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  • Garford Formation - (67)
  • Pidinga Formation - (32)
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  • Tunkillia Suite - (3)
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PUBLICATION DATE

Specific date: 1980, 20/04/1980, 04/1980

Date range: 1980-2022, 04/1980-08/1990

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  • Lake Bring. Quarterly reports, first joint annual report (with SML 710) and joint final report to licence full surrender, for the period 1/9/1971 to 31/5/1973.

    TARGET: Sedimentary uranium associated with high order radiometric anomalies over lakes on the edge of the sand dune country, east of the Nullarbor Plain. EXPLORATION: Closely spaced (300-500 m), low level (65 m altitude) aerial scintillometer...
      Document Published: 26 Jun 1973
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  • RB 78/00038 Report on drilling in the Tallaringa palaeodrainage system.

    Programme of fully cored shallow holes. Aim was to investigate stratigraphy of the palaeochannels, relate this to the geology and evaluate economic potential of channel confined sediments, to test for lignite, sedimentary uranium, alluvial gold, heavy...
      Document Published: 01 Jan 1978
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  • RB 95/00048 Palygorskite clay investigation, Garford Palaeochannel, South Australia: results of drilling, April-May 1995.

    Reverse circulation (RC) drilling, combined with shallow auger holes and field infrared analyses, were used to identify areas of high-grade palygorskite associated with illitic and dolomitic clays of the Garford palaeodrainage system, 110 km...
      Document Published: 01 Dec 1995
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  • Pyramid Bore. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 8/7/2005 to 5/1/2010.

    An area located approximately 10 km north of Glendambo has been explored for possible economic buried uranium deposits which might be indicated by aerial radiometric anomalies associated with playa lakes in the region, since these latter mark zones of...
      Document Published: 20 May 1910
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  • Tallaringa and Mount Igy (the Tallaringa JV Project). Joint annual reports to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 18/1/2009 to 6/2/2015.

    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...
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  • Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Flinders Island and Flinders Island Coast. Annual, joint annual and combined annual reports for the period 4/1/1999 to 3/1/2009.

    A renewed effort to determine the diamond mineral potential of the 15.6 square km of land comprising Flinders Island was instigated during January 1999, under tenure of EL 2577, by Orogenic Exploration Pty Ltd, a company related to the previous...
      Document Published: 06 Jun 1909
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  • Mount Igy. Annual reports submitted until the commencement of licence joint reporting for the Tallaringa JV ELs, for the period 18/1/2006 to 17/1/2009.

    An area centred ~150 km WSW of Coober Pedy has been explored for possible buried economic sandstone-hosted secondary uranium deposits which might have formed within northeastwards-draining tributaries of the Tertiary Tallaringa Palaeochannel. Another,...
      Document Published: 23 Apr 1909
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  • The Eyre Peninsula Project, and in part the Corrobinnie Uranium Joint Venture. Joint annual reports for the period 29/12/2008 to 31/12/2013.

    During the sixth year of the project, licensee Adelaide Resources did not do any exploration directed at gold or base metals that might possibly occur on the subject tenements. However, its joint venture partner Quasar Resources undertook significant...
      Document Published: 05 Mar 1914
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  • Puntabie, Maltee, Mount Cooper and Pureba South [the north-western Eyre Peninsula (eastern Eucla Basin) heavy mineral sands exploration Tenement Group 3]. Final report at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 28/4/2004 to 5/5/2016.

    Iluka Resources has been exploring the four subject areas, located east of the townships of Streaky Bay and Ceduna, since April 2004, as part of a continuing regional search for possible economic, zircon-rich Tertiary marine placer mineral sands...
      Document Published: 20 May 1916
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  • Petina - part of the north-western Eyre Peninsula (eastern Eucla Basin) heavy mineral sands exploration tenement group [Group 3]. Final report at licence surrender, for the period 13/2/2004 to 4/5/2016.

    Iluka Resources has been exploring the subject area, located east of the townships of Streaky Bay and Ceduna, since October 2003, as part of a continuing regional search for possible economic, zircon-rich Tertiary marine placer mineral sands deposits...
      Document Published: 20 May 1916
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  • Wilkinson Lakes East. Annual reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 3/5/2010 to 6/2/2015.

    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...
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  • Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : North-western Eyre Peninsula (eastern Eucla Basin) heavy mineral sands exploration tenement group [Group 3]. Joint annual reports for the period 1/7/2004 to 31/5/2010. [Index part 2 of 2].

    Within the subject south-eastern Eucla Basin tenements, Iluka's ongoing exploration has targeted the Tertiary-aged beach sands deposited during the five marine incursions that occurred from the Middle Eocene to the Pliocene, with a focus on exploring...
      Document Published: 01 Sep 1910
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  • The Eyre Peninsula Joint Venture Project. Joint annual reports for the period 19/9/2002 to 31/12/2008.

    A number of tenements on central northern Eyre Peninsula are being explored by Adelaide Resources and its joint venture partner Newmont Mining for possible economic buried deposits of gold, copper and other base metals which may have formed in the...
      Document Published: 27 Feb 1909
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  • Mulgathing. First partial surrender report, for the period 30/7/2019 to 29/7/2020.

    An area centred ~50 km west-northwest of Tarcoola is being explored for possible economic palaeochannel - hosted secondary uranium deposits, as well as for possible hydrothermal gold mineralisation which may have been emplaced within siliciclastic...
      Document Published: 28 Sep 1920
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  • Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Aurora Tank and Indooroopilly Outstation. Joint annual reports for the period 21/3/2011 to 20/3/2013.

    Two separate tenements in the Challenger district which are now wholly owned by Marmota Energy Limited are being explored for possible economic buried Challenger style gold mineralisation that may be present within Archaean basement, and also, within...
      Document Published: 12 Jul 1913
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  • Garford. First annual report plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/4/2018 to 15/4/2020.

    An area centred ~140 km north-west of Tarcoola and ~20 km north of the Challenger gold mine has been explored for possible economic high grade occurrences of palygorskite (synonym attapulgite) clays which may have formed in Tertiary palaeochannels and...
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  • Lake Anthony. Quarterly reports, first joint annual report (with SML 711) and joint final report to licence full surrender, for the period 1/9/1971 to 31/5/1973.

    An area located just to the east of the edge of the Nullarbor Plain, occupied by many scattered large and small salt lakes surrounded by sand dunes, with Precambrian basement [of the western Gawler Craton] subcropping near the surface, has been...
      Document Published: 26 Jun 1973
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  • Dunn Hill, Wallala Hill and Mount Centre. Progress report plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 14/2/1989 to 16/6/1989.

    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),...
      Document Published: 31 Jul 1989
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  • Garford Homestead. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 12/4/1983 to 11/4/1984.

    After a regional review of the absorbent clay mineral potential of known palygorskite and attapulgite - bearing Middle Tertiary palaeochannel sediments in an area centred 110 km south-west of Coober Pedy, a possibly economic partly-exposed attapulgite...
      Document Published: 21 Jun 1984
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  • Wirrulla, Cungena, Mortana, Kolballa and Calca. Joint progress reports and joint final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 18/8/1989 to 17/12/1991.

    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...
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