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  • Murray Basin - (125)
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STRATIGRAPHY

  • Parilla Sand Member - (80)
  • Loxton Sand - (70)
  • Renmark Group - (11)
  • Norwest Bend Formation - (10)
  • Kanmantoo Group - (7)
  • Ettrick Formation - (5)
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  • Murray Group - (4)
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  • Boucaut Volcanics - (3)
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  • Olney Formation - (3)
  • Buccleuch Formation - (2)
  • Gambier Limestone - (2)
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PUBLICATION DATE

Specific date: 1980, 20/04/1980, 04/1980

Date range: 1980-2022, 04/1980-08/1990

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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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  • Mutooroo [Station]. Progress reports to licence full surrender, for the period 11/9/1989 to 6/9/1994.

    Exploration for possible heavy mineral sand marine placer deposits within Tertiary sediments on the northern margin of the Murray Basin comprised aircore drilling (28 holes, total 744 m) in the Mutooroo station area, 50 km south-east of Olary. The...
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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 90/00078 South Australia - Exploration Towards 2000. Seminar, Adelaide, 13 December, 1990. Extended abstracts.

    A seminar designed to heighten industry interest in South Australia as a place in which to search for minerals and petroleum was organised by the Department of Mines and Energy at the Australian Mineral Foundation on 13 December 1990. A number of data...
      Document Published: 01 Dec 1990
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  • RB 93/00027 Review of heavy mineral sand exploration in South Australia - Murray Basin.

    The Cainozoic and Quaternary sands within the Murray Basin have been the focus of recent exploration for heavy mineral sands. Exploration in the South Australian part of the Murray Basin has been dominated by Aberfoyle Resources Ltd. The best...
      Document Published: 01 Jul 1993
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  • RB 98/00022 Review of open file company exploration data from the early 1980s to mid-1997, over the Yunta, Winnininnie, Anabama and Oakvale 1:100 000 map sheets, OLARY 1:250 000 map sheet, South Australia.

    Significant exploration focussed on: · stratabound 'Telfer-style' gold in Adelaidean metasediments in the Nackara Arc, using stratiform or stratabound structurally-controlled genetic models; and structurally controlled gold and base metal...
      Document Published: 01 Jul 1997
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  • RB 88/00072 Heavy mineral sand exploration targets in the western Murray Basin, South Australia.

    The Murray Basin contains major deposits of heavy mineral sands, and intensive exploration for them is currently being conducted in Victoria, SA and NSW. It is evident that the western part of the basin was well supplied during the Pliocene and Early...
      Document Published: 01 Sep 1988
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  • RB 90/00004 Foraminiferal dating of WH-1, Woorlo Hill transect, EL 1555.

    Foraminiferal dating of marginal marine sediments intersected in WH1 drillhole was carried out to identify the age of the Tertiary drilling objective reached, a heavy mineral-bearing single stratum.
      Document Published: 01 Jan 1990
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  • Review of Mineral exploration activity, 2003 and 2004.

    2003 activity: Expenditure by companies on mineral exploration licences in South Australia for calendar year 2003 was $37.0 million, a slight increase on the $35.7 million spent in 2002. Mineral exploration drilling metreage, a key indicator of...
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  • Pine Valley. Information status at licence full surrender, for the period 9/7/1997 to 15/10/1998: no work performed.

    There is no abstract created for this record
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  • Loveday. Information status at licence full surrender, for the period 6/12/2002 to 18/2/2005 : no work performed.

    There is no abstract created for this record
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  • PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 4 partnership DPY4-63, Mongolata area epithermal gold and base metal mineral prospects. Project final report.

    An observed trend between base metals anomalism in soils and previously identified magnetic and gravity anomalies within inferred Adelaidean basement metasediments present within the eastern part of Mongolata EL 3164 provided the impetus for the...
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  • Braemar. Progress reports to licence full surrender, for the period 17/5/1990 to 3/9/1991.

    In a search for possible economic buried copper-gold mineralisation that might be associated with an inferred south-western extension of the major Anabama - Redan Fault Zone system, the licensee conducted reconnaissance minus 80 mesh stream sediment...
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  • Quondong Vale. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/3/2012 to 13/3/2017.

    Iluka Resources is exploring for possible economic heavy mineral (HM) deposits that may have formed in the northern Murray Basin, with a strategy of targeting any mineralised Loxton-Parilla Sand formation sediments deposited during the Pliocene marine...
      Document Published: 05 May 1917
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  • Meribah, Halidon, Mantung, Karoonda and Woolpunda (parts of the Murray Basin HMS Project). Individual licence first or second partial surrender reports, describing relevant subsets of exploration work performed between 29/9/1997 and 5/9/2018.

    Portions of the Tertiary shallow marine clastic sedimentary sequence (Loxton and Parilla sands) deposited in the central western Murray Basin within SA's Murray Mallee district have been explored for possible economic heavy mineral sand (HMS)...
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  • Ngarkat - Bordertown and Bordertown - Naracoorte areas. Joint first partial surrender report, for the period 30/11/2001 to 29/11/2002.

    Heavy mineral marine placer deposits formed within the Pliocene Loxton-Parilla Sand of the Murray Basin were the targets of exploration in areas lying immediately north and south of Bordertown. Aircore drilling (86 holes, total 1903 m) was carried...
      Document Published: 12 Sep 1903
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  • Oakbank, Sergeant's Dam and Oakvale (part of the Oakvale Project). Joint first partial surrender report, for the period 3/12/1997 to 15/7/1999.

    Exploratory drilling to search for heavy mineral sands, performed over an area extending to 160 km north and north-west of Renmark, has targeted marginal marine placer deposits of detrital rutile, ilmenite and zircon in potential Loxton - Parilla Sand...
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  • Naracoorte. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 4/1/1999 to 21/9/1999.

    21 shallow auger holes totalling 128 m were drilled along 4 traverses which cross the Naracoorte Range between Penola and Naracoorte. Traces of heavy minerals were detected below 8 m depth within the area of a large radiometric anomaly, but further...
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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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  • Lameroo, Allenby, Prinpun Bore, Wynarka and Karoonda. Variously either full surrender or first partial surrender : joint report for the period 6/9/2000 to 25/8/2003.

    A large area in the South-East, extending from Karoonda to Keith, was considered prospective for the accumulation of heavy mineral sand deposits. Exploration, carried out jointly on several contiguous Exploration Licences, comprised an initial review...
      Document Published: 25 Aug 1903
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