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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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Oakbank Dam (part of the Lodestone Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 4/11/2010 to 1/8/2016.
An area centred ~70 km south-southeast of Olary has been explored for buried mineral sands placer deposits that may have formed within the Cainozoic Murray Basin sedimentary cover, as well as for possible economic stratabound iron ore occurrences that...-
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Mantung (part of the Murray Basin Project). Second partial surrender report, for the period 14/10/1997 to 15/10/2013.
A block comprising 319 square km or ~12.7% of the north-western corner of EL 5223 has been relinquished due to its now perceived diminished prospectivity for containing economic heavy mineral sands mineralisation, due to the apparent general absence...-
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RB 2015/00031 Provenance of zircon in heavy mineral sand deposits, western Murray Basin.
The Murray Basin in south-eastern Australia contains significant economic resources of heavy minerals (ilmenite, zircon, rutile) in coastal strandlines of a prograding sandplain that formed during marine regression in Late Miocene – Early Pliocene...-
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Published: 01 May 2016
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Pinnaroo, Mount Timothy and Dingo Range (the Pinnaroo Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/6/1997 to 18/6/1999.
An airborne magnetic survey acquired by the grant licensee over the Lameroo district during August 1997 generated a number of shallow-source anomalies which suggested that there was fair potential for discovering buried Tertiary palaeocoastal...-
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Published: 31 Aug 1999
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Oakbank - Quondong Vale and Oakvale (part of the Oakvale Project). Joint second partial surrender report, for the period 3/12/1997 to 22/2/2001.
Exploration for possible buried Tertiary heavy mineral sands occurrences consisted of an interpretation of remote sensing data, followed by the conduct of two reverse circulation aircore drilling programmes (28 holes, total 892.5 m). The first...-
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Balah (part of the Oakvale Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 3/12/1997 to 23/7/1999.
25 vertical open RC/aircore holes (total penetration 1077 m) were drilled during heavy mineral sands exploration of an area stretching from 10 km to 100 km north-northeast of Morgan. The target Pliocene Loxton-Parilla Sand was found to be barren of...-
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Naracoorte and Bordertown. Combined first annual/final report at licence full surrender, for the period 18/8/1998 to 1/7/1999.
Possible economic buried ilmenite-rutile-zircon heavy mineral sand deposits were targeted along buried Pliocene strandlines of Loxton-Parilla Sand in an area abutting 120 km of the SA-Victoria State Border between Naracoorte and Mount Shaugh....-
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Walker Flat [part of the Mannum - Lameroo Project]. Annual reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 12/11/1998 to 22/12/2000.
Heavy mineral-bearing palaeoshorelines of the Tertiary western Murray Basin were demonstrated to lie within the area of EL 2564 and the adjacent EL 2542. However, work undertaken previously elsewhere in the region suggests that these particular...-
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Zadows Hill [part of the Mannum - Lameroo Project]. Annual reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 26/8/1998 to 22/12/2000.
Heavy mineral-bearing palaeoshorelines of the Tertiary western Murray Basin were demonstrated to lie within the area of EL 2542 and the adjacent EL 2564. However, work undertaken previously elsewhere in the region suggests that these particular...-
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Wynarka (part of the Mannum Project). Combined first annual/final report to licence full surrender, for the period 21/4/1999 to 20/10/2000.
Previous work was reviewed over an area centred on Wynarka, 40 km east of Murray Bridge. Although the Tertiary sequence had not then been fully penetrated, drilling results indicated a low grade, iron oxide-dominant heavy mineral assemblage at...-
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Geranium. Annual reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 5/3/1997 to 4/4/2001.
Evaluation of known Tertiary sedimentary diatomite occurrences in the central Murray Mallee was carried out by Agricola Mining Pty Ltd on three prospects located near Geranium. Rotary drilling, with variable recovery sections of bottomhole diamond...-
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Northwestern Murray Basin - stratigraphy, sedimentology and geomorphology.
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Murray Basin Project. Joint annual reports, plus individual licence final reports at their respective full surrender, for the period 19/12/1997 to 30/6/2018.
Previous investigations of the Late Tertiary Murray Basin shallow marine littoral zone clastic sedimentary sequence (Loxton and Parilla sands) for heavy mineral sand (HM) placer accumulations have discovered numerous occurrences of economic to...-
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Tailem Bend - Bordertown - Mount Gambier area (South-Eastern Coastal Plains Heavy Mineral Sands Project). Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/7/1974 to 19/7/1975.
Exploration for possible ancient beach strandline heavy mineral sand placer deposits formed within the Pleistocene Bridgewater Formation has been undertaken in the State's South-East region. This pioneering on-ground work came about after several...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1975
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Lameroo, Parilla and Pinnaroo (the CBD - Central Basin District - Project). Joint first annual/final report at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 19/6/2012 to 18/6/2014.
Three contiguous areas centred ~50-80 km east of Tailem Bend, and reaching close to the SA-Vic. State border, have been explored for possible economic buried Tertiary marine placer heavy mineral sand (HMS) deposits that may have been formed within the...-
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Published: 14 Jul 2014
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Renmark. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 16/11/2000 to 27/10/2021.
No work was done on the subject licence during the period 14/7/2015 to 27/10/2021. All work done prior to this period on its precursors has been separately reported on earlier by the then tenement holders.-
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Published: 14 Dec 2021
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Oakbank, Balah, Sergeant's Dam and Record Dam (Basin Minerals' Oakvale Project). Joint annual reports plus joint final report at the latest licence's full surrender, for the period 3/12/1997 to 1/4/2004.
Heavy minerals in the Pliocene Loxton - Parilla Sands marginal marine sequence of the western Murray Basin were the targets of exploration in an area 130 km north of Renmark. During March 1998, a trial 571 line km low-level aeromagnetic survey was...-
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Published: 02 Jun 2004
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Sturt Vale. Annual reports submitted until the commencement of the Murray Basin HMS Project licences' joint reporting, for the period 17/7/2001 to 16/7/2003.
No field work - only an office based review of past exploration data, and Native Title land access negotiations, were conducted.-
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Published: 11 Aug 2003
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The Padthaway Ridge Sedimentary Uranium Project. Joint annual technical reports to licences' combined full surrender, for the period 30/1/2008 to 3/9/2013.
A package of fourteen mineral exploration tenements were taken up that straddled the north-eastern and south-western sides of the Padthaway Ridge, to allow the licensee to explore both the Tertiary Murray Basin and Gambier Basin sediments where they...-
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Published: 16 Jul 2013