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Goolwa - Strathalbyn - Murray Bridge - Mannum area. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender/re-issue as part of a larger tenement, for the period 13/11/1979 to 21/2/1985.
A multi-commodity mineral exploration programme carried out over an area between Mannum and Strathalbyn, seeking buried targets concealed in Tertiary sediments and basement rocks, comprised aerial magnetic, radiometric and EM surveys; groundwater,...-
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Published: 01 May 1985
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RB 88/00085 1:250 000 Geological series - Explanatory Notes, OLARY, South Australia. Sheet SI/54-2 International Index.
The OLARY map area includes the SW part of the Willyama Inliers and surrounding Adelaidean (Late Proterozoic) sequences. The Early Proterozoic Willyama Supergroup is separated by NW-trending faults into blocks of metasedimentary rock of upper...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1988
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mutooroo (the Olary Creek Project). Annual reports for the period 15/11/2005 to 7/2/2019.
An area centred ~50 km south west of Cockburn is being explored for possible economic base and precious metal mineralisation that may have formed in buried Palaeoproterozoic basement rocks, as well as for any secondary uranium mineralisation that may...-
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Lilydale, SA. Progress report and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/4/1969 to 31/3/1971.
An airborne scintillometer reconnaissance with ground-based follow-up, a geochemical study of groundwater, and open-hole rotary mud drilling (10 vertical holes, total 3205 feet) plus downhole wireline geophysical logging failed to locate significant...-
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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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Armonda Homestead. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 6/10/1980 to 16/12/1983.
A subcropping Tertiary sub-basin located about 20 km east of Burra has been investigated by CRAE for possible economic buried sedimentary occurrences of coal, uranium and deep lead alluvial gold. During July 1980, gravity traverses totalling 18 line...-
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Published: 28 Oct 1983
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Jones Dam [Mutooroo Station]. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 4/1/1979 to 3/1/1981.
81 closely-spaced rotary mud vertical open drillholes (total penetration 9218 m) evaluated known low grade palaeochannel uranium mineralisation previously detected in Miocene sand sequences adjacent to the Anabama - Redan Fault by Tricentrol Australia...-
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Pine Valley. First progress/final report at licence surrender for the period 29/4/1971 to 8/7/1971.
Exploration of the Tertiary sediments on the north-western margin of the Murray Basin was undertaken as part of a regional search for possible economic sedimentary uranium deposits which might be derived from the outcropping Willyaman primary uranium...-
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Milang. First partial relinquishment report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 13/11/1979 to 21/2/1985.
Within the now relinquished portion of the licence area, four gravity traverses totalling 34.4 line km and 11 rotary mud drillholes for 593.2 m were completed by CRA in a search for possible sedimentary roll-front type uranium deposits formed within...-
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Published: 15 Apr 1985
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Kakoonie, Bungunnia, Redcliffe, Armonda, Mongolata. Interpretation of 1980 - flown airborne geophysical surveys in the Florieton district.
A belt of complex magnetic zones trending N-S corresponds in part to outcropping or drilled granites. Other zones in the belt reflect either iron rich sediments within synclinal basins, or further igneous intrusive bodies, or both. The belt may...-
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Postmark. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 7/5/1970 to 5/5/1972.
Exploration for possible economic sedimentary uranium deposits in the Postmark area on the northern margin of the Murray Basin in South Australia comprised two airborne radiometric and scintillometric surveys together totalling approximately 1350...-
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Sturt Vale. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 25/4/1979 to 24/4/1980.
Continued uranium exploration in this area of the northern Murray Basin was aimed at following up anomalous radioactivity encountered during previous work, and further delineating the nature of the Tertiary sand development and associated uranium...-
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Published: 07 May 1980
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Coonalpyn. First partial surrender report, for the period 6/8/2007 to 5/8/2009.
For an area located in the southern Delamerian Fold Belt, and extending for ~50 km parallel to the Princes Highway north and north-west of Coonalpyn and Coomandook, a consultant's desktop interpretation of ASTER 2000, ASTER NTIR, DEM Raster and...-
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The Padthaway Ridge Sedimentary Uranium Project. Joint annual technical reports to licences' combined full surrender, for the period 30/1/2008 to 3/9/2013.
A package of fourteen mineral exploration tenements were taken up that straddled the north-eastern and south-western sides of the Padthaway Ridge, to allow the licensee to explore both the Tertiary Murray Basin and Gambier Basin sediments where they...-
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Published: 16 Jul 1913
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Coonalpyn. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 6/8/2007 to 5/8/2010.
An area located in the southern Delamerian Fold Belt, and extending for ~50 km parallel to the Princes Highway north and north-west of Coonalpyn and Coomandook, has been explored for possible economic basement-hosted uranium and base metal skarn...-
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Hawksnest, Geegeela, Keppoch, Bordertown, Sugarloaf Hill, Kumorna and Peacock Range. Combined report covering either the respective licences' first partial surrender or full surrender, for the period 30/1/2008 to 29/1/2010.
A number of portions of licence areas flanking known outcropping uraniferous basement rocks of the Padthaway Ridge have recently been relinquished, after originally being taken up to explore for possible economic sandstone-type uranium deposits that...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1910
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Policeman Point. Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/1/2008 to 29/1/2009.
Exploration of an area located in the upper South-East for possible economic coal or uranium mineralisation has consisted of office studies only, examining regional data to interpret whether favourable structural settings for coal deposition exist,...-
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Published: 23 Feb 1910
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RB 2003/00013 North-western Murray Basin geological synthesis, South Australia.
The Murray Basin is an intracratonic basin filled with Cainozoic fluvial to shallow marine sediments. Deposition in the Eocene and early Oligocene was characterised by floodplain and swamp deposits, emplaced with occasional interbeds of shelly clays...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2003
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RB 2015/00011 Uranium and uranium mineral systems in South Australia – Third edition.
South Australia is well recognised as being significantly enriched in uranium. During 2013–2014, South Australia produced 4399 t of uranium, representing 80% of Australia’s total uranium production of 5512 t, and equating to 9.2% of the world’s total...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2015
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RB 2012/00009 Uranium and uranium mineral systems in South Australia – Second edition.
South Australia is well recognised as being significantly enriched in uranium. During 2010–11, South Australia produced 4276 t of uranium, representing 60% of Australia’s total uranium production of 7035 t, and equating to 11% of the world’s total...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2012
