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Barna. Annual and final reports to licence expiry for the period 30/8/2002 to 29/8/2004.
Exploration for possibly economic small deposits of agricultural grade gypsum conducted on Eyre Peninsula has located several such occurrences within the remnant evaporitic sediments of past Holocene lakebeds, and in related nearby lunette dunes. The...-
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Published: 13 Jul 1905
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Models for potential mineralisation, EL 519, Port Pirie - northern Yorke Peninsula.
There is no abstract created for this record-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mullaquana (part of the Mullaquana, later called Samphire, Uranium Project). Annual reports for the period 20/11/2009 to 19/11/2018.
During licence Year 4, UraniumSA undertook the following work on EL 3652: - pattern drilling of 232 rotary mud holes totalling 18,416 m, targeting the Blackbush and Plumbush prospects. - core drilling totalling 876 m in 8 holes, to characterise...-
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Published: 03 Dec 1918
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Midgee. Fourth partial surrender report, for the period 26/11/2003 to 24/3/2017.
Portions of two of three separate sub-blocks formerly comprising EL 5426, totalling 34 square km in area or ~25% of the licence's former extent, have been relinquished because of their now perceived diminished prospectivity for finding significant...-
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Published: 15 Feb 1917
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Midgee. Fifth partial surrender report, for the period 26/11/2003 to 24/3/2019.
Portions of the western sub-block of EL 5426, totalling 27 square km in area or 27% of the licence's former extent, have been relinquished because of their now perceived diminished prospectivity for finding significant occurrences of uranium...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1919
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Cowell. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 19/5/1978 to 22/4/1980.
The exploration targets in an area extending along the Spencer Gulf coastal plain between Cowell and Whyalla were sandstone type roll-front uranium deposits, developed in possible Eocene palaeochannels that may have drained the Cleve Uplands and...-
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Published: 18 Mar 1980
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RB 00771 Report on soil survey in an area southwest of Whyalla township.
The soils in an area of approximately 20 square miles south-west of Whyalla township and adjacent to the Spencer Gulf were examined to determine their suitability for foundations for a large industrial complex.-
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Published: 01 Sep 1900
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False Bay. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 1/7/1969 to 30/6/1971.
Site investigations of the coastal area abutting False Bay, immediately north of Whyalla, were undertaken by BHP's Industrial Minerals Div. to gauge the feasibility of expanding their Whyalla Salt Works from its existing 60,000 tons per annum...-
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Published: 07 May 1970
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Port Broughton (part of the Pirie Basin Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 31/5/2010 to 30/5/2014.
Eocene fluvial sediments underlying the coastal plain immediately north of Port Broughton have been explored for possible economic buried occurrences of palaeochannel-hosted sedimentary uranium, as part of a regional programme being conducted by Areva...-
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RB 2002/00013 Late Eocene-Early Oligocene sediments in KGD[010]01 drillhole, offshore Spencer Gulf, South Australia.
Palynological analysis of one drill cuttings sample taken from the rotary precollar portion of BHP Minerals' Spencer Gulf diamond drillhole KGD01001 indicates the presence of Late Eocene - Early Oligocene sediments that are attributed to the upper...-
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Published: 01 Jul 2002
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RB 2015/00011 Uranium and uranium mineral systems in South Australia – Third edition.
South Australia is well recognised as being significantly enriched in uranium. During 2013–2014, South Australia produced 4399 t of uranium, representing 80% of Australia’s total uranium production of 5512 t, and equating to 9.2% of the world’s total...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2015
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RB 2012/00009 Uranium and uranium mineral systems in South Australia – Second edition.
South Australia is well recognised as being significantly enriched in uranium. During 2010–11, South Australia produced 4276 t of uranium, representing 60% of Australia’s total uranium production of 7035 t, and equating to 11% of the world’s total...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2012
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RB 2014/00006 Geology of the Cultana 1:100 000 map sheet (6432).
The revised digital geology map of the Cultana 1:100 000 map sheet and accompanying geological descriptions in this report are the first components of the 2nd edition PORT AUGUSTA 1:250 000 map sheet to be completed. The subject map sheet occupies the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2014
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Mullaquana. First partial surrender report, for the period 8/12/1980 to 7/12/1981.
Exploration targets were economic deposits of oil shale and coal in Eocene sediments deposited on the downthrown parts of fault blocks, under the coastal plain between Whyalla and Cowell. Four rotary drillholes totalling 133.5 m tested the Cainozoic...-
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Port Pirie. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 21/8/1979 to 30/6/1982.
Continuing exploration for possible buried Mount Gunson and Olympic Dam type copper deposits, or other stratabound base metal occurrences within shelfal facies of Adelaidean sediments or in the pre-Adelaidean Wandearah Formation Carpentarian age...-
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Port Pirie. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 20/4/1977 to 19/4/1979.
Concerted exploration for possible stratiform Mount Gunson type or epithermal Olympic Dam type base metal deposits, on the south-eastern edge of the Stuart Shelf near Port Pirie, was begun by North Broken Hill Ltd in response to the public release by...-
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RB 2009/00014 Uranium and uranium mineral systems in South Australia.
South Australia is well recognised as being significantly enriched in uranium. During 2008/2009, South Australia produced 4 613 t of uranium, representing 45% of Australia's total uranium production of 10 311 t, and equating to 9.5% of the world's...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2010
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Palaeodrainage and Cenozoic coastal barriers of South Australia (2nd edition).
Since the first edition of this map was released in May 2007, the collection by the Department's Geological Survey of much new geoscientific data and interpretations arising from South Australian regional surveys and exploration activities has...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1912
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Cultana basement regional geology 3D Model.
The Cultana basement 3D Geological Model covers a region which includes the Roopena, and western half of the Cultana, 1:100,000 mapsheet areas. The subsurface geology that has been modelled comprises a succession of deformed Palaeoproterozoic...-
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South Australia - 1:2 000 000 scale State geological map (first digital edition).
The latest knowledge of the surface geology of South Australia is displayed on the 2020 edition of the state geology map newly released by the Geological Survey of South Australia (GSSA). It is a product of the GSSA’s ongoing statewide geological...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1920
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