Base metal exploration carried out 70 km west and south-west of Marree, to investigate the potential for Olympic Dam - type mineralisation in concealed pre-Adelaidean rocks, has included geochemical rock chip and water sampling, an aerial radiometric...

Exploration for base metals, over an area extending 50 km southwest from Moolowatana, was subtendered to Aquitaine Australia Minerals for two years by North Flinders Mines under a joint venture agreement. A program of geophysical appraisal of known...

Adelaidean and Cambrian calcareous clastic rocks of the Angepena region were investigated for possible economic epigenetic base and precious metal mineralisation that may be related to syn-depositional faulting, as well as for stratiform and...

Possible intrusive Proterozoic salt bodies beneath the Blinman, Upalinna, Martins Well, Mt Hemming, Willippa and Bibliando Domes were investigated by field mapping, including the construction of measured outcrop stratigraphic sections, seismic...

Exploration for possible fault-related epigenetic lead-zinc deposits formed in calcareous rocks outcropping along the Mount John - Arrowie fault system, to the south-east of the Moro mine, has included extensive stream sediment and rock chip sampling...

Relevant older data from a sequence of exploration programs in the Mount Painter Province, undertaken on Special Mining Leases since 1965, have been previously released. Exploration for possible economic buried epithermal/hydrothermal and stratabound...

Kennecott took up 3 SMLs in the Mount Painter district during 1968 to evaluate known copper-uranium occurrences and to search for new occurrences. At the same time, they secured the ground surrounding four 40-acre Mineral Claims already in their...

TARGET: Disseminated low grade, large tonnage deposits of copper, lead and zinc mineralisation formed in Adelaidean metasediments overlying Mesoproterozoic igneous rocks. EXPLORATION: 1:12,000 and 1:4,800 scale geological mapping, rock chip, soil and...

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...

Two separate orientation geochemical sampling programmes have been undertaken during 1969 over BHP's Special Mining Lease areas near Whyalla. In the Pandurra Station area, shallow residual soils over known mineralised Carpentarian bedrock were...

Four Mineral Claims of 40 acres each were taken out by Kennecott in October 1967 to allow investigation of a major fault breccia and fracture zone in Proterozoic rocks in the Yudnamutana area of the northern Flinders Ranges. The intention was to test...

No economic or potentially economic mineralisation was noted during a geological survey of the old surface and underground gold workings on the Mount Grainger Goldfield. The Mount Grainger anticlinal structure is considered by the authors to be quite...

As a result of the work outlined in this report it is concluded that the possibility of economic tonnages of copper ore within the area of Special Mining Lease no. 165 are restricted to three localities, Breaden Hill, Boorloo and East Rook. All three...

During early 1970 BHP investigated an area on Roopena Station, 20 miles north-northwest of Whyalla, for possible late Meso- to early Neoproterozoic stratiform copper associated with the basal Adelaidean unconformity. Previously, interesting minor...

Soil geochemical sampling (940 samples) carried out on a 1000 foot by 1500 foot grid pattern over the Arkaba Diapir, aiming to check for possible economic zinc mineralisation that may have formed within the diapiric breccias and related fracture zones...

Extrapolation of a prospective copper-mineralised Neoproterozoic target horizon into the subject licence from WMC's northerly-adjoining EL271 has prompted a brief investigation of its potential through aerial photointerpretation, detailed 1:15,000...

Outcropping Lower Cambrian carbonate rocks, plus Adelaidean diapiric rocks located west of the historical Mount Bayley copper mine, were tested for concealed base metal mineralisation by collecting and analysing 133 regional stream sediment samples....

A possible association between copper and uranium mineralisation such as had been reported in the early 1950s at the Nicholl's Nob mine, located just to the east of the subject licence, was pursued by E-Z, who in this case examined the western...

Exploration of the known copper-bearing Lower Adelaidean metasediments outcropping in the Willouran Ranges to the south-west of Marree addressed the many historical mine prospects and also the region as a whole. Initial work comprised a regional...

Exploration for possible extensions to previously worked barite lodes and for new vein deposits in the Oladdie area comprised an initial familiarisation study tour of the geological setting of commercial barite deposits elsewhere in the Flinders...