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Mount Plantagenet. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 11/2/1971 to 10/2/1973.
Ongoing exploration for economic epigenetic and syngenetic copper occurrences in the vicinity of the Worumba Diapir, east of Hawker, has concentrated on field mapping, soil and channel sampling and shallow percussion drilling (47 holes for 3755+ feet)...-
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Published: 23 May 1972
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Mount Grainger (part of the Mount Grainger JV Project). Annual reports for the period 25/10/1996 to 24/10/2000.
Exploration over a structurally complex part of the Nackara Arc region centred ~30 km north-east of Peterborough has sought economic Telfer-type gold deposits hosted within folded domal structures in Adelaidean strata, which have been intruded during...-
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Data release - as updated : Mount Lyndhurst and Mount Lyndhurst South. Annual reports and joint annual reports to licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 23/2/2006 to 18/10/2015.
A large area covered by two adjoining tenements that together are centred ~ 50 km north-east of Leigh Creek has been explored for possible buried economic copper oxide and sulphide mineralisation that may be associated with diapirs of the Adelaide...-
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Published: 20 Oct 1915
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Mount Craig, Mount Caernarvon, Mount Havelock, Red Range and Mount Plantagenet (the Torrens Project). Joint annual reports plus a final report submitted at the full surrender of the last remaining project licences, for the period 16/9/2012 to 22/11/2019.
A group of five contiguous licences originally covering a total area of 756 square km in the south-central Flinders Ranges region, situated east-northeast of Hawker and east of the Elder Range, have been explored for possible economic buried...-
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Published: 26 Nov 1919
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Hope Bank. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 6/1/1987 to 6/9/1988.
TARGET: Telfer-style gold in the Wabricoola area, NW of Yunta. EXPLORATION: Image processing of BMR airborne magnetic survey data, and detailed stream sediment (452) and soil (110) geochemical sampling. RESULTS: Anomalous low order gold values that...-
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Published: 25 Aug 1988
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Mount Craig Copper Project. Final report for June to December 2021 geophysical and drilling program, Project ADI RD02-268 [part of Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2021].
An area centred ~28 km east of Hawker is being explored for possible buried epigenetic/hydrothermal, skarn style and sediment-hosted stratabound base and precious metals mineralisation that may have formed within prepared Adelaidean metasedimentary...-
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Published: 02 Nov 1921
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Ulooloo. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 29/7/1986 to 6/3/1989.
TARGET: Economic fine-grained, Telfer style gold mineralisation occurring as syngenetic stratabound deposits formed in sedimentary basins during or soon after periods of basin subsidence and instability. The eastern limb of the large, overturned...-
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Published: 22 Feb 1989
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Mount Grainger. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/8/1986 to 19/2/1988.
TARGET: Stratabound gold, or hydrothermally altered vein stockwork copper-gold mineralisation that commonly is structurally emplaced within folded, brittle fractured competent Adelaidean metasedimentary units, in an area 20 km east of Peterborough....-
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Published: 01 Mar 1988
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Wyacca (part of the Hawker Project). Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/1/2006 to 17/1/2011.
EL 3492 was originally taken out to cover the historic copper workings at Wyacca, located 40 km east of Hawker, as part of an exploration project addressing possible economic shallow oxide copper mineralisation associated with old mines and workings...-
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Published: 06 Apr 1911
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Teetulpa Goldfield. Combined annual, annual and progress reports, plus related technical consultants' reports, submitted until licence renewal/re-issue, for the period 24/11/1995 to 14/11/2006.
An area surrounding and extending to the south of the Teetulpa Goldfield, which is centred about 60 km west of Olary and 31 km north of Yunta, was taken up primarily to try to find the source for the significant (>100,000 ounces so far recovered)...-
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Published: 05 Jun 1906
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Bibliando (part of the Baratta Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 8/4/2009 to 7/4/2021.
Copper and gold exploration is being conducted within a small area centred about 100 km east of Hawker, which it is thought has potential for epigenetic vein style mineralisation within buried Adelaidean sandstone and shale strata in a stratabound...-
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Published: 12 Aug 1915
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Oraparinna. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 22/7/1969 to 21/7/1970.
Exploration of the area around the margins of the Oraparinna Diapir for commercial barite deposits has consisted of aerial photographic studies, plus ground geological traverses of photo-interpreted fault structures, and geological mapping, trenching...-
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Waukaringa Creek and Euro Hill (the Waukaringa Project). Joint annual reports to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 13/12/1995 to 12/12/1998.
Detailed geological mapping and rock chip geochemical sampling of inferred Telfer style gold prospects in the Waukaringa area, 40 km north-northwest of Yunta, have identified anomalous gold in silicified sandstones, quartzites and quartz veins, as...-
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Published: 10 Sep 1998
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Waukaringa North, Waukaringa Creek and Euro Hill (the Waukaringa JV Project). Data release made at the joint first partial surrenders of the latter two licences: joint annual reports for the period 13/12/1993 to 12/6/1995.
Gold/copper exploration being undertaken north-west of Yunta has comprised rock chip geochemical sampling and BLEG stream sediment sampling. No significant gold anomalies were identified from the drainage bulk samples. High assay values of up to 8.8...-
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Mount Davidson. Progress, annual and final reports to licence expiry for the period 15/1/1970 to 14/1/1972.
Exploration for possible hydrothermal/stratabound replacement-type base metal deposits in an area located 28 miles north-east of Hawker, adjacent to the northern margin of the Worumba Diapir, has consisted of photogeological mapping of structures...-
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Published: 17 Jan 1972
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Mount Burr. Progress and final reports to licence surrender, for the period 15/10/1970 to 14/7/1971.
A small area of the northern Flinders Ranges surrounding the Nichols Nob copper occurrences was explored for possible economic massive stratiform copper deposits, targeting the known mineralised Yudnamutana Subgroup metasediments. Work comprised a...-
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Martins Well. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 17/3/1969 to 16/3/1970.
Inspection of an extensively faulted domal area within upper Adelaidean metasediments east and south-east of Martins Well Homestead sought to find barite deposits of sufficiently high grade and quantity to resemble those of the Oraparinna mine area,...-
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Report on Beltana concession, SML 113, South Australia.
SML 113 covering about 1000 square km of Upper Proterozoic and Lower Cambrian sediments, and scattered masses of intrusive diapir, was taken out in the vicinity of Beltana to explore for copper deposits analogous to those found by SA Department of...-
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Report on Beltana concessions, Special Mining Leases 113, 136 and 142, SA.
An area surrounding Beltana in the Flinders Ranges, which is known to contain low level base metal mineralised Adelaidean and Cambrian sedimentary rocks and diapiric intrusive structures, has been prospected by a combination of photogeological studies...-
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Yunta. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/11/1970 to 11/11/1971.
Exploration of an area that surrounds Yunta township, seeking possible economic hydrothermal gold or base metal deposits, has consisted of regional and detailed (1:4800 scale) geological mapping, plus stream sediment geochemical sampling (514...-
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Published: 05 May 1971
