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Goolwa - Strathalbyn - Murray Bridge - Mannum area. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender/re-issue as part of a larger tenement, for the period 13/11/1979 to 21/2/1985.
A multi-commodity mineral exploration programme carried out over an area between Mannum and Strathalbyn, seeking buried targets concealed in Tertiary sediments and basement rocks, comprised aerial magnetic, radiometric and EM surveys; groundwater,...-
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Published: 01 May 1985
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Mount Allalone. Progress and annual reports for the period 14/6/89 to 31/7/95.
Base metal exploration of two lead-zinc mineralized areas previously discovered by Billiton and WMC within Hutchison Group metasediments near Mt Allalone, northwest of Buckleboo on central Eyre Peninsula, comprised ground magnetic and EM surveys, RAB...-
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Published: 02 Nov 1995
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RB 79/00088 Wilkinson 1. Well completion report.
Wilkinson 1 stratigraphic well was drilled by the SA Department of Mines and Energy in mid-1978, about 250 km south-west of Coober Pedy, in the Tallaringa Trough. Here a thick section of Cambrian claystones, limestones and evaporites, at least 594 m...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1979
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Giles Nob. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 8/7/1983 to 7/7/1988.
Exploration for possible economic gold deposits in an area located approximately 25 km south of Olary addressed three principal objectives: . hydrothermally-sourced gold within quartz-albite-dolomite vein stockworks formed in phyllitic siltstones of...-
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Tallaringa and Mount Igy (the Tallaringa JV Project). Joint annual reports to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 18/1/2009 to 6/2/2015.
During the 2009-2010 project joint reporting year, the following activities occurred: - the conduct of an Aboriginal heritage work area clearance survey in the northern part of EL 3485 Tallaringa by the Antakarinja Land Management Council Native...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bulgunnia (part of the Gawler JV Project). Annual reports for the period 19/11/1997 to 1/1/2013.
Within an area of the Wilgena and Christie Domains centred 40 km north of Tarcoola, exploration is continuing for Archaean to Proterozoic basement-hosted epithermal, hydrothermal and metamorphic type gold and base metal occurrences. Here an 841 square...-
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Menninnie Dam (part of the Fleurieu - Menninnie Dam Exploration Joint Venture Project). Combined annual report for the 5-year period 24/9/2005 to 26/10/2010, plus annual reports for the period 27/10/2010 to 26/10/2012.
During the 5-year period 2005-2010, intensified exploration undertaken at Menninnie Dam was focussed on the discovery and delineation of structurally controlled hydrothermal Pb-Zn-Ag mineralisation. Carbonate-rich Hutchison Group metasediments forming...-
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Corunna. Progress and final reports for the period 22/7/91 to 21/7/92.
TARGET: Broken Hill or Aggeneys - Gamsberg type stratiform base metal deposits within the metamorphosed Palaeoproterozoic Hutchison Group chemical sediments in the Corunna area, possibly hosted by geochemically anomalous carbonate and silicate facies...-
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Attempted dating of galenas from four drill core samples, Mount Gunson copper deposit. (Appendix 6 to progress report to 19/1/1975).
An extremely tentative age estimate for lead mineralization is 1350 to 920 Ma, with an ore remobilization age (assuming only one such phase) of 920 to 500 Ma.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1975
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Price. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 24/2/1975 to 23/2/1977.
In continuing regional exploration conducted over north-eastern Yorke Peninsula, further reconnaissance stratigraphic drilling and wireline geophysical logging (in 3 vertical rotary percussion holes totalling 373 m) was carried out in May 1976 to test...-
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RB 73/00008 Geological survey, Torrens Hinge Zone Project, Bute region. Report no. 1.
This report outlines the history and concept of the Torrens Hinge Zone project. An account is given of the regional geology, geophysics, geochronology and stratigraphic drilling in the Bute region and adjoining areas of northern Yorke Peninsula. An...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1973
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Douglas Creek (part of the Peake and Denison IOCG Project). Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 21/9/2000 to 30/4/2010.
Rio Tinto Exploration Pty Ltd (Rio Tinto) took up the subject tenement at Douglas Creek, located ~ 20 km east of the central Peake and Denison Ranges, to explore the Palaeoproterozoic and Mesoproterozoic metamorphic basement rock sequence that it...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bremer. Progress and annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 8/3/1991 to 7/3/1995. [ Index Part 2 of 3 ].
In May 1992 six traverses of shallow RAB drilling were completed at the Angas prospect (222 holes for a total penetration of 1550 m). The objective was to test the Cambrian bedrock geochemistry beneath shallow Tertiary and Recent sediments that cover...-
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Aroha. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/5/1980 to 26/5/1982.
As part of Esso's continued exploration programme for buried Late Proterozoic stratiform uranium deposits in the Uno - Corunna area, detailed geochemical, petrological, thermoluminescence and lead isotope studies were performed on samples obtained by...-
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Ediacara. Annual and final reports to licence expiry, for the period 14/7/1992 to 13/7/1997.
Possible Century or Neves-Corvo style stratabound and barite - associated, thinly bedded lead-zinc-copper sulphide/sulphate mineralisation existing in Late Precambrian to Lower Palaeozoic marine sediments of the Adelaide Geosyncline, was the target of...-
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Published: 14 Apr 1999
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Mount Compass (the Finniss River Project). Combined first annual/final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/11/1996 to 18/11/1997.
A gossanous bedrock outcrop present within Early Cambrian sediments of the central Fleurieu Peninsula, and situated 16 km north-east of Mount Compass township, was investigated as a possible Mississippi Valley - type (MVT) base metals target....-
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Reports on hyperspectral mapping of geology within the Curnamona Province.
An 11 km x 23 km area located east of Broken Hill township was chosen for the acquisition of an experimental OARS (Operational Airborne Remote Sensing) and prototype TIPS (Thermal Infrared Profiling System) hyperspectral survey flown during the period...-
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Hiltaba. Progress and final reports for the period 22/6/1972 to 21/6/1973.
Rock chip and stream sediment samples were analysed for U, Th and base metals. In addition, water samples from bores were analysed for U. All assays were low. It was concluded that the Hiltaba Granite has slightly elevated but insignificant levels...-
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Published: 17 Oct 1973
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Carnding. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 18/1/2006 to 22/2/2012.
Three separate small sub-blocks forming a licence in the Tarcoola district have been explored for possible economic buried Tertiary sandstone-hosted uranium mineralisation and for any other metallic mineralisation that may have formed in underlying...-
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Published: 29 Feb 2012
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SP 008 Mineral Resources of the Adelaide Geosyncline
This publication has been compiled from a display prepared for the launch of SADME Bulletin 53, held at the Australian Mineral Foundation on 7 December 1987. The importance and diversity of commodities found in the Geosyncline are highlighted in the...-
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