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Blanchewater Hill. Progress and final reports for the period 11/8/80 to 10/8/82.
Drilling of two percussion holes (aggregate 400 metres) near Yerila, south of Lake Blanche, failed to give encouragement to the search for possible Permian coal and Tertiary uranium in the southern Eromanga Basin / Lake Blanche Lineament uplift area...-
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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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South Eagle [part of a joint licence area with Kalabity]. Uranium exploration progress and technical reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 15/5/1974 to 14/2/1976.
During the EL 132 tenure, work has consisted of a mineability evaluation of the Honeymoon uranium deposit, plus additional U exploration over the South Eagle farmout. Initially, 5 rotary holes (total 594.9 m) were drilled to the north of the...-
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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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Lake Carnanto. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 30/11/1978 to 11/2/1983.
The south-eastern Lake Frome Embayment in the vicinity of Quinyambie Station was explored for Upper and Lower Tertiary 'blanket' or 'roll front' type sedimentary uranium, via the drilling of 75 open vertical rotary mud holes with a total penetration...-
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Frome Downs. Progress reports and partial relinquishment reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 20/6/1978 to 14/9/1982.
153 rotary mud open holes (total 19,689 m) and 11 cored holes (total 1384 m) have been drilled during the reporting period to evaluate the Goulds Dam uranium deposit and to further explore the region to its north and south for sedimentary uranium...-
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RB 60/00040 Geology of the MARREE 1:250 000 map area.
The MARREE mapsheet area lies in arid country about 400 miles north of Adelaide, South Australia. It includes the town of Marree, on the Alice Springs railway line, and part of the Birdsville and Strzelecki tracks. The area is covered mainly by flat...-
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Published: 03 Mar 1965
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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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Honeymoon Project - pilot wellfield drilling, January-March 1982.
Drilling was undertaken at the Honeymoon deposit, as allowed for under Miscellaneous Purposes Leases 14 and 15 and Retention Leases 10, 11 and 12, located within EL 597. This drilling was carried out as part of the construction of the 6 litre/second...-
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Starvation Lake. Progress reports and final report on regional exploration programme at licence surrender, for the period 13/1/1972 to 31/7/1972.
In a search for possible economic roll-front, blanket style uranium deposits within Tertiary sediments in part of the eastern Frome Embayment, the licensee undertook 1:75,000 scale geological mapping and exploratory auger drilling of the Quaternary...-
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Honeymoon project - hydrological report on the HC 9 pumping test conducted February-March, 1980.
Regional and site-specific geological and hydrological factors are discussed, and a groundwater model is proposed for the Honeymoon uranium deposit, based on the results of the HC 9 drilling and testing programme, and on other existing data. A...-
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Jacks Find, Kopi Flat, Thurlooka, Yalkalpo East, Moolawatana, Billeroo, Frome, Coonee, Yalkalpo and Prospect Hill South (the Curnamona Uranium Project). Joint annual reports for the period 1/6/2007 to 31/5/2015.
A dispersed group of tenements covering the known and inferred subcrop extent of the Tertiary Yarramba Palaeovalley in the eastern and northern Lake Frome Plains region is being explored by Curnamona Energy, in a search for possible economic...-
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The Curnamona North Project. Joint annual reports and joint final report to the majority of licences' joint full surrender, for the period 16/7/2007 to 29/10/2015. EL 5322 final report to 15/7/2017.
A large, 3370 square km area of the Strzelecki Desert lying over and to the south-east of Lake Callabonna, and extending as far as the SA-NSW State Border, is being explored for possible economic buried sedimentary uranium mineralisation thought to...-
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Lake Gregory. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 13/5/2016 to 9/3/2017.
A licence area covering a large salt lake (Lake Gregory) of the Cenozoic Lake Eyre Basin, and the underlying Mesozoic Eromanga Basin sediments situated to the north of the uranium-rich Mount Babbage and Mount Painter inliers, ~120 km north-east of...-
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Mount Distance. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 3/9/1970 to 2/9/1971.
In a search for possible roll-front type secondary uranium deposits emplaced in piedmont alluvial sediments over an area adjacent to the north-western edge of the Mount Painter Block, the licensees drilled 6 scout vertical rotary holes totalling 2151...-
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Billeroo West. Progress and technical reports for the period 30/6/80 to 7/11/87.
TARGET: Sedimentary uranium in Tertiary palaeochannels, plus Olympic Dam or sedex type base and precious metal deposits in the Proterozoic basement. EXPLORATION: Ground magnetic, gravity and SIROTEM surveys, one 600 metre deep diamond drill hole (BW...-
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Published: 24 Dec 1987
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Curnamona Project (uranium exploration spinoff). Joint annual reports for the period 1/1/2009 to 31/12/2011.
During the fifth year of the Curnamona - Uranium Project JV, during the 2009 calendar year, Curnamona Energy drilled a total of 124 holes for an aggregate depth of 11,777 m on EL 4262 (including RL 123). The drilling tested “blanket sands” at Oban...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : North Mulga, Wooltana and Paralana areas (Frome Basin Project). Joint annual reports for the period 24/9/2012 to 31/12/2018.
The continuation of Heathgate's programme of exploration for economic buried Tertiary sediment-hosted uranium mineralisation within part of the north-western Frome Embayment during 2012-2013 has comprised exploratory drilling of 36 vertical rotary mud...-
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Benagerie. Progress reports and annual reports, plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 13/11/1979 to 9/3/1989.
TARGET: Sedimentary uranium in Tertiary sandstone, plus Olympic Dam type copper-gold mineralisation and Broken Hill or Mount Isa type stratiform base metal mineralisation in the underlying basement rocks. EXPLORATION: Stratigraphic drilling (162...-
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Mulyungarie (part of the Yarramba Joint Venture Project). Data release upon first partial surrender and in consequence of a transfer of licence ownership : progress and technical reports for the period 4/7/1978 to 2/5/1991. [ Index Part 1&2 of 2 ].
Continuing exploration for sedimentary uranium occurrences in the buried Tertiary Yarramba Palaeochannel, undertaken between 1978 and 1982 by a Mines Administration (Minad) - led consortium, comprised reconnaissance and infill traverse- based open...-
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Published: 31 May 1992
