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Murray Bridge. Progress reports, annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 15/7/1991 to 14/1/1994.
Exploration was undertaken by BHP along the western margin of the Murray Basin, between Lake Alexandrina and Cambrai township, for possible economic heavy mineral sands and for exhalative sedex-style volcanogenic/stratabound base metal deposits, both...-
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RB 53/00049 Preliminary report on a survey of the Sugarloaf Hill siliceous limestone deposit (also known as: Jones' quarry, Barmera).
A topographical survey has been carried out to determine the probable extent of a siliceous limestone horizon beneath a mesa, namely Sugarloaf Hill, located 2 miles west of Lake Bonney near Kingston-on-Murray, which on its northern part is worked as a...-
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Published: 18 Aug 1961
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RB 45/00076 Diamond drilling of limestone for building stone, near Morgan.
Three diamond holes totalling 29.03m tested a fine grained sandy limestone in the Pliocene Loxton Sand. The drilling indicated approximately 6000 cubic metres of fine grained building stone, underlain by a similar amount of shelly limestone also...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1959
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RB 83/00052 Production and sources of filter sand and gravel in South Australia.
4 deposits with recorded production from Tertiary filter sand and gravel at Rowland Flat, Loxton and Berri and Quaternary sand at Murbko are described. Quaternary sand at Naracoorte is potential site. Sand is used for filtration of metropolitan water...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1983
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RB 81/00067 Mineral resources of the Calperum land management area, County Hamley - Department of Lands.
Sources of hard rock are restricted. Deposits of limestone and silicified sandstone are significant because of their proximity to Renmark and Berri. The present competition for these resources should be resolved by reserving an appropriate area from...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1981
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Loveday. Information status at licence full surrender, for the period 6/12/2002 to 18/2/2005 : no work performed.
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Braemar. Progress reports to licence full surrender, for the period 17/5/1990 to 3/9/1991.
In a search for possible economic buried copper-gold mineralisation that might be associated with an inferred south-western extension of the major Anabama - Redan Fault Zone system, the licensee conducted reconnaissance minus 80 mesh stream sediment...-
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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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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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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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Karoonda and Parrakie. Joint first partial surrender report, for the period 2/9/1986 to 1/9/1987.
The southern portions of both subject licences, comprising ~58.5% of the former area of EL 1356 and ~38% of the former area of EL 1357, have now been relinquished. Preliminary work consisted of collecting 9 surface grab samples of exposures of...-
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Wunkar. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 11/7/1988 to 10/7/1989.
TARGET: Possible economic buried heavy mineral sand accumulations in raised beach strandlines within the upper Pliocene Parilla Sand, in the Moorook area south of Loxton and Waikerie. EXPLORATION: RAB drilling conducted along eight traverses (440...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1989
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Koomooloo [Homestead] and Faraway Hill. Joint first progress report and joint final report to licences' full surrender, for the period 31/8/1990 to 28/3/1991.
TARGET: Possible economic heavy mineral sand deposits formed within the Pliocene Parilla Sand sequence along the north-western margin of the Murray Basin, both in the Canegrass area and the area east of Braemar Station. EXPLORATION: A consultant's...-
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Karoonda and Parrakie. Individual licence progress reports to licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/9/1986 to 13/6/1991.
TARGET: Possible economic heavy mineral sand accumulations in Pliocene raised beach strandlines developed along the south-western margin of the Murray Basin. EXPLORATION: Aerial photo interpretation, regional sedimentological studies, preliminary...-
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Published: 05 Jun 1991
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Oakvale Station. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 28/3/1988 to 10/9/1990.
TARGET: Possible economic Pliocene or younger heavy mineral sand deposits in the Oakvale Station region of the north-western Murray Basin. EXPLORATION: Acquisition and processing of the major part of 33,000 line km of low-level airborne magnetic and...-
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Published: 24 Sep 1990
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RB 2022/00003 Zircon provenance and sedimentary transport processes – implications for the late Neogene evolution and heavy mineral deposits of the western Murray Basin, South Australia.
Strandlines or elevated shorelines, located across the Murray Basin in south-eastern Australia, trace the preserved remnants of former emergent coastlines that developed during the Late Miocene (c. 7 to 4 Ma) marine regression. Strandline traces...-
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Published: 01 May 2022
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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 75/00081 Reconnaissance survey, Foundry and Glass Sand Project. Report no. 2.
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Published: 01 Jan 1975
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RB 74/00111 Amphibolite deposit near Tailem Bend.
Railway ballast was sought from amphibolite of the Kanmantoo Group of Cambrian age which subcrops on a bedrock ridge in the Murray Basin near Tailem Bend. A surface sample of amphibolite returned low Los Angelese Abrasion and Sodium Sulphate Soundness...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
