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McGrath Hill (part of the Gypsum Cliffs Project). First annual and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/6/2013 to 20/6/2015.
EL 5279 is located in the Lake Eyre region approximately 245 km north of the settlement of Marree, and abuts the south-eastern corner of the Simpson Desert National Park. The licence is the northernmost one of five original applications that were made...-
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Published: 11 Aug 1915
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RB 2008/00014 Whisky Swamp sand deposit. [Report on] site inspection, 2008.
Construction sand products were produced from the Whisky Swamp sand deposit between 1985 and 2003. The occurrence appears to be a Tertiary stream sediment deposit that has been covered by Quaternary to Recent sediments. The extent of the deposit is...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2008
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RB 2013/00020 The South Australian Atlas of Geoscience and Mineral Exploration data - Woomera Prohibited Area within the Gawler Craton.
The Woomera Prohibited Area (WPA) is a military testing range covering ~127,000 square km of the land surface of central South Australia. Underlying it are highly prospective rocks of the Gawler Craton, a major province of the earth's crust which...-
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Published: 01 Nov 2013
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RB 2009/00001 Explanatory Notes for [the] CALLABONNA 1:250 000 Geological Map, sheet SH 54-6.
The CALLABONNA map area includes the southern end of the Strzelecki Desert and the north- eastern Flinders Ranges, between latitudes 29° to 30° S and longitudes 139° 30' to 141° E. Cameron Corner adjoins New South Wales and Queensland in the...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2009
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Geology of the Stuart Creek - Charlie Swamp area, northern South Australia.
As a B.Sc. Honours project with the Geology Department of the University of Adelaide, which was sponsored by the South Australian Department of Mines and Energy, the author during 1978 carried out geological mapping of a nearly 400 square km area...-
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Lake Frome West and Mount Painter East. Progress reports for the period 10/9/1968 to 11/9/1970.
As part of a regional search for Tertiary sedimentary uranium, rotary mud drilling of 37 holes (total 25,370 feet) to bedrock on the Lake Frome alluvial plain east of the Mount Painter massif encountered three areas of significant radioactivity...-
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Lake Florence. First quarterly report [to licence surrender] for the period 8/12/1980 to 7/3/1981.
No work undertaken.-
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3D conceptual modelling to aid exploration in the southern Callabonna Sub-basin.
Mineral exploration in the northern Curnamona Province is made difficult by a cover of weathered Cainozoic sediments up to 200 m or more thick, overlying weathered Proterozoic bedrock of the Broken Hill and Olary Domains. Four projects have been...-
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Lake Frome East. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 13/11/79 to 12/5/80.
As part of a wider search over SA for possible continental salt lake occurrences of NaCO3-rich brines and of fossil crystalline trona beds, presumed to be equivalent to the Lake Magadi (Kenya) / Green River Basin (Utah - Wyoming) style Tertiary...-
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Published: 30 Apr 1980
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Lake Frome. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 13/11/1978 to 12/5/1980.
As part of a wider search over SA for possible continental salt lake occurrences of NaCO3-rich brines and of fossil crystalline trona beds, presumed to be equivalent to the Lake Magadi (Kenya) / Green River Basin (Utah - Wyoming) style Tertiary...-
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Published: 30 Apr 1980
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HandBk 005 - Opal: South Australia's Gemstone. Barnes L.C. et al. (1992 revised edition)
South Australia's famous desert opalfields supply about 80% of the world output of precious opal, with current production coming almost entirely from the major fields at Andamooka, Coober Pedy and Mintabie, each of which is expected to increase output...-
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Allandale. First annual report to licence renewal, for the period 5/12/1994 to 31/5/1995.
Following recognition of the likely young age of the sources of the Abminga area magnetic anomalies, and the discovery of a number of diamond indicator minerals in sediments to the west of the Peake and Denison Ranges, the Allandale joint venture...-
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Lake Millyera, Lake Callabonna and Lake Frome areas. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 31/10/1990 to 24/10/1994.
Field investigations were undertaken of reported occurrences of the rare strontium-bearing sulphate mineral celestite within lacustrine chemical sediments deposited along the western and southern margins of Lakes Frome, Callabonna and Blanche. The...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 3 partnership DPY3-06, Benagerie Ridge Joint Venture area iron oxide - associated copper-gold mineral prospects. Project interim and final reports.
The PACE Initiative drilling collaboration proposal DPY3-06 was formulated to drill test three gravity - (magnetic) anomalies seen along the buried Benagerie Ridge area of the Curnamona Province of South Australia, on EL 3019 (Quinyambie Station)...-
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Woolatchi Creek. Progress and annual reports for the period 20/2/80 to 11/4/83.
41 open-hole rotary drillholes (total 5999 metres) were drilled and geophysically logged to search for possible sedimentary uranium occurrences in the Early Cretaceous Parabarana Formation and in overlying altered Miocene sands, over an area of the...-
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Lake Frome South. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 12/4/1979 to 11/4/1980.
Four samples of fresh attapulgite/palygorskite - bearing dolomitic claystone obtained from backhoe trenches dug into creek beds close to the south-eastern edge of Lake Frome were assessed for their clay material properties, in a search for absorptive...-
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Prescott Point. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 8/12/1980 to 23/6/1981.
Exploration for possible economic trona deposits thought to have formed within Cainozoic near-surface sediments, in an area of thick lacustrine sedimentation located 80 km north of Marree, consisted only of a consultant's review of available...-
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Lake Eyre dolomite.
Geological investigations carried out on the Babbage Peninsula at the southern end of Lake Eyre North suggest that an estimated 250 million tons of dolomite, with little or no overburden, is available for mining, and that additional reserves are...-
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Lake Frome North. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 21/10/1971 to 20/10/1972.
TARGET: Sedimentary uranium roll-front orebodies within buried Early Tertiary palaeochannels underlying the Lake Frome Plains to the south and east of the Beverley deposit. EXPLORATION: 25 rotary drillholes totalling 14,696 feet were put down to...-
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Lake Callabonna. Progress reports for the period 11/6/1970 to 10/6/1971.
Exploration for possible sedimentary uranium deposits buried within the Tertiary fluvial sequence deposited to the west and south-west of Lake Callabonna comprised part of a regional aerial scintillometric survey, and the drilling and gamma logging of...-
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Published: 12 Oct 1970
