Export metadata
Tailem Bend - Bordertown - Mount Gambier area (South-Eastern Coastal Plains Heavy Mineral Sands Project). Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/7/1974 to 19/7/1975.
Published: 01 Jul 1975 Created: 28 Oct 2024 Revised: 07 Dec 2024
Author: Larson, C.E.;Harrison, D.M.;Penny, B.

Exploration for possible ancient beach strandline heavy mineral sand placer deposits formed within the Pleistocene Bridgewater Formation has been undertaken in the State's South-East region. This pioneering on-ground work came about after several...

Exploration for possible ancient beach strandline heavy mineral sand placer deposits formed within the Pleistocene Bridgewater Formation has been undertaken in the State's South-East region. This pioneering on-ground work came about after several years of formulation of exploration concepts by consultant C.E. Larson, who in 1969 had first noticed similarities in the South-East's preserved near-coastal geological and geomorphological setting with the northern NSW - southern Qld and Jurien - Eneabba, WA areas where large commercial mineral sand deposits occur. Project activities have consisted of carrying out a detailed photogeological study, drilling 24 auger holes totalling 189 m, collecting 232 rock chip samples in a regional mapping and sampling programme, determining petrology and heavy mineral percentages of 144 rock samples, identifying and analysing the composition of heavy minerals recovered from 7 samples, and examining ground water bore stratigraphic data. This work has resolved that there is only a low chance for finding a Cainozoic fossil heavy mineral beach sand deposit in the region. The best grade samples collected within EL 169 contained only an average 0.45% by weight of heavy minerals, with a mineral assemblage composed of 9% rutile, 9% zircon and 32% ilmenite.

More +

About this record

Record No mesac1788
Topic Geoscientific Information
Type of Resource Document
Category Type
Document Type Mineral Company Report - Mineral Exploration
Contributor Amdel Ltd
Sponsor Jennings Mining Ltd
Tenement EL 169
Tenement Holder Jennings Mining Ltd
Operator
Geological Province
Mine Name
Stratigraphy
Commodity
Notes 
Notes: Includes:   - Larson, C.E., December 1973. The potential for mineral sand concentrations in the South-Eastern coastal plain of South Australia (geological consultant's prospectivity report for Jennings Mining). fiche: 1, p: 1-31;   -...
Notes: Includes:   - Larson, C.E., December 1973. The potential for mineral sand concentrations in the South-Eastern coastal plain of South Australia (geological consultant's prospectivity report for Jennings Mining). fiche: 1, p: 1-31;   - Larson, C.E,, September 1974. Photo-interpretive geology. South-Eastern coastal plains, South Australia (report for Jennings Mining). fiche: 1, p: 32-50.
Geographic Locality: South-East;Tailem Bend;Coonalpyn;Bordertown;Culburra;Keith;Mundulla;Naracoorte;Penola;Mount Gambier;Mount Boothby;Mount Monster;Kanawinka Fault;Marmon Jabuk Fault;Tatiara Creek
Doc No: Env 02518
Drillhole: MUN1/1 - MUN1/5;(123021 - 123024);(124915);KTH1/1 - KTH1/5;KTH2/1 - KTH2/4;(99353 - 99356);KTH3/1 - KTH3/4;(98614);(98615);(98624);(98625);KTH4/1 - KTH4/6;(98716 - 98718);(98723 - 98725)

More +

Language English
Metadata Standard ISO 19115-3

Citations

Use constraints License
License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Persistent identifier https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/mesac1788
Citation Larson, C.E.;Harrison, D.M.;Penny, B. 1975. Tailem Bend - Bordertown - Mount Gambier area (South-Eastern Coastal Plains Heavy Mineral Sands Project). Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/7/1974 to 19/7/1975. Mineral Company Report - Mineral Exploration
https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/mesac1788

Technical information

Status
Maintenance and Update Frequency
Geographic Reference GDA2020 (EPSG:7844)
Geo bounding box {"type":"Polygon","coordinates":[[[139.501373,-37.748521],[140.918059,-37.748521],[140.918059,-35.248514],[139.501373,-35.248514],[139.501373,-37.748521]]]}
Purpose 

                    
                    

                    
                  		
                

              
                
                

                  
                    Lineage