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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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Lady Buxton. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 22/7/1968 to 21/7/1970.
As part of a continuing regional search for economic deposits of uranium and other radioactive minerals within alluvial fan sediments deposited adjacent to and east of the Mount Painter Block basement outcrops, 32 rotary holes (total 16,218 feet) were...-
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Published: 21 Jul 1970
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Resistivity survey on EL 77, Lake Frome, South Australia for BP Minerals, SA.
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Lake Frome North. Progress reports and farminee's final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 24/2/1975 to 23/2/1977.
TARGET: Sediment-hosted uranium mineralisation. EXPLORATION: 12 vertical rotary mud drillholes were completed for a total penetration of 1992 m in the Christmas Well and Caldina areas, west of Lake Frome. RESULTS: No downhole radiometric anomalies...-
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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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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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Uranium in Tertiary stream channels, Lake Frome area, South Australia.
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RB 41/00077 Quaternary stratigraphic record at Lake Eyre North and the evolution of existing topographic forms.
Fossiliferous Quaternary lacustrine deposits of the Lake Eyre Basin are exposed in escarpments along the margins of Lake Eyre, North and were intersected in shallow boreholes in the area. These are described in detail and their distribution shown on...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1956
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RB 54/00153 Investigations of Lake Eyre. Part 1 - The sediments of the Lake Eyre Basin, evaporites and brines, their constitution and age.
Four boreholes completed in Lake Eyre North and one in Lake Eyre South have provided further information on lake sediments and the stratigraphy of the Lake Eyre Basin. Modern lake sediments constitute a thickness of less than 15 feet in the deflated...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1962
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RB 80/00026 Opal in South Australia.
Enlarged written version of a talk on the geology of opal, its occurrence and mining methods prepared for public presentation.-
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Published: 01 May 1980
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RB 84/00058 Progress report: CURDIMURKA 1:250 000 geological map - Cainozoic geology.
Two sandstone sequences, one un-named and one equivalent to the Watchie Sandstone, have been recognized on CURDIMURKA. These sandstone sequences occur beneath the Etadunna Formation. Both are believed to be equivalent to the Eyre Formation. The...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1984
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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 83/00092 Quaternary glacial cycles recorded in the Lake Millyera region, southern Strzelecki Desert.
Following the drying of the very extensive Tertiary lakes, there were 3 complex Pleistocene climatic cycles, or portions thereof, reflecting changes in the world climate related to glacial / interglacial episodes. Describes and interprets 4...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1983
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RB 83/00104 Data base for the Cainozoic of the Lake Eyre Basin, and proposed drilling project with Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics.
Includes surface and subsurface stratigraphic data, and a geological map at 1:500 000 scale. 18 bores were re-logged.-
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Published: 01 Dec 1983
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RB 85/00039 Colour coding of sands and clays from the Simpson Desert dunefield according to Munsell soil colour charts.
Colour variation was ascribed to the dominance of limonite coatings on sand grains, to uncoated grains and to various proportions of clay.-
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Published: 01 Jul 1985
