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Parcoola. First annual report plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 17/1/2012 to 21/11/2013.
An area centred ~ 95 km north-west of Renmark has been explored for possible economic buried Tertiary marine placer heavy mineral sand (HMS) deposits that may have been formed within the Murray Basin sedimentary succession, as winnowed strandings that...-
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Published: 16 Jan 1913
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Morgan and Waikerie (part of the Mindarie Heavy Mineral Sands Project and later the Murray Basin Project). Joint final report at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 30/4/1998 to 24/9/2015.
In the last phase of exploration for possible buried economic heavy mineral (HM) sands marine placer deposits in the district extending between Waikerie, Blanchetown and parts of the north-western Murray Mallee, the only field work undertaken was...-
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Published: 27 Aug 1915
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Tailem Bend. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 28/7/2005 to 24/9/2015.
An area covering the valley of the River Murray between Murray Bridge and Jervois has been explored for possible economic placer occurrences of heavy mineral (HM) sands that may have formed within the Late Tertiary Murray Basin shallow marine clastic...-
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Published: 25 Aug 1915
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Wynarka. Early annual reports, plus final report at licence full surrender, for the period 28/5/2007 to 24/9/2015.
An area centred on the township of Wynarka in the Murray Mallee, and which extended NW-SE along the northern side of the Padthaway Ridge, has been explored for possible economic placer occurrences of heavy mineral (HM) sands that may have formed...-
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Published: 27 Aug 1915
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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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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 1914
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Jabuk (part of the Iluka CBD - Central [Murray] Basin District - Project). Joint annual report, annual report and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 19/6/2012 to 30/7/2015.
An area centred ~ 60 km east of Tailem Bend has been explored for possible economic buried Tertiary marine placer heavy mineral sand (HMS) deposits that may have been formed within the Murray Basin sedimentary succession, as winnowed strandings that...-
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Published: 18 Jun 1915
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Blanchetown. First partial surrender report, for the period 25/2/2008 to 27/5/2009.
Two separate licence portions together totalling 270 square km or ~33.5% of the former area of EL 4052 have been partially relinquished due to their perceived diminished potential to contain shallow Tertiary heavy mineral sands occurrences. Licensee...-
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Murray Bridge. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 26/7/2005 to 24/9/2015.
An area covering the valley of the River Murray between Murray Bridge and Mannum, and also extending for a considerable distance eastwards into the Murray Mallee (across farmland on the counties of Younghusband, Burdett and Ettrick), has been explored...-
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Published: 25 Aug 1915
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RB 2003/00013 North-western Murray Basin geological synthesis, South Australia.
The Murray Basin is an intracratonic basin filled with Cainozoic fluvial to shallow marine sediments. Deposition in the Eocene and early Oligocene was characterised by floodplain and swamp deposits, emplaced with occasional interbeds of shelly clays...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2003
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RB 2003/00009 Northern Murray Basin drilling and interpretations, 2001.
Stratigraphic drilling has been undertaken by PIRSA in the South Australian portion of the northern Murray Basin to investigate the stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Cainozoic sedimentary sequences, as well as the heavy mineral sand potential of...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2003
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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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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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Bordertown - Naracoorte area. Combined first annual/final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/8/1998 to 17/8/1999.
23 vertical aircore open holes totalling 556 m were drilled south-west of Bordertown to investigate possible heavy mineral sand placer accumulations on the seaward-sloping sides of relict strandlines developed from the Pliocene Parilla Sand. Only one...-
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Published: 06 Nov 1999
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Lameroo, Wynarka, Karoonda, Loveday and Meribah (part of the Mindarie Project). Variously either full surrender or second partial surrender : joint report for the period 6/9/2000 to 18/2/2005.
Exploration in now relinquished areas of the south-western Murray Basin for possible shallow economic Tertiary marine placer deposits of heavy mineral sands failed to encounter such occurrences. After a review of previous mineral sands exploration in...-
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Published: 07 Jul 1905
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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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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 1921
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The Mindarie Heavy Mineral Sands Project. Joint and combined annual reports, for the period 19/12/1997 to 31/12/2010.
An assessment of the Late Tertiary Murray Basin shallow marine clastic sedimentary sequence (Loxton and Parilla sands) for heavy mineral sand accumulations has discovered numerous occurrences of economic to sub-economic amounts of heavy minerals...-
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Published: 19 Apr 1911
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Taylorville. First annual report plus progress reports to licence full surrender, for the period 25/3/2004 to 24/9/2005.
Digging of exploratory shallow costeans into lithified Tertiary arenaceous sedimentary units on the eastern bank of the River Murray, 2 km south-west of Taylorville, to search for inferred workable deposits of decorative fossiliferous sandstone, did...-
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Published: 13 Apr 1906
