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Pidinga. Annual report and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/12/2010 to 12/12/2012.
An area centred about the Pidinga Lakes, 200 km north-west of Ceduna, was taken under licence to explore for economic Tertiary coal and lignite deposits because of several reported intersections of lignite made in drillholes by previous explorers. In...-
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Wynbring [Siding]. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 17/12/2009 to 16/12/2012.
A large, ~1300 square km licence area extending NE-SW and centred ~100 km west of Tarcoola and ~170 km NNW of Ceduna was taken up to explore part of the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin for possible economic buried Tertiary detrital heavy mineral...-
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Muckanippie, Garford, Commonwealth Hill and Mulgathing Hill (part of the Central Gawler Project). Joint annual reports to licences' expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/5/2005 to 19/5/2010.
Tasman Resources' Central Gawler Project acreage, originally comprising seven exploration licences ELs 3339 to 3345, was initially applied for on the basis of perceived prospectivity for diamonds, however, further potential for discovering buried...-
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RB 2002/00022 Palynological analysis of samples from the CHILDARA 1:250 000 mapsheet, South Australia.
Three drill cutting samples of carbonaceous sands were submitted for palynological analysis. The spore-pollen assemblages of drillholes NR 3 (from the depth interval 16-18 m) and NR 4 (16-18 m) are possibly of the latest Eocene Upper Nothofagidites...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1999
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RB 2006/00001 Guide to the sedimentary cover of the central Gawler Craton, South Australia
The central Gawler Craton is blanketed by thin sedimentary cover that ranges in age from Neoproterozoic to Quaternary. Locally, though, such cover can reach a maximum of ~500 m thickness in Permian glacial valleys or rift structures. This guide...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2006
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Wilkinson Lakes. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 24/2/1975 to 1/8/1975.
TARGET: Shallow Permian coal in the Tallaringa Trough, west of the Karari Fault. EXPLORATION: Reconnaissance rotary drilling (21 holes totalling 2009.3 m), plus an additional 12.2 m of bottomhole coring. RESULTS: No Permian coal measures were...-
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Port Kenny. Combined first progress / final report at licence full surrender, for the period 20/7/1981 to 30/10/1981.
After a review of existing geophysical and water bore data revealed a subsurface basement topographic depression onshore in the vicinity of Venus Bay, CRA took up an exploration licence there to look for possible economic lignite or sandstone-hosted...-
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Published: 13 Oct 1981
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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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Geoscientific signatures of Tertiary palaeochannels and their significance for mineral exploration in the Gawler Craton region.
Tertiary palaeochannels of the northwestern Gawler Craton have become the focus of recent exploration due to the probable association between placer gold, heavy minerals, coal, uranium and groundwater resources, and channel sediments. The...-
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Tallacootra. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/11/1975 to 2/8/1976.
A largely soil and dune-covered area bordering the eastern side of the Nullarbor Plain near Lake Tallacootra was investigated initially for possible Precambrian metasedimentary iron ore ocurrences, that may be associated with a number of narrow...-
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Burdunga Rock Hole. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 28/10/1975 to 19/11/1976.
TARGET: Permian coal in the Tallaringa Trough, east of Maralinga. EXPLORATION: An 11 hole RC drilling programme totalling 1480 m. RESULTS: Eight drillholes intersected up to 4 horizons of lignite and lignitic clay of demonstrated Eocene age, that...-
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Chundie Swamps. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 13/3/1980 to 12/9/1981.
Drilling of 49 rotary mud and partially cored holes totalling 1443 m (of which only 20 holes penetrated into the top of the basement) has been undertaken at the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin to further outline an occurrence of Tertiary lignite...-
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Published: 05 Sep 1981
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Mount Igy. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/3/1980 to 12/9/1981.
TARGET: To define lignite in the Wilkinson Lakes lignite deposit which is of a composition that would be suitable to undergo carbon beneficiation and/or coal liquefaction processes; also, any economic oil shale occurrences and/or sedimentary uranium...-
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Published: 02 Sep 1981
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Wilkinson Lakes area. Relinquishment report, August 1975.
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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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RB 2022/00011 Eucla Basin and peripheral paleovalleys.
The Cenozoic Eucla Basin is located on the southern margin of the Australian continent, with a present-day basin onshore edge which extends for over 2,000 km from Western Australia into South Australia. The basin’s sediment fill comprises a thin...-
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Published: 01 Nov 2022
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Pureba Conservation Park, Nunnyah Conservation Reserve, Koolgera Conservation Reserve, Jellabinna, Ooldea South and Ooldea Range (part of the Eucla Basin Project). Joint first partial surrender report, for the period 27/10/2004 to 31/1/2009.
Exploration for possible economic heavy mineral sands carried out by Iluka Resources within the now relinquished portions of its multi-licence acreage has comprised aircore drilling of the Cainozoic sedimentary sequence (173 holes for a total...-
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Published: 31 Jan 2009
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RB 2007/00011 Original full content version of] OOLDEA, South Australia, [geological map] sheet SH52-12. South Australia. Geological Survey. 1:250 000 Series - Explanatory Notes.
The OOLDEA 1:250 000 map area, in the far west of SA, includes portions of the Maralinga Tjarutja Aboriginal Lands, Maralinga Prohibited Area, and Nullarbor Regional Reserve. It is traversed by the Trans-Australian Railway. There is no significant...-
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Published: 01 Jun 2007
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Noorina - Area 1. First partial surrender report for the period 11/10/2012 to 10/10/2014.
A 25% north-western portion of EL 5045, which is centred appproximately 200 km north of Cook, has been relinquished due to perceived diminished prospectivity for Tertiary marginal marine heavy mineral sands. A review of available technical literature...-
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Published: 02 Oct 2014
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ExpNotes OOLDEA: Explanatory Notes OOLDEA, SH 52-12.
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