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Lilydale. Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial surrender report : progress reports, annual reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal over a much reduced area, for the period 5/1/1988 to 4/1/1993.
Initial exploration carried out near Lilydale Homestead, 80 kilometres south-east of Yunta, targeted possible Starra-style gold in the Braemar Ironstone facies. Flying of an airborne semi-detailed magnetic and radiometric survey identified magnetic...-
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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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Pepper Tree. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/11/1987 to 15/11/1989.
TARGET: Possible economic buried heavy mineral sand accumulations within the Pliocene Parilla Sand in the Canopus area, ~60 km north of Renmark. EXPLORATION: Exploratory reverse circulation aircore traverse drilling and downhole gamma ray logging...-
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Morgan and Waikerie (part of the Mindarie Heavy Mineral Sands Project and later the Murray Basin Project). Joint final report at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 30/4/1998 to 24/9/2015.
In the last phase of exploration for possible buried economic heavy mineral (HM) sands marine placer deposits in the district extending between Waikerie, Blanchetown and parts of the north-western Murray Mallee, the only field work undertaken was...-
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Published: 27 Aug 1915
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Tailem Bend. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 28/7/2005 to 24/9/2015.
An area covering the valley of the River Murray between Murray Bridge and Jervois has been explored for possible economic placer occurrences of heavy mineral (HM) sands that may have formed within the Late Tertiary Murray Basin shallow marine clastic...-
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Published: 25 Aug 1915
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Morgan. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 12/4/2007 to 16/7/2014.
After its purchase of the subject EL 5069 on 8/7/2013, a single drilling campaign was undertaken by Iluka Resources during August-October 2013, when 11 RC aircore vertical open holes were drilled for a total penetration of 266.5 m. Ten of the holes...-
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Published: 09 Jul 1914
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Wynarka. Early annual reports, plus final report at licence full surrender, for the period 28/5/2007 to 24/9/2015.
An area centred on the township of Wynarka in the Murray Mallee, and which extended NW-SE along the northern side of the Padthaway Ridge, has been explored for possible economic placer occurrences of heavy mineral (HM) sands that may have formed...-
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Published: 27 Aug 1915
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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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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 1915
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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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The Mindarie Heavy Mineral Sands Project. Joint and combined annual reports, for the period 19/12/1997 to 31/12/2010.
An assessment of the Late Tertiary Murray Basin shallow marine clastic sedimentary sequence (Loxton and Parilla sands) for heavy mineral sand accumulations has discovered numerous occurrences of economic to sub-economic amounts of heavy minerals...-
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Published: 19 Apr 1911
