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RB 78/00038 Report on drilling in the Tallaringa palaeodrainage system.
Programme of fully cored shallow holes. Aim was to investigate stratigraphy of the palaeochannels, relate this to the geology and evaluate economic potential of channel confined sediments, to test for lignite, sedimentary uranium, alluvial gold, heavy...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 97/00027 Further palynological dating and correlation of Mesozoic and Tertiary sediments from Eyre Peninsula, SA.
Two groups of samples from Eyre Peninsula have been analysed. The Elliston samples are correlative with the Polda Formation, probably in the latest Middle Jurassic. The younger Middle Eocene E04-1 sample indicates the presence of Pidinga Formation,...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1997
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RB 92/00009 Preliminary palynological dating of borehole samples from the Polda Basin, Eyre Peninsula.
19 samples of exploratory RC aircore drillhole cuttings were examined by a SADME consultant to determine their microfloral assemblages, and to date the host sediments by correlation of diagnostic palynomorphs with published biostratigraphic schemes.-
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Pyramid Bore. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 8/7/2005 to 5/1/2010.
An area located approximately 10 km north of Glendambo has been explored for possible economic buried uranium deposits which might be indicated by aerial radiometric anomalies associated with playa lakes in the region, since these latter mark zones of...-
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Published: 20 May 1910
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Tallaringa and Mount Igy (the Tallaringa JV Project). Joint annual reports to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 18/1/2009 to 6/2/2015.
During the 2009-2010 project joint reporting year, the following activities occurred: - the conduct of an Aboriginal heritage work area clearance survey in the northern part of EL 3485 Tallaringa by the Antakarinja Land Management Council Native...-
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The Eyre Peninsula Project, and in part the Corrobinnie Uranium Joint Venture. Joint annual reports for the period 29/12/2008 to 31/12/2013.
During the sixth year of the project, licensee Adelaide Resources did not do any exploration directed at gold or base metals that might possibly occur on the subject tenements. However, its joint venture partner Quasar Resources undertook significant...-
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Published: 05 Mar 1914
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Petina - part of the north-western Eyre Peninsula (eastern Eucla Basin) heavy mineral sands exploration tenement group [Group 3]. Final report at licence surrender, for the period 13/2/2004 to 4/5/2016.
Iluka Resources has been exploring the subject area, located east of the townships of Streaky Bay and Ceduna, since October 2003, as part of a continuing regional search for possible economic, zircon-rich Tertiary marine placer mineral sands deposits...-
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Published: 20 May 1916
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Wilkinson Lakes East. Annual reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 3/5/2010 to 6/2/2015.
An area centred ~150 km west of Coober Pedy, that is located mostly north-west of and that also has a small part lying immediately south-east of the Karari Fault, a major crustal structure which has controlled deposition at the southern limit of the...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : North-western Eyre Peninsula (eastern Eucla Basin) heavy mineral sands exploration tenement group [Group 3]. Joint annual reports for the period 1/7/2004 to 31/5/2010. [Index part 2 of 2].
Within the subject south-eastern Eucla Basin tenements, Iluka's ongoing exploration has targeted the Tertiary-aged beach sands deposited during the five marine incursions that occurred from the Middle Eocene to the Pliocene, with a focus on exploring...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1910
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The Eyre Peninsula Joint Venture Project. Joint annual reports for the period 19/9/2002 to 31/12/2008.
A number of tenements on central northern Eyre Peninsula are being explored by Adelaide Resources and its joint venture partner Newmont Mining for possible economic buried deposits of gold, copper and other base metals which may have formed in the...-
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Published: 27 Feb 1909
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Garford. First annual report plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/4/2018 to 15/4/2020.
An area centred ~140 km north-west of Tarcoola and ~20 km north of the Challenger gold mine has been explored for possible economic high grade occurrences of palygorskite (synonym attapulgite) clays which may have formed in Tertiary palaeochannels and...-
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Lake Anthony. Quarterly reports, first joint annual report (with SML 711) and joint final report to licence full surrender, for the period 1/9/1971 to 31/5/1973.
An area located just to the east of the edge of the Nullarbor Plain, occupied by many scattered large and small salt lakes surrounded by sand dunes, with Precambrian basement [of the western Gawler Craton] subcropping near the surface, has been...-
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Published: 26 Jun 1973
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Dunn Hill, Wallala Hill and Mount Centre. Progress report plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 14/2/1989 to 16/6/1989.
TARGET: Possible heavy mineral placer or sedimentary uranium deposits within the Narlaby Palaeochannel in the Nunjikompita - Hiltaba areas on western Eyre Peninsula. EXPLORATION: Reverse circulation drilling traverses (50 holes totalling 1213 m),...-
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Published: 31 Jul 1989
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Garford Homestead. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 12/4/1983 to 11/4/1984.
After a regional review of the absorbent clay mineral potential of known palygorskite and attapulgite - bearing Middle Tertiary palaeochannel sediments in an area centred 110 km south-west of Coober Pedy, a possibly economic partly-exposed attapulgite...-
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Published: 21 Jun 1984
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Wirrulla, Cungena, Mortana, Kolballa and Calca. Joint progress reports and joint final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 18/8/1989 to 17/12/1991.
TARGET: Possible heavy mineral sands emplaced within Tertiary sediments in the Wirulla, Poochera, Inkster and Streaky Bay areas. EXPLORATION: Reconnaissance 10-15 km spaced and infill 100 m spaced reverse circulation drilling to pre-Tertiary basement...-
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Lake Anthony and Lamont. Progress and relinquishment reports for the period 12/4/82 to 11/4/85.
Literature reviews, plus studies of photogeology and of drillhole data, have confirmed the existence of palaeochannels and of the selective accumulation of Tertiary lignites within a broad area that surrounds and lies to the north and west of Lake...-
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Nalara and Pulkatha. Progress and final reports for the period from 29/9/88 to 28/3/90.
TARGET: Heavy mineral sands in the Eocene Hampton Sandstone of the Eucla Basin. EXPLORATION: A review of Landsat data, aerial photographs and topographic maps to located fossil Tertiary coastal strandlines, plus reverse circulation drilling (97 holes...-
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Published: 11 Apr 1990
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Sandstone. Progress reports for the period 18/12/86 to 18/12/90.
TARGET: Palygorskite (absorbent clay) in playa lakes within the Garford Palaeochannel. EXPLORATION: Trenching and 10-20 kg bulk sampling of known dolomitic palygorskite occurrences (15 backhoe cuts in seven lake depressions, to 3.6 m below surface,...-
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Published: 12 Dec 1990
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Thurlga Ramp (part of the Eyre Peninsula Project, Corrobinnie Uranium JV and Thurlga JV periods). Data release : final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/1/2013 to 3/5/2019.
During the report period, licensee Andromeda Metals did no on-ground exploration. During its agreed 3-year earn-in period, joint venturer Investigator Resources undertook the following work described herein: - acquisition of high resolution aerial...-
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Published: 19 Jul 1919
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Wilkinson Lakes. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/7/1978 to 5/10/1981.
TARGET: Sedimentary uranium in Tertiary paleochannels draining the western margin of the Gawler Craton, and in sediments of the Wilkinson Trough. Base metals in Proterozoic basement rocks. EXPLORATION: Rotary drilling (48 holes totalling 3213 m),...-
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Published: 06 Apr 1981
