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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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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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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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Tailem Bend - Bordertown - Mount Gambier area (South-Eastern Coastal Plains Heavy Mineral Sands Project). Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/7/1974 to 19/7/1975.
Exploration for possible ancient beach strandline heavy mineral sand placer deposits formed within the Pleistocene Bridgewater Formation has been undertaken in the State's South-East region. This pioneering on-ground work came about after several...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1975
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Geranium. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/8/1991 to 18/8/1992.
A search has been performed for possible commercial grade diatomaceous silica - rich sediments within an area straddling the Greanium - Lameroo - Pinnaroo Road and extending westwards from the SA/Vic. state border for ~90 km. The target locations were...-
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Mintabie Homestead. Annual report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 24/8/1994 to 23/8/1996.
Shallow diamond drilling of a diatomaceous siltstone occurrence located 14 km north of Geranium Siding (24 vertical BQ cored holes, total 93.5 m) outlined an indicated in situ resource of 1 Mt, comprising a 5 m thick bed of 60%-70% diatom content...-
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Robe - Naracoorte coastal survey. Stratigraphic drilling of Quaternary sequence - sedimentological data.
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : The North-western Murray Basin Project. Joint annual reports for the period 29/8/2012 to 28/8/2014.
During Year 7 of the project, Goldfields did no more field work, but undertook office-based analyses of bedrock geochemical and geological data obtained in its 2012 aircore drilling campaign. Image processing and interpretation of the Canegrass...-
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Published: 28 Feb 2015
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Newikie Creek. First annual report plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 3/5/2012 to 20/12/2013.
A small area located ~ 33 km north-east of Burra has been explored for possible economic buried marine placer heavy mineral (HM) sand deposits. The target strata comprised littoral marine sediments of the Pliocene aged Loxton - Parilla Sand (LPS), in...-
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Published: 20 Dec 2013
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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 2015
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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 2005
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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 2014
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Oakbank, Balah, Sergeant's Dam and Record Dam (Basin Minerals' Oakvale Project). Joint annual reports plus joint final report at the latest licence's full surrender, for the period 3/12/1997 to 1/4/2004.
Heavy minerals in the Pliocene Loxton - Parilla Sands marginal marine sequence of the western Murray Basin were the targets of exploration in an area 130 km north of Renmark. During March 1998, a trial 571 line km low-level aeromagnetic survey was...-
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Published: 02 Jun 2004
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The Padthaway Ridge Sedimentary Uranium Project. Joint annual technical reports to licences' combined full surrender, for the period 30/1/2008 to 3/9/2013.
A package of fourteen mineral exploration tenements were taken up that straddled the north-eastern and south-western sides of the Padthaway Ridge, to allow the licensee to explore both the Tertiary Murray Basin and Gambier Basin sediments where they...-
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Published: 16 Jul 2013
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Morgan. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 12/4/2007 to 16/7/2014.
After its purchase of the subject EL 5069 on 8/7/2013, a single drilling campaign was undertaken by Iluka Resources during August-October 2013, when 11 RC aircore vertical open holes were drilled for a total penetration of 266.5 m. Ten of the holes...-
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Published: 09 Jul 2014
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Quondong Vale. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/3/2012 to 13/3/2017.
Iluka Resources is exploring for possible economic heavy mineral (HM) deposits that may have formed in the northern Murray Basin, with a strategy of targeting any mineralised Loxton-Parilla Sand formation sediments deposited during the Pliocene marine...-
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Published: 05 May 2017
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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 2015
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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 2013
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Karte. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 24/9/1997 to 23/5/2000.
102 vertical open RC holes (total penetration 3699 m) were drilled along traverses laid out over an area extending 40-50 km north to north-west of Pinnaroo, targeting possible south-eastwards extensions to the Mindarie and Mercunda heavy mineral (HM)...-
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Published: 25 Aug 2000
