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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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RB 80/00026 Opal in South Australia.
Enlarged written version of a talk on the geology of opal, its occurrence and mining methods prepared for public presentation.-
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Published: 01 May 1980
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RB 85/00008 Stratigraphic drilling of Cainozoic sediments near Lake Eyre, BMR 1983, well completion report.
10 fully cored shallow holes (total 543.2 m) were rotary mud drilled at four localities by the Australian Commonwealth Bureau of Mineral Resources (BMR) to elucidate the cover stratigraphy, particularly the upper age limit of the Etadunna Formation,...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1985
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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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Lake Arthur East, Lake Arthur West and Lake Arthur (the Lake Surprise Project and the Mumpie Project). Data release made in lieu of submitting partial surrender reports : annual and joint annual reports for the period 29/8/2006 to 28/8/2014.
A wide basinal area located east of Marree and bordering the northern Willouran Ranges is being explored afresh for sedimentary uranium occurrences in response to market conditions and the demonstrated prospectivity of the local cover rocks, which...-
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Published: 30 Oct 1914
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Yarramba. Annual reports submitted until the commencement of licences' joint reporting on the South Eagle / Honeymoon Project, for the period 10/4/2000 to 26/8/2009. [ Index Part 1 of 2 ].
Southern Cross Resources Australia Pty Ltd (Southern Cross) purchased Rio Tinto Exploration Limited’s share of the Northern Olary Joint Venture, including its interest in the subject EL 2310 Yarramba, in November 2000. Southern Cross has held the...-
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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 made at renewal of the Sturt Joint Venture Project ELs 4062 through 4090, in lieu of submitting a joint partial surrender report for them : joint annual reports, for the period 25/2/2008 to 24/2/2013.
A very large area of the remote far north-east of the State was taken up early in 2008 by the unlisted Thorne-Clarke family company, to explore for sediment-hosted secondary uranium mineralisation of the type found in intracratonic sedimentary basins...-
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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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Curnamona Province.
CURNAMONA PROVINCE SUMMARY Age: Sedimentation - late Palaeoproterozoic to early Mesoproterozoic. Felsic and mafic volcanism - late Palaeoproterozoic to early Mesoproterozoic. Granitic intrusion - late Palaeoproterozoic to early...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2003
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Yarramba. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 8/3/1976 to 7/3/1978.
Ongoing exploration for sedimentary uranium ore deposited in buried 1.5 - 6 km wide and 50 m thick Tertiary palaeochannels in the Yarramba area, located adjacent to the SA-NSW border 50 km northwest of Cockburn, included three detailed and...-
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Published: 17 Apr 1978
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Report on Honeymoon deposit coring programme, June 1975 - South Eagle portion of EL 132, SA.
This report summarises the drilling and coring operations conducted during June and July 1975 to obtain representative core samples of the Honeymoon sedimentary uranium deposit. The work was carried out to determine uranium content, associated...-
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Published: 21 Oct 1975
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Yarramba. Annual reports submitted until the commencement of licences' joint reporting on the South Eagle / Honeymoon Project, for the period 10/4/2000 to 26/8/2009. [ Index Part 2 of 2 ].
Exploration work undertaken by Southern Cross Resources in the third year of tenure of the subject Yarramba EL 2937, which ended on 28/4/2005, included: • drilling of 8 vertical rotary mud holes for 784 m (YAM044-YAM051) to test historic uranium...-
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Lake Gregory. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 13/5/2016 to 9/3/2017.
A licence area covering a large salt lake (Lake Gregory) of the Cenozoic Lake Eyre Basin, and the underlying Mesozoic Eromanga Basin sediments situated to the north of the uranium-rich Mount Babbage and Mount Painter inliers, ~120 km north-east of...-
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Benagerie. Progress reports and annual reports, plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 13/11/1979 to 9/3/1989.
TARGET: Sedimentary uranium in Tertiary sandstone, plus Olympic Dam type copper-gold mineralisation and Broken Hill or Mount Isa type stratiform base metal mineralisation in the underlying basement rocks. EXPLORATION: Stratigraphic drilling (162...-
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Mulyungarie (part of the Yarramba Joint Venture Project). Data release upon first partial surrender and in consequence of a transfer of licence ownership : progress and technical reports for the period 4/7/1978 to 2/5/1991. [ Index Part 1&2 of 2 ].
Continuing exploration for sedimentary uranium occurrences in the buried Tertiary Yarramba Palaeochannel, undertaken between 1978 and 1982 by a Mines Administration (Minad) - led consortium, comprised reconnaissance and infill traverse- based open...-
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Published: 31 May 1992
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RB 00753 Kalladeina bore - Lithological sequence, surface to 1 210 feet.
The near surface section encountered in Kalladeina 1 contains a thick Plio-Pleistocene section, whilst the Lower Tertiary sediments ubiquitously present in the Cooper's Creek Basin, are either absent or very thin. Of particular interest is the...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1900
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Lake Frome South and Lake Frome North (the Wertaloona Project). Joint annual reports to licences' surrender, for the period 8/11/2010 to 3/9/2013.
The southern half of Lake Frome salina, centred about 80 km south-southeast of the Beverley uranium mine, has been explored for possible commercial quantities of dissolved lithium and uranium. Interest in the former commodity was engaged by the...-
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Published: 11 Oct 1913
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Moomba 16, Moomba 17, Moomba 20 and Moomba 23 areas (part of the Sturt Joint Venture Project). Combined first partial surrender report, for the period 25/2/2008 to 31/12/2013.
Majority portions of four licences from a large, multi-licence acreage package that is centred on the Moomba gas processing plant have recently been relinquished owing to the exit of a joint venture partner from the project exploration consortium,...-
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Published: 30 Apr 1914
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Etadunna (part of the Mount Flint Project). First annual and final reports at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 26/3/2008 to 25/3/2009.
An area located approximately 90-110 km north-northeast of Marree was taken up to explore for possible telethermal gold mineralisation hosted by Great Artesian Basin sediments. A number of surficial and enigmatic gold geochemical anomalies exist in...-
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Published: 11 Apr 1910
