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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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RB 91/00041 Geology of the KINGOONYA 1:250 000 map sheet area.
Extensive field geological mapping, augmented by petrological and geochemical studies, reinterpretation of company drilling and water-bore logs and a nine-hole drilling programme has detailed the geology of the KINGOONYA area. The stratigraphy spans...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1991
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RB 90/00055 Explanatory Notes (Phanerozoic) for the CURDIMURKA 1:250 000 geological map.
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Published: 01 Aug 1990
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RB 96/00043 Report on a transient electromagnetic survey around Garford Palaeochannel, SA.
There are no known major groundwater resources in the Garford area, which borders the Barton and Ooldea Ranges dunefield and Great Victoria Desert southwest of Coober Pedy. The groundwater that is used by graziers for stock watering occurs in...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1996
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RB 97/00040 Western Prospects Seismic Survey application in the Coongie Lakes Control Zone. Assessment report and recommendations.
The high environmental values of the Coongie Lakes area are recognised through their inclusion in the Register of the National Estate, their inclusion as a wetland of international importance under the Ramsar Convention, and wider acknowledgement that...-
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Published: 31 Jul 1997
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Mabel Creek. Annual and final progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 3/12/1999 to 2/12/2003.
As part of an exploration project targeting possible large-scale opal occurrences hidden at depth beneath marine shale outcrops in the Stuart Range 'Breakaway' country, the subject licence was taken up to cover certain ground lying adjacent to the...-
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Published: 25 Jun 1903
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Mount Willoughby. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 11/1/2001 to 10/1/2005.
Exploration for opal, carried out in an area of the Stuart Range located approximately 130 km north-northwest of Coober Pedy, has included a compilation of geological and opal occurrence data, photogeological interpretation of aerial photographs,...-
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Ely Hill and Ant Hill. Combined and separate annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 10/1/1997 to 17/12/2004.
The subject adjacent licence areas, located approximately 55 km north-northeast of Coober Pedy, were the first tenements taken out for regional opal exploration under the provisions of the newly proclaimed South Australian Opal Mining Act 1997. The...-
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Published: 17 Dec 1904
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Naarack, Mabel Creek and Wintinna (part of the Arckaringa Basin Project). Respective final reports at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 26/3/2008 to 2/4/2010.
In a search for postulated Tertiary heavy mineral sands marine placer deposits that may have been formed outside of the presently known north-eastern extent of such age sedimentary basins (i.e. along a proto Eucla Basin coastline existing within the...-
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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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Oolgelima Creek. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/1/2017 to 29/1/2020.
An area consisting of two adjacent small sub-blocks located in the western Lake Cadibarrawirracanna drainage basin has been explored for possible buried economic magnesium- and sodium-sulphate salts and also for possible underlying basement-hosted...-
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Published: 29 Jan 1920
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Mount Willoughby and Bloods Creek / Vaughan Hill, Mount Algoochinna, Mount Alice and Mount Randolph (the Alberga Diamond Project). Final report on surrendered ELs 2500 and 2502, plus partial surrender report for ELs 2495, 2496, 2498 and 2501.
Diamond exploration in a region north to north-west of Oodnadatta comprised heavy mineral and geochemical sampling over magnetic anomalies selected from aeromagnetic surveys and further defined by ground magnetometry. Certain of this ground was...-
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Mount Britton. Annual and final reports for the period 19/10/97 to 18/10/99.
Limited percussion drilling (2 holes, total 446 m) of inferred dipolar aeromagnetic anomalies in the vicinity of Ross Creek, 140 km north-east of Marla, and subsequent mineralogical examination of heavy mineral concentrates obtained from the drilled...-
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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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Yarramba. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 8/3/1976 to 7/3/1978.
Ongoing exploration for sedimentary uranium ore deposited in buried 1.5 - 6 km wide and 50 m thick Tertiary palaeochannels in the Yarramba area, located adjacent to the SA-NSW border 50 km northwest of Cockburn, included three detailed and...-
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Published: 17 Apr 1978
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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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Report on drilling results, Beverley prospect, SML 564, Paralana Plains, SA.
Following the February 1972 farm-in of US-based company Western Uranium Ltd (WU) for 42 months to SML 564 in the Lake Frome area of South Australia, a drilling programme was undertaken by it to evaluate a series of buried fluvial uranium occurrences...-
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Data release - as updated : England Hill, Arckaringa and Copper Hill (the Arckaringa Coal Project). Joint annual reports and joint final report to licences' expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/6/2005 to 6/6/2019.
Under a new strategic focus, three licence areas covering three Early Permian buried coal deposits located at Wintinna, Westfield and Murloocoppie in the northern part of the Arckaringa Basin, ~120 km north of Coober Pedy, have been evaluated both for...-
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Published: 29 Aug 1919
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Coober Pedy. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/11/2016 to 31/10/2019.
A large area situated on the north-eastern side of the Stuart Range, comprising three separate sub-blocks that taken together are centred ~20 km north of Coober Pedy township, has been explored for possible economic near-surface accumulations of the...-
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Coober Pedy. First partial surrender report, for the period 1/11/2016 to 31/10/2018.
An area located immediately east and north-east of Coober Pedy is being explored for possible economic near-surface accumulations of the evaporite industrial mineral epsomite. Historic drilling and costeaning in this area performed by CRA Exploration...-
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