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Paling Range, Barton Range North and Eucla Basin Area '4N' (part of Eucla Basin tenement Group 4). Final report at licences' joint full surrender, for the effective period 19/10/2009 to 17/3/2017.
The three adjoining subject licences, which are located north of the Trans Australian Railway and approximately 200 km north-west of the town of Ceduna, have jointly been fully surrendered due to their geology being regarded by the joint venturers as...-
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Published: 08 May 1917
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Aurora Tank and Indooroopilly Outstation. Joint annual reports for the period 21/3/2011 to 20/3/2013.
Two separate tenements in the Challenger district which are now wholly owned by Marmota Energy Limited are being explored for possible economic buried Challenger style gold mineralisation that may be present within Archaean basement, and also, within...-
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Published: 12 Jul 1913
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Lake Tallacootra. First partial surrender report, for the period 29/11/2012 to 23/12/2019.
The western two-thirds, or 427 square km, of an area located on the eastern side of the Nullarbor Plain, ~200 km north-west of Ceduna, has been partially relinquished because in the licensee's opinion it does not exhibit the geological features...-
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Published: 15 May 1920
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Nundroo (latterly part of the Eucla Basin Heavy Mineral Sands Project). Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/9/2014 to 15/9/2019.
An area comprising two separate blocks located ~20 km west and ~45 km north of Fowlers Bay has been explored for possible buried Pleistocene reworked heavy mineral sands (HM) marine placer mineralisation that may have become concentrated within the...-
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Published: 19 Sep 1919
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Commonwealth Hill. Annual reports to licence expiry/non-renewal, for the period 9/8/2012 to 8/8/2017.
An area centred ~20 km north of the Challenger gold mine has been explored for possible buried primary Challenger type basement gold lodes and also for secondary roll-front style uranium mineralisation that may be hosted in buried Tertiary fluvial...-
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Published: 14 Nov 1915
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Penong A area (part of the Eucla Basin Heavy Mineral Sands Project tenement Group 2). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 29/7/2009 to 26/4/2018.
An attenuated licence area extending for 40-75 km north to north-east of Penong was taken up to explore part of the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin for possible economic buried Tertiary detrital heavy mineral (HM) marine sand placer deposits. Over...-
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Published: 17 Apr 1918
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Nundroo. Second partial surrender report, for the period 16/9/2014 to 15/9/2017.
Two separate areas covering parts of the Nundroo Range, a prominent south-west facing, yet effectively previously undrilled, preserved palaeogeomorphic beach ridge /coastal dune features which lies ~10 km west of Fowlers Bay and extends for 70 km to...-
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Published: 12 Sep 1917
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Kalanbi West and Ooldea South (part of Eucla Basin tenement Group 2). Final report at licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 28/4/2005 to 23/8/2017.
Between 2008 and 2013, Iluka drilled a total of 45 vertical exploratory aircore holes on EL 3330/4546 for a total penetration of 1324.9 m, as part of reconnaissance drilling along traverses spaced 1 km apart with holes put in at 50 m intervals....-
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Published: 13 Sep 1917
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Eucla Basin Area 'S' (part of Eucla Basin tenement Group 4). First partial surrender report, for the period 19/10/2009 to 13/4/2017.
70% of the original area of the subject licence, which is located north of the Trans Australian Railway and approximately 200 km north-west of the town of Ceduna and 75 km east of the Maralinga Village, has been relinquished due to it being regarded...-
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Published: 16 May 1917
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Cootanoorina Hill. Data release made in lieu of submitting a partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal : annual reports for the period 6/4/2010 to 5/4/2015.
No work took place on the subject licence area, located ~ 60 km south of Oodnadatta on the western side of the Peake and Denison Ranges, during its first four years of tenure. It had been taken up originally to explore for possible undercover roll...-
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Penong B area and Yumbarra (part of the Eucla Basin Project tenement Group 2). Joint final report at licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/11/2012 to 15/11/2017.
Two adjoining areas located north of Koonibba were taken up to explore this part of the south-eastern Eucla Basin for possible buried economic marine placer deposits of heavy mineral sands (HM), because they were believed to contain shallow or exposed...-
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Published: 12 Sep 1917
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Data release - as updated : Barton West and Barton East (parts of the Maralinga Joint Venture). Joint annual reports, annual reports, and final report to remaining licence's full surrender, for the period 12/1/2011 to 13/10/2020.
During licence Year 13 (2011-2012), no field work was done. With respect to EL 4216 Barton West, Dominion completed an internal review of the potential mineral sands project economics; evaluations by potential JV partners were ongoing; and a bulk...-
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Published: 14 Sep 1920
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Garford. First annual report plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/4/2018 to 15/4/2020.
An area centred ~140 km north-west of Tarcoola and ~20 km north of the Challenger gold mine has been explored for possible economic high grade occurrences of palygorskite (synonym attapulgite) clays which may have formed in Tertiary palaeochannels and...-
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North-eastern Eucla Basin licence Areas S, T and U, and Penong (part of Iluka's Eucla Basin Heavy Mineral Sands Project tenement Group 4). Joint final report at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 19/10/2009 to 14/12/2017.
Four scattered Iluka heavy mineral sands (HM) exploration licences located on the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin north of Ceduna have now been fully surrendered. On the basis of exploration conducted on them until late in 2017, this work being...-
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Published: 30 Jan 1918
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PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 9 partnership DPY8-30 - Eucla Basin Eocene and Pleistocene low-stand beach ridge marine heavy mineral placer prospects. Drilling project final report.
The Nundroo Range and Bookabie Range are prominent south-west facing, yet effectively previously undrilled, preserved palaeogeomorphic beach ridge /coastal dune features which are located ~200 km west of Ceduna and ~100 km south of the...-
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Lake Anthony. Quarterly reports, first joint annual report (with SML 711) and joint final report to licence full surrender, for the period 1/9/1971 to 31/5/1973.
An area located just to the east of the edge of the Nullarbor Plain, occupied by many scattered large and small salt lakes surrounded by sand dunes, with Precambrian basement [of the western Gawler Craton] subcropping near the surface, has been...-
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Published: 26 Jun 1973
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Yanerbie. Annual reports for the period 7/3/2011 to 6/3/2015.
A small area centred ~6 km south of Streaky Bay is being explored for economic-sized gypsum deposits similar to those occurring at Lake Purdilla, located ~10 km to the south. No work was done during licence Year 1. During the second year of tenure,...-
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Published: 09 Jul 1915
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Muckanippie. Fourth partial surrender report submitted at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 20/10/2005 to 23/2/2016.
EL 3438 Muckanippie is located in the northern Gawler Craton, on the western margin of the Gawler Range Volcanics Domain, and is centred approximately 60 km north-west of Tarcoola. The principal target within EL 3438 is possible economic occurrences...-
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Published: 30 Jan 1917
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Yellabinna and Poondinga. Respective second partial surrender reports, for the period 27/10/2004 to 13/4/2018.
Two adjoining areas located on the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin, and centred ~60 km north-east of Fowlers Bay, are being explored for possible buried economic occurrences of zircon-rich heavy mineral sands (HMS) that may have been formed along...-
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Published: 31 May 1918
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Pidinga Lakes. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/12/1969 to 17/12/1970.
Shallow drilling of sediments on the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin (in 25 vertical rotary mud holes with a total penetration of ~1280 m) to test for secondary uranium mineralisation, although limited by drilling difficulties, has resulted in the...-
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Published: 26 Feb 1971