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Watson Siding (South). Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 11/12/81 to 10/10/82.
In a search for possible concealed Olympic Dam type base metal deposits within an area located 80 km north-west of Yalata, the licensee investigated several previously identified contiguous magnetic and gravity anomalies by performing ground magnetic...-
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Published: 16 Dec 1982
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RB 85/00013 Latest Eocene palynofloras of the Pidinga Formation, Wilkinson no. 1 well, western South Australia.
Diverse palynomorph assemblages were recovered from Wilkinson 1 and are correlated with the latest Eocene Sparganiaceaepollenites barungensis Zone (Harris 1971) in South Australia and the upper Nothofagidites asperus Zone (Stover and Partridge 1973)...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1985
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RB 79/00044 Explanatory notes for the CHILDARA, 1:250 000 geological map sheet SH/53-14.
The CHILDARA 1:250 000 geological map covers part of the Precambrian Gawler Craton in north-western Eyre Peninsula, much of which is blanketed by Cainozoic and Mesozoic deposits. The oldest rocks are a complex assemblage of granitic gneisses and...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 96/00009 Oak Valley groundwater investigation.
MESA was contracted to find a groundwater supply for the Oak Valley Community. It was identified that the water's salinity was required to be less than 40,000 mg/l for desalination, and that the yield needed was 1 l/s. The investigation included a...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1996
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RB 91/00076 Stratigraphy and palynology of Late Cretaceous sediments from the Great Australian Bight area, Southern Australia.
The offshore Mesozoic-Tertiary Bight and Duntroon basins formed through rifting and separation of the Australian and Antartic plates. Palynological investigation of samples dredged during BMR Rig Seismic Cruise 66 showed that the bulk of the...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1991
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Watraba (part of the Watraba Project). Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 6/6/2005 to 3/4/2009.
Exploration of an onshore area located in the vicinity of Watraba aimed to discover beach or shallow marine placer concentrations of zircon-rich heavy mineral sands, possibly formed within significant thicknesses of prospective Upper Tertiary Ooldea...-
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Published: 20 May 1909
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 2 partnership DPY2-01, north-western Eyre Peninsula (eastern Eucla Basin) heavy mineral sands prospects. Project final report.
As a result of PACE Initiative - subsidised regional exploratory drilling for Tertiary heavy mineral sands carried out on the north-western Eyre Peninsula during February-April 2006, comprising 349 aircore drillholes put down along 19 traverses for a...-
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Published: 08 Jun 1906
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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 1906
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Pureba Conservation Park, Nunnyah Conservation Reserve, Koolgera Conservation Reserve, Jellabinna, Ooldea South and Ooldea Range (part of the Eucla Basin Project). Joint first partial surrender report, for the period 27/10/2004 to 31/1/2009.
Exploration for possible economic heavy mineral sands carried out by Iluka Resources within the now relinquished portions of its multi-licence acreage has comprised aircore drilling of the Cainozoic sedimentary sequence (173 holes for a total...-
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Published: 31 Jan 1909
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Flinders Island and Flinders Island Coast. Annual, joint annual and combined annual reports for the period 4/1/1999 to 3/1/2009.
A renewed effort to determine the diamond mineral potential of the 15.6 square km of land comprising Flinders Island was instigated during January 1999, under tenure of EL 2577, by Orogenic Exploration Pty Ltd, a company related to the previous...-
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Published: 06 Jun 1909
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Kyancutta. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/4/2014 to expiry 15/4/2018.
An area extending for 26 km to the south and south-east of Wudinna was taken up by Minotaur to evaluate the economic potential of known but poorly defined occurrences of the industrial minerals gypsum and alunite that are associated with Recent salt...-
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Seven Mile Swamps (part of the Euria Project). Annual report and progress report to licence full surrender, for the period 31/5/1996 to 10/2/1998.
Calcrete sampling, mapping, and RAB and aircore drilling (211 holes, total 7334 m) were carried out 20 km north of Penong, in an area underlain by Hiltaba Suite granitoids, Archaean gneisses and a major associated shear zone. Although geochemical...-
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Published: 18 Dec 1997
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Petina, Puntabie and Maltee (Ceduna - Streaky Bay district). Joint first partial relinquishment report, for the period 13/2/2004 to 11/11/2004.
The seaward portion of the subject licences, comprising 52% of the combined original area granted, has been relinquished after a reconnaissance RC aircore drilling programme which targeted economic heavy mineral sands within Cainozoic marine placer...-
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Published: 10 Dec 1904
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Unlocking South Australia's Mineral and Energy Potential - A Plan for Accelerating Exploration. Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry) : Year 3 partnership no. DPY3-22, Barton West heavy mineral sand prospect. Project final report.
Previous drilling in 2005, undertaken as part of another PACE project, DPY2-52, discovered significant occurrences of heavy mineral sands within an area of 15 km x 5 km in the southern part of EL 3092 (the Notrab prospect). These sands were...-
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Mount Igy. Annual reports submitted until the commencement of licence joint reporting for the Tallaringa JV ELs, for the period 18/1/2006 to 17/1/2009.
An area centred ~150 km WSW of Coober Pedy has been explored for possible buried economic sandstone-hosted secondary uranium deposits which might have formed within northeastwards-draining tributaries of the Tertiary Tallaringa Palaeochannel. Another,...-
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Published: 23 Apr 1909
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Indooroopilly Outstation. Annual reports to licence expiry/re-issue, for the period 17/5/2009 to 16/5/2010.
A large area centred approximately 170 km south-west of Coober Pedy is being explored for possible economic buried secondary uranium mineralisation in the form of palaeochannel - hosted roll front or unconformity type deposits which may have formed...-
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Published: 22 Oct 1910
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The Eyre Peninsula Project, and in part the Corrobinnie Uranium Joint Venture. Joint annual reports for the period 29/12/2008 to 31/12/2013.
During the sixth year of the project, licensee Adelaide Resources did not do any exploration directed at gold or base metals that might possibly occur on the subject tenements. However, its joint venture partner Quasar Resources undertook significant...-
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Published: 05 Mar 1914
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Puntabie, Maltee, Mount Cooper and Pureba South [the north-western Eyre Peninsula (eastern Eucla Basin) heavy mineral sands exploration Tenement Group 3]. Final report at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 28/4/2004 to 5/5/2016.
Iluka Resources has been exploring the four subject areas, located east of the townships of Streaky Bay and Ceduna, since April 2004, as part of a continuing regional search for possible economic, zircon-rich Tertiary marine placer mineral sands...-
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Published: 20 May 1916
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Petina - part of the north-western Eyre Peninsula (eastern Eucla Basin) heavy mineral sands exploration tenement group [Group 3]. Final report at licence surrender, for the period 13/2/2004 to 4/5/2016.
Iluka Resources has been exploring the subject area, located east of the townships of Streaky Bay and Ceduna, since October 2003, as part of a continuing regional search for possible economic, zircon-rich Tertiary marine placer mineral sands deposits...-
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Published: 20 May 1916
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Wilkinson Lakes East. Annual reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 3/5/2010 to 6/2/2015.
An area centred ~150 km west of Coober Pedy, that is located mostly north-west of and that also has a small part lying immediately south-east of the Karari Fault, a major crustal structure which has controlled deposition at the southern limit of the...-
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