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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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Mount Painter, Mount Gee and Mount Ward. Progress reports and technical reports to licences' respective expiry/full surrender, for the period 31/6/1965 to 29/11/1985.
Exploration disclosed widespread uranium mineralisation, with drill-indicated reserves of 6 million tonnes, at an average grade of 0.8 kg / tonne U3O8, existing in 5 major deposits. About 625 drill holes totalling 53,000 m tested these major deposits...-
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RB 38/00096 Report on ground prospecting for uranium in the Yankalilla area.
Government-led prospecting for economic uranium mineralisation, conducted in the Yankalilla area during June-September 1954, has consisted of detailed Geiger counter radiometric survey traversing of the outcropping Archaean basement rocks at 1 chain...-
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Published: 08 Nov 1954
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RB 51/00105;Amdel 00068 Chlorination of ilmenite.
Development of cyclic process producing rutile from beach sand ilmenite in a fluid bed reactor. Further experiment on reaction rates required.-
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Published: 01 Oct 1960
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RB 46/00011 Mineragraphy of the Radium Hill uranium deposits.
The Radium Hill uranium mine is located approximately 60 miles S.W. of Broken Hill. The deposits are of hypogene metosomatic origin, and represent replacement lode deposits along anticlinal axial plane shears in folded Archean gneisses. Lode...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1957
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RB 86/00031 Reconnaissance sampling for heavy mineral sands, Kangaroo Island.
Beach sands, dunes and selected creek sand were sampled. Kanmantoo Group metasediments that underlie most of the island, basalt and granite are favourable source rocks for heavy minerals. They are being actively eroded along most of the coastline but...-
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Published: 01 May 1986
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RB 81/00107 Heavy minerals at Golden Grove, report no. 2. Results of 1980 drilling programme. Hd Yatala, Co. Adelaide.
During drilling of construction sand and clay in 1976 and 1977, an accumulation of heavy minerals was discovered in an embayment on the eastern margin of the Tertiary basin. Heavy minerals, mainly ilmenite, rutile,and zircon, with lesser amounts of...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1981
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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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Quondong Vale. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/3/2012 to 13/3/2017.
Iluka Resources is exploring for possible economic heavy mineral (HM) deposits that may have formed in the northern Murray Basin, with a strategy of targeting any mineralised Loxton-Parilla Sand formation sediments deposited during the Pliocene marine...-
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Published: 05 May 1917
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Meribah, Halidon, Mantung, Karoonda and Woolpunda (parts of the Murray Basin HMS Project). Individual licence first or second partial surrender reports, describing relevant subsets of exploration work performed between 29/9/1997 and 5/9/2018.
Portions of the Tertiary shallow marine clastic sedimentary sequence (Loxton and Parilla sands) deposited in the central western Murray Basin within SA's Murray Mallee district have been explored for possible economic heavy mineral sand (HMS)...-
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Cooyerdoo Station. Progress reports to licence expiry for the period 30/3/79 to 29/3/81.
Stream and loam samples were collected for kimberlitic indicator mineral analysis, and detailed geological mapping was carried out, as part of a wider diamond search in the Lake Gilles district. No evidence of any kimberlite was seen in the Cooyerdoo...-
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Published: 29 Mar 1981
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Bordertown - Naracoorte and Pinnaroo areas. Joint first annual report plus joint final report to licences' expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/11/2001 to 29/11/2003.
Possible heavy mineral sand marine placer deposits occurring in the Pliocene Loxton-Parilla Sands of the Murray Basin were the targets of exploration in an area extending immediately north and south of Bordertown, and across to the SA/Vic. State...-
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Published: 30 Oct 1903
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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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Chlorination of ilmenite.
Potential of fluidized bed entrained state heater system is limited. Process not economic at current titanium prices and technical difficulties remain.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1965
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Gilles Downs. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal (as part of a larger area), for the period 12/3/1979 to 11/3/1981.
Ongoing diamond exploration by Stockdale over the PORT AUGUSTA 1:250,000 mapsheet area has concentrated on country to the east and south-east of Lake Gilles, where some microdiamonds and kimberlitic indicator minerals were discovered during the period...-
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Published: 18 Mar 1981
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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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Kybunga (latterly a part of the Balaklava HMS Project - Iluka tenements Group 9). First annual report 3/5/2012 to 2/5/2013, plus a joint annual report and final report for Group 9 submitted at the five project licences' full surrender on 24/9/2015.
Ground within the northern onshore Saint Vincent Basin was taken up by Iluka Resources to re-appraise the heavy mineral sands (HMS) potential of buried Tertiary sediments there, after some unsuccessful exploration had previously been undertaken in the...-
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Published: 22 Sep 1915
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Olary Project (latterly part of the Lodestone Project). Licence individual annual reports, plus related project joint annual reports, for the period 4/11/2009 to 20/1/2019.
Iluka Resources is exploring for possible economic heavy mineral (HM) deposits that may have formed in the northern Murray Basin, with a strategy of targeting any mineralised Loxton-Parilla Sand formation sediments deposited during the Pliocene marine...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : The North-western Murray Basin Project. Joint annual reports for the period 29/8/2012 to 28/8/2014.
During Year 7 of the project, Goldfields did no more field work, but undertook office-based analyses of bedrock geochemical and geological data obtained in its 2012 aircore drilling campaign. Image processing and interpretation of the Canegrass...-
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Published: 28 Feb 1915
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Barton. Second partial surrender report, for the period 18/1/2006 to 28/9/2018.
A further ~24.3% of a licence located 130 km north of Fowlers Bay and immediately south of the Trans Australia Railway, in the vicinity of Barton Siding, has been relinquished due to its perceived diminished potential for finding economic deposits of...-
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Published: 05 Oct 1918