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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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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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Elliston. Combined fourth annual and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 26/4/2002 to 25/4/2006.
An area situated immediately south-east of Elliston has been explored for diamonds, in conjunction with similar work being carried out by the joint venture on Flinders Island and on its adjoining Venus Bay, Colton and Polda mineral exploration...-
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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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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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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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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
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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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Colona North and Barton (the Barton Magmatic Nickel-Copper-Platinum Project) and Fig Tree Corner (the three together constituting Eucla Basin Mineral Sands Tenement Group 1). Joint annual reports for the period 10/9/2001 to 28/2/2010.
Two adjoining exploration Licences 2840 “Colona North” and 2841 “Barton” were acquired by Adelaide Exploration Limited to search principally for nickel, copper and platinum group precious metals (PGM) mineralisation within Proterozoic and Archaean...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Cooper. First annual report for the period 18/8/2009 to 17/8/2010, and first partial surrender report to 27/7/2011.
No field work was done during the first year of tenure. A review of previous drillhole data for the subject area has indicated that crystalline basement occurs at an average depth of 10 m. The entire area is dominated by a 40 km former promontory,...-
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Published: 27 Jul 1911
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : North-western Eyre Peninsula (eastern Eucla Basin) heavy mineral sands exploration tenement group [Group 3]. Joint annual reports for the period 1/7/2004 to 31/5/2010. [Index part 2 of 2].
Within the subject south-eastern Eucla Basin tenements, Iluka's ongoing exploration has targeted the Tertiary-aged beach sands deposited during the five marine incursions that occurred from the Middle Eocene to the Pliocene, with a focus on exploring...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1910
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The Venus Bay Project. Respective joint annual and subsequent individual [for Venus Bay] annual reports to that remaining licence's expiry/full surrender, for the period 26/4/2002 to 16/9/2012.
Renewed diamond exploration has been conducted in a part of the western Eyre Peninsula where numerous kimberlite indicator mineral (KIM) anomalies occur in surficial sediments, and where the four adjoining licence areas involved lie in close proximity...-
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Published: 26 Nov 1912
