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  • Parilla Sand Member - (79)
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PUBLICATION DATE

Specific date: 1980, 20/04/1980, 04/1980

Date range: 1980-2022, 04/1980-08/1990

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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...
      Document Published: 05 May 1917
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  • Ooldea Range. Information status at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/8/2015 to 11/8/2017 : no work performed.

    There is no abstract created for this record
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  • Bindyi South. Annual reports to licence forfeiture/cancellation, for the period 30/4/2015 to 24/11/2017.

    An area located immediately south of Bindyi Homestead on Koonamore Station was taken up to explore for possible economic stratabound iron ore (magnetite) hosted by metamorphosed Adelaidean glacial sedimentary strata of the Yudnamutana Subgroup....
      Document Published: 24 Nov 1917
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  • Meribah, Halidon, Mantung, Karoonda and Woolpunda (parts of the Murray Basin HMS Project). Individual licence first or second partial surrender reports, describing relevant subsets of exploration work performed between 29/9/1997 and 5/9/2018.

    Portions of the Tertiary shallow marine clastic sedimentary sequence (Loxton and Parilla sands) deposited in the central western Murray Basin within SA's Murray Mallee district have been explored for possible economic heavy mineral sand (HMS)...
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  • Ngarkat - Bordertown and Bordertown - Naracoorte areas. Joint first partial surrender report, for the period 30/11/2001 to 29/11/2002.

    Heavy mineral marine placer deposits formed within the Pliocene Loxton-Parilla Sand of the Murray Basin were the targets of exploration in areas lying immediately north and south of Bordertown. Aircore drilling (86 holes, total 1903 m) was carried...
      Document Published: 12 Sep 1903
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  • Moornaba Rockhole. Progress reports for the period 25/7/89 to 24/1/93.

    Exploration for heavy mineral sand in the Barton-Ooldea area, 100-200 km north of Fowlers Bay, comprised reconnaissance sampling, a photogeologic survey and RC drilling (695 holes, total 24 128 m).
      Document
  • Oakbank, Sergeant's Dam and Oakvale (part of the Oakvale Project). Joint first partial surrender report, for the period 3/12/1997 to 15/7/1999.

    Exploratory drilling to search for heavy mineral sands, performed over an area extending to 160 km north and north-west of Renmark, has targeted marginal marine placer deposits of detrital rutile, ilmenite and zircon in potential Loxton - Parilla Sand...
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  • Naracoorte. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 4/1/1999 to 21/9/1999.

    21 shallow auger holes totalling 128 m were drilled along 4 traverses which cross the Naracoorte Range between Penola and Naracoorte. Traces of heavy minerals were detected below 8 m depth within the area of a large radiometric anomaly, but further...
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  • Oakbank, Sergeant's Dam and Oakvale, northern Murray Basin, South Australia (part of the Oakvale Project). Joint third partial surrender report, for the period 3/12/1997 to 1/12/2001.

    Within the now relinquished licence portions, parts of six traverses of reverse circulation aircore drilling (involving 68 vertical open holes, total 1918.5 m) tested 60 km strike length of interpreted heavy mineral sand - bearing marine beach facies...
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  • Lameroo, Allenby, Prinpun Bore, Wynarka and Karoonda. Variously either full surrender or first partial surrender : joint report for the period 6/9/2000 to 25/8/2003.

    A large area in the South-East, extending from Karoonda to Keith, was considered prospective for the accumulation of heavy mineral sand deposits. Exploration, carried out jointly on several contiguous Exploration Licences, comprised an initial review...
      Document Published: 25 Aug 1903
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  • Bordertown - Naracoorte and Pinnaroo areas. Joint first annual report plus joint final report to licences' expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/11/2001 to 29/11/2003.

    Possible heavy mineral sand marine placer deposits occurring in the Pliocene Loxton-Parilla Sands of the Murray Basin were the targets of exploration in an area extending immediately north and south of Bordertown, and across to the SA/Vic. State...
      Document Published: 30 Oct 1903
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  • Chimpering Rock Hole, Yarrana Hill, Moornaba Rock Hole, Euria Well, Koonibba Mission, Lake Tallacootra, Dunn Hill, Wallala Hill, Mount Centre and Nalara. Quarterly and annual progress reports plus technical reports, for the period 25/7/1989 to 24/7/1992.

    Hitherto untried exploration for heavy mineral sands on the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin, conducted by the Ceduna Joint Venture partners since 1989 over ten contiguous licence areas in the Ooldea - Barton area centred 150 km north-west of Ceduna,...
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  • White Lagoon. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 17/10/2001 to 2/10/2004.

    Exploration for possible marine placer heavy mineral sands deposits within Recent sediments laid down across a large part of east-central Kangaroo Island, due south of Kingscote, has comprised a literature survey, limited field geological...
      Document Published: 17 Jun 1905
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  • Petina, Puntabie and Maltee (Ceduna - Streaky Bay district). Joint first partial relinquishment report, for the period 13/2/2004 to 11/11/2004.

    The seaward portion of the subject licences, comprising 52% of the combined original area granted, has been relinquished after a reconnaissance RC aircore drilling programme which targeted economic heavy mineral sands within Cainozoic marine placer...
      Document Published: 10 Dec 1904
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  • Murnpeowie. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 5/11/2003 to 4/11/2005.

    Possible accumulations of placer gold and other economic heavy minerals were the targets of exploration that was begun over an area of piedmont outwash alluvial fans formed at the northern extremity of the Flinders Ranges uplifted igneous basement....
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  • Unlocking South Australia's Mineral and Energy Potential - A Plan for Accelerating Exploration. Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry) : Year 3 partnership no. DPY3-22, Barton West heavy mineral sand prospect. Project final report.

    Previous drilling in 2005, undertaken as part of another PACE project, DPY2-52, discovered significant occurrences of heavy mineral sands within an area of 15 km x 5 km in the southern part of EL 3092 (the Notrab prospect). These sands were...
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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...
      Document Published: 02 Jun 1904
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  • Murray Bridge. Information status at licences' joint first partial relinquishment, for the period 26/7/2005 to 6/7/2007 : no work performed on the relinquished areas.

    There is no abstract created for this record
      Document
  • Barton. First partial surrender report, for the period 18/1/2006 to 28/9/2015.

    Two parts comprising 50% of a licence located 130 km north of Fowlers Bay and immediately south of the Trans Australia Railway, in the vicinity of Barton Siding, have been relinquished due to their perceived diminished potential for finding economic...
      Document Published: 15 Dec 1915
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  • Boondina. Second partial surrender report, for the period 28/5/2007 to 27/5/2014.

    A small licence area located 30 km north of Fowlers Bay in far western South Australia is being explored for possible economic Tertiary mineral sands deposits, targeting accumulations of rutile, zircon or ilmenite that may have formed as marginal...
      Document Published: 26 May 1915
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