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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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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 1914
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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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Mannum (part of Iluka's SA Murray Basin Heavy Mineral Sands Project). First annual report plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 7/6/2013 to 20/2/2015.
Tertiary Murray Basin cover sediments in an elongate area extending down the eastern side of the River Murray between Coolcha, Mannum and Murray Bridge have been explored for possible economic buried marine placer heavy mineral (HM) sands deposits. A...-
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Published: 03 Feb 1915
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Oakvale. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 4/4/2013 to 24/11/2014.
Under a farm-in agreement it made with Marathon Resources, the licensee of an area in the SA Murray Basin far northern sector located near the SA-NSW State border, 25 km south of Mutooroo Homestead, undertook exploratory drilling for possible economic...-
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Published: 17 Oct 1914
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Oakbank Dam (part of the Lodestone Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 4/11/2010 to 1/8/2016.
An area centred ~70 km south-southeast of Olary has been explored for buried mineral sands placer deposits that may have formed within the Cainozoic Murray Basin sedimentary cover, as well as for possible economic stratabound iron ore occurrences that...-
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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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Oakbank, Oakvale, Canegrass, Koomooloo, Braemar and Sturt Vale (part of Iluka's SA Murray Basin Heavy Mineral Sands Project). Joint final report at licences' joint full surrender, for the overall period 29/8/2006 to 30/7/2015.
EL 4871, EL 4872, EL 5067, EL 5068 and EL 5182 (the Delamerian Group) were originally granted to Gold Fields Australasia Pty Ltd (Gold Fields) for sediment-hosted orogenic gold exploration. All of these tenements were preceded by an earlier tenement,...-
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Published: 09 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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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 1900
