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Eucla Basin licence Areas A, C, G, V, W and X (part of Eucla Basin Project tenement Group 4). Joint surrender (Areas A, V, W and X) and Areas C and G joint first partial surrender report for the period 19/10/2009 to 31/7/2011.
A group of exploration licences located on the northern margin of the Eucla Basin, and situated north of the Trans Australian Railway, which cover ground extending into the Eocene to Miocene marginal marine depositional hinterland behind the Barton...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1911
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Barton Range Central, Barton Range North and Paling Range, north-eastern Eucla Basin (Rio Tinto's Barton Range Project). Joint annual reports for work completed before the sale of these licences, for the period 15/3/2005 to 31/12/2009.
A sizeable part of the north-eastern Tertiary Eucla Basin marine palaeomargin is being explored for possible economic buried raised beach strandline deposits of detrital rutile, zircon and ilmenite-rich heavy mineral sands (HM) that may have formed...-
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Eucla Basin Area B (part of Eucla Basin Project tenement Group 4). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 19/10/2009 to 30/7/2015.
An area that was centred ~180 km north-northwest of Cook Siding on the Trans Australia Railway has been explored for economic buried Tertiary heavy mineral sands (HM) marine strandline or sandbar placer deposits by Iluka Resources. It covered cover...-
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Published: 28 May 1915
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EL 4455, EL 5534 (Eucla Basin Area 'N') and EL 5583 Barton Range North (part of Iluka's Eucla Basin tenement Group 4 - Maralinga Tjarutja Lands). Joint first partial surrender report, for the period 15/3/2005 to 30/7/2015.
A combined total area of 1021 square km has recently been relinquished by Iluka from three geographically separate Group 4 tenements, due to the lack of significant marine sands there and the absence of significant HM accumulations shown by first pass...-
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Published: 29 May 1915
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Data release - as updated : Barton. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/1/2006 to 28/9/2022.
An area centred ~185 km west of Tarcoola, and lying immediately south of the Trans Australia Railway line, was taken up to explore for possible economic buried IOCG type mineralisation hosted by buried basement rocks of the western Gawler Craton, as...-
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Published: 21 Nov 1922
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Poondinga, Jellabinna, Pureba North, Kalanbi, Penong, Chinta and Ceduna (the Eucla Basin Heavy Mineral Sands Project tenement Group 2). Joint annual reports for the period 2/11/2004 to 30/9/2015.
Iluka Resources’ Eucla Basin Heavy Mineral Sands Project tenement Group 2 consisted initially ELs 3268, 3283, 3322 and 3330, which spanned the south-eastern portion of the Eucla Basin, extending from 24 km to 140 km north of Ceduna. Regionally, the...-
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Published: 28 Feb 1916
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Ceduna. Licence-specific annual reports submitted until the commencement of project joint reporting, for the period 28/11/2001 to 18/4/2008.
EL 2870 Ceduna covers 1390 square km located adjacent to the coast near Ceduna on north-western Eyre Peninsula. Minotaur believed that the area, which lies relatively close to the continental Fowler Suture Zone, was prospective for Proterozoic...-
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Published: 12 Jun 1908
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Data release - as updated : Boondina (part of the Eucla Basin Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 28/5/2007 to 27/5/2015.
A small licence area located 30 km north of Fowlers Bay in far western South Australia has been explored for possible economic Tertiary mineral sands deposits, but specific activities on it were repeatedly postponed by the licensee not committing the...-
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Published: 26 Jun 1915
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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 1914
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Noorina - Areas 1 and 2. Joint first annual report, plus separate final reports to each licence's respective full surrender, for the overall period 12/10/2012 to 28/1/2015.
Exploration of two adjacent very remote desert areas located 200 to 220 km north of Cook has targeted possible buried heavy mineral sands marine placer accumulations that may have formed along an arcuate DEM feature interpreted as a Tertiary shoreline...-
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Published: 06 Nov 1914
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Chinta (part of the Eucla Basin Heavy Mineral Sands Project tenement Group 2). Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/6/2007 to 22/7/2015.
An area originally consisting of three separate small sub-blocks which are generally centred ~15 km north-northeast of Ceduna has been explored for possible buried economic Tertiary heavy mineral sands (HM) marine placer deposits. The main intent was...-
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Published: 11 Aug 1915
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Ooldea. Fourth partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 19/11/2003 to 1/4/2014.
A small licence area located 170 km north-northwest of Fowlers Bay in far western South Australia is being explored for possible economic Tertiary heavy mineral sands (HMS) deposits, targeting accumulations of rutile, zircon or ilmenite that may have...-
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Published: 21 May 1915
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RB 2001/00021 Development of geoscientific models for exploration in Tertiary palaeochannels draining the north-western Gawler Craton, SA.
The precise geometric definition of palaeochannels on the north-western Gawler Craton, South Australia, is important in the exploration for placers (e.g. gold and heavy minerals), secondary geochemical deposits (e.g. uranium) and even for lignite and...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2001
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Murat Bay (part of the Watraba Project). Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 6/6/2005 to 3/4/2009.
Exploration of an onshore area located immediately north of Murat Bay aimed to discover beach or shallow marine placer concentrations of zircon-rich heavy mineral sands, possibly formed within significant thicknesses of prospective Upper Tertiary...-
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Published: 22 May 1909
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 5 partnership DPY5-42, north-western Eyre Peninsula (eastern Eucla Basin) Neogene shoreline heavy mineral sands prospects. Project final report.
This report details work undertaken by Iluka Resources to meet the agreed conditions for grant of PACE Initiative Year 5 exploration drilling project partial subsidy funds. Specifically, Iluka undertook heavy mineral sands exploratory drilling during...-
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Published: 18 Mar 1909
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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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ExpNotes OOLDEA: Explanatory Notes OOLDEA, SH 52-12.
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ExpNotes TALLARINGA: Explanatory Notes TALLARINGA, SH 53-05.
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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
