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...

Stratigraphic drilling has been undertaken by PIRSA in the South Australian portion of the northern Murray Basin to investigate the stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Cainozoic sedimentary sequences, as well as the heavy mineral sand potential of...

Exploration for possible buried Tertiary heavy mineral sands occurrences consisted of an interpretation of remote sensing data, followed by the conduct of two reverse circulation aircore drilling programmes (28 holes, total 892.5 m). The first...

Possible economic buried ilmenite-rutile-zircon heavy mineral sand deposits were targeted along buried Pliocene strandlines of Loxton-Parilla Sand in an area abutting 120 km of the SA-Victoria State Border between Naracoorte and Mount Shaugh....

23 vertical aircore open holes totalling 556 m were drilled south-west of Bordertown to investigate possible heavy mineral sand placer accumulations on the seaward-sloping sides of relict strandlines developed from the Pliocene Parilla Sand. Only one...

Previous work was reviewed over an area centred on Wynarka, 40 km east of Murray Bridge. Although the Tertiary sequence had not then been fully penetrated, drilling results indicated a low grade, iron oxide-dominant heavy mineral assemblage at...

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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...

Exploration for possible ancient beach strandline heavy mineral sand placer deposits formed within the Pleistocene Bridgewater Formation has been undertaken in the State's South-East region. This pioneering on-ground work came about after several...

A search has been performed for possible commercial grade diatomaceous silica - rich sediments within an area straddling the Greanium - Lameroo - Pinnaroo Road and extending westwards from the SA/Vic. state border for ~90 km. The target locations were...

Shallow diamond drilling of a diatomaceous siltstone occurrence located 14 km north of Geranium Siding (24 vertical BQ cored holes, total 93.5 m) outlined an indicated in situ resource of 1 Mt, comprising a 5 m thick bed of 60%-70% diatom content...

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During Year 7 of the project, Goldfields did no more field work, but undertook office-based analyses of bedrock geochemical and geological data obtained in its 2012 aircore drilling campaign. Image processing and interpretation of the Canegrass...

A small area located ~ 33 km north-east of Burra has been explored for possible economic buried marine placer heavy mineral (HM) sand deposits. The target strata comprised littoral marine sediments of the Pliocene aged Loxton - Parilla Sand (LPS), in...

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...

Exploration in now relinquished areas of the south-western Murray Basin for possible shallow economic Tertiary marine placer deposits of heavy mineral sands failed to encounter such occurrences. After a review of previous mineral sands exploration in...

Exploratory RAB traverse drilling (16 vertical open holes totalling 297 m) intersected trace amounts of detrital heavy minerals in Pliocene marine littoral sands buried underneath thick clay and calcrete cover.

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Three contiguous areas centred ~50-80 km east of Tailem Bend, and reaching close to the SA-Vic. State border, have been explored for possible economic buried Tertiary marine placer heavy mineral sand (HMS) deposits that may have been formed within the...

No work was done on the subject licence during the period 14/7/2015 to 27/10/2021. All work done prior to this period on its precursors has been separately reported on earlier by the then tenement holders.