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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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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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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 1915
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Fig Tree Corner. Second partial surrender report, for the period 10/3/2005 to 4/4/2019.
Most of a sizeable licence area located on SA's Far West Coast, which formerly extended for 10 to 90 km inland from the vicinity of Bookabie, has now been partially relinquished owing to its perceived diminished prospectivity for Tertiary marine...-
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Published: 12 Apr 1919
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Poondinga. Third partial surrender report, for the period 27/10/2004 to 4/4/2019.
309.6 square km or ~18.77% of the pre-existing area of EL 5564 Poondinga was partially relinquished on 19/2/2019 because in the licensee's view this south-eastern portion of the licence are does not appear to exhibit the geological features required...-
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Published: 12 Apr 1919
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Lake Tallacootra. First partial surrender report, for the period 29/11/2012 to 23/12/2019.
The western two-thirds, or 427 square km, of an area located on the eastern side of the Nullarbor Plain, ~200 km north-west of Ceduna, has been partially relinquished because in the licensee's opinion it does not exhibit the geological features...-
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Published: 15 May 1920
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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 1918
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Penong B area and Yumbarra (part of the Eucla Basin Project tenement Group 2). Joint final report at licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/11/2012 to 15/11/2017.
Two adjoining areas located north of Koonibba were taken up to explore this part of the south-eastern Eucla Basin for possible buried economic marine placer deposits of heavy mineral sands (HM), because they were believed to contain shallow or exposed...-
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Published: 12 Sep 1917
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Yellabinna and Poondinga. Respective second partial surrender reports, for the period 27/10/2004 to 13/4/2018.
Two adjoining areas located on the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin, and centred ~60 km north-east of Fowlers Bay, are being explored for possible buried economic occurrences of zircon-rich heavy mineral sands (HMS) that may have been formed along...-
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Published: 31 May 1918
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Fig Tree Corner, Ooldea South, Barton, Colona North, Ooldea Range and Pidinga (the Eucla Basin HMS Project tenement Group One). Joint annual reports for the period 1/3/2011 to 31/12/2015.
During the 2011-2012 joint reporting year, Iluka undertook drilling on ELs 3638, 3742 and 4544 with three aims: to extend the Typhoon HM deposit resource, to follow-up results of brownfields drilling at the Sonoran prospect, and to do further infill...-
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Published: 28 Feb 1916
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Fig Tree Corner, Ooldea South, Barton, Colona North, Ooldea Range and Pidinga (the Eucla Basin HMS Project tenement Group One). Joint annual reports for the period 1/3/2007 to 28/2/2011.
A group of adjoining tenements covering ground situated between Ceduna and the Trans Australia Railway are being explored for possible economic buried Tertiary marine placer deposits of heavy mineral sands. During the 2007-2008 joint reporting year,...-
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Published: 01 May 1911
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Sandy Plain. Annual reports to licence expiry/cancellation, for the period 3/12/2007 to 2/12/2010.
An area of the onshore Tertiary Eucla Basin located about 170 km north-west of Ceduna and 50 km north-east of Ooldea Siding on the Trans Australian Railway has been explored for possible economic heavy mineral concentrations formed within shallow...-
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Eucla Basin Areas 2, 3 and 4. Joint annual reports and joint first partial surrender report, plus respective licence's final reports to full surrender, for the overall period 29/8/2006 to 28/8/2013.
Three adjoining licence areas that were centred approximately 480 km north-west of Ceduna together occupied the northern section of the Ooldea Range over a stepped NW-SE trending outline having an average width of 25 km and a combined total length of...-
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Published: 21 Nov 1913
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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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Charra. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 25/2/2008 to 24/2/2015.
A small area centred ~30 km west-northwest of Ceduna has been explored for possible economic Tertiary heavy mineral sands deposits. During the first licence year, Bemax performed a literature review and examined available geological data for this...-
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Published: 16 Apr 1915
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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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Data release - as updated : Barton. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/1/2006 to 28/9/2022.
An area centred ~185 km west of Tarcoola, and lying immediately south of the Trans Australia Railway line, was taken up to explore for possible economic buried IOCG type mineralisation hosted by buried basement rocks of the western Gawler Craton, as...-
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Published: 21 Nov 1922
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Data release - as updated : Boondina (part of the Eucla Basin Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 28/5/2007 to 27/5/2015.
A small licence area located 30 km north of Fowlers Bay in far western South Australia has been explored for possible economic Tertiary mineral sands deposits, but specific activities on it were repeatedly postponed by the licensee not committing the...-
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Published: 26 Jun 1915
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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 1915
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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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