Groundwater flow in the Upper Murray region is generally towards the River Murray except in the Noora area where contours show a depression in the water table surface. The Noora area appears to be the most suitable site for an evaporation basin for...

Further drilling and aquifer testing between the proposed Noora evaporation basin and the River Murray yielded an average value of about 100 m3/day/m for transmissivity of the Loxton Sand aquifer. It is therefore expected that initial effects of such...

Engineering geological investigations consisting of cable tool drilling of 10 holes up to 15.25m deep, penetration testing and seismic refraction surveys were completed at the proposed CBD of the Monarto city centre. Drilling encountered thin...

Reconnaissance sampling and exploratory drrilling have been undertaken to locate suitable brickmaking clay for the proposed city of Monarto. Samples from exposures and boreholes in Quaternary and Tertiary sediments and in weathered bedrock have been...

Drilling of 25 cable tool holes to depth up to 20.1m in the designated area for Monarto New Town illustrates the nature, distribution and thickness of Quaternay and Tertiary sediments. The main tertiary units are the marine fossiliferous limestone of...

No work performed during the subject period - Native Title land access negotiations in progress.

An area of the western Murray Mallee located near Blanchetown has been explored for possible economic heavy mineral sand accumulations in Pliocene raised beach strandlines. At the outset, the licensee performed a field inspection and drew up measured...

A package of fourteen mineral exploration tenements were taken up that straddled the north-eastern and south-western sides of the Padthaway Ridge, to allow the licensee to explore both the Tertiary Murray Basin and Gambier Basin sediments where they...

An area consisting of two separate sub-blocks located ~50 km north-east and east of Burra has been explored for possible economic buried marine placer heavy mineral (HM) sand deposits. The target strata comprised littoral marine sediments of the...

Two adjoining areas centred ~ 75 km east of Tailem Bend have been explored for possible economic buried Tertiary marine placer heavy mineral sand (HMS) deposits that may have been formed within the Murray Basin sedimentary succession, as winnowed...

Two adjoining large areas in the southern Murraylands are being explored for possible economic buried Pliocene heavy mineral sands (HM) marine placer deposits. Both Mindarie type palaeobeach strandline HM occurrences and basin margin headland -...

A small area located ~ 33 km north-east of Burra has been explored for possible economic buried marine placer heavy mineral (HM) sand deposits. The target strata comprised littoral marine sediments of the Pliocene aged Loxton - Parilla Sand (LPS), in...

An area centred ~ 95 km north-west of Renmark has been explored for possible economic buried Tertiary marine placer heavy mineral sand (HMS) deposits that may have been formed within the Murray Basin sedimentary succession, as winnowed strandings that...

In the last phase of exploration for possible buried economic heavy mineral (HM) sands marine placer deposits in the district extending between Waikerie, Blanchetown and parts of the north-western Murray Mallee, the only field work undertaken was...

An area covering the valley of the River Murray between Murray Bridge and Jervois has been explored for possible economic placer occurrences of heavy mineral (HM) sands that may have formed within the Late Tertiary Murray Basin shallow marine clastic...

After its purchase of the subject EL 5069 on 8/7/2013, a single drilling campaign was undertaken by Iluka Resources during August-October 2013, when 11 RC aircore vertical open holes were drilled for a total penetration of 266.5 m. Ten of the holes...

An area centred on the township of Wynarka in the Murray Mallee, and which extended NW-SE along the northern side of the Padthaway Ridge, has been explored for possible economic placer occurrences of heavy mineral (HM) sands that may have formed...

Tertiary Murray Basin cover sediments in an elongate area extending down the eastern side of the River Murray between Coolcha, Mannum and Murray Bridge have been explored for possible economic buried marine placer heavy mineral (HM) sands deposits. A...

Under a farm-in agreement it made with Marathon Resources, the licensee of an area in the SA Murray Basin far northern sector located near the SA-NSW State border, 25 km south of Mutooroo Homestead, undertook exploratory drilling for possible economic...

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...