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RB 88/00050 Volcanic and sedimentary rocks from the Wirrulla region, Gawler Craton, South Australia.
Volcanic rocks from the Wirrulla region include dacites, rhyodacites and rhyolites. They comprise both magmatic and pyroclastic types, and are similar to the Gawler Range Volcanics. Sedimentary rocks from the same region include quartz sandstones...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1988
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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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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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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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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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Streaky Bay, Yartoo and Pureba South (part of Eucla Basin Project tenement Group 3). Data release made at the full surrender of the second-named licence, and the partial surrenders for the other two: progress report for the period 28/4/2004 to 31/7/2012.
Ground in the Eucla Basin which borders the south-western margin of the Gawler Ranges basement uplift has been explored for possible economic marine placer heavy mineral sands deposits. Work was focussed on evaluating any Tertiary shoreline sediment...-
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Published: 07 Sep 1912
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Data release - as updated : Phar Lap Outstation. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/8/2007 to 26/8/2017.
An area centred ~85 km south-southeast of Coober Pedy, at the southern margin of the Lake Phillipson Trough, a long active tectonic feature now occupied by deep sedimentary fill, was taken up by a wholly-owned subsidiary to Monax Mining Ltd primarily...-
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Published: 24 May 1917
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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 1 of 2].
As part of a continuing search for possible economic, zircon-rich Tertiary marine placer mineral sands deposits within its tenement holdings in the eastern Eucla Basin, licensee Iluka Resources carried out scout drilling on ELs 3163, 3201 and 3203...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1910
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RB 2001/00021 Development of geoscientific models for exploration in Tertiary palaeochannels draining the north-western Gawler Craton, SA.
The precise geometric definition of palaeochannels on the north-western Gawler Craton, South Australia, is important in the exploration for placers (e.g. gold and heavy minerals), secondary geochemical deposits (e.g. uranium) and even for lignite and...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2001