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Lake Frome [Central]. Progress reports for the period 8/10/1968 to 7/10/1970.
As part of a regional search for uranium and other radioactive minerals within alluvial fan sediments deposited adjacent to and east of the Mount Painter Block outcrops, 43 open rotary mud holes (total penetration 21,900 feet) were drilled close to...-
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Published: 08 Apr 1970
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Mount Frome. Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 17/5/2007 to 16/5/2009.
Prospective sandstone-prone Tertiary stratigraphic units which might host sedimentary uranium deposits, as previously encountered by reported exploratory drilling in alluvium-covered regions near Mount Frome, were not further explored by planned...-
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Published: 08 Jan 1909
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Mount Yerila. First partial surrender report for the period 26/8/2002 to 25/8/2004.
Two peripheral areas of the subject licence have been relinquished owing to their perceived poor potential for containing economic palaeochannel uranium mineralisation within Tertiary sediments. Two rotary mud drillholes were drilled in the western...-
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Woolatchi Creek. Progress, partial surrender and technical reports to licence surrender, for the period 12/4/1982 to 27/8/1985.
Diamond drillhole WC1 was drilled by Marathon to a total depth of 173.5 m over the Woolatchi Creek aeromagnetic anomaly, as part of an ongoing search for uranium and base metals in the north-eastern Flinders Ranges and Lake Frome Plains region....-
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Kalabity. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 25/7/1973 to 24/4/1974.
In Carpentaria's ongoing search for economic copper ore at the Waukaloo copper prospect, that could possibly extend downdip beneath its earlier completed percussion drillholes PDH12 and PDH18, the drilling of the first of three appraisal diamond...-
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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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Wittakilla. Progress reports to licence surrender for the period 17/10/1977 to 16/10/1978.
As part of a regional search for buried Olympic Dam - type base metal deposits, Western Mining attempted to test an isolated but sharply defined aeromagnetic anomaly noted just to the east of the southern end of Lake Callabonna. After first acquiring...-
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Summary report of the drilling programme carried out for Pan Ocean Oil during May 1977 on Southern Ventures EL 334, Frome Embayment SA.
Thirteen open holes were drilled for Tertiary uranium in the Frome Embayment. No significant anomalous radiometric response was intersected.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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Lake Frome. Progress reports for the period 3/10/1968 to 9/6/1971.
TARGET: Uranium in Tertiary sediments. EXPLORATION: 56 rotary drillholes for a total of 31,690 feet. All drillholes were geophysically logged. Samples from selected water bores were analysed for radon and uranium. RESULTS: All drillholes ended in...-
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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 Carnanto. Progress reports to licence expiry for the period 24/2/1975 to 23/2/1977.
Further exploration of a radiometrically anomalous basinal area situated about 100 km east of Lake Frome, which is considered to be associated with the western flank of a sizeable Tertiary palaeochannel, has comprised open hole rotary drilling and...-
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Published: 16 Mar 1976
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Wirrealpa. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 17/9/1970 to 16/9/1971.
Exploration for sedimentary uranium in the western Lake Frome region, addressing a re-entrant intramontane sub-basin located near Wirrealpa, has comprised sampling and analysis of groundwaters, an airborne scintillometer reconnaisance survey, and an...-
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Curnamona Homestead. Progress and technical reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 1/1/1969 to 31/12/1970.
Reconnaissance shallow stratigraphic drilling with subsequent borehole geophysical electric and radioactivity logging in the south-western Frome Embayment (21 rotary mud partly cored holes, total 8841 feet), over areas lying adjacent to outcropping...-
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Published: 31 Dec 1970
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Lake Pundalpa and Lake Amerarkoo. Progress and final reports to licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/9/1972 to 6/12/1973.
Exploration for possible buried roll-front or sandstone type sedimentary uranium deposits was carried out over a broad area lying northeast of Lake Frome by a South African - French joint venture. A large reconnaissance open hole rotary drilling and...-
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Lake Yantawena. First and final progress report to licence surrender for the period 4/5/1973 to 3/8/1973.
In a search for possible economic sedimentary uranium deposits within an area located approximately 80 km north of Mingary, the drilling and geophysical logging of 30 exploratory open rotary holes totalling 2261.5 m indicated that the presence and...-
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Published: 13 Aug 1973
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Curnamona [Station], Frome Downs [Station] and Johnson's New Dam. Progress reports and joint second partial surrender report for the period 1/1/1969 to 12/9/1973.
Continuing collection and interpretation of geophysical and geological data from the southern Frome Embayment region has resolved that the areas of ground now being relinquished are probably not prospective for finding viable sedimentary-type uranium...-
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West Lake Frome. Progress report to licence expiry for the period 18/12/1969 to 17/6/1970.
Exploration for possible buried sedimentary uranium deposits in the west of the Lake Frome Embayment area was prompted by recent such discoveries made in the north (at Beverley) and north-east (at Billeroo). A scout programme of open hole rotary...-
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Starvation Lake. Final report to licence surrender for the period 22/5/1972 to 21/5/1973.
As part of an ongoing search for possible buried economic roll-front or sandstone type Tertiary sedimentary uranium deposits in an area 70 km east of Lake Frome, a detailed stratigraphic and sedimentological analysis was undertaken of rotary drillhole...-
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Johnsons New Dam. Progress reports to licence surrender for the period 13/4/1973 to 28/11/1973.
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Published: 12 Dec 1973
