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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 55/00006;Amdel 00126 Accessory minerals of South Australian granites.
The purpose of the work described was to compare and contrast the petrography, accessory minerals, and absolute ages of 25 granitic and allied rock samples collected from widely scattered localities in South Australia. The processes that are...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1961
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RB 77/00051;Env 03054 Porphyry style copper/molybdenum mineralization at Anabama Hill and the Cronje Dam copper prospect.
For a project to determine the base metal potential of known copper-mineralised igneous rocks which outcrop in an area located approximately 59 km south-west of Olary, the South Australian Government has completed detailed mapping, geochemical...-
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Published: 17 May 1977
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RB 81/00107 Heavy minerals at Golden Grove, report no. 2. Results of 1980 drilling programme. Hd Yatala, Co. Adelaide.
During drilling of construction sand and clay in 1976 and 1977, an accumulation of heavy minerals was discovered in an embayment on the eastern margin of the Tertiary basin. Heavy minerals, mainly ilmenite, rutile,and zircon, with lesser amounts of...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1981
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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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Meribah, Halidon, Mantung, Karoonda and Woolpunda (parts of the Murray Basin HMS Project). Individual licence first or second partial surrender reports, describing relevant subsets of exploration work performed between 29/9/1997 and 5/9/2018.
Portions of the Tertiary shallow marine clastic sedimentary sequence (Loxton and Parilla sands) deposited in the central western Murray Basin within SA's Murray Mallee district have been explored for possible economic heavy mineral sand (HMS)...-
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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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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Olary Project (latterly part of the Lodestone Project). Licence individual annual reports, plus related project joint annual reports, for the period 4/11/2009 to 20/1/2019.
Iluka Resources is exploring for possible economic heavy mineral (HM) deposits that may have formed in the northern Murray Basin, with a strategy of targeting any mineralised Loxton-Parilla Sand formation sediments deposited during the Pliocene marine...-
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Alawoona. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 29/4/1987 to 28/4/1991.
TARGET: Possible economic heavy mineral sand accumulations in Pliocene raised beach strandlines developed along the south-western margin of the Murray Basin. EXPLORATION: Acquisition of an airborne magnetic and radiometric survey during November...-
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Published: 13 May 1991
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Manunda Homestead. Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 25/6/1979 to 24/6/1980.
Diamond exploration over an area located approximately 35 km south-east of Yunta was undertaken to assess an interpreted structural environment that may be similar to one existing nearby to the west close to Terowie, in which shallowly buried,...-
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Uno Station. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 10/9/1970 to 9/9/1971.
The discovery in July 1970 of a strong surface radioactive thorium anomaly emanating from outcrop near Uno Homestead, 48 km north-west of Iron Knob, which was made by a Japanese company's geophysical prospecting party, prompted the leasing of the...-
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Published: 10 Sep 1971
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Eucla Basin Stratigraphic Drilling Project. Well sample test reports.
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Report on rotary-percussion drilling, Mount McTaggart copper prospect, SML 575, South Australia, [carried out in] October 1971.
The Mount McTaggart prospect is located 15 miles south-west of Arkaroola Base Camp and 3 miles west of the Arkaroola-Balcanoona Road. A programme of ten rotary percussion holes totalling 3457 feet commenced on 11/10/1971 and was completed on...-
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RB 62/00040 Heavy mineral sands, Kangaroo Island (11/2/1966).
Beach sands of Recent age which have accumulated in shallow water adjacent to the present shore of Morrison Beach, Kangaroo Island, have a heavy mineral content of 0.31%. The recently completed drilling programme has defined a sequence of fine to...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1968
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RB 75/00142 Heavy mineral-rich sediments within the Kanmantoo Group, Kangaroo Island.
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Published: 04 Dec 1975
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RB 76/00110 Investigation of heavy mineral sands, Morrison Beach, Kangaroo Island.
Heavy mineral sands are mined at Morrison Beach for their rutile and zircon content, with ilmenite and staurolite recovered as by-products. There appears to have been only one main period of heavy mineral deposition, which occurred during a high...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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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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Halidon (part of the Mindarie Project). Second partial surrender report, for the period 2/1/2008 to 24/9/2015.
A portion of the Tertiary shallow marine clastic sedimentary sequence (Loxton and Parilla sands) in the central western Murray Basin within SA's Murray Mallee is being explored for possible economic heavy mineral sand (HM) accumulations. Two separate...-
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Mantung (part of the Mindarie Project). Third partial surrender report, for the period 14/10/1997 to 24/9/2015.
A portion of the Tertiary shallow marine clastic sedimentary sequence (Loxton and Parilla sands) in the central western Murray Basin within SA's Murray Mallee is being explored for possible economic heavy mineral sand (HM) accumulations. Two adjacent...-
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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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