TARGET: Heavy mineral sands in the Ooldea Range. EXPLORATION: RAB drilling (223 holes totalling 6384 metres). RESULTS: Mineralized intervals were absent in the Ooldea Sand. Anomalous intersections of unpromising mineral assemblages were reported in...

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...

Cretaceous sediments in the Eucla Basin portion lying within South Australia's far west were investigated for their oil shale potential. This search was prompted by a recorded occurrence of a thick, oily Cretaceous shale horizon intersected in a...

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...

PEL 4 was granted to Outback Oil Co. NL on 14/11/68 to succeed the onshore part of the former OEL 33 in the Eucla Basin region, and allow continuity of exploration in a little known petroleum province. Early in licence Year One Outback Oil succeeded...

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...

Four wells, drilled within 36 km of the Hughes and Denman Railway Sidings, explored for a possible Palaeozoic section and/or Upper Proterozoic or older basement, that was expected from Outback's regional gravity survey data to occur at or around...

Eyre 1 (total depth 1719 feet KB) and Gambanga 1 (TD 1283 feet KB) oil exploration wells, drilled in WA in the western part of the Eucla Basin, penetrated a succession of marine mainly Upper Eocene and Cretaceous rocks before entering crystalline...

This report provides a brief summary of the geology and petroleum potential of the onshore, South Australian portion of the Eucla Basin at the time of termination of PEL 4, with the aim of providing a starting point for more thorough studies.

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...

The four stratigraphic wells completed in the Eucla Basin within 20 miles of the Hughes and Denman Railway Sidings intersected a sequence of Tertiary, Lower Cretaceous, probable Palaeozoic, and possibly some Proterozoic rocks. The ages of the...

Hydrogeological and geotechnical information is provided for a comparative cost study of competing proposals for the permanent disposal of soil lightly contaminated with nuclear materials. A total of 19 open boreholes and 6 cored boreholes were...

This study draws together diverse aspects of South Australia’s heavy minerals (HM) resources geoscience to provide an overall context for evaluating their occurrence, economic significance and origins. Two main objectives are addressed by the subject...

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...

An area situated on the eastern margin of the Nullarbor Plain has been explored for possible economic sedimentary uranium deposits that may have formed in Tertiary strata underlying the Nullarbor Limestone. The target porous sediments are those...

An area centred approximately 200 km north-west of Ceduna was taken up initially to explore for possible buried nickel mineralisation, and subsequently was farmed out to companies interested in assessing its base/precious metal and sedimentary uranium...

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...

As part of continuing joint venture investigations into the Tertiary sedimentary uranium mineralisation potential of the Watson Palaeochannel, 9 vertical rotary mud exploratory holes with a total penetration of 639 m were drilled into that wholly...

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...

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...