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Naarack, Mabel Creek and Wintinna (part of the Arckaringa Basin Project). Respective final reports at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 26/3/2008 to 2/4/2010.
In a search for postulated Tertiary heavy mineral sands marine placer deposits that may have been formed outside of the presently known north-eastern extent of such age sedimentary basins (i.e. along a proto Eucla Basin coastline existing within the...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Paralana Creek (part of the Beverley Project). Annual reports for the period 29/9/2009 to 15/11/2015.
Work undertaken on EL 4378 during the 2009-2010 reporting year included the drilling of 478 vertical rotary mud holes totalling 132,960 m, and core drilling totalling 4117 m performed in 16 of these holes for stratigraphic unit / resource...-
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Published: 24 Dec 1915
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Ouldburra Hill. First annual and final report for the period 25/6/2002 to 24/6/2003.
A small area of opal workings examined near Ouldburra Hill, 35 km south-east of Marla, was thought to indicate local potential for finding and developing larger scale deposits. Research and review of available historic data showed that the area holds...-
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Mount Britton. Annual and final reports for the period 19/10/97 to 18/10/99.
Limited percussion drilling (2 holes, total 446 m) of inferred dipolar aeromagnetic anomalies in the vicinity of Ross Creek, 140 km north-east of Marla, and subsequent mineralogical examination of heavy mineral concentrates obtained from the drilled...-
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Dewatering investigations, Lake Phillipson area, South Australia.
An initial investigation programme aimed at obtaining hydraulic data from part of the Lake Phillipson Permian coal field been successfully completed. The initial area under consideration for mining is of approximately 130 hectares within the Western...-
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Starvation Lake. Progress reports and final report on regional exploration programme at licence surrender, for the period 13/1/1972 to 31/7/1972.
In a search for possible economic roll-front, blanket style uranium deposits within Tertiary sediments in part of the eastern Frome Embayment, the licensee undertook 1:75,000 scale geological mapping and exploratory auger drilling of the Quaternary...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 1 partnership DPY1-47 - [prospecting for] water in Permian palaeochannels draining the Mount Woods Inlier. Project final report.
Development of the Prominent Hill copper-gold deposit in the Mount Woods region will require an adequate source of water to support planned mining and ore processing operations, currently estimated to involve at least 6 million tonnes of ore per year....-
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Published: 10 Jun 1905
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[Results of in-house] Bench scale epsomite testwork.
Results of a programme of laboratory scale testwork conducted to investigate fresh water leaching of epsomite ore originating from Coober Pedy in South Australia are as follows: 1). The ore when leached readily producing brines of uniform...-
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Published: 16 Apr 1986
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Old Hut area (part of the Marree Uranium JV Project). First annual report for the period 30/6/2009 to 29/6/2010.
Exploration for possible Beverley - type Tertiary sedimentary uranium deposits associated with the north-western margin of the Mount Babbage Inlier, being undertaken within a small licence area centred approximately 120 km east of Lyndhurst, has...-
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Published: 16 Sep 1910
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The Curnamona North Project. Joint annual reports and joint final report to the majority of licences' joint full surrender, for the period 16/7/2007 to 29/10/2015. EL 5322 final report to 15/7/2017.
A large, 3370 square km area of the Strzelecki Desert lying over and to the south-east of Lake Callabonna, and extending as far as the SA-NSW State Border, is being explored for possible economic buried sedimentary uranium mineralisation thought to...-
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Coober Pedy. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/11/2016 to 31/10/2019.
A large area situated on the north-eastern side of the Stuart Range, comprising three separate sub-blocks that taken together are centred ~20 km north of Coober Pedy township, has been explored for possible economic near-surface accumulations of the...-
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Conference poster - [Phanerozoic] Geology of the Peake and Denison Ranges area.
This poster was exhibited to accompany a talk presented by the authors at the 1st Eromanga Basin Symposium, Adelaide, 9-11 November 1982 (the talk abstract is indexed separately).-
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Coober Pedy. First partial surrender report, for the period 1/11/2016 to 31/10/2018.
An area located immediately east and north-east of Coober Pedy is being explored for possible economic near-surface accumulations of the evaporite industrial mineral epsomite. Historic drilling and costeaning in this area performed by CRA Exploration...-
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Lake Frome [West]. First partial surrender report, for the period 18/10/2013 to 17/10/2016.
An area on the south-western edge of the Frome Embayment, that is centred ~100 km south of the Beverley uranium mine, has been taken up to explore for possible buried palaeochannel and sandstone hosted roll front style secondary uranium mineralisation...-
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Published: 02 Nov 1917
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Frome North. Annual reports for the period 19/8/2013 to 18/8/2016.
An area in the south-west of the Frome Embayment, that is centred ~80 km south-southeast of the Beverley uranium mine, has been taken up to explore for possible buried palaeochannel and sandstone hosted roll front style secondary uranium...-
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Published: 08 Sep 1916
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Data release - as updated : Reaphook Hill. Licence-specific annual reports to the commencement of Frome Basin Project joint reporting, plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the overall period 24/7/2013 to 11/1/2022.
An area on the south-western edge of the Frome Embayment, that is centred ~100 km south of the Beverley uranium mine, has been taken up to explore for possible buried palaeochannel and sandstone hosted roll front style secondary uranium mineralisation...-
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Published: 06 Jul 1921
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Drennans Hut. Annual reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 19/8/2013 to 5/6/2019.
An area in the south-west of the Frome Embayment, that was centred ~16 km south-southeast of Reaphook Hill, was taken up to explore for possible buried palaeochannel and sandstone hosted roll front style secondary uranium mineralisation which might...-
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Published: 22 Jul 1919
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Evelyn Downs Homestead, Woorong Creek, Yijulka Creek and Mount Carulina [part of the Arckaringa Coalfield, northern South Australia]. Combined partial surrender report at licences' expiry/renewal, for the period 20/2/1980 to 28/3/1987.
A significant portion of the Arckaringa Basin acreage held by Meekatharra Minerals, that was subjected to greenfields coal exploration between 1980 and 1986, has now been relinquished. Relevant exploration work, for which the basic data is being...-
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Giddi Giddinna Creek. Progress reports and technical reports to licence expiry/lapse of tenure, for the period 16/6/1983 to 23/9/1987.
In early 1983, mineral prospector Peter Tayler discovered a near-surface secondary occurrence of magnesium and sodium sulphates in a creek-bank exposure of Mesozoic shales, deposited at the base of the Lower Cretaceous Bulldog Shale near the western...-
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Published: 23 Jun 1987
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Oolgelima Hill. First partial surrender report, for the period 15/7/1983 to 14/7/1984.
Investigation of a reported occurrence of magnesium and sodium sulphates in a black shale at the base of the Cretaceous Bulldog Shale, found previously about 50 km north-east of Coober Pedy near the western margin of the Eromanga Basin, was initially...-
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Published: 24 Aug 1984