Following recognition of the likely young age of the sources of the Abminga area magnetic anomalies, and the discovery of a number of diamond indicator minerals in sediments to the west of the Peake and Denison Ranges, the Allandale joint venture...

Diamond exploration over an area 60 km west of Lake Eyre South included drainage heavy mineral sampling and a remote sensing study. Data from portion of a 1982 aeromagnetic survey by Aerodata-McPhar Pty Ltd for Stockdale, covering the southern...

Evaporite minerals in black shale at the base of the Early Cretaceous Bulldog Shale near the western margin of the Eromanga Basin were the target about 50 km NE of Coober Pedy. Reconnaissance mapping, soil sampling, auger drilling and the backhoe...

In a search for postulated Tertiary heavy mineral sands marine placer deposits that may have been formed outside of the presently known north-eastern extent of such age sedimentary basins (i.e. along a proto Eucla Basin coastline existing within the...

Two peripheral areas of the subject licence have been relinquished owing to their perceived poor potential for containing economic palaeochannel uranium mineralisation within Tertiary sediments. Two rotary mud drillholes were drilled in the western...

The 2000 Mt Wintinna coal deposit is located approximately 700 km north-northwest of Port Augusta in South Australia. The area has opencut potential, and is proposed for development to supply a thermal power station. Meekatharra Minerals Ltd holds...

Reconnaissance geological mapping of existing, previously quite productive opal workings in the White Hill area of the Stuart Range 'Breakaway' country, 100 km south-east of Coober Pedy, was followed by exploratory and infill narrow-hole auger deep...

Exploration as part of a continuing regional search for possible diamondiferous kimberlites was undertaken 70 km west-northwest of Roxby Downs. Extensive sampling of current drainage lines in interdune swales, plus loam sampling in other...

Following an evaluation of existing subsurface data, 9 vertical percussion holes totalling 670 m were drilled to test discrete gravity anomalies in the Mount Woods area, in a search for Olympic Dam type mineralisation. The holes encountered...

TARGET: Possible open-pit mineable Lower Permian coal seams, present down to a depth of 100 m below surface, associated with an inferred basinal depression located to the north-west of and adjacent to previous SADM stratigraphic drillhole Karkaro 1,...

Exploration for possible roll-front sedimentary uranium deposits developed in porous and arenaceous Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous sediments of the Algebuckina Sandstone and Cadna-owie Formation, where these onlap likely uranium-providing...

TARGET: Possible sedimentary uranium, leached from crystalline rocks of the Musgrave Block and concentrated in sediments of the Eromanga Basin, in settings associated with the basal Mesozoic unconformity. EXPLORATION: 1:80 000 scale photogeological...

Exploration was aimed at delineating favourable lithologies within Eromanga Basin sediments for hosting sedimentary uranium, which may have leached from the crystalline rocks of the Musgrave Ranges located to the west of the licence area. As part of...

Fourteen rotary holes were drilled totalling 1362 metres. Coal was intersected as thin stringers in the Cretaceous Cadna-owie Formation in MU-3 and MU-13, and as a 1 metre thick seam in the Permian Mount Toondina Formation in MU-2, but is not...

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In a search for possible north-westwards thickening, basinwards extensions to some thin Cretaceous coal seams which had been reported from the 1914 drilling of an artesian water bore on Finniss Springs Station, Endeavour Oil drilled 2 vertical rotary...

Exploration for shallowly buried, surface mineable Permian coal in sediments deposited along the southern rim of the Boorthanna Trough, approximately 50 km south-west of William Creek, has consisted of a review of existing geological and gravity data,...

TARGET: Coal horizons developed within Mesozoic sediments on the south-western margin of the Great Artesian Basin. RESULTS: Two vertical rotary mud holes (total 122 m) were drilled, transecting Mesozoic sediments and reaching basement at relatively...

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A new generation, second edition MARREE 1:250 000 scale geological map and its explanatory notes have been published. These documents represent the conclusion of the Geological Survey of South Australia's latest geological mapping program (1993 to...