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Bordertown. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/8/1987 to 20/2/1990.
TARGET: Now buried heavy mineral sands accumulations that may have formed within the Tertiary Parilla Sand as palaeo-beach placer deposits. EXPLORATION: Appraisal of SADME-held water bore data, photogeological studies, geomorphic mapping,...-
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Brookfield. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 9/1/1989 to 28/11/1989.
TARGET: Possible economic buried heavy mineral sand accumulations in raised beach strandlines within the upper Pliocene Parilla Sand, in an area centred on Blanchetown. EXPLORATION: Study of Landsat images and topographic maps to identify...-
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Heavy mineral sand mining operations and ore reserve potential, Morrisons Beach, Kangaroo Island.
An assessment was carried out by SADM of the feasibility of mining the extensive sand dunes in the Morrison Beach area, which it was thought could contain large quantities of low grade heavy minerals that might now prove economical to extract because...-
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Karoonda and Parrakie. Individual licence progress reports to licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/9/1986 to 13/6/1991.
TARGET: Possible economic heavy mineral sand accumulations in Pliocene raised beach strandlines developed along the south-western margin of the Murray Basin. EXPLORATION: Aerial photo interpretation, regional sedimentological studies, preliminary...-
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Published: 05 Jun 1991
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Alawoona. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 29/4/1987 to 28/4/1991.
TARGET: Possible economic heavy mineral sand accumulations in Pliocene raised beach strandlines developed along the south-western margin of the Murray Basin. EXPLORATION: Acquisition of an airborne magnetic and radiometric survey during November...-
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Published: 13 May 1991
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Marmon Jabuk Range (part of the Padthaway Ridge Project). Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/1/1989 to 8/7/1989.
TARGET: Possible economic heavy mineral sands accumulations that may have formed in the Pliocene palaeocoastal dune and beach ridge sand sequence of the Marmon Jabuk Range, within an area extending south-eastwards from Tailem Bend for ~80 km.....-
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Gluepot. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 4/7/1988 to 3/1/1991.
TARGET: Possible economic buried heavy mineral sand accumulations in raised beach strandlines within the upper Pliocene Parilla Sand, in the Cooltong - Overland Corner - Gluepot area that extends for ~10-85 km W and NW of Renmark. EXPLORATION: Aerial...-
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Published: 17 Jan 1991
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Chundie Swamps. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/8/1986 to 19/8/1987.
The heavy mineral potential of Tertiary sediments in the Chundie Swamps was investigated with 2 drill traverses (43 RC open vertical holes totalling 863 m) and reconnaissance soil mineralogical sampling. Heavy mineral contents were very low.-
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Milang, Mypolonga and Narrung. Interpretation of 1980 - flown Narrung and Murray Bridge airborne geophysical surveys.
Based on physical characteristics of the Moorlands, Anna and Bower coalfields, a geological / geophysical model for brown coal deposition was developed by CRAE, and four other target areas were selected. It was decided that six inferred kimberlite -...-
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Published: 04 Mar 1981
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Flinders Island and Flinders Island Coast. Joint annual reports for the period 4/1/2009 to 3/1/2019.
During licence Year 11, the lithological logs were digitised and are now presented for the remaining eight holes of the first drilling program (completed in 2002), together with the holes from the second (2003), and third (2004) drilling programs....-
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Published: 01 Mar 1919
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Pidinga (part of the Eucla-Maralinga Heavy Mineral Sands Project). Annual reports, including those for the commencement of licence joint annual reporting for the Eucla Basin Mineral Sands Tenement Group 1, for the period 27/8/2004 to 28/2/2009.
An area located on the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin, and centred ~60 km north-east of Fowlers Bay, has now been taken under licence by WA-based company Iluka Resources to explore for possible buried economic occurrences of zircon-rich heavy...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Fig Tree Corner, Ooldea South, Barton, Colona North, Ooldea Range and Pidinga (the Eucla Basin HMS Project tenement Group One). Joint annual reports for the period 1/3/2007 to 28/2/2011.
A group of adjoining tenements covering ground situated between Ceduna and the Trans Australia Railway are being explored for possible economic buried Tertiary marine placer deposits of heavy mineral sands. During the 2007-2008 joint reporting year,...-
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Published: 01 May 1911
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Oakvale Station. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 28/3/1988 to 10/9/1990.
TARGET: Possible economic Pliocene or younger heavy mineral sand deposits in the Oakvale Station region of the north-western Murray Basin. EXPLORATION: Acquisition and processing of the major part of 33,000 line km of low-level airborne magnetic and...-
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Published: 24 Sep 1990
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RB 2022/00003 Zircon provenance and sedimentary transport processes – implications for the late Neogene evolution and heavy mineral deposits of the western Murray Basin, South Australia.
Strandlines or elevated shorelines, located across the Murray Basin in south-eastern Australia, trace the preserved remnants of former emergent coastlines that developed during the Late Miocene (c. 7 to 4 Ma) marine regression. Strandline traces...-
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Published: 01 May 2022
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Streaky Bay. Combined first annual / final report at licence surrender, for the period 15/3/2007 to 22/2/2008.
In a search for possible economic Tertiary heavy mineral sands or sedimentary uranium deposits over an area extending from Baird Bay to Mount Cooper and surrounds, only a detailed desktop geological appraisal of reported previous mineral exploration...-
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Published: 10 Apr 1908
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Barton West and Barton East (initially part of the Gawler Joint Venture Project). Data release made in lieu of submitting a third partial surrender report for the latter licence : joint annual reports for the period 14/3/2001 to 11/1/2011.
The trigger event causing this data release to be made is that three portions of licence ground that together cover ~289 square km or 19.5% of the former area of EL 4217 Barton East have now been relinquished, as of 11/1/2011. No corresponding partial...-
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Published: 09 Mar 1911
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Merghiny. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/5/2007 to 2/5/2011.
The heavy mineral sand potential of an area located immediately south-east of Ceduna has been assessed by planning traverses of shallow (20-50 m deep) aircore drillholes across fossil Tertiary marine marginal strandlines likely to contain reworked...-
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Published: 16 May 1911
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Petina, Puntabie, Yartoo, Maltee, Yumbarra, Pureba North, Kalanbi, Ooldea South and Ooldea Range (part of the Eucla Basin Heavy Mineral Sands Project). Joint first partial surrender report, for the period 13/2/2004 to 27/12/2007.
Exploration for possible economic heavy mineral sands carried out by Iluka Resources within the now relinquished portions of its multi-licence acreage has comprised vertical aircore drilling of the Cainozoic sedimentary sequence (166 holes for a total...-
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Published: 31 Dec 1907
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Sandy Plain. Annual reports to licence expiry/cancellation, for the period 3/12/2007 to 2/12/2010.
An area of the onshore Tertiary Eucla Basin located about 170 km north-west of Ceduna and 50 km north-east of Ooldea Siding on the Trans Australian Railway has been explored for possible economic heavy mineral concentrations formed within shallow...-
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Streaky Bay, Yartoo and Pureba South (part of Eucla Basin Project tenement Group 3). Data release made at the full surrender of the second-named licence, and the partial surrenders for the other two: progress report for the period 28/4/2004 to 31/7/2012.
Ground in the Eucla Basin which borders the south-western margin of the Gawler Ranges basement uplift has been explored for possible economic marine placer heavy mineral sands deposits. Work was focussed on evaluating any Tertiary shoreline sediment...-
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Published: 07 Sep 1912
