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The Ukaparinga Schist - a syngenetic copper deposit near Williamstown, South Australia.
An amphibolite-facies mica schist carrying syngenetic copper mineralisation has been mapped over a strike length of 2.5 km near Williamstown, 40 km North East of Adelaide, South Australia. The schist, termed the Ukaparinga Schist, contains...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1974
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Williamstown. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 16/12/1971 to 15/12/1972.
Exploration for possible stratiform or hydrothermal, fault-associated copper deposits in the area of basal Adelaidean metasediments lying to the north of known such mineralisation at the abandoned historic Ukaparinga mine, immediately north of...-
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Published: 12 Apr 1973
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RB 38/00052 Report on an inspection of monazite occurrence, Section 60, Hundred of Myponga.
A second occurrence of outcropping monazite on the northern side of Myponga Hill, which is situated about 2 miles south of Myponga township, was inspected and advice given to a prospector concerning how best to further develop the existing small-scale...-
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Published: 29 Sep 1954
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RB 60/00071 (Report on the) Ukaparinga (Unaparinga) copper mine, Williamstown.
Copper carbonates are sporadically distributed throughout steeply dipping mica schist in a zone up to about 70 ft. wide. The host rocks have been regarded as overturned metamorphosed Burra Group (Torrensian) beds resting on the Aldgate Sandstone...-
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Published: 05 Apr 1965
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RB 44/00019 Diamond drilling for road making materials - Mount Compass.
Three diamond holes drilled on the southern slopes of Mt Compass in a search for road-making aggregate encountered variably banded calc-silicate rocks, syenitic types and pegmatites of the Lower Proterozoic Barossa Complex. The required volume of fair...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1959
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RB 99/00001 Mount Lofty Ranges groundwater assessment. Piccadilly Valley.
A water balance study of the Piccadilly Valley has indicated that almost 20% of annual rainfall, amounting to 2000 ML, recharges the fractured rock aquifers. The current usage of about 1200 ML represents just under 60% of this annual recharge. Total...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1999
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RB 99/00019 Mount Lofty Ranges groundwater assessment - Portions of Torrens Rural Catchment.
The Torrens Rural Catchment can be divided into three zones where groundwater extraction from fractured rock aquifers is significant - the Fourth and Sixth Creek catchments, and the Birdwood - Gumeracha area. The Fourth Creek Catchment, which is...-
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Published: 31 Dec 1899
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RB 99/00018 Mount Lofty Ranges groundwater assessment - Tookayerta Catchment.
The Tookayerta Catchment is an area which is increasingly coming under pressure from its landowners for the development of local groundwater resources to irrigate dairy pastures, berry plantations and vineyards. The catchment encompasses two...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1999
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Lobethal (part of the Adelaide Hills Project). Data release made upon the commencement of project licences' joint reporting] : annual reports for the period 29/9/1993 to 3/3/2003.
A large, 722 square km area of the central Adelaide Hills extending between Jupiter Creek and the Warren Conservation Park is being explored for diamonds, gold and base metals, in host geological structures that appeared to be associated with...-
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Houghton. Annual reports and partial relinquishment report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/10/2001 to 21/10/2006.
Three potentially economic gold and platinum / palladium - bearing, known primary uranium-mineralised targets in the Palaeoproterozoic Houghton basement inlier have been evaluated through the conduct of office-based geological and geophysical studies,...-
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Published: 26 Apr 1907
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Yankalilla. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/10/2001 to 21/10/2003.
Possible primary gold and platinum - palladium mineralisation which might have formed in Palaeoproterozoic basic igneous rocks of the Myponga Inlier were the targets of exploration in an area 60 km south of Adelaide. Work undertaken comprised a field...-
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Kersbrook. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/5/2014 to 30/4/2017.
An historically intensively prospected area of the Adelaide Hills containing numerous alluvial gold workings and shallow shafts sunk on quartz reefs has been explored for possible buried economic primary bedrock gold occurrences that may have formed...-
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Published: 14 Jun 1917
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Williamstown. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 28/3/1983 to 29/3/1984.
In a search for possible extensions to existing, almost worked-out poddy deposits of damourite mica and kaolinised sillimanite, that may occur within an area of prospective Barossa Complex Proterozoic basement inlier rocks located south-east of...-
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Published: 30 Apr 1984
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Para Wirra. Quarterly reports to licence expiry for the period 5/11/1984 to 1/3/1988.
The licensee has performed mineralogical sampling, beneficiation testing, 1:1000 scale geological reconnaissance mapping and an economic evaluation of the Koraleigh micaceous haematite deposits located near Kersbrook, concentrating on establishing...-
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Houghton. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 15/4/1968 to 28/2/1970.
As part of uranium exploration being carried out over the oldest basement rocks forming inliers to the Adelaide Geosyncline within the southern Mount Lofty Ranges, an airborne scintiilometer survey was flown across the Houghton Inlier during December...-
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Geological investigations of clay, mica and sillimanite occurrences at Williamstown, and evolving mine development plans and alternatives. Progress reports for the period 6/10/1976 to July 1984.
Dataset contains Amdel - derived mineralogical and petrological data on the ore and host rocks, plus the mine operator's reports on its plans to resume and optimize production of the unique ore types known to exist in four current mine pits and their...-
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SADM/Amdel Project 1/1/140: geochronology of the [State's] eastern basement rocks. Progress reports 1 to 22 for the period 14/9/1971 to August 1979.
More than 275 selected rock chip samples of Precambrian basement or near-basement igneous lithologies were described in detail petrographically and, if they were found to contain suitable minerals, then analysed using radiometric methods, the aim...-
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Mount Effie. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/8/1977 to 15/8/1979.
Exploration for possible Precambrian hydrothermal vein-style or unconformity type uranium deposits, and for any other economic metalliferous minerals, was carried out over several small inliers of Palaeoproterozoic rocks that crop out poorly through...-
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RB 2020/00015 Reconnaissance zircon U-Pb geochronology of the southeastern Olympic Cu-Au Province, South Australia.
The eastern Gawler Craton is the location of the Olympic Cu-Au Province, a world-class metallogenic province known for iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposits such as Olympic Dam, Prominent Hill and Carrapateena (Skirrow et al., 2007;...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2020
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RB 00275 Wild Dog uranium prospect. 9th progress report.
During the period reported, underground excavation of an inclined heading was commenced on the No. 1 lode, and 64 wagon (percussion) drill holes and three diamond drill holes were completed, with two diamond holes still in progress. A ground...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1900
