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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Fig Tree Corner, Barton, Colona North, Ooldea Range and Pidinga (the Eucla Basin Mineral Sands Tenement Group 1). Joint annual report for the period 1/3/2009 to 28/2/2010.
Between April and August 2009, exploratory drilling was undertaken by Iluka on EL 3233 (94 holes for 5052.5 m along 6 traverses, at a nominal spacing of 800 m to 1 km). 779 samples with a visually estimated grade of >0.5% HM were taken from 76...-
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Ooldea Range. Information status at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/8/2015 to 11/8/2017 : no work performed.
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Meribah, Halidon, Mantung, Karoonda and Woolpunda (parts of the Murray Basin HMS Project). Individual licence first or second partial surrender reports, describing relevant subsets of exploration work performed between 29/9/1997 and 5/9/2018.
Portions of the Tertiary shallow marine clastic sedimentary sequence (Loxton and Parilla sands) deposited in the central western Murray Basin within SA's Murray Mallee district have been explored for possible economic heavy mineral sand (HMS)...-
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Moornaba Rockhole. Progress reports for the period 25/7/89 to 24/1/93.
Exploration for heavy mineral sand in the Barton-Ooldea area, 100-200 km north of Fowlers Bay, comprised reconnaissance sampling, a photogeologic survey and RC drilling (695 holes, total 24 128 m).-
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Oakbank, Sergeant's Dam and Oakvale (part of the Oakvale Project). Joint first partial surrender report, for the period 3/12/1997 to 15/7/1999.
Exploratory drilling to search for heavy mineral sands, performed over an area extending to 160 km north and north-west of Renmark, has targeted marginal marine placer deposits of detrital rutile, ilmenite and zircon in potential Loxton - Parilla Sand...-
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Naracoorte. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 4/1/1999 to 21/9/1999.
21 shallow auger holes totalling 128 m were drilled along 4 traverses which cross the Naracoorte Range between Penola and Naracoorte. Traces of heavy minerals were detected below 8 m depth within the area of a large radiometric anomaly, but further...-
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Oakbank, Sergeant's Dam and Oakvale, northern Murray Basin, South Australia (part of the Oakvale Project). Joint third partial surrender report, for the period 3/12/1997 to 1/12/2001.
Within the now relinquished licence portions, parts of six traverses of reverse circulation aircore drilling (involving 68 vertical open holes, total 1918.5 m) tested 60 km strike length of interpreted heavy mineral sand - bearing marine beach facies...-
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Chimpering Rock Hole, Yarrana Hill, Moornaba Rock Hole, Euria Well, Koonibba Mission, Lake Tallacootra, Dunn Hill, Wallala Hill, Mount Centre and Nalara. Quarterly and annual progress reports plus technical reports, for the period 25/7/1989 to 24/7/1992.
Hitherto untried exploration for heavy mineral sands on the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin, conducted by the Ceduna Joint Venture partners since 1989 over ten contiguous licence areas in the Ooldea - Barton area centred 150 km north-west of Ceduna,...-
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Murnpeowie. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 5/11/2003 to 4/11/2005.
Possible accumulations of placer gold and other economic heavy minerals were the targets of exploration that was begun over an area of piedmont outwash alluvial fans formed at the northern extremity of the Flinders Ranges uplifted igneous basement....-
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Unlocking South Australia's Mineral and Energy Potential - A Plan for Accelerating Exploration. Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry) : Year 3 partnership no. DPY3-22, Barton West heavy mineral sand prospect. Project final report.
Previous drilling in 2005, undertaken as part of another PACE project, DPY2-52, discovered significant occurrences of heavy mineral sands within an area of 15 km x 5 km in the southern part of EL 3092 (the Notrab prospect). These sands were...-
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Murray Bridge. Information status at licences' joint first partial relinquishment, for the period 26/7/2005 to 6/7/2007 : no work performed on the relinquished areas.
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Edward Creek (part of the Edward Creek Joint Venture Project). Progress and annual reports for the period 7/12/1987 to 22/9/2008. [ Index Part 2 of 2 ].
After licence management was returned to Reedy Lagoon for a third time, the licensee studied Cauldron Resources' 1996 aeromagnetic data and identified an additional three magnetic anomalies (EC23, 26 and 27) possessing possible kimberlite traits....-
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Colona North and Barton (the Barton Magmatic Nickel-Copper-Platinum Project) and Fig Tree Corner (the three together constituting Eucla Basin Mineral Sands Tenement Group 1). Joint annual reports for the period 10/9/2001 to 28/2/2010.
Two adjoining exploration Licences 2840 “Colona North” and 2841 “Barton” were acquired by Adelaide Exploration Limited to search principally for nickel, copper and platinum group precious metals (PGM) mineralisation within Proterozoic and Archaean...-
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Olary (part of the Braemar Iron Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/cancellation, for the period 20/9/2010 to 19/9/2015.
A licence area in the Olary district comprising three separate sub-blocks has been explored for possible economic stratabound iron ore occurrences within partly concealed Neoproterozoic bedrock. The subject ground was taken up by Wentworth Metals...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Olary Project (latterly part of the Lodestone Project). Licence individual annual reports, plus related project joint annual reports, for the period 4/11/2009 to 20/1/2019.
Iluka Resources is exploring for possible economic heavy mineral (HM) deposits that may have formed in the northern Murray Basin, with a strategy of targeting any mineralised Loxton-Parilla Sand formation sediments deposited during the Pliocene marine...-
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Kangaroo Flat. Information status at licence full surrender, for the period 8/5/2013 to 16/7/2014: no work performed.
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Outalpa. Annual reports for the period 9/7/2013 to 8/7/2018.
An area comprising three sub-blocks that cover most of the western side of the Outalpa Inlier in the Olary district was initially explored for possible buried epigenetic White Dam style primary gold mineralisation. In 2015, with a change of licence...-
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Woolpunda (part of the Murray Basin Project). Fourth partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 16/11/2000 to 3/7/2017.
An area located immediately south of the Sturt Highway that connects between Swan Reach and Loxton, in the vicinity of the Woolpunda Irrigation Area, has been explored for possible buried accumulations of Tertiary heavy mineral sands which may have...-
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Loxton (part of the Murray Basin Project). Third partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 25/5/1998 to 1/9/2017.
An area located in the northern SA Murray Mallee region, covering an extent of ground surrounding Loxton, has been explored for possible buried accumulations of Tertiary heavy mineral sands which may have formed in the sedimentary cover. In total, 816...-
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Razorback Ridge. First partial surrender report, for the period 7/5/2015 to 6/5/2018.
A small licence area centred ~ 28 km south-southeast of Yunta which consists of two separate sub-blocks is being explored for possible economic stratabound iron ore mineralisation that could occur within buried glacial tillitic/siltstone strata of the...-
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