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Lake Yantawena (West). Progress and final reports for the period 26/11/1970 to 25/11/1972.
Acquisition and interpretation of an airborne scintillation spectrometer survey, and the unhindered drilling and gamma and electric logging of 16 rotary open holes (total 3242 feet), were undertaken. Lower Tertiary non-marine palaeochannel sand...-
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Published: 09 Feb 1973
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Lake Frome area. Progress reports for the period 20/11/1969 to 19/11/1970.
Ongoing exploration for sedimentary uranium deposits and other radioactive minerals, in the plains area north-west of Lake Frome, consisted of the drilling and geophysical logging of 56 rotary holes for a total of 29,708 feet. Drillhole 355-1, which...-
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Published: 20 Aug 1970
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Blanchewater Hill. Progress and final reports for the period 11/8/80 to 10/8/82.
Drilling of two percussion holes (aggregate 400 metres) near Yerila, south of Lake Blanche, failed to give encouragement to the search for possible Permian coal and Tertiary uranium in the southern Eromanga Basin / Lake Blanche Lineament uplift area...-
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Paralana Hill (part of the Poontana Uranium Joint Venture Project). Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 19/12/1979 to 8/2/1983.
Targets of ongoing subsurface investigations in the plains area north-west of Lake Frome, now being conducted under a new joint venture, were respectively to delineate further sedimentary uranium occurrences within buried Middle and Late Tertiary...-
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Lady Buxton. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 22/7/1968 to 21/7/1970.
As part of a continuing regional search for economic deposits of uranium and other radioactive minerals within alluvial fan sediments deposited adjacent to and east of the Mount Painter Block basement outcrops, 32 rotary holes (total 16,218 feet) were...-
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Published: 21 Jul 1970
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Lake Frome. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/12/1979 to 17/12/1981.
Ongoing exploration for possible Tertiary sediment-hosted roll front uranium occurrences in an area abutting western Lake Frome has consisted of the drilling of 7 open rotary holes for a total of 1384 m, to test ground midway between previously...-
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Lake Callabonna. Progress and final reports for the period 11/6/1971 to 10/6/1972.
Ongoing exploration for economic sedimentary uranium deposits in the Lake Callabonna region involved further reconnaissance rotary mud drilling and well geophysical logging (9 holes, total 3195 feet) to evaluate radiometric anomalies found in...-
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Lake Frome East. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/9/1971 to 29/9/1972.
TARGET: Uranium in Tertiary sediments in the vicinity of Lakeside Bore. EXPLORATION: 2 vertical rotary mud holes for a total of 1044 feet were drilled and geophysically logged during September 1972. RESULTS: The radiometric logs did not show...-
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Published: 29 Sep 1972
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Wooltana. Progress reports for the period 3/6/1971 to 2/6/1973.
TARGET: Roll-front type uranium in Tertiary sediments. EXPLORATION: 82 rotary open drillholes totalling 47,003 feet, and 2 confirmatory partly cored holes totalling 949 feet (125 feet cored). All drillholes were geophysically logged. RESULTS:...-
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Published: 04 Jul 1973
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Lake Frome North. Progress reports and farminee's final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 24/2/1975 to 23/2/1977.
TARGET: Sediment-hosted uranium mineralisation. EXPLORATION: 12 vertical rotary mud drillholes were completed for a total penetration of 1992 m in the Christmas Well and Caldina areas, west of Lake Frome. RESULTS: No downhole radiometric anomalies...-
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Yarramba. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 13/5/1971 to 12/5/1972.
Continuing intensive exploration for economic sedimentary uranium deposits within buried Tertiary palaeochannel sediments in the Yarramba Homestead area, 50 km north-west of Cockburn, which had been invigorated by the recent discovery of strongly...-
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South Eagle [part of a joint licence area with Kalabity]. Uranium exploration progress and technical reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 15/5/1974 to 14/2/1976.
During the EL 132 tenure, work has consisted of a mineability evaluation of the Honeymoon uranium deposit, plus additional U exploration over the South Eagle farmout. Initially, 5 rotary holes (total 594.9 m) were drilled to the north of the...-
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Preliminary evaluation of in situ leaching on MTA [Minad-Teton Australia's] uranium deposits in the Lake Frome area, SA.
In-situ leaching of a uranium orebody can only be successful if the deposit meets a number of essential criteria. These criteria are: 1. The ore occurs in a generally porous and permeable horizontal bed underlain and overlain by impermeable strata;...-
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Lake Carnanto. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 30/11/1978 to 11/2/1983.
The south-eastern Lake Frome Embayment in the vicinity of Quinyambie Station was explored for Upper and Lower Tertiary 'blanket' or 'roll front' type sedimentary uranium, via the drilling of 75 open vertical rotary mud holes with a total penetration...-
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Paralana Plains. Progress reports for the period 3/6/1971 to 2/6/1973.
Rotary open-hole drilling of 62 holes (total 27,363 feet) with geological and geophysical logging, in a search for Tertiary sedimentary uranium near Mount Hopeless, intersected minor anomalous radioactivity in 4 holes.-
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Frome Downs. Progress reports and partial relinquishment reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 20/6/1978 to 14/9/1982.
153 rotary mud open holes (total 19,689 m) and 11 cored holes (total 1384 m) have been drilled during the reporting period to evaluate the Goulds Dam uranium deposit and to further explore the region to its north and south for sedimentary uranium...-
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Frome Downs and Curnamona. Respective progress reports, annual reports and JV partner's final report to licences' joint expiry/renewal, for the period 11/2/1971 to 12/2/1973.
77 rotary / diamond holes drilled by Pacminex (total 9385 m, including 196 m cored) plus another 53 holes drilled within SML 544 by joint venturer Esso (total 7029 m) indicate that a highly prospective radioactive mineralised zone occurs within...-
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Lake Frome. Progress reports for the period 3/6/1971 to 2/6/1973.
Drilling and geophysical logging of 41 rotary drillholes totalling 20,657 feet in the central area of the Lake Frome depression has failed to discover economically recoverable concentrations of uranium in Tertiary age sand units.-
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Published: 30 Mar 1973
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Kalabity. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 15/3/1971 to 17/6/1973, plus related technical reports about in situ leach uranium mining methods in Wyoming.
The recently completed drilling of 189 open rotary holes (total penetration 22,427 m), plus the redrilling and geophysical re-logging by joint venturer Minad-Teton of 19 previously completed Carpentaria Exploration Co. uranium exploration holes (for a...-
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Published: 02 Jan 1974
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Mulyungarie. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 13/5/1972 to 12/5/1973.
Ongoing exploration for possible economic sandstone-type uranium deposits formed in Tertiary palaeochannels in the Yarramba area, 50 km north-west of Cockburn, has included further open hole rotary drilling and downhole geophysical logging (176 holes...-
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