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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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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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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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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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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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Summary report on airborne magnetic and radiometric surveys of sections of the CURNAMONA 4- mile military sheet, SA (Crocker Well).
2130 miles of aeromagnetic and aerial radiometric traverses were flown at 300 feet altitude, with a half mile line spacing. Results are presented as TMI maps and stacked profiles of the uranium channel. There are numerous radiometric anomalies but no...-
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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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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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RB 78/00117 Bumbarlow 1 - Well completion report.
Bumbarlow 1 (TD 720.33 m) aimed to test the lithology and petroleum potential of the Cambrian section in the central part of the eastern Arrowie Basin. It continuously cored a sequence over 300 m thick of flat-lying Proterozoic sediments interbedded...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1978
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RB 80/00116 Mesozoic stratigraphy of the Frome Embayment.
This study covers a southern lobe of the Eromanga Basin known as the Frome Embayment, which extends W-E from the Flinders Ranges to the Barrier Ranges, and southwards from the vicinity of Moolowatana Station to the Scott Hill-Mundaerno Hill region....-
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Published: 01 Feb 1980
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RB 90/00077 Skeleton 2. Well completion report.
Skeleton 2 penetrated sediments of the eastern Lake Eyre Basin, the Frome Embayment, and granitic basement of the Mount Painter Ridge. The hole records the southernmost known occurrence of Cadna-owie Formation in the Frome Embayment. Unexpectedly,...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1990
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 3 partnership DPY3-18, Glencoe (Lake Frome East) area roll-front style uranium mineral prospects. Project interim and final reports.
The subject EL 3391 is located in the eastern Lake Frome region, and is prospective for roll-front type uranium mineralisation emplaced within sediments of the Tertiary Lake Eyre Basin. In December 2006, as part of the PACE Initiative Year 3...-
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Published: 02 Mar 1907
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Mundaerno South. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 23/7/2007 to 22/7/2014.
A small area centred ~33 km north-west of Cockburn and ~26 km south-southeast of the Honeymoon deposit has been explored for possible buried, calcrete hosted secondary uranium deposits that may have formed in Quaternary valley fill sediments, and also...-
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Published: 20 Feb 1914
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Ethiudna. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 22/2/2004 to 22/2/2015.
An area centred ~50 km north-west of Olary is continuing to be explored for possible buried economic Prominent Hill or Olympic Dam type iron oxide associated copper-gold (IOCG) breccia style mineralisation. The area is considered highly prospective...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Paralana Creek (part of the Beverley Project). Annual reports for the period 29/9/2009 to 15/11/2015.
Work undertaken on EL 4378 during the 2009-2010 reporting year included the drilling of 478 vertical rotary mud holes totalling 132,960 m, and core drilling totalling 4117 m performed in 16 of these holes for stratigraphic unit / resource...-
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Published: 24 Dec 1915
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Summary report on Honeymoon assessment programme (Phase 1), Honeymoon uranium deposit, South Australia.
This report summarises results of a rotary drilling and coring programme undertaken between 21/10/1978 and 16/2/1979 at the Honeymoon uranium deposit. 99 open plug holes totalling 12,452.7 m and 16 core holes totalling 1894 m were drilled in a...-
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Nuclear power : a discussion of major issues.
The Honeymoon joint venture partners, AAR Ltd, IOL Petroleum Ltd, Teton Exploration Drilling Co. Pty Ltd and Mount Isa Mines Ltd (MIM:MTA) hold title to a uranium deposit in the Lake Frome area of South Australia. It is proposed that the uranium...-
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