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Hanns Hill. Progress reports for the period 19/1/81 to 6/12/82.
Follow up to stream sediment sampling near Oodnadatta in the Mount Dutton area suggests that anomalous nickel, chromium and cobalt values are associated with ironstone, and anomalous niobium with geodes. No kimberlites were discovered.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1982
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Mount Robinson. Progress reports for the period 19/1/81 to 6/12/82.
Stream sediment sampling southeast of Oodnadatta in the Mount Kingston area revealed no significant anomalies. Rare pyrope was identified in some samples, but no kimberlite were discovered.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1982
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Outalpa. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 8/6/1972 to 15/4/1973.
Exploration of an area located approximately 10 miles north of Manna Hill, seeking possible economic Zambian Copperbelt style stratabound copper deposits, has consisted only of an orientation geochemical survey followed by field inspection of...-
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Pualco West. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 26/10/1972 to 25/10/1973.
Reconnaissance and detailed bulk loam sampling undertaken to look for diamonds or kimberlite indicator minerals in the vicinity of the Pualco Anticline, plus spectrographic analyses of the derived heavy mineral concentrates for gold and base metals...-
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Published: 12 Dec 1973
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RB 60/00064 O'Donoghues Castle copper prospect, Balcanoona Station.
Irregular oxidised orebodies up to about 3 feet thick, containing copper carbonates, quartz, sphaerocobaltite (cobalt carbonate) and wad (hydrated manganese oxide), occupy both shear zones aligned parallel with bedding, and crush zones developed...-
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Published: 26 Mar 1965
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RB 42/00012 Diamond drilling, Mount Howden cobalt mine.
Two diamond drillholes, designed to test at depths from 70 to 100 feet the most favorable outcrops of cobalt-nickel mineralisation, failed to intersect extensions of the lode. Secondary erythrite mineralisation found along bedding seams, joints, and...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1955
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RB 79/00061 Geochemical exploration for gold, Orama Hill area.
Gold mineralisation occurs near Orama Hill, situated north of Koonamore Station Homestead, and at Kirkeek?s Treasure gold mine on the Nillinghoo Goldfield. These two localities are about 25 km apart, and lie along the axis of the Orama Hill Anticline....-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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Calca and Poochera (the Streaky Bay Project). Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial relinquishment report : joint annual reports for the period 22/10/2001 to 13/2/2005.
A multipart licence project area located approximately 100-150 km south-east of Ceduna is being targeted for possible Voiseys Bay type nickel, copper, cobalt and platinum group metal deposits within mafic to ultramafic basement rocks buried beneath...-
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Commonwealth Hill, Perfection Well, Wirrida North, Nelson Bore and Ingomar (the Commonwealth Hill Joint Venture Project). Joint annual reports and final report to licences' respective expiry/renewal, for the period 6/10/1995 to 6/12/1998.
Exploration for Challenger - type primary gold deposits that may possibly have formed within buried Archaean basement rocks in the Commonwealth Hill area, which is the purpose of one of two joint venture agreements currently in force between Minotaur...-
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Published: 06 Jan 1999
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Manners Well. Combined first annual/final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/10/2018 to 1/10/2019.
An intensely faulted and folded area centred ~65 km north-east of Parachilna, where extensive hydrothermal alteration is evident in the Neoproterozoic bedrock, and where considerable past small-scale surface mining activity has occurred, but where no...-
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Mount Gunson - MG14 deposit metallurgy. Research reports for the period October 1974 to August 1984.
In October 1975, Mount Gunson mine operator Pacminex determined that the composition of mineable copper sulphide ore potentially obtainable from the undeveloped MG14 area would very likely be more difficult to process than existing Cattlegrid mine...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Waddikee. Annual reports for the period 24/5/2010 to 31/1/2018.
During licence Year 6, on renewed EL 4662, Monax and its JV earn-in partner OMM undertook auger soil geochemical sampling, ground magnetic and IP surveys, and exploratory drilling in their continuing search for economic iron ore and manganese...-
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Investigation of the Kirkeeks Treasure mine, Koonamore Station, near Yunta, SA.
Pit face sampling and the drilling of a 347 foot diamond drill hole were completed at the Kirkeeks Treasure Mine. The drill hole DDK1 failed to intersect lode material. The most optimistic view of the prospect is that potential exists in the quartzite...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1974
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Port Augusta - Wilkatana area. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/10/1969 to 4/8/1972.
An area surrounding the Emeroo Range, and extending from the vicinity of Port Augusta to 30 km west of Hawker, was explored by Utah for possible economic stratabound base metal deposits which it was thought could be associated with certain favourable...-
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Bull 034 Regional Geology and Mineral Resources of the Olary Province
Mineral prospecting in the Olary Province began many years ago, about the time of discovery of the great Broken Hill lode of New South Wales. Although many discoveries were made, and a number of mines worked, no significant producers survived from the...-
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RB 00005 SADM Northeast Uranium Exploration Project. Explanatory Notes to accompany the mineral map of the Crocker Well area.
Uranium occurrences have now been found over extensive areas of outcropping Archaean granitoid rocks and migmatites in the Crocker well area, approximately 40 miles north-west of Olary in the north-east of South Australia. The South Australian...-
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Published: 31 Jan 1900
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RB 67/00086 Geochemical exploration in the Stirling-Clarendon area.
Approximately 1000 geochemical drainage samples have been collected in two areas within the Stirling - Clarendon project area. Twelve square miles have been sampled in the Lenswood area at an average density of 27 samples to the square mile, and 26...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1970
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RB 67/00073 Mineral exploration of the Mount Grainger Diapir.
Five hundred drainage geochemical samples were collected in an area of 16½ square miles over the Mount Grainger Diapir and surrounding country rock, during February and March 1963. Results of this survey outlined an extensive copper, lead, zinc...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1970
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RB 64/00108 Rock specimens and samples from the Mount Painter Province, grid K5.
The report records petrological, mineragraphic and analytical data provided by AMDEL on rocks collected during mineral investigations in the northern part of the Flinders Range, over parts of the Gardiner, Moolawatana, Umbertana, Paralana and Wooltana...-
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Published: 12 Jul 1967
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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
