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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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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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RB 85/00053 Drought and flood in the Lake Eyre Basin as reflected in the lithology of Cainozoic sediments recovered in drill core from near the lake.
The sediments are dolomitic and clay rich mudstones and siltstones with intraformational mud conglomerates and rare cherts. The effects of flood and drought are reflected in lithological changes related to fluctuations in the physical and chemical...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1985
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RB 76/00119 Silcrete sediments and stratigraphy.
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Published: 01 Jan 1976
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RB 81/00068 Late Cainozoic nonmarine mollusca of the Lake Frome area and other selected localities from northern South Australia.
This report concerns the stratigraphic setting and palaeontology of nonmarine Mollusca to complement continuing investigations by R. A. Callen in Lake Frome and southern Strzelecki Desert, and to provide supporting data on palaeoecology and...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1982
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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 90/00015 Correlation and depositional environment of Tertiary strata based on macrofloras in the southern Lake Eyre Basin, South Australia.
Plant macrofossils from silicified Cainozoic fluvial sediments on CURDIMURKA occur in 2 discrete suites. One suite has been found only in outcrops of silicified Eyre Formation in the Poole Creek Palaeochannel. This suite and the macroflora of the...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1990
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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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Regolith mapping on the Mingary 1:100,000 map area, Curnamona Province.
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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 : Lake Carnanto (part of the Curnamona Project). Annual reports to licence full surrender, for the period 13/1/2004 to 14/7/2014.
An area located ~140 km north-northeast of Olary has been explored for possible economic buried sedimentary uranium mineralisation hosted by Tertiary palaeochannel sands of the Callabonna Sub-basin. Previous exploration activities had partly defined...-
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Published: 07 Mar 1914
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Lake Frome South, Central Lake Frome and Lake Frome North areas (the Lake Frome Potash Project). Joint annual reports plus final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 5/1/2015 to 26/4/2018.
The entire extent of the main Lake Frome salina was taken up in early 2015 with three contiguous licences covering a total area of 2718 square km, to explore for a salt lake brine potash resource which might be economic to develop to supply the local...-
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Published: 30 Apr 1918
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Block review, basin analysis and hydrocarbon prospectivity of the Pedirka Block in the Pedirka Sector.
The Purni, Peera Peera and Poolowanna Formations were evaluated in terms of depositional and structural basin analysis using the model of Genetic Increments of strata (GIS). Eight reservoir intervals have been identified and the pertinent reservoir...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1986
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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 Yantawena (East). Progress reports for the period 27/11/1970 to 26/11/1972.
An airborne scintillation spectrometer survey with follow-up ground radioactivity surveying, new geological and gamma logging of deep water bores, and subsequent road traverse drilling of 64 regional reconnaissance open rotary holes totalling 24,447...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 4 partnership DPY4-13, Lake Frome area Holocene and Neogene calcrete - hosted uranium mineral prospects. Project interim and final reports.
Surficial sedimentary uranium deposits are estimated to comprise about 4% of world uranium resources. Calcrete deposits form approximately 5% of Australia's total uranium reserves and resources. Exploration for calcrete - hosted uranium of Neogene age...-
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Published: 11 Jun 1908
