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Saw Mill. Progress and final reports for the period 22/2/1973 to 22/2/1974.
Investigations included drilling in the eastern part of EL 41, costeaning and close space drilling near Nob Well and Apollonaris anomaly, water well sampling, and ground search for carnotite.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1974
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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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RB 85/00008 Stratigraphic drilling of Cainozoic sediments near Lake Eyre, BMR 1983, well completion report.
10 fully cored shallow holes (total 543.2 m) were rotary mud drilled at four localities by the Australian Commonwealth Bureau of Mineral Resources (BMR) to elucidate the cover stratigraphy, particularly the upper age limit of the Etadunna Formation,...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1985
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RB 86/00058 (Revised edition, 2016) Excursion guide. Silcrete field workshop, South Australia, August 19-30, 1985.
Guide covers an area extending from the western margin of Lake Torrens to Coober Pedy, and down to Ceduna. Characteristics of the silcretes in the Tertiary sequences, field relationships, and other criteria which might be used to interpret processes...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1916
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RB 78/00154 Stuart Creek agate deposit.
Agate or banded chert nodules weather out of the Cambrian Andamooka Limestone over an area of several square kilometres south of the Stuart Creek Opal field. In places the agate nodules are concentrated into extensive deflation lag gravels. Banding is...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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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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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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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 3 partnership DPY3-59, Kalkaroo Dome fault-hosted gold mineral prospects. Project final report.
The main aim of Havilah Exploration's PACE Initiative Year 3 approved drilling programme was to test the east-west trending, quartz-veined breccia zone that passes through the central Kalkaroo Dome, specifically in the footwall of the Kalkaroo Cu-Au...-
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Lake Arthur East, Lake Arthur West and Lake Arthur (the Lake Surprise Project and the Mumpie Project). Data release made in lieu of submitting partial surrender reports : annual and joint annual reports for the period 29/8/2006 to 28/8/2014.
A wide basinal area located east of Marree and bordering the northern Willouran Ranges is being explored afresh for sedimentary uranium occurrences in response to market conditions and the demonstrated prospectivity of the local cover rocks, which...-
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Published: 30 Oct 1914
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Yarramba. Annual reports submitted until the commencement of licences' joint reporting on the South Eagle / Honeymoon Project, for the period 10/4/2000 to 26/8/2009. [ Index Part 1 of 2 ].
Southern Cross Resources Australia Pty Ltd (Southern Cross) purchased Rio Tinto Exploration Limited’s share of the Northern Olary Joint Venture, including its interest in the subject EL 2310 Yarramba, in November 2000. Southern Cross has held the...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Ethiudna. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 22/2/2004 to 22/2/2015.
An area centred ~50 km north-west of Olary is continuing to be explored for possible buried economic Prominent Hill or Olympic Dam type iron oxide associated copper-gold (IOCG) breccia style mineralisation. The area is considered highly prospective...-
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Data release made at renewal of the Sturt Joint Venture Project ELs 4062 through 4090, in lieu of submitting a joint partial surrender report for them : joint annual reports, for the period 25/2/2008 to 24/2/2013.
A very large area of the remote far north-east of the State was taken up early in 2008 by the unlisted Thorne-Clarke family company, to explore for sediment-hosted secondary uranium mineralisation of the type found in intracratonic sedimentary basins...-
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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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Curnamona Province.
CURNAMONA PROVINCE SUMMARY Age: Sedimentation - late Palaeoproterozoic to early Mesoproterozoic. Felsic and mafic volcanism - late Palaeoproterozoic to early Mesoproterozoic. Granitic intrusion - late Palaeoproterozoic to early...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2003
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Mount Willoughby and Bloods Creek / Vaughan Hill, Mount Algoochinna, Mount Alice and Mount Randolph (the Alberga Diamond Project). Final report on surrendered ELs 2500 and 2502, plus partial surrender report for ELs 2495, 2496, 2498 and 2501.
Diamond exploration in a region north to north-west of Oodnadatta comprised heavy mineral and geochemical sampling over magnetic anomalies selected from aeromagnetic surveys and further defined by ground magnetometry. Certain of this ground was...-
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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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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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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 2 partnership DPY2-54, north Benagerie Dome copper-gold mineral prospects. Project interim and final reports.
In early 2005 Havilah Resources applied for and was successful in gaining PACE Initiative funding for part of the cost of certain exploration drilling on its Benagerie Dome acreage, to carry out a programme with these aims: 1). To confirm, better...-
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Yarramba. Annual reports submitted until the commencement of licences' joint reporting on the South Eagle / Honeymoon Project, for the period 10/4/2000 to 26/8/2009. [ Index Part 2 of 2 ].
Exploration work undertaken by Southern Cross Resources in the third year of tenure of the subject Yarramba EL 2937, which ended on 28/4/2005, included: • drilling of 8 vertical rotary mud holes for 784 m (YAM044-YAM051) to test historic uranium...-
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