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RB 90/00029 Seismic study of the offshore Denman and Eucla Basins.
Four horizons were mapped (top of basement, top of Permian, top of Cretaceous and Sea Floor). The Denman Basin is a 50 km wide, north-south trending depression in Early Palaeozoic - Precambrian bedrock, infilled with up to 400 metres of Permian...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1991
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RB 94/00022 Review of heavy mineral sand exploration in South Australia - Eucla Basin.
The Cainozoic Eucla Basin has been the focus of recent heavy mineral exploration due to the recognition of Tertiary coastal features including the Ooldea Range. Hypsometric and Landsat data, together with detailed work on the Tertiary stratigraphy of...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1994
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Barton, Barton Range North and Paling Range, plus Wells and north-eastern Eucla Basin licence Areas A through Y (Iluka's Eucla Basin Heavy Mineral Sands Project tenement Group 4). Joint annual reports for the period 19/10/2009 to 31/12/2015.
During the 2009-2010 project reporting year, Iluka completed exploration work costing $5,200,532 across its combined thirty-one Group 4 tenements, to assess the north-eastern Eucla Basin's sediment stratigraphy and heavy mineral sand (HM) potential...-
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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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PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 9 partnership DPY8-30 - Eucla Basin Eocene and Pleistocene low-stand beach ridge marine heavy mineral placer prospects. Drilling project final report.
The Nundroo Range and Bookabie Range are prominent south-west facing, yet effectively previously undrilled, preserved palaeogeomorphic beach ridge /coastal dune features which are located ~200 km west of Ceduna and ~100 km south of the...-
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Yaranna Hill, Euria Well and Kooniba Mission (part of the Ceduna Mineral Sands Project). Joint final report at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 25/7/1989 to 24/1/1992.
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...-
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Murrawijinie, Denman, Koonalda and Cook [Wigunda]. Progress and final reports for the period 7/7/80 to 27/7/81.
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...-
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Published: 10 Jun 1981
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Nalara and Pulkatha. Progress and final reports for the period from 29/9/88 to 28/3/90.
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...-
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Published: 11 Apr 1990
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PEL 4, Eucla, Denman and Bight Basins. Progress and technical reports for the period 13/9/68 to 18/4/74.
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...-
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Published: 08 Apr 1974
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Pidinga (part of the Eucla-Maralinga Heavy Mineral Sands 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 27/8/2004 to 28/2/2009.
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...-
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RB 00663 Exoil Eyre no. 1 and Gambanga no. 1 wells, Western Australia. Subsurface stratigraphy and micropalaeontological study.
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...-
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Published: 06 Dec 1960
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RB 00780 Brief study of the Eucla Basin, with recommendations for further petroleum work.
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.-
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Published: 31 Jan 1900
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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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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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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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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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Bookabie area (near Fowlers Bay). Annual, partial surrender and final reports to licence expiry for the period 10/9/2001 to 9/9/2003.
Heavy minerals concentrated within the Ooldea Sand of the Eucla Basin, and possibly reworked and upgraded by later marine incursions into such deposits, which might have led to their redeposition elsewhere as translocated strandlines that are still...-
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Ooldea. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/9/1986 to 1/9/1991.
Exploration for heavy-mineral sand in Tertiary sediments on the south-western flank of the Ooldea Range comprised geological reconnaissance and RC drilling (81 holes, total 1204 m). Up to 3% titaniferous heavy minerals were reported from drill samples.-
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Cook North, Chilbinga, Wyola Lake, Nurrai Lakes South, Nurrai Lakes and Cook (Wyola Project). Final report at licences' joint surrender, for the period 6/10/1980 to 27/2/1981.
TARGET: Possible commercial oil shale beds in either the Cretaceous Madura Formation or the Cambrian Observatory Hill Formation; possible Mississippi Valley - type lead-zinc deposits within the Observatory Hill Formation; economic lignite seams...-
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Published: 05 Mar 1981
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Lake Tallacootra. First partial surrender report, for the period 29/11/2012 to 23/12/2019.
The western two-thirds, or 427 square km, of an area located on the eastern side of the Nullarbor Plain, ~200 km north-west of Ceduna, has been partially relinquished because in the licensee's opinion it does not exhibit the geological features...-
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Published: 15 May 2020
