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RB 55/00006;Amdel 00126 Accessory minerals of South Australian granites.
The purpose of the work described was to compare and contrast the petrography, accessory minerals, and absolute ages of 25 granitic and allied rock samples collected from widely scattered localities in South Australia. The processes that are...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1961
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RB 77/00051;Env 03054 Porphyry style copper/molybdenum mineralization at Anabama Hill and the Cronje Dam copper prospect.
For a project to determine the base metal potential of known copper-mineralised igneous rocks which outcrop in an area located approximately 59 km south-west of Olary, the South Australian Government has completed detailed mapping, geochemical...-
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Published: 17 May 1977
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Abminga Diamond Project. Data release made at licence renewal [and project cessation]: progress reports and annual reports for the period 25/10/1993 to 17/3/2004.
The Abminga Diamond Project, undertaken by Caldera Resources NL, was granted exploration project status, including permission for EL joint reporting, in July 1996. This event followed up to two years of work by other operators on a number of...-
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Safari, Lake Woorong, Leonard Rise, Thunderstorm Creek and Brumby Creek areas (Coober Pedy Ridge Project). Quarterly and six-monthly progress, plus annual and final, joint activity reports for the period 22/4/1991 to 22/3/2000.
The Coober Pedy Ridge / Mount Woods Inlier project investigated a 170 km long east-west belt of medium to high grade Proterozoic metamophics and syn- and post tectonic granites, centred 25 km south of Coober Pedy, for Broken Hill type stratiform...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Prospect Hill. Annual reports for the period 25/7/2006 to 24/7/2018.
Continued evaluation of possible economic primary tin oxide mineralisation at three known separate occurrences in the Prospect Hill area, lying 20 km north-west of Moolawatana Homestead, has focussed on the untested zone immediately below the known...-
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PACE Copper Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 9 partnership DPY9-05 - Mount Sarah Project, Oodnadatta district, Proterozoic basement inferred epithermal/hydrothermal IOCG mineral prospect. Drilling final report.
A small licence area centred approximately 70 km north-northwest of Oodnadatta is being explored for possible economic buried IOCG type mineralisation that may have formed in the wholly concealed, almost unknown basement rocks there. Interest is...-
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Published: 28 Sep 1917
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Kanmantoo. Final report on drill testing of a deep magnetotelluric (MT) conductive zone having inferred monzonite related Cu-Au mineral potential, Project ADI RD02-281 [part of Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2022].
Hillgrove Resources Limited (Hillgrove) was granted ADI Round 2 programme subsidy funds to allow it to undertake diamond drill testing of a combined MT - gravity - magnetic anomaly located near its Kanmantoo mine, which it has termed the Stella...-
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Published: 28 Feb 1922
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Vivonne 1 and Borda 1 wells, Duntroon Basin, offshore South Australia. Thermal history reconstruction using apatite fission track analysis and vitrinite reflectance.
This study was commissioned by the Petroleum Division, Mines and Energy South Australia (MESA), and was completed in September 1995. Principal objectives of the study were to determine the timing and nature of any episodes of heating and cooling...-
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Fission track analysis of samples from Duntroon 1, Duntroon Basin.
Eight samples of unwashed cuttings from 1500-3510 metres (Aptian to late Eocene) were measured to determine thermal history. A major jump in the apatite grain age profile between the Tertiary and Cretaceous is attributed to a major shift in sediment...-
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PACE Copper Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 9 partnership DPY9-24 - Nankivel Hill area, Eyre Peninsula, skarn and/or porphyry type Mesoproterozoic epithermal Cu-Au and Ag-base metal prospects. Drilling final report.
Investigator Resources Limited (IVR) is continuing to explore its contiguous tenement package in the Southern Gawler Ranges for economic precious and base metals, following its discovery of the Paris silver deposit in 2011. A prospective region called...-
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Published: 20 Jun 1917
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Apatite fission track analysis of samples from the western Eromanga Basin and Eringa Trough, Australia.
16 rock samples from wells and outcrop in the western Eromanga Basin / Eringa Trough region were analysed for their apatite grain fission track properties to derive an interpretation of the geothermal history of the enclosing strata.-
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Apatite fission track analysis of samples from Eringa Trough and western Eromanga Basin, Australia.
17 rock samples from 5 wells in the western Eromanga Basin / Eringa Trough region were analysed for their apatite grain fission track properties to derive an interpretation of the geothermal history of the enclosing strata.-
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Interpretation of apatite fission track data from the Officer Basin.
13 sedimentary rock samples from Proterozoic through to Mesozoic formations intersected in 5 Officer Basin wells yielded apatite fission track analysis data (track length and density) used to interpret, via statistical modelling, the broad geothermal...-
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Published: 21 Dec 1994
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Thermal history reconstruction in Cooper-Eromanga Basin wells using apatite and zircon fission track analysis and vitrinite reflectance.
Results of a study aimed at providing a better thermal history framework for understanding the post-Palaeozoic thermal evolution of parts of the Cooper-Eromanga Basin, South Australia, based on apatite fission track analysis, zircon fission track...-
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Thermal history from apatite fission track analysis of Early Cambrian samples.
AFTA palaeotemperature analyses of 7 selected Early Cambrian outcrop samples taken from potential hydrocarbon source beds occurring within PELs 53 and 59, were conducted by a Melbourne University consultant for Canyon Australia. The data and...-
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Published: 21 Dec 1994
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RB 00659 Regional geology and nickel exploration in the MANN 4-mile sheet and adjoining areas. Preliminary report. combined with RB 00659A - Nickel exploration on Special Mining Lease 33, Tomkinson Ranges.
This report reviews the available information on the region and presents a preliminary appraisal of the past nickel exploration data supplied by South Western Mining Co. Ltd. Current field and laboratory information has also been included. The study...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1900
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RB 00765 Curramulka limestone deposits, Yorke Peninsula. Drilling completion report - Site 2.
2 diamond drillholes (total 518 feet) and 22 air holes (total 1851 feet) have indicated the presence of 28.5 million tons of Lower Cambrian limestone containing over 85% calcium carbonate in a bed dipping at about 10 degrees southwards, and below...-
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Published: 01 May 1900
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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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RB 2004/00012 Deposition and chemical composition of Early Cambrian salt in the eastern Officer Basin, South Australia
In South Australia, Cambrian massive salt deposits of the eastern Officer Basin occur in troughs lying along the western and north-western margins of the Gawler Craton, and are considered to have been deposited in marginal to open marine environments....-
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Published: 01 Jul 2004
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RB 2002/00036 Draft report on the structure and lithostratigraphy of the Ameroo Hill area, Olary Domain, South Australia
Approximately 30 square km of outcrop of Palaeoproterozoic basement rocks in the vicinity of Ameroo Hill were geologically mapped by the author at 1:10,000 scale, with the aim of identifying meso- and macroscopic rock structures and lithologically...-
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Published: 27 Jun 2002
