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Murray Bridge. Progress reports, annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 15/7/1991 to 14/1/1994.
Exploration was undertaken by BHP along the western margin of the Murray Basin, between Lake Alexandrina and Cambrai township, for possible economic heavy mineral sands and for exhalative sedex-style volcanogenic/stratabound base metal deposits, both...-
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Oakbank, Sergeant's Dam and Oakvale (part of the Oakvale Project). Joint first partial surrender report, for the period 3/12/1997 to 15/7/1999.
Exploratory drilling to search for heavy mineral sands, performed over an area extending to 160 km north and north-west of Renmark, has targeted marginal marine placer deposits of detrital rutile, ilmenite and zircon in potential Loxton - Parilla Sand...-
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Oakbank, Sergeant's Dam and Oakvale, northern Murray Basin, South Australia (part of the Oakvale Project). Joint third partial surrender report, for the period 3/12/1997 to 1/12/2001.
Within the now relinquished licence portions, parts of six traverses of reverse circulation aircore drilling (involving 68 vertical open holes, total 1918.5 m) tested 60 km strike length of interpreted heavy mineral sand - bearing marine beach facies...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Olary Project (latterly part of the Lodestone Project). Licence individual annual reports, plus related project joint annual reports, for the period 4/11/2009 to 20/1/2019.
Iluka Resources is exploring for possible economic heavy mineral (HM) deposits that may have formed in the northern Murray Basin, with a strategy of targeting any mineralised Loxton-Parilla Sand formation sediments deposited during the Pliocene marine...-
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Oakvale Station. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 28/3/1988 to 10/9/1990.
TARGET: Possible economic Pliocene or younger heavy mineral sand deposits in the Oakvale Station region of the north-western Murray Basin. EXPLORATION: Acquisition and processing of the major part of 33,000 line km of low-level airborne magnetic and...-
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Published: 24 Sep 1990
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RB 00738 Chowilla Project. Reservoir geological investigations. Progress report no. 2. Proposed study of effects on groundwater regime, Co. Hamley.
It has been appreciated since the first geological report by Johnson, Hiern and Steel (RB 51/00136) that the filling of the proposed Chowilla Dam would cause some flushing downstream of saline groundwater present in sands beneath the Murray River...-
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Published: 01 May 1900
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RB 2022/00003 Zircon provenance and sedimentary transport processes – implications for the late Neogene evolution and heavy mineral deposits of the western Murray Basin, South Australia.
Strandlines or elevated shorelines, located across the Murray Basin in south-eastern Australia, trace the preserved remnants of former emergent coastlines that developed during the Late Miocene (c. 7 to 4 Ma) marine regression. Strandline traces...-
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Published: 01 May 2022
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RB 74/00111 Amphibolite deposit near Tailem Bend.
Railway ballast was sought from amphibolite of the Kanmantoo Group of Cambrian age which subcrops on a bedrock ridge in the Murray Basin near Tailem Bend. A surface sample of amphibolite returned low Los Angelese Abrasion and Sodium Sulphate Soundness...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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Oakbank Dam (part of the Lodestone Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 4/11/2010 to 1/8/2016.
An area centred ~70 km south-southeast of Olary has been explored for buried mineral sands placer deposits that may have formed within the Cainozoic Murray Basin sedimentary cover, as well as for possible economic stratabound iron ore occurrences that...-
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Mantung (part of the Murray Basin Project). Second partial surrender report, for the period 14/10/1997 to 15/10/2013.
A block comprising 319 square km or ~12.7% of the north-western corner of EL 5223 has been relinquished due to its now perceived diminished prospectivity for containing economic heavy mineral sands mineralisation, due to the apparent general absence...-
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Pinnaroo, Mount Timothy and Dingo Range (the Pinnaroo Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/6/1997 to 18/6/1999.
An airborne magnetic survey acquired by the grant licensee over the Lameroo district during August 1997 generated a number of shallow-source anomalies which suggested that there was fair potential for discovering buried Tertiary palaeocoastal...-
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Published: 31 Aug 1999
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Oakbank - Quondong Vale and Oakvale (part of the Oakvale Project). Joint second partial surrender report, for the period 3/12/1997 to 22/2/2001.
Exploration for possible buried Tertiary heavy mineral sands occurrences consisted of an interpretation of remote sensing data, followed by the conduct of two reverse circulation aircore drilling programmes (28 holes, total 892.5 m). The first...-
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Balah (part of the Oakvale Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 3/12/1997 to 23/7/1999.
25 vertical open RC/aircore holes (total penetration 1077 m) were drilled during heavy mineral sands exploration of an area stretching from 10 km to 100 km north-northeast of Morgan. The target Pliocene Loxton-Parilla Sand was found to be barren of...-
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Geranium. Annual reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 5/3/1997 to 4/4/2001.
Evaluation of known Tertiary sedimentary diatomite occurrences in the central Murray Mallee was carried out by Agricola Mining Pty Ltd on three prospects located near Geranium. Rotary drilling, with variable recovery sections of bottomhole diamond...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Murray Basin Project. Joint annual reports, plus individual licence final reports at their respective full surrender, for the period 19/12/1997 to 30/6/2018.
Previous investigations of the Late Tertiary Murray Basin shallow marine littoral zone clastic sedimentary sequence (Loxton and Parilla sands) for heavy mineral sand (HM) placer accumulations have discovered numerous occurrences of economic to...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : The North-western Murray Basin Project. Joint annual reports for the period 29/8/2012 to 28/8/2014.
During Year 7 of the project, Goldfields did no more field work, but undertook office-based analyses of bedrock geochemical and geological data obtained in its 2012 aircore drilling campaign. Image processing and interpretation of the Canegrass...-
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Published: 28 Feb 2015
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Murray Bridge. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 26/7/2005 to 24/9/2015.
An area covering the valley of the River Murray between Murray Bridge and Mannum, and also extending for a considerable distance eastwards into the Murray Mallee (across farmland on the counties of Younghusband, Burdett and Ettrick), has been explored...-
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Published: 25 Aug 2015
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Lameroo, Parilla and Pinnaroo (the CBD - Central Basin District - Project). Joint first annual/final report at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 19/6/2012 to 18/6/2014.
Three contiguous areas centred ~50-80 km east of Tailem Bend, and reaching close to the SA-Vic. State border, have been explored for possible economic buried Tertiary marine placer heavy mineral sand (HMS) deposits that may have been formed within the...-
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Published: 14 Jul 2014
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Oakbank, Balah, Sergeant's Dam and Record Dam (Basin Minerals' Oakvale Project). Joint annual reports plus joint final report at the latest licence's full surrender, for the period 3/12/1997 to 1/4/2004.
Heavy minerals in the Pliocene Loxton - Parilla Sands marginal marine sequence of the western Murray Basin were the targets of exploration in an area 130 km north of Renmark. During March 1998, a trial 571 line km low-level aeromagnetic survey was...-
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Published: 02 Jun 2004
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The Padthaway Ridge Sedimentary Uranium Project. Joint annual technical reports to licences' combined full surrender, for the period 30/1/2008 to 3/9/2013.
A package of fourteen mineral exploration tenements were taken up that straddled the north-eastern and south-western sides of the Padthaway Ridge, to allow the licensee to explore both the Tertiary Murray Basin and Gambier Basin sediments where they...-
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Published: 16 Jul 2013
