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RB 88/00010 Maralinga Lands - 1987 drilling.
Seven wells were drilled in the Oak Valley area. One well drilled at the airstrip yielded 3 L/s of 74 000 mg/L water, a quality that is only suitable to use for compaction. Three wells drilled close to swamps located west of Oak Valley gave low yields...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1988
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RB 96/00043 Report on a transient electromagnetic survey around Garford Palaeochannel, SA.
There are no known major groundwater resources in the Garford area, which borders the Barton and Ooldea Ranges dunefield and Great Victoria Desert southwest of Coober Pedy. The groundwater that is used by graziers for stock watering occurs in...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1996
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Watraba (part of the Watraba Project). Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 6/6/2005 to 3/4/2009.
Exploration of an onshore area located in the vicinity of Watraba aimed to discover beach or shallow marine placer concentrations of zircon-rich heavy mineral sands, possibly formed within significant thicknesses of prospective Upper Tertiary Ooldea...-
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Published: 20 May 1909
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Hierns Well. Annual reports and partial surrender report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 29/9/2004 to 28/9/2009.
An area located 40 km south-west of Tarcoola was taken up to explore primarily for possible economic buried sedimentary uranium mineralisation within the Tertiary cover sequence, and secondarily for epithermal/hydrothermal copper-gold deposits or for...-
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Published: 09 Oct 1909
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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...-
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Published: 18 Dec 1906
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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...-
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Published: 06 Jun 1909
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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...-
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Published: 20 May 1916
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Barton Siding (North). Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/6/1979 to 4/1/1988.
Carpentaria's exploration for Olympic Dam - type base and precious metal mineralization included the acquisition of aerial magnetic (Geoex Pty Ltd, March 1979), helicopter-borne gravity (Layton Geophysical, September 1979) and ground magnetic surveys,...-
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Thurlga Ramp (part of the Eyre Peninsula Project, Corrobinnie Uranium JV and Thurlga JV periods). Data release : final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/1/2013 to 3/5/2019.
During the report period, licensee Andromeda Metals did no on-ground exploration. During its agreed 3-year earn-in period, joint venturer Investigator Resources undertook the following work described herein: - acquisition of high resolution aerial...-
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Published: 19 Jul 1919
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Flinders Island and Flinders Island Coast. Joint annual reports for the period 4/1/2009 to 3/1/2019.
During licence Year 11, the lithological logs were digitised and are now presented for the remaining eight holes of the first drilling program (completed in 2002), together with the holes from the second (2003), and third (2004) drilling programs....-
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Published: 01 Mar 1919
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RB 2021/00011 Models, geology and exploration of heavy mineral deposits in South Australia.
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...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2021
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RB 76/00034 Tallaringa palaeodrainage system. The Mirackina conglomerate.
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Published: 01 Mar 1976
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Eucla Basin Areas 2, 3 and 4. Joint annual reports and joint first partial surrender report, plus respective licence's final reports to full surrender, for the overall period 29/8/2006 to 28/8/2013.
Three adjoining licence areas that were centred approximately 480 km north-west of Ceduna together occupied the northern section of the Ooldea Range over a stepped NW-SE trending outline having an average width of 25 km and a combined total length of...-
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Published: 21 Nov 1913
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Pidinga. First annual report plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/2/2011 to 20/2/2013.
An area centred ~215 km north-west of Ceduna was taken up by Southern Coal Holdings (SCH), together with another tenement located immediately adjacent to the west, to assess the development potential of locally extensive, previously known Tertiary...-
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Galaxy Tank (part of the Central Gawler Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/3/2006 to 10/5/2013.
Tasman Resources' ("Tasman") Central Gawler Project tenement acreage, originally comprising seven exploration licences ELs 3339 to 3345, was initially applied for on the basis of perceived prospectivity for diamonds: however, following Tasman's...-
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Published: 16 Jul 1913
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Pidinga. Annual report and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/12/2010 to 12/12/2012.
An area centred about the Pidinga Lakes, 200 km north-west of Ceduna, was taken under licence to explore for economic Tertiary coal and lignite deposits because of several reported intersections of lignite made in drillholes by previous explorers. In...-
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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...-
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Published: 31 May 1911
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Moonaree. Annual reports and final report to licence surrender, for the period 15/11/2005 to 10/1/2012.
An area of the central Gawler Ranges located immediately west of Lake Gairdner has been explored primarily for possible sandstone-hosted uranium mineralisation that may have formed with reduced Tertiary sediments that unconformably overlie the...-
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Published: 07 Feb 1912
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Data release - as updated : Ooldea. Annual reports, fourth partial surrender report, and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/11/2003 to 1/4/2016.
A small licence area located 170 km north-northwest of Fowlers Bay in far western South Australia is being explored for possible large occurrences of high grade IOCG mineralisation that may be hosted by Proterozoic basement rocks, and for Tertiary...-
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Published: 21 May 1916
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Cocata and Palkagee Well. Annual reports and final reports to licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/12/2005 to 30/11/2010.
Exploration carried out over two adjacent areas located 50 to 70 km south-west and south of Wudinna was progressed under the terms of two separate joint venture agreements made by the licensee in October 2006, firstly with GE Resources (a subsidiary...-
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Published: 27 Jan 1911
