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Mount Misery. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/11/1981 to 29/11/1985.
Stratabound, chemically precipitated Telfer - type replacement style vein gold was the target of exploration undertaken over an area 25 km north-west of Yunta, which contains good exposures of Neoproterozoic Umberatana Group clastic metasediments that...-
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Bendigo Station. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 6/8/1987 to 5/8/1992.
Copper and gold exploration comprising outcrop, stream sediment and soil geochemical sampling, and the conduct of ground magnetic and IP surveys, plus RC percussion (67 vertical holes, total 6624 m) and diamond cored tail drilling (in 2 holes, total...-
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Published: 02 Jul 1992
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RB 78/00069 Devils Chimney micaceous hematite deposit, sections 45, 46, Hd Minburra, Co. Herbert.
Very tight folding and remobilization of the Sturtian Holowilena Ironstone has produced a massive ironstone blow and small lenses of micaceous haematite. The haematitic quartz rock is not suitable for pigments, and lenses of haematite of pigment...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 87/00109 Geological investigations and exploration activities, 1982 to 1986, at Mount Grainger gold mine, Hundred Coglin, County Herbert. Volume 1 (of 2).
Investigations consisted of: 1) economic appraisal, mapping and sampling of mineralised structures within mineral leases; 2) regional investigation to east of Mount Grainger mine (report in RB 84/31) - includes details of exploration by Abignano Ltd....-
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Published: 01 Sep 1987
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RB 86/00095 Appraisal of gold tailings - Countess of Jersey battery - Mineral Claim 1906 - Wadnaminga Goldfield.
In mid 1892, a 10 head stamp battery was constructed about 4 km NE of the Countess of Jersey gold mine. Reportedly 300 tonnes of ore from the mine was treated at the battery, but no records are available. Recent hand auger sampling and surveying of...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1986
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RB 95/00025 Geological investigation of Mineral Claim 2597, Mount Grainger Goldfield.
An appraisal of Mineral Claim 2597 at the Golden Slope workings on the Mount Grainger Goldfield has revealed gold mineralization associated with hydrothermally altered basal arkosic sandstone of Appila Tillite and the underlying Burra Group shale. A...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1995
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Belton, Two Sisters, Marchant Hill and Steve's Gap (Orroroo Project). Joint annual and final reports to licences' expiry/full surrender for the period 16/2/2007 to 15/2/2009.
Exploration for possible economic secondary deposits of copper, uranium and gold that might be associated with known iron-rich sediments deposited at or near the base of the Sturtian sedimentary sequence, carried out within four tenement areas that...-
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Paratoo (was formerly part of the Grainger Project; recently made part of the Flinders Ranges JV Project). Annual reports from the time of cessation of previous joint venture(s) reporting, for the period 20/7/2007 to 1/11/2016.
During 2007-2008, the first year of the diamond exploration joint venture with the Filsell brothers in the Paratoo area, Flinders Mines' activities comprised: • acquiring part of a detailed helicopter-borne infill aerial magnetic ('helimag') survey,...-
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Published: 30 Jan 1919
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Siccus River area. Progress reports for the period 1/8/1969 to 31/7/1971.
Surface geochemical sampling and inspections of known historic old copper workings in the vicinity of the Yednalue Dome, north of Carrieton, were inconclusive for accurately detecting further buried supergene mineralisation, or for establishing...-
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Published: 14 Sep 1971
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Witchitie. Progress and final reports for the period 16/10/87 to 16/7/88.
TARGET: An aeromagnetic anomaly located 12 km north-west of Witchitie Homestead was investigated as to whether it is indicative of a possible carbonatite source. EXPLORATION: Ground magnetic surveys, geological field reconnaissance and limited...-
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Paratoo. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/3/1988 to 30/2/1990.
TARGET: Possible economic, open-pit mineable stratiform low grade gold and copper deposits within Adelaidean units of the Nackara Arc, in an area lying west of and including Yunta. EXPLORATION: A detailed geological field reconnaissance, review of...-
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Published: 19 May 1990
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RB 70/00001 Reconnaissance for road metal, Hundreds of Moorooroo and Nuriootpa, County Light - District Council of Tanunda.
2 main areas are outlined as likely sources, high quality marble to the N of the Penrice quarries and quartzite from many localities NW and close to Tanunda, but of lower quality.-
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Published: 02 Jan 1970
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Hallett (part of the Nackara Gold Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/8/2002 to 4/10/2012.
An area of high country in the far northern Mount Lofty Ranges was taken under licence to try to find the primary source(s) of widely dispersed detrital gold known from Recent and Tertiary cover sediments in the region, while focussing mainly on...-
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Australia Plains. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/5/2010 to 2/5/2015.
An area centred ~15 km east of Eudunda, in the north-eastern Mount Lofty Ranges, has been explored initially for possible economic outcropping stratabound/replacement style phosphate mineralisation that may have formed within Adelaidean dolomitic...-
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Published: 25 Jun 1915
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Yednalue. Data release made in lieu of making a first partial surrender at licence expiry/renewal : annual reports for the period 24/9/2001 to 12/2/2012.
A small area centred approximately 70 km north of Orroroo is being explored for possible buried economic Neoproterozoic stratiform or stratabound epithermal/hydrothermal copper and gold deposits, and for placer gold or magnetite deposits, as well as...-
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Published: 07 Apr 1912
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RB 2001/00003 Sandstone dimension stone in South Australia - Results of geological reconnaissance, 1998 and 1999.
Sandstone as a building material was used extensively in Adelaide and regional South Australia from the founding of the colony until the end of World War II. However, since 1945 the industry has declined steadily, with closure of many quarries, until...-
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Published: 01 Feb 2001
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Prince Alfred mine. Progress reports and annual reports to licence full surrender, for the period 9/4/1998 to 24/6/2001.
Exploration in an area around the historic Prince Alfred mine consisted mainly of detailed geological mapping and compilation of data derived from comprehensive literature searches, together with processing and interpretation of available geophysical...-
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Published: 16 Jun 1901
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Oulnina. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 5/7/2002 to 4/7/2004.
In a search for possible stratiform hydrothermal gold deposits in a stratigraphic/structural setting similar to those of economic gold occurrences at the Mount Grainger Goldfield and on the Paratoo Dome, 45 rock chip samples were collected from...-
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Published: 16 Oct 1903
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Nackara. First partial surrender report, for the period 24/9/1984 to 22/8/1985.
Exploration was undertaken for Telfer - style stratabound gold at the contact between the Tapley Hill Formation and the Tarcowie Siltstone, and for placer type gold in glacial sequences such as the Appila Tillite and Wilyerpa Formation (94 stream...-
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Ketchowla. Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 15/3/2007 to 14/3/2008.
No field work - the information reported comprises a review of previous geological and geophysical data, plus elements of a regional structural interpretation, and was used to direct exploration target selection.-
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Published: 21 Apr 1908
