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Bundulla. Progress reports for the period 24/5/79 to 19/10/82.
Airborne and ground magnetic surveys were conducted in the Bundulla area of the Nullarbor Plain (SA), prior to drilling a prominent circular aeromagnetic feature. 2 percussion/rotary mud holes, each drilled to TD 369.5 m, penetrated crystalline...-
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Chimpering Rock Hole, Moornaba Rock Hole, Euria Well, Koonibba Mission and Lake Tallacootra (part of the Eucla Basin Heavy Minerals Project). Annual report, January 1990 to January 1991.
348 reconnaisance air-core drillholes were completed on the subject ELs between 5 July and 3 October 1990. The best heavy mineral sand intersections were found near Immarna (EL 1602), with some zones approaching ore-grade percentages. Unfortunately,...-
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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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RB 93/00036 Review of mineral exploration, BARTON and OOLDEA 1:250 000 sheets.
Mineral exploration data from the BARTON and OOLDEA 1:250 000 sheet areas, which are held in the SADME open file Envelope system, are summarized and anomalous or significant data highlighted. Targets: - Base metal mineralization from anomalous drill...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1993
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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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Watson. Combined first annual/final report to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 11/12/2006 to 10/12/2007.
As part of a regional mineral exploration programme, an area of the onshore Eucla Basin thought to have possible Tertiary heavy mineral sands potential, being marginal to the Ooldea Range, was evaluated by aerial prospecting and by a consultant...-
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Published: 28 Apr 1908
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 4 partnership DPY4-67, north-western Eyre Peninsula (eastern Eucla Basin) Neogene shoreline heavy mineral sands prospects. Project final report.
Through the financial assistance of PIRSA's PACE Initiative, Iluka Resources was able to undertake exploratory drilling activities looking for heavy mineral (HM) sands marine placer deposits in the eastern Eucla Basin, as part of the Year 4 subsidy...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1907
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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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Colona North (formerly part of the Colona Joint Venture Project). First partial surrender report for the period 29/6/2004 to 18/10/2008.
No heavy mineral sands exploration of the Tertiary sedimentary sequence was carried out on the now relinquished area, as the licensee considers it to have low prospectivity in comparison to others of its tenements held in the region south-east of...-
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Published: 31 Jan 1909
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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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Barton, Barton Range North and Paling Range, plus Wells and north-eastern Eucla Basin licence Areas A through Y (Iluka's Eucla Basin Heavy Mineral Sands Project tenement Group 4). Joint annual reports for the period 19/10/2009 to 31/12/2015.
During the 2009-2010 project reporting year, Iluka completed exploration work costing $5,200,532 across its combined thirty-one Group 4 tenements, to assess the north-eastern Eucla Basin's sediment stratigraphy and heavy mineral sand (HM) potential...-
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Ooldea Range. Information status at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/8/2015 to 11/8/2017 : no work performed.
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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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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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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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Wilkinson. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 4/1/1999 to 3/1/2002.
Possible potash and halite resources in evaporite - rich sediment sequences of the Tallaringa Trough, lying at depths that might be suitable for solution mining, were the initial targets of exploration in the Wilkinson Lakes area. Following a...-
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Barton. First partial surrender report, for the period 18/1/2006 to 28/9/2015.
Two parts comprising 50% of a licence located 130 km north of Fowlers Bay and immediately south of the Trans Australia Railway, in the vicinity of Barton Siding, have been relinquished due to their perceived diminished potential for finding economic...-
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Published: 15 Dec 1915
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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
