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RB 00561 Heavy mineral sands investigation. The recovery of monazite, rutile and zircon from Moana Beach sand.
A concentrate of heavy minerals was made from the beach sand deposit at Moana, South Australia. This concentrate was treated by magnetic and electrostatic methods to recover monazite, rutile and zircon. The valuable mineral product was in each case...-
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RB 2021/00015 LA-ICP-MS detrital zircon geochronology from the Delamerian Orogen.
A geochronological study of clastic metasedimentary units buried in the Delamerian Orogen region of South Australia has been undertaken to gain a better understanding of the age and provenance of these units and to assess their similarities to...-
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Published: 01 Nov 2021
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RB 2020/00015 Reconnaissance zircon U-Pb geochronology of the southeastern Olympic Cu-Au Province, South Australia.
The eastern Gawler Craton is the location of the Olympic Cu-Au Province, a world-class metallogenic province known for iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposits such as Olympic Dam, Prominent Hill and Carrapateena (Skirrow et al., 2007;...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2020
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RB 2022/00003 Zircon provenance and sedimentary transport processes – implications for the late Neogene evolution and heavy mineral deposits of the western Murray Basin, South Australia.
Strandlines or elevated shorelines, located across the Murray Basin in south-eastern Australia, trace the preserved remnants of former emergent coastlines that developed during the Late Miocene (c. 7 to 4 Ma) marine regression. Strandline traces...-
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Published: 01 May 2022
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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 75/00006 Introduction to laboratory testing, characterisation and evaluation of industrial minerals and rocks.
'Industrial minerals' are those minerals or assemblages of minerals which are economically important because of their physical or chemical properties, rather than their metal or energy content. The term is synonymous with 'non-metallic minerals', and...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1974
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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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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...-
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Gilles Downs (part of the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project). First annual report (prior to start of joint reporting status) for the period 8/7/2005 to 7/7/2006: and final report submitted at licence full surrender, for the succeeding period to 30/7/2015.
A licence area consisting of two separate sub-blocks located on the plains extending to the west of the Middleback Range on north-eastern Eyre Peninsula was taken up to explore for possible economic buried deposits of stratabound magnetite iron ore...-
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Wynbring [Siding]. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 17/12/2009 to 16/12/2012.
A large, ~1300 square km licence area extending NE-SW and centred ~100 km west of Tarcoola and ~170 km NNW of Ceduna was taken up to explore part of the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin for possible economic buried Tertiary detrital heavy mineral...-
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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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Yalanda Hill. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 5/12/2005 to 20/3/2014.
Exploration for possible economic deposits of primary uranium mineralisation, undertaken within the subject licence which is centred approximately 90 km south-west of Whyalla, initially consisted of a field reconnaissance using a spectrometer, and...-
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Oakbank Dam (part of the Lodestone Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 4/11/2010 to 1/8/2016.
An area centred ~70 km south-southeast of Olary has been explored for buried mineral sands placer deposits that may have formed within the Cainozoic Murray Basin sedimentary cover, as well as for possible economic stratabound iron ore occurrences that...-
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Blanchetown. First partial surrender report, for the period 25/2/2008 to 27/5/2009.
Two separate licence portions together totalling 270 square km or ~33.5% of the former area of EL 4052 have been partially relinquished due to their perceived diminished potential to contain shallow Tertiary heavy mineral sands occurrences. Licensee...-
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Ironstone Hill (part of the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 17/9/2003 to 17/9/2015.
During the majority of its tenure term, very little field work was conducted on the subject ground. Initially, office studies of available geophysical and open file geological data were performed during 2005 to try to identify possible drilling...-
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Murtho (part of the Murray Basin Project). Information status at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 4/11/2009 to 24/9/2015: no work performed.
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