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North Fowlers Bay - Chundaria. Annual reports and progress reports for the periods 15/9/1993 to 14/9/1998, and 28/10/1998 to 12/3/1999.
North Ltd's Barton Project commenced in 1990 across a number of licences progressively taken out over the western Gawler Craton, which eventually came to include EL 1865. Initial exploration for heavy mineral sand in the Barton-Ooldea area, 100-200...-
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Published: 06 May 1999
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RB 94/00022 Review of heavy mineral sand exploration in South Australia - Eucla Basin.
The Cainozoic Eucla Basin has been the focus of recent heavy mineral exploration due to the recognition of Tertiary coastal features including the Ooldea Range. Hypsometric and Landsat data, together with detailed work on the Tertiary stratigraphy of...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1994
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Barton, Barton Range North and Paling Range, plus Wells and north-eastern Eucla Basin licence Areas A through Y (Iluka's Eucla Basin Heavy Mineral Sands Project tenement Group 4). Joint annual reports for the period 19/10/2009 to 31/12/2015.
During the 2009-2010 project reporting year, Iluka completed exploration work costing $5,200,532 across its combined thirty-one Group 4 tenements, to assess the north-eastern Eucla Basin's sediment stratigraphy and heavy mineral sand (HM) potential...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Fig Tree Corner, Barton, Colona North, Ooldea Range and Pidinga (the Eucla Basin Mineral Sands Tenement Group 1). Joint annual report for the period 1/3/2009 to 28/2/2010.
Between April and August 2009, exploratory drilling was undertaken by Iluka on EL 3233 (94 holes for 5052.5 m along 6 traverses, at a nominal spacing of 800 m to 1 km). 779 samples with a visually estimated grade of >0.5% HM were taken from 76...-
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Chimpering Rock Hole, Yarrana Hill, Moornaba Rock Hole, Euria Well, Koonibba Mission, Lake Tallacootra, Dunn Hill, Wallala Hill, Mount Centre and Nalara. Quarterly and annual progress reports plus technical reports, for the period 25/7/1989 to 24/7/1992.
Hitherto untried exploration for heavy mineral sands on the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin, conducted by the Ceduna Joint Venture partners since 1989 over ten contiguous licence areas in the Ooldea - Barton area centred 150 km north-west of Ceduna,...-
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Yaranna Hill, Euria Well and Kooniba Mission (part of the Ceduna Mineral Sands Project). Joint final report at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 25/7/1989 to 24/1/1992.
TARGET: Possible Tertiary strandline deposits of heavy mineral sands in an area north of Bookabie, and also inland from Fowlers Bay near the Koonibba Mission. EXPLORATION: A photogeological study, and reconnaissance RC drilling along 7 traverses (88...-
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Barton, Nalara and Pulkatha. Joint surrender and [EL 1721] first partial surrender report, for the period 6/5/1991 to 5/5/1992.
TARGET: Heavy mineral sands in Tertiary sediments of the Eucla Basin, immediately north of and extending to 200 km north-northwest of Ceduna. EXPLORATION: A review of historical data, the conduct of helicopter-assisted soil heavy mineral sampling...-
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Chundie Swamps. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/8/1986 to 19/8/1987.
The heavy mineral potential of Tertiary sediments in the Chundie Swamps was investigated with 2 drill traverses (43 RC open vertical holes totalling 863 m) and reconnaissance soil mineralogical sampling. Heavy mineral contents were very low.-
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Pidinga (part of the Eucla-Maralinga Heavy Mineral Sands Project). Annual reports, including those for the commencement of licence joint annual reporting for the Eucla Basin Mineral Sands Tenement Group 1, for the period 27/8/2004 to 28/2/2009.
An area located on the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin, and centred ~60 km north-east of Fowlers Bay, has now been taken under licence by WA-based company Iluka Resources to explore for possible buried economic occurrences of zircon-rich heavy...-
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RB 00843 Geology of the Maralinga area, South Australia.
Maralinga is located on the crest of the Ooldea Range, an ancient (Tertiary) coastal dune which is bounded to the south by the Nullarbor Plain and to the north by Tietkens Plain. The dune field of the Great Victoria Desert covers much of the region...-
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RB 2021/00011 Models, geology and exploration of heavy mineral deposits in South Australia.
This study draws together diverse aspects of South Australia’s heavy minerals (HM) resources geoscience to provide an overall context for evaluating their occurrence, economic significance and origins. Two main objectives are addressed by the subject...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2021
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Ooldea Range (part of the Eucla Basin Project). Annual reports, including those for the commencement of licence joint annual reporting for the Eucla Basin Mineral Sands Tenement Group 1, for the period 5/3/2002 to 28/2/2009.
The geomorphic feature known as the Ooldea Range, a prominent Eocene dune formed at the limit of the marine transgression on the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin, has now been taken under licence by WA-based company Iluka Resources to explore for...-
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Barton Range Central, Barton Range North and Paling Range, north-eastern Eucla Basin (Rio Tinto's Barton Range Project). Joint annual reports for work completed before the sale of these licences, for the period 15/3/2005 to 31/12/2009.
A sizeable part of the north-eastern Tertiary Eucla Basin marine palaeomargin is being explored for possible economic buried raised beach strandline deposits of detrital rutile, zircon and ilmenite-rich heavy mineral sands (HM) that may have formed...-
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Bookabie area (near Fowlers Bay). Annual, partial surrender and final reports to licence expiry for the period 10/9/2001 to 9/9/2003.
Heavy minerals concentrated within the Ooldea Sand of the Eucla Basin, and possibly reworked and upgraded by later marine incursions into such deposits, which might have led to their redeposition elsewhere as translocated strandlines that are still...-
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Ooldea. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/9/1986 to 1/9/1991.
Exploration for heavy-mineral sand in Tertiary sediments on the south-western flank of the Ooldea Range comprised geological reconnaissance and RC drilling (81 holes, total 1204 m). Up to 3% titaniferous heavy minerals were reported from drill samples.-
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RB 2022/00011 Eucla Basin and peripheral paleovalleys.
The Cenozoic Eucla Basin is located on the southern margin of the Australian continent, with a present-day basin onshore edge which extends for over 2,000 km from Western Australia into South Australia. The basin’s sediment fill comprises a thin...-
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Published: 01 Nov 2022
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Penong A area (part of the Eucla Basin Heavy Mineral Sands Project tenement Group 2). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 29/7/2009 to 26/4/2018.
An attenuated licence area extending for 40-75 km north to north-east of Penong was taken up to explore part of the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin for possible economic buried Tertiary detrital heavy mineral (HM) marine sand placer deposits. Over...-
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Published: 17 Apr 2018
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 2 partnership DPY2-10, Watraba (eastern Eucla Basin) heavy mineral sands prospect. Project final report.
This partly PACE-funded drilling project aimed to discover a heavy mineral sand deposit along the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin in the EL 3363 Watraba project area, located 40 kilometres north to north-west of Ceduna. Drilling tested an...-
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Published: 18 Dec 2006
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Ooldea. Fourth partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 19/11/2003 to 1/4/2014.
A small licence area located 170 km north-northwest of Fowlers Bay in far western South Australia is being explored for possible economic Tertiary heavy mineral sands (HMS) deposits, targeting accumulations of rutile, zircon or ilmenite that may have...-
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Published: 21 May 2015
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Boondina. Second partial surrender report, for the period 28/5/2007 to 27/5/2014.
A small licence area located 30 km north of Fowlers Bay in far western South Australia is being explored for possible economic Tertiary mineral sands deposits, targeting accumulations of rutile, zircon or ilmenite that may have formed as marginal...-
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Published: 26 May 2015
