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Eucla Basin licence Areas F and Wells 1 & 2 (part of Eucla Basin Project tenement Group 4). Final report at licences' joint surrender, for the period 19/10/2009 to 6/9/2012.
Three entire exploration licence areas centred approximately 150 km north of Maralinga have been surrendered by Iluka Resources because they are now deemed unprospective for heavy mineral marine placer deposits. These areas lie on the interpreted...-
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Published: 06 Sep 1912
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Ooldea Range (part of the Eucla Basin Project). Annual reports, including those for the commencement of licence joint annual reporting for the Eucla Basin Mineral Sands Tenement Group 1, for the period 5/3/2002 to 28/2/2009.
The geomorphic feature known as the Ooldea Range, a prominent Eocene dune formed at the limit of the marine transgression on the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin, has now been taken under licence by WA-based company Iluka Resources to explore for...-
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Charra. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 25/2/2008 to 24/2/2015.
A small area centred ~30 km west-northwest of Ceduna has been explored for possible economic Tertiary heavy mineral sands deposits. During the first licence year, Bemax performed a literature review and examined available geological data for this...-
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Published: 16 Apr 1915
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Eucla Basin Areas E, J, L, M, N, O and Z: part of Iluka's Eucla Basin tenement Group 4. Final joint annual report at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 19/10/2009 to 7/4/2016.
Seven exploration licences which together comprised the western portion of Iluka's Group 4 of jointly reported tenements have been fully surrendered, after work performed there recently suggested that their perceived prospectivity for Tertiary...-
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Published: 18 Dec 1916
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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 - 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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Watson. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 11/10/2012 to 10/10/2013.
An area centred ~270 km west of Tarcoola and 25 km south of Maralinga, and lying on Maralinga Tjarutja Aboriginal Land immediately north of the Trans Australia Railway line, was taken up to explore for any large heavy mineral sand placer deposits that...-
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Published: 07 Nov 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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Bookabie area (near Fowlers Bay). Annual, partial surrender and final reports to licence expiry for the period 10/9/2001 to 9/9/2003.
Heavy minerals concentrated within the Ooldea Sand of the Eucla Basin, and possibly reworked and upgraded by later marine incursions into such deposits, which might have led to their redeposition elsewhere as translocated strandlines that are still...-
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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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ExpNotes BARTON: Explanatory Notes BARTON
Shallow Precambrian crystalline basement underlies the greater part of the BARTON 1:250 000 map area. Thicker Neoproterozoic, Cambrian and Carboniferous Permian sediments occur in the northwest, with the southern margin bounded by the Karari Fault...-
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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
