/79 to 19/7/83.
An ongoing work programme has included the latter stages of: the drilling of over 180 percussion and diamond holes totalling 24,388 m, the collection and assaying of 35,000 geochemical samples, preparation of 1150 petrographic descriptions, and...-
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Curnamona. First partial surrender report for the period 2/7/1976 to 1/7/1977.
In a search for possible economic sedimentary uranium deposits, a resistivity survey and a 19 hole, 2818 m reconnaissance open hole rotary drilling and downhole geophysical logging programme were carried out in parts of the Tertiary Curnamona...-
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Published: 25 Jul 1977
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Wilpena Creek. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 26/7/1977 to 25/7/1978.
A licence area centred approximately 150 km north of Yunta, and bordering the south-eastern Flinders Ranges, was taken up to try to locate basinward extensions of a previously found Lower Tertiary palaeochannel sequence, in order to evaluate the...-
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Lake Yantawena (East). Progress reports for the period 27/11/1970 to 26/11/1972.
An airborne scintillation spectrometer survey with follow-up ground radioactivity surveying, new geological and gamma logging of deep water bores, and subsequent road traverse drilling of 64 regional reconnaissance open rotary holes totalling 24,447...-
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SP 003 Mining in South Australia - A Pictorial History
In recognition of the centenary of Henry Yorke Lyell Brown's appointment as the first Government Geologist for South Australia, and the foundation of the Department of Mines and Energy, aspects of South Australia's colourful and vital mining and...-
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RB 75/00103 Stratigraphy sedimentology and uranium deposits of Tertiary rocks, Lake Frome area, SA.
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Published: 01 Jan 1975
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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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Mount Kingston East Areas 1 and 2, and Mount Harvey (the Denison Range Project). Joint annual reports to licences' expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/12/2010 to 12/6/2013.
The three Denison Range Project tenements, centred approximately 70 km south-east of Oodnadatta, which cover alluvial plains formed adjacent to the south-eastern edge of said range of hills that comprise eroding Palaeo- to Mid-Proterozoic uranium-rich...-
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Published: 22 Jul 1913
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Drennan's Hut (part of the Curnamona Project). First partial surrender report for the period 8/12/2010 to 12/6/2013.
EL 4623 licensee AREVA, as part of its Curnamona Project comprising eight tenements, has been exploring the Callabonna Sub-basin since 2004 for possible economic deposits of buried sedimentary uranium mineralisation that may have formed within...-
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Published: 12 Aug 1913
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Galaxy Tank (part of the Central Gawler Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/3/2006 to 10/5/2013.
Tasman Resources' ("Tasman") Central Gawler Project tenement acreage, originally comprising seven exploration licences ELs 3339 to 3345, was initially applied for on the basis of perceived prospectivity for diamonds: however, following Tasman's...-
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Published: 16 Jul 1913
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Cocata and Palkagee Well. Annual reports and final reports to licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/12/2005 to 30/11/2010.
Exploration carried out over two adjacent areas located 50 to 70 km south-west and south of Wudinna was progressed under the terms of two separate joint venture agreements made by the licensee in October 2006, firstly with GE Resources (a subsidiary...-
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Published: 27 Jan 1911
