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Frome Downs and Curnamona. Respective progress reports, annual reports and JV partner's final report to licences' joint expiry/renewal, for the period 11/2/1971 to 12/2/1973.
77 rotary / diamond holes drilled by Pacminex (total 9385 m, including 196 m cored) plus another 53 holes drilled within SML 544 by joint venturer Esso (total 7029 m) indicate that a highly prospective radioactive mineralised zone occurs within...-
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Frome Downs Homestead. Progress and technical reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 1/1/1969 to 31/12/1970.
Reconnaissance shallow stratigraphic drilling with subsequent borehole geophysical electric and radioactivity logging in the south-western Frome Embayment (21 rotary mud partly cored holes, total 8841 feet), over areas lying adjacent to outcropping...-
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Published: 31 Dec 1970
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Frome North. Annual reports for the period 19/8/2013 to 18/8/2016.
An area in the south-west of the Frome Embayment, that is centred ~80 km south-southeast of the Beverley uranium mine, has been taken up to explore for possible buried palaeochannel and sandstone hosted roll front style secondary uranium...-
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Published: 08 Sep 1916
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Data release - as updated : Reaphook Hill. Licence-specific annual reports to the commencement of Frome Basin Project joint reporting, plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the overall period 24/7/2013 to 11/1/2022.
An area on the south-western edge of the Frome Embayment, that is centred ~100 km south of the Beverley uranium mine, has been taken up to explore for possible buried palaeochannel and sandstone hosted roll front style secondary uranium mineralisation...-
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Published: 06 Jul 1921
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Drennans Hut. Annual reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 19/8/2013 to 5/6/2019.
An area in the south-west of the Frome Embayment, that was centred ~16 km south-southeast of Reaphook Hill, was taken up to explore for possible buried palaeochannel and sandstone hosted roll front style secondary uranium mineralisation which might...-
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Published: 22 Jul 1919
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Curnamona. First partial surrender report for the period 2/7/1976 to 1/7/1977.
In a search for possible economic sedimentary uranium deposits, a resistivity survey and a 19 hole, 2818 m reconnaissance open hole rotary drilling and downhole geophysical logging programme were carried out in parts of the Tertiary Curnamona...-
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Published: 25 Jul 1977
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Wilpena Creek. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 26/7/1977 to 25/7/1978.
A licence area centred approximately 150 km north of Yunta, and bordering the south-eastern Flinders Ranges, was taken up to try to locate basinward extensions of a previously found Lower Tertiary palaeochannel sequence, in order to evaluate the...-
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Lake Namba. Progress and final reports for the period 4/11/1975 to 26/10/1981.
TARGET: Sedimentary uranium deposits in the Lower Tertiary sediments overlying the Mesozoic Frome Embayment and Cambrian Moorowie Syncline stratigraphic succession, adjacent to and overlying the western flank of the Proterozoic Benagerie Ridge....-
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RB 00819 Archaeocyatha from Marathon Petroleum bore LC-43, Arrowie Basin.
Drill cuttings taken from the depth interval 108-111 metres in mineral exploration borehole LC-43, which sampled a pale pink calcilutite that was intersected below clays and mudstone (here referred to the Cretaceous Marree Formation), were found to...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 72/00160 Frome Embayment stratigraphic drilling project. Preliminary report on SA Department of Mines Wooltana no. 1, Yalkalpo no. 1 and Wertaloona no. 1 stratigraphic bores.
This report contains downhole geological and wireline logging data summarizing the results of recent stratigraphic drilling in the Frome Embayment by the South Australian Department of Mines. Conclusions are tentative and may be subject to revision...-
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Published: 18 Aug 1972
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Unlocking South Australia's Mineral and Energy Potential - A Plan for Accelerating Exploration. Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry) : Year 1 partnership no. DPY1-02, Titan mineral prospect. Project interim and final reports.
Titan prospect is located within Exploration Licence 3209, and lies 30 km north of the Olympic Dam mine. The prospect was first drilled by Western Mining Corp. in 1976 with diamond drillhole BD 1, and in 1981 with a second hole, BD 2. Both holes hit...-
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Yarley. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/8/2009 to 18/8/2012.
A small area located on the southern Lake Torrens Plains immediately west of the ABC Range was taken up to allow evaluation of its potential for having buried economic sedimentary coal and/or uranium mineralisation occurrences. There are no...-
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Published: 02 Sep 1912
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : (for 10 exploration licences comprising) the Lake Torrens JV Project. Joint annual reports for the period 1/1/2007 to 31/12/2011.
A group of ten, mainly adjoining licence areas occupying the plains surrounding the northern end of Lake Torrens, are now being jointly explored for possible economic buried Olympic Dam style IOCG related mineralisation that may have formed in the...-
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Wyambana [Outstation] (originally part of the Siccus Joint Venture Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/12/2004 to 23/6/2014.
A area of piedmont outwash from the central eastern Flinders Ranges, which is centred ~24 km north-east of Reaphook Hill and ~25 km south-west of the Lake Frome shoreline, has been explored for buried sedimentary uranium mineralisation of roll-front...-
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Published: 23 Nov 1914
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RB 2012/00004 MARREE, South Australia, [geological map] sheet SH54-5. South Australia. Geological Survey. 1:250 000 Series - Explanatory Notes.
The MARREE mapsheet area includes the south-western portion of the Strzelecki Desert plus parts of the Tirari Desert, north-western Flinders Ranges and north-eastern Willouran Ranges, between latitudes 29 to 30 degrees S and longitudes 138 to 139...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2012
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Mount McCallum. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/12/1979 to 17/12/1981.
In follow-up evaluation of a sedimentary uranium discovery made on the preceding EL 203 in two previously drilled exploratory open rotary holes, 203-1 and 203-2, which encountered downhole radiometric log indications of uranium mineralisation...-
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Published: 02 Jun 1982
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Telechie. First partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 23/3/1977 to 22/3/1979.
An area located approximately 40 km north-west of Olary is being explored for possible economic Tertiary palaeochannel-hosted sedimentary uranium mineralisation. Work undertaken within the now relinquished portion of EL 297 has comprised...-
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Billeroo West. Progress reports to licence expiry for the period 12/1/1976 to 11/1/1978.
Ongoing uranium exploration work in an area immediately south of Lake Frome has comprised the evaluation of pervasive uranium mineralisation encountered within the Billeroo Palaeochannel over several km of its length, a short distance north of the...-
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Published: 02 Feb 1978
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Resistivity survey, Billeroo West prospect SA. Appendix 1 in progress report to 10/11/1974.
Reconnaissance survey along existing lines of drill holes over the Lower Tertiary Billeroo West Palaeochannel. Possible new palaeochannel was located in SW area.-
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Arrowie Gorge Project, northern Flinders Ranges, SA. Progress reports for the period June 1968 to September 1969.
After one of E-Z's Beltana-based field parties discovered some high radioactivity associated with copper mineralisation in old mine workings in the Arrowie Gorge area during early 1968, six mineral claims were taken out to secure the area of interest...-
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