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RB 81/00024 Progress report, CURNAMONA 1:250 000 sheet - Platform rocks, Benagerie Ridge and their Mesozoic and Cainozoic cover.
The Benagerie Ridge is a basement high which has been actively shedding detritus since Adelaidean times. It includes porphyry, with thin cover of Adelaidean rocks, flanked by Cambrian and possible Adelaidean sediments. The Cainozoic blankets the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1981
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RB 88/00020 1:250 000 geological series - Explanatory Notes CURNAMONA - South Australia.
The area mapped includes most of the area south of Lake Frome between the Flinders and Barrier Ranges, and part of the Olary Hills. Basin nomenclature has been revised for the Cainozoic. Drilling by CSR, Minad and Petromin NL has been used in the...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1988
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RB 79/00139 Honeymoon camp supply well. Discharge test results, EL 377, southern Frome Embayment.
Water supplies for the proposed camp for the Honeymoon mining operation will be obtained from groundwater, and a well has been completed in the upper Sand Unit aquifer. The capacity of the well is more than adequate for the anticipated camp/stock...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 77/00037;RB 00802 Palynology of selected samples from the Poontana Structure, Frome Embayment.
18 drill cuttings samples taken from 4 mineral exploration holes were examined for making palynological age determinations. 11 samples were variously identified as being sediments of Middle Miocene freshwater or Early Cretaceous marine facies.-
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Published: 23 Mar 1977
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RB 90/00077 Skeleton 2. Well completion report.
Skeleton 2 penetrated sediments of the eastern Lake Eyre Basin, the Frome Embayment, and granitic basement of the Mount Painter Ridge. The hole records the southernmost known occurrence of Cadna-owie Formation in the Frome Embayment. Unexpectedly,...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1990
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RB 98/00021 Review of open file company exploration data from 1992 to mid-1997, Olary Domain, CURNAMONA 1:250 000 map sheet, South Australia.
This report comprises Open file company data, released since the previous MESA review (Yates and Randell, 1994) of the CURNAMONA 1:250 000 map sheet, includes exploration for base and precious metals (especially stratiform/stratabound Broken...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1997
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 3 partnership DPY3-18, Glencoe (Lake Frome East) area roll-front style uranium mineral prospects. Project interim and final reports.
The subject EL 3391 is located in the eastern Lake Frome region, and is prospective for roll-front type uranium mineralisation emplaced within sediments of the Tertiary Lake Eyre Basin. In December 2006, as part of the PACE Initiative Year 3...-
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Published: 02 Mar 1907
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Mundaerno South. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 23/7/2007 to 22/7/2014.
A small area centred ~33 km north-west of Cockburn and ~26 km south-southeast of the Honeymoon deposit has been explored for possible buried, calcrete hosted secondary uranium deposits that may have formed in Quaternary valley fill sediments, and also...-
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Published: 20 Feb 1914
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Ethiudna. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 22/2/2004 to 22/2/2015.
An area centred ~50 km north-west of Olary is continuing to be explored for possible buried economic Prominent Hill or Olympic Dam type iron oxide associated copper-gold (IOCG) breccia style mineralisation. The area is considered highly prospective...-
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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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Frome Downs Homestead. Progress and technical reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 1/1/1969 to 31/12/1970.
Reconnaissance shallow stratigraphic drilling with subsequent borehole geophysical electric and radioactivity logging in the south-western Frome Embayment (21 rotary mud partly cored holes, total 8841 feet), over areas lying adjacent to outcropping...-
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Published: 31 Dec 1970
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Summary report on Honeymoon assessment programme (Phase 1), Honeymoon uranium deposit, South Australia.
This report summarises results of a rotary drilling and coring programme undertaken between 21/10/1978 and 16/2/1979 at the Honeymoon uranium deposit. 99 open plug holes totalling 12,452.7 m and 16 core holes totalling 1894 m were drilled in a...-
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Lake Callabonna area (part of the Lake Elder Project). First partial surrender report, for the period 19/3/1998 to 18/3/2001.
Exploration for sedimentary uranium consisted of research and compilation of previous drilling data, including lithological logs, gamma logs and redox interface distribution maps. Such information compiled from six historical drillholes located in...-
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Nuclear power : a discussion of major issues.
The Honeymoon joint venture partners, AAR Ltd, IOL Petroleum Ltd, Teton Exploration Drilling Co. Pty Ltd and Mount Isa Mines Ltd (MIM:MTA) hold title to a uranium deposit in the Lake Frome area of South Australia. It is proposed that the uranium...-
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Lake Frome [part of the Paralana Plains Uranium Project joint venture area]. Progress reports and technical reports to licence surrender/re-issue over a different area, for the period 22/4/1971 to 21/4/1973.
Exploration on SML 564 has consisted of a continuation of deep rotary mud open hole, plug and core drilling plus washing-out of existing, older Petromin "P...w" series drillholes to allow new generation downhole geophysical logging, aimed at further...-
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Report on recent exploration in SMLs 543, 544, Crocker Well prospect 22, Lake Frome, South Australia.
A 64 line km gravity survey, with stations located at 150 m spacing, was conducted to locate the position of the main Billeroo West palaeochannel within the northern part of SML 543, in order to assess the need to retain under exploration tenure the...-
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Honeymoon Project - pilot wellfield drilling, January-March 1982.
Drilling was undertaken at the Honeymoon deposit, as allowed for under Miscellaneous Purposes Leases 14 and 15 and Retention Leases 10, 11 and 12, located within EL 597. This drilling was carried out as part of the construction of the 6 litre/second...-
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South Eagle. Data release made at transfer of licence ownership : annual reports for the period 17/9/1997 to 16/9/2000.
The majority of mineral exploration undertaken in the South Eagle area, centred 40 km north-east of Olary, has targeted stratabound Pb-Zn-Ag, stratabound massive sulphide Cu-Zn-Co-Mn, and Cu-Au mineralisation that may have formed in Proterozoic rocks...-
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Honeymoon uranium : a summary of the proposed in-situ leach mining operation.
This report discusses technical aspects of the Honeymoon uranium deposit and the proposed in-situ leach mining method intended for extracting about 3000 tonnes of contained U3O8. Economic forecasts and mine development plans are presented as a way of...-
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Yarramba. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 8/3/1976 to 7/3/1978.
Ongoing exploration for sedimentary uranium ore deposited in buried 1.5 - 6 km wide and 50 m thick Tertiary palaeochannels in the Yarramba area, located adjacent to the SA-NSW border 50 km northwest of Cockburn, included three detailed and...-
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Published: 17 Apr 1978
