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RB 86/00031 Reconnaissance sampling for heavy mineral sands, Kangaroo Island.
Beach sands, dunes and selected creek sand were sampled. Kanmantoo Group metasediments that underlie most of the island, basalt and granite are favourable source rocks for heavy minerals. They are being actively eroded along most of the coastline but...-
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Published: 01 May 1986
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RB 77/00035 Mineral sands, Morrison Beach, Kangaroo Island.
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 94/00022 Review of heavy mineral sand exploration in South Australia - Eucla Basin.
The Cainozoic Eucla Basin has been the focus of recent heavy mineral exploration due to the recognition of Tertiary coastal features including the Ooldea Range. Hypsometric and Landsat data, together with detailed work on the Tertiary stratigraphy of...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1994
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Chimpering Rock Hole, Yarrana Hill, Moornaba Rock Hole, Euria Well, Koonibba Mission, Lake Tallacootra, Dunn Hill, Wallala Hill, Mount Centre and Nalara. Quarterly and annual progress reports plus technical reports, for the period 25/7/1989 to 24/7/1992.
Hitherto untried exploration for heavy mineral sands on the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin, conducted by the Ceduna Joint Venture partners since 1989 over ten contiguous licence areas in the Ooldea - Barton area centred 150 km north-west of Ceduna,...-
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Kybunga (latterly a part of the Balaklava HMS Project - Iluka tenements Group 9). First annual report 3/5/2012 to 2/5/2013, plus a joint annual report and final report for Group 9 submitted at the five project licences' full surrender on 24/9/2015.
Ground within the northern onshore Saint Vincent Basin was taken up by Iluka Resources to re-appraise the heavy mineral sands (HMS) potential of buried Tertiary sediments there, after some unsuccessful exploration had previously been undertaken in the...-
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Published: 22 Sep 1915
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Olary Project (latterly part of the Lodestone Project). Licence individual annual reports, plus related project joint annual reports, for the period 4/11/2009 to 20/1/2019.
Iluka Resources is exploring for possible economic heavy mineral (HM) deposits that may have formed in the northern Murray Basin, with a strategy of targeting any mineralised Loxton-Parilla Sand formation sediments deposited during the Pliocene marine...-
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The Venus Bay Project. Respective joint annual and subsequent individual [for Venus Bay] annual reports to that remaining licence's expiry/full surrender, for the period 26/4/2002 to 16/9/2012.
Renewed diamond exploration has been conducted in a part of the western Eyre Peninsula where numerous kimberlite indicator mineral (KIM) anomalies occur in surficial sediments, and where the four adjoining licence areas involved lie in close proximity...-
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Published: 26 Nov 1912
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Cocata and Warramboo (part of the Eyre Peninsula Project). Annual reports and joint annual reports to licences' joint expiry/renewal, for the period 7/6/1996 to 5/6/2001.
Two adjacent licence areas forming part of a contiguous set of project tenements in the central Eyre Peninsula region are being explored by Adelaide Resources (AR) primarily for gold and base metals, which it is thought may occur in buried deposits...-
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Published: 28 Aug 1901
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Carrieton East (part of the Orroroo North Project). Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/11/1979 to 13/11/1981.
TARGET: Diamonds in the region north and east of Carrieton. EXPLORATION: Following some early positive results from limited reconnaissance sampling, numerous 20 kg stream sediment samples and several bulk loam samples were collected, processed and...-
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Manunda Homestead. Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 25/6/1979 to 24/6/1980.
Diamond exploration over an area located approximately 35 km south-east of Yunta was undertaken to assess an interpreted structural environment that may be similar to one existing nearby to the west close to Terowie, in which shallowly buried,...-
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Uno Station. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 10/9/1970 to 9/9/1971.
The discovery in July 1970 of a strong surface radioactive thorium anomaly emanating from outcrop near Uno Homestead, 48 km north-west of Iron Knob, which was made by a Japanese company's geophysical prospecting party, prompted the leasing of the...-
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Published: 10 Sep 1971
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Report on rotary-percussion drilling, Mount McTaggart copper prospect, SML 575, South Australia, [carried out in] October 1971.
The Mount McTaggart prospect is located 15 miles south-west of Arkaroola Base Camp and 3 miles west of the Arkaroola-Balcanoona Road. A programme of ten rotary percussion holes totalling 3457 feet commenced on 11/10/1971 and was completed on...-
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Ooldea Range (part of the Eucla Basin Project). Annual reports, including those for the commencement of licence joint annual reporting for the Eucla Basin Mineral Sands Tenement Group 1, for the period 5/3/2002 to 28/2/2009.
The geomorphic feature known as the Ooldea Range, a prominent Eocene dune formed at the limit of the marine transgression on the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin, has now been taken under licence by WA-based company Iluka Resources to explore for...-
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Barton Range Central, Barton Range North and Paling Range, north-eastern Eucla Basin (Rio Tinto's Barton Range Project). Joint annual reports for work completed before the sale of these licences, for the period 15/3/2005 to 31/12/2009.
A sizeable part of the north-eastern Tertiary Eucla Basin marine palaeomargin is being explored for possible economic buried raised beach strandline deposits of detrital rutile, zircon and ilmenite-rich heavy mineral sands (HM) that may have formed...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Kottata Well, Eldale, Tootla and Broadacres (also part of the Yaninee Project). First annual report for EL 3135, plus subsequent joint annual reports, for the period 29/9/2003 to 5/6/2009.
An area located on central western Eyre Peninsula between Minnipa and Port Kenny was taken up to explore the Precambrian basement rocks, which are poorly exposed there, for possible economic buried iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposits....-
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PACE 2020 Discovery Drilling 2012 : Year 7 Drilling Partnership no. DPY7-04 - Marmota Energy Limited Gawler Craton Project, Moonbi gold target. Drilling project final report.
Indooroopilly Outstation EL 4702 lies within the northern Gawler Craton approximately 170 km south-west of Coober Pedy. It is located in the south-eastern corner of the Tallaringa 1:250,000 geological mapsheet area, and covers an area of approximately...-
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Brodies Valley. First annual report plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 23/8/2012 to 22/8/2014.
An area centred ~80 km north-west of Roxby Downs, on the western side of the contemporary Stuart Creek catchment, has been explored for possible Tertiary palaeo-lacustrine strandline deposits of detrital heavy mineral sands (HM). The targeted...-
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Published: 22 Aug 1914
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Blanchetown. First partial surrender report, for the period 25/2/2008 to 27/5/2009.
Two separate licence portions together totalling 270 square km or ~33.5% of the former area of EL 4052 have been partially relinquished due to their perceived diminished potential to contain shallow Tertiary heavy mineral sands occurrences. Licensee...-
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RB 2009/00021 [South Australian] mineral resources production statistics for the 6 month [period] ended 30 June 2009.
This report presents detailed industry-derived statistics on the State's output and sales values of earth resource commodities realised during the six month period ended 30 June 2009, and compares the data with that returned for the previous six...-
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Published: 03 Nov 2009
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Ooldea. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/9/1986 to 1/9/1991.
Exploration for heavy-mineral sand in Tertiary sediments on the south-western flank of the Ooldea Range comprised geological reconnaissance and RC drilling (81 holes, total 1204 m). Up to 3% titaniferous heavy minerals were reported from drill samples.-
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