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Paralana Hill (part of the Poontana Uranium Joint Venture Project). Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 19/12/1979 to 8/2/1983.
Targets of ongoing subsurface investigations in the plains area north-west of Lake Frome, now being conducted under a new joint venture, were respectively to delineate further sedimentary uranium occurrences within buried Middle and Late Tertiary...-
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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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Resistivity survey on EL 77, Lake Frome, South Australia for BP Minerals, SA.
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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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South Eagle [part of a joint licence area with Kalabity]. Uranium exploration progress and technical reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 15/5/1974 to 14/2/1976.
During the EL 132 tenure, work has consisted of a mineability evaluation of the Honeymoon uranium deposit, plus additional U exploration over the South Eagle farmout. Initially, 5 rotary holes (total 594.9 m) were drilled to the north of the...-
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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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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 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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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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RB 81/00024 Progress report, CURNAMONA 1:250 000 sheet - Platform rocks, Benagerie Ridge and their Mesozoic and Cainozoic cover.
The Benagerie Ridge is a basement high which has been actively shedding detritus since Adelaidean times. It includes porphyry, with thin cover of Adelaidean rocks, flanked by Cambrian and possible Adelaidean sediments. The Cainozoic blankets the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1981
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RB 98/00021 Review of open file company exploration data from 1992 to mid-1997, Olary Domain, CURNAMONA 1:250 000 map sheet, South Australia.
This report comprises Open file company data, released since the previous MESA review (Yates and Randell, 1994) of the CURNAMONA 1:250 000 map sheet, includes exploration for base and precious metals (especially stratiform/stratabound Broken...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1997
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Notes on the genesis of uranium deposits in the Yarramba Channel [on] EL 85 South Eagle and EL 98 Yarramba.
It is proposed that the buried Tertiary Yarramba Palaeochannel feature hosting the sedimentary uranium mineralisation was incised into Cretaceous and Precambrian basement rocks. Within the channel, quartzose sands and abundant detrital organic matter...-
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Published: 02 Jan 1974
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Ethiudna. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 22/2/2004 to 22/2/2015.
An area centred ~50 km north-west of Olary is continuing to be explored for possible buried economic Prominent Hill or Olympic Dam type iron oxide associated copper-gold (IOCG) breccia style mineralisation. The area is considered highly prospective...-
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Lake Callabonna area (part of the Lake Elder Project). First partial surrender report, for the period 19/3/1998 to 18/3/2001.
Exploration for sedimentary uranium consisted of research and compilation of previous drilling data, including lithological logs, gamma logs and redox interface distribution maps. Such information compiled from six historical drillholes located in...-
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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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Report on recent exploration in SMLs 543, 544, Crocker Well prospect 22, Lake Frome, South Australia.
A 64 line km gravity survey, with stations located at 150 m spacing, was conducted to locate the position of the main Billeroo West palaeochannel within the northern part of SML 543, in order to assess the need to retain under exploration tenure the...-
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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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John Brown Well [part of Paralana Plains Joint Venture area]. Progress reports for the period 3/6/1971 to 2/6/1973.
Results of Western Nuclear's ongoing exploration/appraisal drilling of the north-western Lake Frome Plains for sedimentary uranium are presented (for 62 rotary plug holes, totalling 34,534 feet). Mineralised Tertiary palaeochannel sediments were...-
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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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Starvation Lake. Progress reports and final report on regional exploration programme at licence surrender, for the period 13/1/1972 to 31/7/1972.
In a search for possible economic roll-front, blanket style uranium deposits within Tertiary sediments in part of the eastern Frome Embayment, the licensee undertook 1:75,000 scale geological mapping and exploratory auger drilling of the Quaternary...-
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