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Chimpering Rock Hole, Moornaba Rock Hole, Euria Well, Koonibba Mission and Lake Tallacootra (part of the Eucla Basin Heavy Minerals Project). Annual report, January 1990 to January 1991.
348 reconnaisance air-core drillholes were completed on the subject ELs between 5 July and 3 October 1990. The best heavy mineral sand intersections were found near Immarna (EL 1602), with some zones approaching ore-grade percentages. Unfortunately,...-
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RB 94/00022 Review of heavy mineral sand exploration in South Australia - Eucla Basin.
The Cainozoic Eucla Basin has been the focus of recent heavy mineral exploration due to the recognition of Tertiary coastal features including the Ooldea Range. Hypsometric and Landsat data, together with detailed work on the Tertiary stratigraphy of...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1994
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 4 partnership DPY4-67, north-western Eyre Peninsula (eastern Eucla Basin) Neogene shoreline heavy mineral sands prospects. Project final report.
Through the financial assistance of PIRSA's PACE Initiative, Iluka Resources was able to undertake exploratory drilling activities looking for heavy mineral (HM) sands marine placer deposits in the eastern Eucla Basin, as part of the Year 4 subsidy...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1907
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 2 partnership DPY2-10, Watraba (eastern Eucla Basin) heavy mineral sands prospect. Project final report.
This partly PACE-funded drilling project aimed to discover a heavy mineral sand deposit along the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin in the EL 3363 Watraba project area, located 40 kilometres north to north-west of Ceduna. Drilling tested an...-
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Published: 18 Dec 1906
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Chimpering Rock Hole, Yarrana Hill, Moornaba Rock Hole, Euria Well, Koonibba Mission, Lake Tallacootra, Dunn Hill, Wallala Hill, Mount Centre and Nalara. Quarterly and annual progress reports plus technical reports, for the period 25/7/1989 to 24/7/1992.
Hitherto untried exploration for heavy mineral sands on the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin, conducted by the Ceduna Joint Venture partners since 1989 over ten contiguous licence areas in the Ooldea - Barton area centred 150 km north-west of Ceduna,...-
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Poondinga. Third partial surrender report, for the period 27/10/2004 to 4/4/2019.
309.6 square km or ~18.77% of the pre-existing area of EL 5564 Poondinga was partially relinquished on 19/2/2019 because in the licensee's view this south-eastern portion of the licence are does not appear to exhibit the geological features required...-
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Published: 12 Apr 1919
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Eucla Basin Project tenement Group 1. Joint annual reports, for the period 1/1/2016 to 31/12/2018. Plus EL 6369 surrender.
27 contiguous licence areas within the eastern Eucla Basin, that span a combined 21,772 square km of ground between points as far as 90 km north of the Trans Australian Railway, 50 km east of Nullarbor and extending right down to the coastline, and...-
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Published: 28 Feb 1919
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Yaranna Hill, Euria Well and Kooniba Mission (part of the Ceduna Mineral Sands Project). Joint final report at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 25/7/1989 to 24/1/1992.
TARGET: Possible Tertiary strandline deposits of heavy mineral sands in an area north of Bookabie, and also inland from Fowlers Bay near the Koonibba Mission. EXPLORATION: A photogeological study, and reconnaissance RC drilling along 7 traverses (88...-
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Pidinga (part of the Eucla-Maralinga Heavy Mineral Sands Project). Annual reports, including those for the commencement of licence joint annual reporting for the Eucla Basin Mineral Sands Tenement Group 1, for the period 27/8/2004 to 28/2/2009.
An area located on the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin, and centred ~60 km north-east of Fowlers Bay, has now been taken under licence by WA-based company Iluka Resources to explore for possible buried economic occurrences of zircon-rich heavy...-
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RB 00843 Geology of the Maralinga area, South Australia.
Maralinga is located on the crest of the Ooldea Range, an ancient (Tertiary) coastal dune which is bounded to the south by the Nullarbor Plain and to the north by Tietkens Plain. The dune field of the Great Victoria Desert covers much of the region...-
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RB 2021/00011 Models, geology and exploration of heavy mineral deposits in South Australia.
This study draws together diverse aspects of South Australia’s heavy minerals (HM) resources geoscience to provide an overall context for evaluating their occurrence, economic significance and origins. Two main objectives are addressed by the subject...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2021
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Sandy Plain. Annual reports to licence expiry/cancellation, for the period 3/12/2007 to 2/12/2010.
An area of the onshore Tertiary Eucla Basin located about 170 km north-west of Ceduna and 50 km north-east of Ooldea Siding on the Trans Australian Railway has been explored for possible economic heavy mineral concentrations formed within shallow...-
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Eucla Basin Areas 2, 3 and 4. Joint annual reports and joint first partial surrender report, plus respective licence's final reports to full surrender, for the overall period 29/8/2006 to 28/8/2013.
Three adjoining licence areas that were centred approximately 480 km north-west of Ceduna together occupied the northern section of the Ooldea Range over a stepped NW-SE trending outline having an average width of 25 km and a combined total length of...-
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Published: 21 Nov 1913
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 6 partnership DPY6-61 - Maralinga Embayment area - Tertiary shoreline marine placer heavy mineral sands prospects. Drilling project final report.
Through the financial assistance of PIRSA's PACE Initiative, Iluka Resources has undertaken exploratory drilling activities on its Maralinga area ELs 4330, 4333, 4334, 4337 and 4338 in the eastern Eucla Basin, as approved Year 6 programme DPY6-61....-
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Published: 18 May 1911
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Ooldea Range (part of the Eucla Basin Project). Annual reports, including those for the commencement of licence joint annual reporting for the Eucla Basin Mineral Sands Tenement Group 1, for the period 5/3/2002 to 28/2/2009.
The geomorphic feature known as the Ooldea Range, a prominent Eocene dune formed at the limit of the marine transgression on the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin, has now been taken under licence by WA-based company Iluka Resources to explore for...-
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Barton Range Central, Barton Range North and Paling Range, north-eastern Eucla Basin (Rio Tinto's Barton Range Project). Joint annual reports for work completed before the sale of these licences, for the period 15/3/2005 to 31/12/2009.
A sizeable part of the north-eastern Tertiary Eucla Basin marine palaeomargin is being explored for possible economic buried raised beach strandline deposits of detrital rutile, zircon and ilmenite-rich heavy mineral sands (HM) that may have formed...-
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Data release - as updated : Barton. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/1/2006 to 28/9/2022.
An area centred ~185 km west of Tarcoola, and lying immediately south of the Trans Australia Railway line, was taken up to explore for possible economic buried IOCG type mineralisation hosted by buried basement rocks of the western Gawler Craton, as...-
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Published: 21 Nov 1922
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Ceduna. Licence-specific annual reports submitted until the commencement of project joint reporting, for the period 28/11/2001 to 18/4/2008.
EL 2870 Ceduna covers 1390 square km located adjacent to the coast near Ceduna on north-western Eyre Peninsula. Minotaur believed that the area, which lies relatively close to the continental Fowler Suture Zone, was prospective for Proterozoic...-
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Published: 12 Jun 1908
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RB 2001/00021 Development of geoscientific models for exploration in Tertiary palaeochannels draining the north-western Gawler Craton, SA.
The precise geometric definition of palaeochannels on the north-western Gawler Craton, South Australia, is important in the exploration for placers (e.g. gold and heavy minerals), secondary geochemical deposits (e.g. uranium) and even for lignite and...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2001
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 5 partnership DPY5-42, north-western Eyre Peninsula (eastern Eucla Basin) Neogene shoreline heavy mineral sands prospects. Project final report.
This report details work undertaken by Iluka Resources to meet the agreed conditions for grant of PACE Initiative Year 5 exploration drilling project partial subsidy funds. Specifically, Iluka undertook heavy mineral sands exploratory drilling during...-
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Published: 18 Mar 1909
