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Alamilda Hill. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 6/7/1973 to 17/1/1974.
Exploration was aimed at delineating favourable lithologies within Eromanga Basin sediments for hosting sedimentary uranium, which may have leached from the crystalline rocks of the Musgrave Ranges located to the west of the licence area. As part of...-
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Published: 18 Dec 1973
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Wooltana. Progress reports for the period 3/6/1971 to 2/6/1973.
TARGET: Roll-front type uranium in Tertiary sediments. EXPLORATION: 82 rotary open drillholes totalling 47,003 feet, and 2 confirmatory partly cored holes totalling 949 feet (125 feet cored). All drillholes were geophysically logged. RESULTS:...-
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Published: 04 Jul 1973
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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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Mundaerno South. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 23/7/2007 to 22/7/2014.
A small area centred ~33 km north-west of Cockburn and ~26 km south-southeast of the Honeymoon deposit has been explored for possible buried, calcrete hosted secondary uranium deposits that may have formed in Quaternary valley fill sediments, and also...-
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Published: 20 Feb 1914
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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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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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Nuclear power : a discussion of major issues.
The Honeymoon joint venture partners, AAR Ltd, IOL Petroleum Ltd, Teton Exploration Drilling Co. Pty Ltd and Mount Isa Mines Ltd (MIM:MTA) hold title to a uranium deposit in the Lake Frome area of South Australia. It is proposed that the uranium...-
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Honeymoon Project - pilot wellfield drilling, January-March 1982.
Drilling was undertaken at the Honeymoon deposit, as allowed for under Miscellaneous Purposes Leases 14 and 15 and Retention Leases 10, 11 and 12, located within EL 597. This drilling was carried out as part of the construction of the 6 litre/second...-
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Honeymoon uranium : a summary of the proposed in-situ leach mining operation.
This report discusses technical aspects of the Honeymoon uranium deposit and the proposed in-situ leach mining method intended for extracting about 3000 tonnes of contained U3O8. Economic forecasts and mine development plans are presented as a way 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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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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Report on Honeymoon deposit coring programme, June 1975 - South Eagle portion of EL 132, SA.
This report summarises the drilling and coring operations conducted during June and July 1975 to obtain representative core samples of the Honeymoon sedimentary uranium deposit. The work was carried out to determine uranium content, associated...-
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Published: 21 Oct 1975
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Honeymoon project - hydrological report on the HC 9 pumping test conducted February-March, 1980.
Regional and site-specific geological and hydrological factors are discussed, and a groundwater model is proposed for the Honeymoon uranium deposit, based on the results of the HC 9 drilling and testing programme, and on other existing data. A...-
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ELs 5481 - 5486 (the Frome Uranium Project). Joint first annual report plus final report to licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/9/2014 to 29/9/2016.
A number of semi-contiguous licence areas located immediately south and south-east of Lake Frome have been explored for possible economic buried Tertiary sedimentary uranium mineralisation. No field work was done during the two years of project...-
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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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Cronje Dam and Oak Bank Outstation (the Cronje Dam Sedimentary Uranium Project). Annual and joint annual reports, plus final report at remaining licence's expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/10/2005 to 1/11/2014.
An area comprised of three separate sub-blocks generally located ~60 km south of Manna Hill and ~70 km south-southeast of Olary has been explored for Tertiary sedimentary uranium which may have formed in buried north to south trending palaeochannels...-
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Billeroo West. Progress and technical reports for the period 30/6/80 to 7/11/87.
TARGET: Sedimentary uranium in Tertiary palaeochannels, plus Olympic Dam or sedex type base and precious metal deposits in the Proterozoic basement. EXPLORATION: Ground magnetic, gravity and SIROTEM surveys, one 600 metre deep diamond drill hole (BW...-
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Published: 24 Dec 1987
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : North Mulga, Wooltana and Paralana areas (Frome Basin Project). Joint annual reports for the period 24/9/2012 to 31/12/2018.
The continuation of Heathgate's programme of exploration for economic buried Tertiary sediment-hosted uranium mineralisation within part of the north-western Frome Embayment during 2012-2013 has comprised exploratory drilling of 36 vertical rotary mud...-
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Report on a reconnaissance [visit to], and plan for [conducting ground] geophysical surveys of, the Frome Embayment and the south-west part of the Great Artesian Basin, Australia.
This report describes in detail the suggested equipment and logistics required for conducting a proposed regional reconnaissance gravity and magnetic ground geophysical survey within the south-western Eromanga Basin, which would follow a triangular...-
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[Operations] Report on a [ground] gravity-magnetic regional reconnaissance survey of the Frome Embayment and part of the Great Artesian Basin, Australia.
This survey, conducted between September 1946 and December 1947, had two objectives: - to locate, if possible, an area in the Frome Embayment containing structural features which might be favourable to the accumulation of natural gas; and - to...-
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