19 samples of exploratory RC aircore drillhole cuttings were examined by a SADME consultant to determine their microfloral assemblages, and to date the host sediments by correlation of diagnostic palynomorphs with published biostratigraphic schemes.

There are no known major groundwater resources in the Garford area, which borders the Barton and Ooldea Ranges dunefield and Great Victoria Desert southwest of Coober Pedy. The groundwater that is used by graziers for stock watering occurs in...

The offshore Mesozoic-Tertiary Bight and Duntroon basins formed through rifting and separation of the Australian and Antartic plates. Palynological investigation of samples dredged during BMR Rig Seismic Cruise 66 showed that the bulk of the...

Seven samples of lignite and carbonaceous clay were assigned a latest Middle to Late Eocene age.

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As part of the PACE Initiative Year 3 subsidised drilling programmes, Minotaur Exploration proposed exploring a large tenement package in the Streaky Bay area simultaneously for Prominent Hill style iron oxide copper gold (IOCG) and palaeochannel...

During the 2009-2010 project joint reporting year, the following activities occurred: - the conduct of an Aboriginal heritage work area clearance survey in the northern part of EL 3485 Tallaringa by the Antakarinja Land Management Council Native...

An area extending for 26 km to the south and south-east of Wudinna was taken up by Minotaur to evaluate the economic potential of known but poorly defined occurrences of the industrial minerals gypsum and alunite that are associated with Recent salt...

Calcrete sampling, mapping, and RAB and aircore drilling (211 holes, total 7334 m) were carried out 20 km north of Penong, in an area underlain by Hiltaba Suite granitoids, Archaean gneisses and a major associated shear zone. Although geochemical...

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,...

Previous drilling in 2005, undertaken as part of another PACE project, DPY2-52, discovered significant occurrences of heavy mineral sands within an area of 15 km x 5 km in the southern part of EL 3092 (the Notrab prospect). These sands were...

An area centred ~150 km west of Coober Pedy, that is located mostly north-west of and that also has a small part lying immediately south-east of the Karari Fault, a major crustal structure which has controlled deposition at the southern limit of the...

Four separate licence portions together covering an area of 221 square km or ~42% of the former extent of EL 4565 have been voluntarily relinquished. The perceived prospective Karari Fault Zone and other places which possibly contain buried...

An area centred ~90 km north-east of Streaky Bay was taken under licence to explore for possible economic underground concentrations of dissolved potassium, lithium, boron and magnesium which may have become ponded within stagnant groundwater lenses...

As part of continuing regional exploration for possible economic concealed sedimentary uranium deposits in an area extending east and north of Minnipa, open hole rotary drilling of 44 holes (total 2564 m) along seven traverses located adjacent to the...

Carpentaria's exploration for Olympic Dam - type base and precious metal mineralization included the acquisition of aerial magnetic (Geoex Pty Ltd, March 1979), helicopter-borne gravity (Layton Geophysical, September 1979) and ground magnetic surveys,...

TARGET: Possible heavy mineral placer or sedimentary uranium deposits within the Narlaby Palaeochannel in the Nunjikompita - Hiltaba areas on western Eyre Peninsula. EXPLORATION: Reverse circulation drilling traverses (50 holes totalling 1213 m),...

TARGET: Possible heavy mineral sands emplaced within Tertiary sediments in the Wirulla, Poochera, Inkster and Streaky Bay areas. EXPLORATION: Reconnaissance 10-15 km spaced and infill 100 m spaced reverse circulation drilling to pre-Tertiary basement...

Literature reviews, plus studies of photogeology and of drillhole data, have confirmed the existence of palaeochannels and of the selective accumulation of Tertiary lignites within a broad area that surrounds and lies to the north and west of Lake...

AIM: The Colona Drilling Project aimed to test concealed basement in the vicinity of two ground magentic profiles that have been run across the most south-western, teardrop - shaped aeromagnetic anomaly of the Fowler Suture Zone. METHODS: 45 vertical...