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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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Reconnaissance resistivity survey on Billeroo West, SA.
No new palaeochannels were located. Pathways for the Billeroo West and Curnamona palaeochannels are postulated. The depth to basement is greatest in the north and west where a sub-basin appears to occur. Deep resistivity soundings were conducted...-
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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 88/00020 1:250 000 geological series - Explanatory Notes CURNAMONA - South Australia.
The area mapped includes most of the area south of Lake Frome between the Flinders and Barrier Ranges, and part of the Olary Hills. Basin nomenclature has been revised for the Cainozoic. Drilling by CSR, Minad and Petromin NL has been used in the...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1988
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Frome Downs Homestead. Progress and technical reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 1/1/1969 to 31/12/1970.
Reconnaissance shallow stratigraphic drilling with subsequent borehole geophysical electric and radioactivity logging in the south-western Frome Embayment (21 rotary mud partly cored holes, total 8841 feet), over areas lying adjacent to outcropping...-
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Published: 31 Dec 1970
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Frome North. Annual reports for the period 19/8/2013 to 18/8/2016.
An area in the south-west of the Frome Embayment, that is centred ~80 km south-southeast of the Beverley uranium mine, has been taken up to explore for possible buried palaeochannel and sandstone hosted roll front style secondary uranium...-
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Published: 08 Sep 1916
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Data release - as updated : Reaphook Hill. Licence-specific annual reports to the commencement of Frome Basin Project joint reporting, plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the overall period 24/7/2013 to 11/1/2022.
An area on the south-western edge of the Frome Embayment, that is centred ~100 km south of the Beverley uranium mine, has been taken up to explore for possible buried palaeochannel and sandstone hosted roll front style secondary uranium mineralisation...-
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Published: 06 Jul 1921
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Drennans Hut. Annual reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 19/8/2013 to 5/6/2019.
An area in the south-west of the Frome Embayment, that was centred ~16 km south-southeast of Reaphook Hill, was taken up to explore for possible buried palaeochannel and sandstone hosted roll front style secondary uranium mineralisation which might...-
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Published: 22 Jul 1919
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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 Namba. Progress and final reports for the period 4/11/1975 to 26/10/1981.
TARGET: Sedimentary uranium deposits in the Lower Tertiary sediments overlying the Mesozoic Frome Embayment and Cambrian Moorowie Syncline stratigraphic succession, adjacent to and overlying the western flank of the Proterozoic Benagerie Ridge....-
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RB 00819 Archaeocyatha from Marathon Petroleum bore LC-43, Arrowie Basin.
Drill cuttings taken from the depth interval 108-111 metres in mineral exploration borehole LC-43, which sampled a pale pink calcilutite that was intersected below clays and mudstone (here referred to the Cretaceous Marree Formation), were found to...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 71/00122 Experimental survey using geophysical methods to outline bedrock relief. CURNAMONA 1:250 000 sheet area - Pacminex Pty Ltd.
Aim was to determine Cambrian bedrock relief beneath Tertiary unconsolidated sediments. Gravity and resistivity show some correlation with each other and with the geology. The magnetic results largely reflect changes in Proterozoic crystalline...-
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Published: 04 Aug 1971
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RB 72/00160 Frome Embayment stratigraphic drilling project. Preliminary report on SA Department of Mines Wooltana no. 1, Yalkalpo no. 1 and Wertaloona no. 1 stratigraphic bores.
This report contains downhole geological and wireline logging data summarizing the results of recent stratigraphic drilling in the Frome Embayment by the South Australian Department of Mines. Conclusions are tentative and may be subject to revision...-
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Published: 18 Aug 1972
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RB 72/00145 Curnamona gravity survey, 1972. CURNAMONA 1:250 000 sheet area - Pacminex Pty Ltd.
160 line km of gravity surveys conducted to define Cambrian bedrock relief in search for Tertiary palaeochannels.-
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Published: 03 Aug 1972
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RB 76/00027 Explanatory Notes for the FROME 1:250 000 geological map.
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Published: 01 Mar 1976
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Unlocking South Australia's Mineral and Energy Potential - A Plan for Accelerating Exploration. Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry) : Year 1 partnership no. DPY1-02, Titan mineral prospect. Project interim and final reports.
Titan prospect is located within Exploration Licence 3209, and lies 30 km north of the Olympic Dam mine. The prospect was first drilled by Western Mining Corp. in 1976 with diamond drillhole BD 1, and in 1981 with a second hole, BD 2. Both holes hit...-
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Yarley. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/8/2009 to 18/8/2012.
A small area located on the southern Lake Torrens Plains immediately west of the ABC Range was taken up to allow evaluation of its potential for having buried economic sedimentary coal and/or uranium mineralisation occurrences. There are no...-
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Published: 02 Sep 1912
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Mount Aleck (part of the Hawker Project). Second partial surrender report for the period 6/11/2006 to 5/11/2009.
Copper Range's interest in the Adelaide Fold Belt is predominantly focussed on exploration for copper, as near-surface oxide deposits and sediment-hosted stratiform sulphide mineralisation. However, EL 3646 covering an area adjacent to the south-west...-
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Published: 16 Apr 1910
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : (for 10 exploration licences comprising) the Lake Torrens JV Project. Joint annual reports for the period 1/1/2007 to 31/12/2011.
A group of ten, mainly adjoining licence areas occupying the plains surrounding the northern end of Lake Torrens, are now being jointly explored for possible economic buried Olympic Dam style IOCG related mineralisation that may have formed in the...-
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