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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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Mannum. First partial relinquishment report for the period from 13/11/1978 to 12/5/1979.
Nine rotary mud open holes with a total penetration of 499.3 m were drilled, chip sampled and geophysically logged in a search for Moorlands - type coal in Eocene Renmark Beds to the south-east of Murray Bridge. Although the target horizon was...-
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Canegrass Lobe. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/3/1975 to 2/3/1976. Includes Palynological laboratory report no. 183/1. Appendix 1 in progress report for the period ended 2/6/1975.
The possibility that economic coal seams may occur in suspected buried Lower Permian sediments occupying the north-western corner of the Canegrass Lobe, where no deep stratigraphic drilling has hitherto been done, was investigated by Minad using...-
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Cooltong. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 4/8/2016 to 3/8/2020.
A very small area centred ~10 km west of Renmark, and adjacent to the River Murray, has been explored for possible extensions to a recently discovered occurrence of high purity (>90% SiO2) semi-consolidated quartz sand that was found in September...-
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Published: 08 Oct 2020
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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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ExpNotes RENMARK: Explanatory Notes RENMARK, SI 54-10.
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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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Mount Mary. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 15/3/2010 to 24/1/2014.
An area centred ~7 km west-southwest of Morgan has been explored since 8/7/2013 by Iluka Resources (Iluka) for possible economic buried Tertiary heavy mineral sands deposits. The company was targeting any mineralised Loxton-Parilla Sand (LPS)...-
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Published: 22 Mar 2014
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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
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Florieton. Combined first annual / final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 23/5/2013 to 20/12/2013.
An area consisting of two separate sub-blocks located ~50 km north-east and 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...-
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Published: 15 Nov 2013
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Morgan (part of the Mindarie Project). First partial surrender report, for the period 2/9/2008 to 14/8/2009.
Extensive infill drilling carried out by Australian Zircon on the Mindarie 'A2' and Mindarie 'C' heavy mineral sands (HMS) deposits during the past year has provided improved definition of their resource boundaries, thus enabling the accurate...-
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Published: 22 Nov 2009
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Murray Bridge and Tailem Bend. Individual and joint annual reports, plus respective second partial surrender reports, for the period 26/7/2005 to 27/7/2009.
Two adjoining large areas in the southern Murraylands are being explored for possible economic buried Pliocene heavy mineral sands (HM) marine placer deposits. Both Mindarie type palaeobeach strandline HM occurrences and basin margin headland -...-
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Published: 22 Oct 2009
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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 2015
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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 2015
