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South Eagle [part of a joint licence area with Kalabity]. Uranium exploration progress and technical reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 15/5/1974 to 14/2/1976.
During the EL 132 tenure, work has consisted of a mineability evaluation of the Honeymoon uranium deposit, plus additional U exploration over the South Eagle farmout. Initially, 5 rotary holes (total 594.9 m) were drilled to the north of the...-
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Lake Carnanto. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 30/11/1978 to 11/2/1983.
The south-eastern Lake Frome Embayment in the vicinity of Quinyambie Station was explored for Upper and Lower Tertiary 'blanket' or 'roll front' type sedimentary uranium, via the drilling of 75 open vertical rotary mud holes with a total penetration...-
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Frome Downs and Curnamona. Respective progress reports, annual reports and JV partner's final report to licences' joint expiry/renewal, for the period 11/2/1971 to 12/2/1973.
77 rotary / diamond holes drilled by Pacminex (total 9385 m, including 196 m cored) plus another 53 holes drilled within SML 544 by joint venturer Esso (total 7029 m) indicate that a highly prospective radioactive mineralised zone occurs within...-
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RB 78/00117 Bumbarlow 1 - Well completion report.
Bumbarlow 1 (TD 720.33 m) aimed to test the lithology and petroleum potential of the Cambrian section in the central part of the eastern Arrowie Basin. It continuously cored a sequence over 300 m thick of flat-lying Proterozoic sediments interbedded...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1978
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RB 77/00037;RB 00802 Palynology of selected samples from the Poontana Structure, Frome Embayment.
18 drill cuttings samples taken from 4 mineral exploration holes were examined for making palynological age determinations. 11 samples were variously identified as being sediments of Middle Miocene freshwater or Early Cretaceous marine facies.-
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Published: 23 Mar 1977
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RB 90/00077 Skeleton 2. Well completion report.
Skeleton 2 penetrated sediments of the eastern Lake Eyre Basin, the Frome Embayment, and granitic basement of the Mount Painter Ridge. The hole records the southernmost known occurrence of Cadna-owie Formation in the Frome Embayment. Unexpectedly,...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1990
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 3 partnership DPY3-18, Glencoe (Lake Frome East) area roll-front style uranium mineral prospects. Project interim and final reports.
The subject EL 3391 is located in the eastern Lake Frome region, and is prospective for roll-front type uranium mineralisation emplaced within sediments of the Tertiary Lake Eyre Basin. In December 2006, as part of the PACE Initiative Year 3...-
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Published: 02 Mar 1907
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Ethiudna. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 22/2/2004 to 22/2/2015.
An area centred ~50 km north-west of Olary is continuing to be explored for possible buried economic Prominent Hill or Olympic Dam type iron oxide associated copper-gold (IOCG) breccia style mineralisation. The area is considered highly prospective...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Paralana Creek (part of the Beverley Project). Annual reports for the period 29/9/2009 to 15/11/2015.
Work undertaken on EL 4378 during the 2009-2010 reporting year included the drilling of 478 vertical rotary mud holes totalling 132,960 m, and core drilling totalling 4117 m performed in 16 of these holes for stratigraphic unit / resource...-
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Published: 24 Dec 1915
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Report on recent exploration in SMLs 543, 544, Crocker Well prospect 22, Lake Frome, South Australia.
A 64 line km gravity survey, with stations located at 150 m spacing, was conducted to locate the position of the main Billeroo West palaeochannel within the northern part of SML 543, in order to assess the need to retain under exploration tenure the...-
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Starvation Lake. Progress reports and final report on regional exploration programme at licence surrender, for the period 13/1/1972 to 31/7/1972.
In a search for possible economic roll-front, blanket style uranium deposits within Tertiary sediments in part of the eastern Frome Embayment, the licensee undertook 1:75,000 scale geological mapping and exploratory auger drilling of the Quaternary...-
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Cronje Dam and Oak Bank Outstation (the Cronje Dam Sedimentary Uranium Project). Annual and joint annual reports, plus final report at remaining licence's expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/10/2005 to 1/11/2014.
An area comprised of three separate sub-blocks generally located ~60 km south of Manna Hill and ~70 km south-southeast of Olary has been explored for Tertiary sedimentary uranium which may have formed in buried north to south trending palaeochannels...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Frome North. Annual reports for the period 19/8/2013 to 18/8/2016.
An area in the south-west of the Frome Embayment, that is centred ~80 km south-southeast of the Beverley uranium mine, has been taken up to explore for possible buried palaeochannel and sandstone hosted roll front style secondary uranium...-
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Published: 08 Sep 1916
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Kalkaroo (part of the Mundi Mundi Plains JV Project). Annual reports for the period 21/4/2010 to 1/6/2018.
During 2010-2011, the sixth year of the subject licence, as part of its continuing search for buried economic Tertiary sediment-hosted roll front style secondary uranium deposits, Marmota conducted the following work: • acquired a 58.6 line km moving...-
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Published: 17 Jul 1918
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1981 and 1982 seismic surveys, Wertaloona and Christmas Creek-ARR, final report.
Wertaloona Seismic Survey - AIM:The 1981 Wertaloona Seismic Survey programme was designed by the PELs 5 and 6 Arrowie Block partners to provide the first high quality, multifold seismic reflection data in the area of likely preserved thick Cambrian...-
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South Eagle. Progress and technical reports for the period 21/12/1977 to 2/11/1984.
TARGET: Ongoing evaluation of the Honeymoon deposit. EXPLORATION: Pilot wellfield drilling (48 holes) on a 60 m by 30 m grid over the eastern half of the deposit, hydrological investigations, metallurgical testing, and in-situ push-pull leaching...-
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Published: 10 Nov 1984
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Lake Yalkalpo. Progress reports to licence expiry for the period 6/8/1973 to 5/12/1974.
Exploration for possible roll-front style sedimentary uranium deposits within buried Tertiary sediments on the plains east of Lake Frome has focussed on an area near Lake Yalkalpo, where in 1972 Chevron Exploration found indications of low grade...-
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RB 2018/00001 Regolith hand specimen atlas for South Australia
This regolith material hand specimen atlas displays 246 images of 212 regolith samples which have been collected over the last 30 years by the authors, present and past Geological Survey of South Australia (GSSA) staff and members of the Cooperative...-
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Published: 01 May 2018
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ExpNotes CURNAMONA: Explanatory Notes CURNAMONA
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Lake Callabonna / Petermorra (part of the Lake Elder Project). Annual reports for the period 19/3/1998 to 30/4/2015.
Exploration Licence 2494 was granted in March 1998 to Paladin Energy Minerals NL and Brightstar Power Corporation Pty Ltd - the Paladin Brightstar Joint Venture (PBJV), with Paladin Resources NL as manager. The target commodity being explored for by...-
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Published: 20 May 1915
