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Late Eocene - Pliocene stratigraphy of the Langhorne Sub-basin (north-western Padthaway Archipelago, South Australia).
The following Tertiary units were identified : Kongorong Fm, Narrawaturk Fm, Buccleuch Fm, Ettrick Fm, Mannum Fm, Kalibar Limestone, Parilla Sand and North West Bend Fm. All of these units are separated by unconformities. Erosional surfaces,...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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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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RB 83/00017 SADME Oakvale 1. Well completion report.
The fully rotary cored Oakvale 1 vertical stratigraphic drillhole was drilled by SADME Regional Geology Branch, 13 km east of Oakvale Station homestead in the north of the Murray Basin within SA, over the period 22/5/1981 to 10/6/1981. The hole was...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1983
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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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Bordertown - Naracoorte and Pinnaroo areas. Joint first annual report plus joint final report to licences' expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/11/2001 to 29/11/2003.
Possible heavy mineral sand marine placer deposits occurring in the Pliocene Loxton-Parilla Sands of the Murray Basin were the targets of exploration in an area extending immediately north and south of Bordertown, and across to the SA/Vic. State...-
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Published: 30 Oct 1903
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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 1904
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Alice Park. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 4/4/2013 to 16/7/2014.
An area centred ~10 km north of Bordertown, abutting the SA/Vic. state border, has been explored for possible economic heavy mineral (HM) deposits that may have formed in the southern Murray Basin as beach strandings within Loxton-Parilla Sand...-
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Published: 10 Dec 1914
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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 1915
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Kangaroo Flat. Information status at licence full surrender, for the period 8/5/2013 to 16/7/2014: no work performed.
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Woolpunda (part of the Murray Basin Project). Fourth partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 16/11/2000 to 3/7/2017.
An area located immediately south of the Sturt Highway that connects between Swan Reach and Loxton, in the vicinity of the Woolpunda Irrigation Area, has been explored for possible buried accumulations of Tertiary heavy mineral sands which may have...-
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Loxton (part of the Murray Basin Project). Third partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 25/5/1998 to 1/9/2017.
An area located in the northern SA Murray Mallee region, covering an extent of ground surrounding Loxton, has been explored for possible buried accumulations of Tertiary heavy mineral sands which may have formed in the sedimentary cover. In total, 816...-
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Meribah (part of the Murray Basin Project). Fourth partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 19/12/1997 to 1/9/2017.
An area located in the north-eastern SA Murray Mallee region, and centred ~ 35 km south-southeast of Loxton, has been explored for possible buried accumulations of Tertiary heavy mineral sands which may have formed in the sedimentary cover. In total,...-
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Mantung (part of the Murray Basin Project). Fourth partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 14/10/1997 to 8/8/2017.
An area located in the northern SA Murray Mallee region, and centred ~ 35 km south-west of Loxton, has been explored for possible buried accumulations of Tertiary heavy mineral sands which may have formed in the sedimentary cover. In total, 513 square...-
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Parilla. First partial relinquishment report for the period 6/8/1987 to 5/8/1988.
TARGET: Economic heavy mineral sand deposits within the Upper Pliocene Parilla Sand in the Lameroo - Karte region. EXPLORATION: RAB drilling (222 holes totalling 3944 m) along 5 traverses. RESULTS: Only trace amounts of heavy minerals were recovered...-
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Woorloo Hill (part of the Padthaway Ridge Project). Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/1/1989 to 8/7/1989.
TARGET: Possible economic heavy mineral sands accumulations that may have formed in the area extending between Padthaway, Bordertown and Lameroo. EXPLORATION: A sedimentological review of the subsurface distribution of the Pliocene sand sequence,...-
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Koomooloo [Homestead] and Faraway Hill. Joint first progress report and joint final report to licences' full surrender, for the period 31/8/1990 to 28/3/1991.
TARGET: Possible economic heavy mineral sand deposits formed within the Pliocene Parilla Sand sequence along the north-western margin of the Murray Basin, both in the Canegrass area and the area east of Braemar Station. EXPLORATION: A consultant's...-
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Parilla. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 6/8/1987 to 5/2/1991.
TARGET: Possible economic heavy mineral sand accumulations in Pliocene raised beach strandlines developed along part of the south-western margin of the Murray Basin. EXPLORATION: Exploratory and appraisal RAB drilling along 8 roadside traverses (315...-
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Published: 25 Feb 1991
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Meribah. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/12/1988 to 8/6/1990.
TARGET: Possible economic heavy mineral sand accumulations in Pliocene raised beach strandlines developed along part of the west-central Murray Basin, east and south of Renmark. EXPLORATION: reconnaissance RAB drilling (273 holes, totalling 4035 m)...-
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Mercunda. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/5/1987 to 12/5/1991.
TARGET: Possible economic heavy mineral sand accumulations in Pliocene raised beach strandlines developed along part of the south-western margin of the Murray Basin. EXPLORATION: Exploratory and appraisal RAB drilling along 5 roadside traverses (163...-
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Published: 13 May 1991
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Bordertown. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/8/1987 to 20/2/1990.
TARGET: Now buried heavy mineral sands accumulations that may have formed within the Tertiary Parilla Sand as palaeo-beach placer deposits. EXPLORATION: Appraisal of SADME-held water bore data, photogeological studies, geomorphic mapping,...-
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