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The Arckaringa Basin Coal Project. Progress reports to licences' respective expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/5/1980 to 2/7/1990.
TARGET: Coal in the Arckaringa Basin. EXPLORATION: Rotary drilling (248 holes totalling 56,498 m, including 59 partly cored holes totalling 3555 m. RESULTS: The Wintinna, East Wintinna, Westfield and Murloocoppie coal deposits were discovered and...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Paralana Creek (part of the Beverley Project). Annual reports and technical reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 29/8/1992 to 28/9/2009.
In the reporting period to 30th June 1995 for Exploration Licence 1944, Heathgate Pty Ltd completed no fieldwork, however geological evaluation work was undertaken. This work consisted of laboratory testing of drill core from a 1991 drilling program...-
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Published: 18 Jun 1910
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : North Mulga, Wooltana and Paralana areas (Frome Basin Project). Joint annual reports for the period 24/9/2012 to 31/12/2018.
The continuation of Heathgate's programme of exploration for economic buried Tertiary sediment-hosted uranium mineralisation within part of the north-western Frome Embayment during 2012-2013 has comprised exploratory drilling of 36 vertical rotary mud...-
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Billa Kalina Homestead. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 30/6/1977 to 14/2/1979.
Airborne and ground geophysical surveys were undertaken in the Billa Kalina area, prior to commencing to drill in a search for Olympic Dam type Cu-U-Au mineralised haematitic breccias, in order to delineate and detail several broad magnetic anomalies...-
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Bulgunnia. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 22/5/1978 to 10/8/1981.
The base metal and uranium potential of a concealed Proterozoic basement high near Bulgunnia Homestead was evaluated using geological and hydrogeochemical reconnaissance and regional geophysical interpretation approaches. Seismic, ground magnetic and...-
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Cretaceous stratigraphy of the southwestern Eromanga Basin - Part 1: general introduction, formation tops and log correlation diagrams for the interval Toolachee Formation to 'C'-Horizon.
This company study of the Eromanga Basin sequence within PELs 5 and 6 and ATP 259P was designed to provide the Delhi Petroleum exploration consortium with data on the following: (a) thickness and correlation of Aptian-Albian units throughout the...-
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RB 65/00104 South Australian Government Cootanoorina no. 001 Well completion report.
Cootanoorina 1 was drilled about 33 miles south-southwest of Oodnadatta township by the South Australian Department of Mines, as a combined 'on structure' and stratigraphic test in the Arckaringa Sub-Basin region of the Great Artesian Basin. The main...-
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Published: 04 Dec 1967
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RB 71/00070 Yardinna no. 001 stratigraphic well, completion report and palynology (RB 71/45).
Yardinna no. 1 well, drilled 20 miles NW of Oodnadatta township intersected the Lower Cretaceous Oodnadatta Formation and bottomed at 512 feet in Bulldog shale also of early Cretaceous age. Both the Coorikiana Sandstone Member, the basal unit of the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1973
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RB 74/00178 Oodnadatta town bore 2. Well completion report.
Oodnadatta Town Bore 2 was drilled to supplement the water supply of Oodnadatta, and also to enhance the stratigraphic knowledge of the area. It was drilled to a total depth of 439.48 metres KB, and after pump testing achieved a flow rate of 3.4...-
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Published: 05 Sep 1977
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RB 76/00065 Tarcoola Alice Springs railway. Groundwater completion report. Second tender progress report no. 7.
Twenty four holes with a total combined penetration of 2443 m were drilled by cable tool and rotary techniques between Robin Rise and Marla Bore, to locate and supply water for the Tarcoola to Alice Springs railway project. The holes penetrated the...-
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Published: 18 May 1976
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Mount Yerila. Annual reports for the period 26/8/2002 to 25/8/2009.
Exploration licence 3001 “Mount Yerila” is situated in the northern Flinders Ranges in the Moolawatana area, approximately 140 km east of Marree. The target commodity sought by Quasar Resources is uranium mineralisation in Tertiary sands and...-
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Published: 20 Nov 1909
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Lake Frome South and Lake Frome North (the Wertaloona Project). Joint annual reports to licences' surrender, for the period 8/11/2010 to 3/9/2013.
The southern half of Lake Frome salina, centred about 80 km south-southeast of the Beverley uranium mine, has been explored for possible commercial quantities of dissolved lithium and uranium. Interest in the former commodity was engaged by the...-
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Published: 11 Oct 1913
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Quinyambie (part of the Curnamona North Project). Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 17/7/2007 to 16/7/2011.
As part of regional exploration for possible economic sandstone-hosted Tertiary palaeochannel uranium deposits within a project area extending eastwards from Lake Callabonna to the SA-NSW State border, licensee Frome Uranium has relied on airborne EM...-
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Published: 20 Dec 1912
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Lake Yannerpi (part of the Curnamona North Project). First partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 16/7/2007 to 15/7/2011.
As part of regional exploration for possible economic sandstone-hosted Tertiary palaeochannel uranium deposits within a project area extending eastwards from Lake Callabonna to the SA-NSW State border, licensee Frome Uranium has relied on airborne EM...-
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Published: 20 Dec 1912
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Lake Callabonna / Petermorra (part of the Lake Elder Project). Annual reports for the period 19/3/1998 to 30/4/2015.
Exploration Licence 2494 was granted in March 1998 to Paladin Energy Minerals NL and Brightstar Power Corporation Pty Ltd - the Paladin Brightstar Joint Venture (PBJV), with Paladin Resources NL as manager. The target commodity being explored for by...-
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Published: 20 May 1915
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Marla, Alberga River, Mount Weir, Warrataddy Hill and Mount Anthony (the Abminga Project). Joint annual reports and final report to last two licences' expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/6/2006 to 16/7/2011.
A basinal region located in the vicinity of Marla and extending for approximately 130 km to the north north-east, that borders the Musgrave Province, has been explored by farminee Eromanga Uranium under a joint venture agreement with licensee Maximus...-
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Published: 18 Apr 1911
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Warrataddy Hill and Mount Anthony (part of the Abminga Project). Joint first partial surrender report, for the period 17/7/2006 to 16/7/2009.
The Abminga Project originally consisted of five exploration licences, ELs 3575, 3599, 3600, 3601 and 3602, all held 100% by Maximus Resources. ELs 3575, 3599 and 3600 were surrendered on 2/4/2009 [see Env 11884]. Under a joint venture made with...-
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Data release - as updated : Nicholson Hill and Welbourn Hill. Joint annual reports plus separate final reports to respective licence's expiry/full surrender, for the period 15/1/2008 to 14/1/2017.
Possible buried Proterozoic IOCG-U deposits that may have formed in two small licence areas located ~50 to 65 km east of Marla were the targets of renewed exploration, based on a re-interpretation of existing regional geophysical data. It had been...-
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Published: 13 Feb 1917
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Benagerie Ridge Areas A to E (initially the Curnamona IOCG Project, and later becoming part of the Curnamona South Uranium Project). Joint annual reports to licences' respective or joint (final) surrender, for the period 25/5/2005 to 9/6/2015.
Five conjoined exploration licences covering the buried central and northern Benagerie Ridge basement province that is comprised predominantly of Mesoproterozoic volcanic and intrusive rocks, have been explored for possible economic iron oxide -...-
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Published: 14 May 1915
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Welbourn Hill. Second partial surrender report, for the period 15/1/2008 to 14/1/2016.
Approximately 66% of the former area of the subject licence has been surrendered in two separate portions together totalling 104 square km, due to perceived diminished prospectivity for possible buried Proterozoic IOCG-U deposits. During March 2015,...-
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