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Mount Mitchell. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 20/10/1980 to 19/10/1982.
Exploration was undertaken for lode and alluvial tin mineralisation which might exist within ground adjacent to the abandoned Mount Mitchell tin mine, and also for reef gold in altered granite and dolerites outcropping adjacent to the numerous small...-
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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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Bunabie Rockhole, Hughes and Nullarbor Plain. Progress reports and final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 20/10/1980 to 19/10/1982.
Roxby Downs - type base metal deposits, potentially associated with linear and discrete magnetic anomalies of unknown origin in the basement, were the prime targets of exploration in an area extending between Koonalda and Hughes, adjacent to the SA/WA...-
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Rudall. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 10/9/1971 to 9/9/1972.
In a search for possible economic primary or secondary uranium deposits in the Rudall area, five streambed mud samples and 2 springwater samples from the Driver River drainage basin were analysed for Central Pacific Minerals by the Australian Atomic...-
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Published: 02 Nov 1972
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Yarramba. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 13/5/1971 to 12/5/1972.
Continuing intensive exploration for economic sedimentary uranium deposits within buried Tertiary palaeochannel sediments in the Yarramba Homestead area, 50 km north-west of Cockburn, which had been invigorated by the recent discovery of strongly...-
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Preliminary evaluation of in situ leaching on MTA [Minad-Teton Australia's] uranium deposits in the Lake Frome area, SA.
In-situ leaching of a uranium orebody can only be successful if the deposit meets a number of essential criteria. These criteria are: 1. The ore occurs in a generally porous and permeable horizontal bed underlain and overlain by impermeable strata;...-
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Frome Downs. Progress reports and partial relinquishment reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 20/6/1978 to 14/9/1982.
153 rotary mud open holes (total 19,689 m) and 11 cored holes (total 1384 m) have been drilled during the reporting period to evaluate the Goulds Dam uranium deposit and to further explore the region to its north and south for sedimentary uranium...-
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Kalabity. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 15/3/1971 to 17/6/1973, plus related technical reports about in situ leach uranium mining methods in Wyoming.
The recently completed drilling of 189 open rotary holes (total penetration 22,427 m), plus the redrilling and geophysical re-logging by joint venturer Minad-Teton of 19 previously completed Carpentaria Exploration Co. uranium exploration holes (for a...-
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Published: 02 Jan 1974
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Mulyungarie. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 13/5/1972 to 12/5/1973.
Ongoing exploration for possible economic sandstone-type uranium deposits formed in Tertiary palaeochannels in the Yarramba area, 50 km north-west of Cockburn, has included further open hole rotary drilling and downhole geophysical logging (176 holes...-
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Millers Creek Homestead. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/3/1980 to 28/3/1986.
Following a review of existing regional geophysical and geological data for the north-western Stuart Shelf, grid-based gravity and ground magnetic surveys were run to further outline two broad gravity highs associated with discrete magnetic anomalies,...-
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Emu Hill. Progress and annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/4/1991 to 21/4/1996.
Diamond exploration undertaken north-west of Moolawatana included the acquisition of airborne magnetic / radiometric and ground magnetic surveys, plus soil, stream sediment, gravel, loam and rock chip sampling, and aircore/diamond drilling (25 holes,...-
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Continuous solvent extraction studies.
Work carried out at Amdel and at the Colorado School of Mines' Research Institute has indicated that both a two solvent system (EHPA and TBP or DBBP) and a three solvent system (EHPA, DBBP and Alamine 336) of cationic exchangers are satisfactory for...-
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RB 37/00052 Report on the chemical treatment of Radium Hill concentrates.
The deposits of a uranium bearing ore at Radium Hill have been known for some 50 years. Since their discovery, the field has been exploited twice commercially for the recovery of radium and other products. However, both ventures were unsuccessfully on...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1954
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RB 37/00078 Preliminary investigations into corrosion of stainless steels during leaching of uranium concentrates from Radium Hill, South Australia.
Corrosion tests were carried out on several types of stainless steel to determine their suitability for use in the construction of components for digesters to be used for the leaching of Radium Hill ore concentrates. The testing was carried out under...-
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Published: 12 Apr 1954
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RB 38/00113 Ground scintillometer survey for uranium lodes, Kadina area (16/11/1954).
The area radiometrically surveyed is situated in sections 153B of the Hundred of Wallaroo. A portable Halross Scintillometer (type 939) was used in this survey. No results were obtained from the radiometric survey which could be related to undisclosed...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1954
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RB 38/00124 Ground scintillometer survey of portion of section 398 of the Hundred Wallaroo.
A radioactive dump was located by the writer near the Kurilla Mines on section 398 of the Hundred of Wallaroo on 2 November 1954 while carrying out a systematic survey in an adjacent area. This shows that uranium mineralisation occurs in or adjacent...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1954
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RB 39/00028 Yudnamutana copper deposits in: Government drilling operations. Diamond drilling.
During September-October 1954, the Department of Mines drilled two exploratory diamond cored holes in the historic Yudnamutana Mining Field to test beneath abandoned shallow underground copper mine workings for inferred possible low grade but perhaps...-
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Published: 23 Feb 1955
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RB 39/00078 Radiometric reconnaissance of copper mines dumps, northern Yorke Peninsula.
A radiometric investigation of mine dumps in the Moonta-Kadina copper-mining district and of 17 other known copper prospects on northern Yorke Peninsula revealed the presence of anomalous radioactivity associated with much of the copper mineralisation...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1957
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RB 41/00035 Section of report on work conducted and plants visited during a twelve month period spent in Canada.
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Published: 01 Jan 1955
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RB 41/00059 Thickening and filtration of Radium Hill tailings products (RD 28).
Plant tests conducted at Radium Hill on the effect of reagent S3000 on the settling and thickening characteristics of the tailings products are described.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1955
