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Lady Buxton. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 22/7/1968 to 21/7/1970.
As part of a continuing regional search for economic deposits of uranium and other radioactive minerals within alluvial fan sediments deposited adjacent to and east of the Mount Painter Block basement outcrops, 32 rotary holes (total 16,218 feet) were...-
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Published: 21 Jul 1970
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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 86/00025 Report on mapping of the northern sector of the Wangianna 1:100 000 map sheet area.
The lowermost outcropping unit is the Bulldog Shale, overlain by the Coorikiana Sandstone, which includes a number of facies, ranging from quiet water marine to shoreline and possibly fluvial. Above is the Oodnadatta Formation. Tertiary units include...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1986
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RB 87/00093 Age and habitat of a monospecific foraminiferal fauna from near-type Etadunna Formation, Lake Palankarinna, Lake Eyre Basin.
The foraminifer, unlike any previously recorded from Etadunna Formation, is identified as Buliminoides sp. cf.B. chattonensis' (Finlay), and is compared with 3 widely separated Late Oligocene forms (New Zealand, Northern Adelaide Plains, Rhine...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1987
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RB 81/00087 Review of the geology and hydrocarbon exploration history of the Duntroon Basin gazetted area, offshore South Australia.
The Duntroon Basin is an ESE-trending Mesozoic to Tertiary sedimentary embayment in the continental shelf, located SE of the Great Australian Bight Basin and west of Kangaroo Island. The report includes a discussion of the stratigraphy based on...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1981
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RB 81/00032 Stratigraphy and depositional environment of some silcretes in South Australia.
The widespread extent of silcretes in SA is demonstrated through stratigraphic relationships with palynologically dated sequences, and erosion of silcretes. The late Tertiary silcrete dominates the duricrusted landscape. Silica type varies according...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1981
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RB 90/00015 Correlation and depositional environment of Tertiary strata based on macrofloras in the southern Lake Eyre Basin, South Australia.
Plant macrofossils from silicified Cainozoic fluvial sediments on CURDIMURKA occur in 2 discrete suites. One suite has been found only in outcrops of silicified Eyre Formation in the Poole Creek Palaeochannel. This suite and the macroflora of the...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1990
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Lake Arthur West. Final report at licence surrender for the period 29/8/2006 to 3/4/2009.
An area located 55 km east of Marree was explored for possible sedimentary uranium deposits hosted by Tertiary piedmont sediments shed from granitic basement outcrops of the northern Mount Babbage Inlier. A study of available regolith stratigraphic...-
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Published: 06 Apr 1909
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Notes on the genesis of uranium deposits in the Yarramba Channel [on] EL 85 South Eagle and EL 98 Yarramba.
It is proposed that the buried Tertiary Yarramba Palaeochannel feature hosting the sedimentary uranium mineralisation was incised into Cretaceous and Precambrian basement rocks. Within the channel, quartzose sands and abundant detrital organic matter...-
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Published: 02 Jan 1974
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Yarramba. Annual reports submitted until the commencement of licences' joint reporting on the South Eagle / Honeymoon Project, for the period 10/4/2000 to 26/8/2009. [ Index Part 1 of 2 ].
Southern Cross Resources Australia Pty Ltd (Southern Cross) purchased Rio Tinto Exploration Limited’s share of the Northern Olary Joint Venture, including its interest in the subject EL 2310 Yarramba, in November 2000. Southern Cross has held the...-
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Data release made at renewal of the Sturt Joint Venture Project ELs 4062 through 4090, in lieu of submitting a joint partial surrender report for them : joint annual reports, for the period 25/2/2008 to 24/2/2013.
A very large area of the remote far north-east of the State was taken up early in 2008 by the unlisted Thorne-Clarke family company, to explore for sediment-hosted secondary uranium mineralisation of the type found in intracratonic sedimentary basins...-
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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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Frome Downs Homestead. Progress and technical reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 1/1/1969 to 31/12/1970.
Reconnaissance shallow stratigraphic drilling with subsequent borehole geophysical electric and radioactivity logging in the south-western Frome Embayment (21 rotary mud partly cored holes, total 8841 feet), over areas lying adjacent to outcropping...-
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Published: 31 Dec 1970
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Lake Frome [part of the Paralana Plains Uranium Project joint venture area]. Progress reports and technical reports to licence surrender/re-issue over a different area, for the period 22/4/1971 to 21/4/1973.
Exploration on SML 564 has consisted of a continuation of deep rotary mud open hole, plug and core drilling plus washing-out of existing, older Petromin "P...w" series drillholes to allow new generation downhole geophysical logging, aimed at further...-
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Paralana Creek and Four Mile Creek [part of the Paralana Plains Joint Venture area]. Progress reports for the period 15/4/1968 to 14/4/1971.
A licence area covering the flat alluvial Paralana Plains extending out eastwards from the northern Flinders Ranges was taken up by the the consortium of Exoil NL, Petromin NL and Transoil NL to explore for possible economic buried occurrences of...-
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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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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Mount Yerila. Annual reports for the period 27/8/2009 to 26/8/2015.
During the 2009-2010 licence year, 8 vertical open rotary mud drillholes, YR035 to YR042, were completed along two drill traverses for a total penetration of 1614 m. They were designed to intersect the Eyre Formation adjacent to interpreted faults in...-
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Published: 10 Sep 1913
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Curnamona [Sedimentary Uranium Exploration] Project. Joint annual report for the calendar year 2012.
During 2012, Afmeco conducted a fourth exploratory drilling campaign spread over six of its eight Curnamona Project tenements, which was designed to test the extensions of the Erudina, Yarramba and Coolibah Palaeochannels, as well as probing in basin...-
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Lake Frome South, Central Lake Frome and Lake Frome North areas (the Lake Frome Potash Project). Joint annual reports plus final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 5/1/2015 to 26/4/2018.
The entire extent of the main Lake Frome salina was taken up in early 2015 with three contiguous licences covering a total area of 2718 square km, to explore for a salt lake brine potash resource which might be economic to develop to supply the local...-
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Published: 30 Apr 1918
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Reaphook Hill. First partial surrender report, for the period 24/7/2013 to 23/7/2016.
An area on the south-western edge of the Frome Embayment, that is centred ~100 km south of the Beverley uranium mine, has been taken up to explore for possible buried palaeochannel and sandstone hosted roll front style secondary uranium mineralisation...-
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Published: 02 Nov 1917
