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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 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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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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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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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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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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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
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Warramboo (part of the Eyre Peninsula Project). Diamond exploration farminee's final report for the period July 1997 to 31/10/1998.
Investigations of the likely diamond potential of a part of the central Eyre Peninsula were conducted under a farm-in joint venture agreement which was in place for about fifteen months. Work comprised the collection of six drill cuttings bulk...-
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Alawoona. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 29/4/1987 to 28/4/1991.
TARGET: Possible economic heavy mineral sand accumulations in Pliocene raised beach strandlines developed along the south-western margin of the Murray Basin. EXPLORATION: Acquisition of an airborne magnetic and radiometric survey during November...-
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Published: 13 May 1991
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Manunda Homestead. Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 25/6/1979 to 24/6/1980.
Diamond exploration over an area located approximately 35 km south-east of Yunta was undertaken to assess an interpreted structural environment that may be similar to one existing nearby to the west close to Terowie, in which shallowly buried,...-
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RB 76/00110 Investigation of heavy mineral sands, Morrison Beach, Kangaroo Island.
Heavy mineral sands are mined at Morrison Beach for their rutile and zircon content, with ilmenite and staurolite recovered as by-products. There appears to have been only one main period of heavy mineral deposition, which occurred during a high...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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Eucla Basin Area J (part of tenement reporting Group 4). First partial surrender report for the period 19/10/2012 to 12/11/2013.
A group of exploration licences located on the northern margin of the Eucla Basin, and situated north of the Trans Australian Railway, which cover ground extending into the Eocene to Miocene marginal marine depositional hinterland behind the Barton...-
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Published: 11 Dec 1913
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Ooldea Range (part of the Eucla Basin Project). Annual reports, including those for the commencement of licence joint annual reporting for the Eucla Basin Mineral Sands Tenement Group 1, for the period 5/3/2002 to 28/2/2009.
The geomorphic feature known as the Ooldea Range, a prominent Eocene dune formed at the limit of the marine transgression on the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin, has now been taken under licence by WA-based company Iluka Resources to explore for...-
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Halidon (part of the Mindarie Project). Second partial surrender report, for the period 2/1/2008 to 24/9/2015.
A portion of the Tertiary shallow marine clastic sedimentary sequence (Loxton and Parilla sands) in the central western Murray Basin within SA's Murray Mallee is being explored for possible economic heavy mineral sand (HM) accumulations. Two separate...-
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Mantung (part of the Mindarie Project). Third partial surrender report, for the period 14/10/1997 to 24/9/2015.
A portion of the Tertiary shallow marine clastic sedimentary sequence (Loxton and Parilla sands) in the central western Murray Basin within SA's Murray Mallee is being explored for possible economic heavy mineral sand (HM) accumulations. Two adjacent...-
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Jellabinna (part of Eucla Basin Project tenement Group 2). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 11/11/2004 to 16/12/2013.
The remaining 351 square km of an area centred ~ 80 km north-west of Ceduna, that lies mainly within the Yellabinna Regional Reserve, has recently been fully surrendered because Iluka's work completed there has shown that this ground only has low...-
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Published: 26 Jan 1914
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Mannum (part of Iluka's SA Murray Basin Heavy Mineral Sands Project). First annual report plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 7/6/2013 to 20/2/2015.
Tertiary Murray Basin cover sediments in an elongate area extending down the eastern side of the River Murray between Coolcha, Mannum and Murray Bridge have been explored for possible economic buried marine placer heavy mineral (HM) sands deposits. A...-
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Published: 03 Feb 1915
