-
RB 97/00056 An assessment of the groundwater resources of the Lake Maurice area, northwest South Australia, for the Oak Valley Community, Maralinga Tjarutja Aboriginal Lands.
The Oak Valley Community requires a more convenient water supply. If potable groundwater cannot be found then a supply suitable for purification must be found. Current requirements are a supply of 1 L/s of water of salinity not greater than 40 000...-
Document
Published: 01 Dec 1997
-
RB 88/00069 Tertiary coastal dunes of the Eucla Basin, Australia.
On the NE margin of the Nullarbor Plain in western SA are preserved coastal dunes, dune ridges and possible beach ridges. The longest is the Ooldea Range, a 650 km long coastal dune that lies 25-300 km from the present coast. These coastal aeolian...-
Document
Published: 01 Sep 1988
-
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...-
Document
Published: 01 Jun 1994
-
RB 90/00014 Explanatory Notes for the TALLARINGA 1:250 000 geological map.
There is no abstract created for this record-
Document
Published: 01 Mar 1991
-
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...-
Document
Published: 18 Dec 1906
-
Barton, Barton Range North and Paling Range, plus Wells and north-eastern Eucla Basin licence Areas A through Y (Iluka's Eucla Basin Heavy Mineral Sands Project tenement Group 4). Joint annual reports for the period 19/10/2009 to 31/12/2015.
During the 2009-2010 project reporting year, Iluka completed exploration work costing $5,200,532 across its combined thirty-one Group 4 tenements, to assess the north-eastern Eucla Basin's sediment stratigraphy and heavy mineral sand (HM) potential...-
Document
-
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...-
Document
Published: 12 Apr 1919
-
Lake Tallacootra. First partial surrender report, for the period 29/11/2012 to 23/12/2019.
The western two-thirds, or 427 square km, of an area located on the eastern side of the Nullarbor Plain, ~200 km north-west of Ceduna, has been partially relinquished because in the licensee's opinion it does not exhibit the geological features...-
Document
Published: 15 May 1920
-
PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 9 partnership DPY8-30 - Eucla Basin Eocene and Pleistocene low-stand beach ridge marine heavy mineral placer prospects. Drilling project final report.
The Nundroo Range and Bookabie Range are prominent south-west facing, yet effectively previously undrilled, preserved palaeogeomorphic beach ridge /coastal dune features which are located ~200 km west of Ceduna and ~100 km south of the...-
Document
-
Yellabinna and Poondinga. Respective second partial surrender reports, for the period 27/10/2004 to 13/4/2018.
Two adjoining areas located on the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin, and centred ~60 km north-east of Fowlers Bay, are being explored for possible buried economic occurrences of zircon-rich heavy mineral sands (HMS) that may have been formed along...-
Document
Published: 31 May 1918
-
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...-
Document
-
Nalara and Pulkatha. Progress and final reports for the period from 29/9/88 to 28/3/90.
TARGET: Heavy mineral sands in the Eocene Hampton Sandstone of the Eucla Basin. EXPLORATION: A review of Landsat data, aerial photographs and topographic maps to located fossil Tertiary coastal strandlines, plus reverse circulation drilling (97 holes...-
Document
Published: 11 Apr 1990
-
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...-
Document
-
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...-
Document
-
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...-
Document
-
ELs 4328, 4332, 4335 and 4340 - 4342, otherwise called Eucla Basin licence Areas D, H, K, P, Q and R (part of Iluka's Eucla Basin tenement Group 4). Final report at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 19/10/2009 to 25/10/2013.
Six of the 31 heavy mineral sands (HM) exploration licences that were originally granted to Iluka Resources (Iluka) in September 2009 (which then were designated as Iluka's tenement Group 4) have recently been fully surrendered, because they are now...-
Document
Published: 10 Dec 1913
-
Fowlers Bay North. Annual report plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 4/8/2008 to 3/8/2010.
Within an area located approximately 110 km north-west of Ceduna, exploration has primarily been directed at assessing the heavy mineral sands potential of Tertiary Eucla Basin shoreline sediments, with an additional objective of determining the base...-
Document
Published: 31 May 1911
-
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...-
Document
-
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...-
Document
-
RB 2007/00011 Original full content version of] OOLDEA, South Australia, [geological map] sheet SH52-12. South Australia. Geological Survey. 1:250 000 Series - Explanatory Notes.
The OOLDEA 1:250 000 map area, in the far west of SA, includes portions of the Maralinga Tjarutja Aboriginal Lands, Maralinga Prohibited Area, and Nullarbor Regional Reserve. It is traversed by the Trans-Australian Railway. There is no significant...-
Document
Published: 01 Jun 2007
