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Murray Bridge. Progress reports, annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 15/7/1991 to 14/1/1994.
Exploration was undertaken by BHP along the western margin of the Murray Basin, between Lake Alexandrina and Cambrai township, for possible economic heavy mineral sands and for exhalative sedex-style volcanogenic/stratabound base metal deposits, both...-
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RB 91/00019 Kanmantoo Trough geological investigations Karinya Syncline detailed geochemical surveys.
Results of earlier regional soil sampling conducted by SADME across the Karinya Shale, plus tectonic/structural considerations, had identified 3 prospect areas, Frankton, The Gap and Accommodation Hill, for follow-up mapping, soil sampling, and the...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1991
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RB 96/00040 Resources '96 Convention. Kanmantoo tectonics, sedimentology and metallogeny excursion. Field guide.
An integrated scientific research program addressing structural, sedimentological and metallogenic aspects of basin evolution has been conducted in the Kanmantoo Trough for the past three years. Joint collaboration in this program involved MESA, the...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1996
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RB 96/00032 Mount Barker Creek 1. Well completion report.
Mount Barker Creek 1 was drilled by MESA Mineral Provinces Branch at a location 30 km southeast of Adelaide during May 1994 to test a model of stratiform lead-zinc mineralisation within the Kanmantoo Trough, and to confirm the composition and...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1996
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Kanmantoo. Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial surrender report at licence renewal [part]: progress reports and annual reports for the period 28/4/1992 to 31/7/1999. [Index Part 2 of 3].
When a third joint venture was entered into with Aberfoyle Resources Limited who assumed management of the tenement, the exploration targets changed to syngenetic, stratiform base metal sulphides hosted by gahnite-garnet meta-exhalatives. The...-
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Published: 22 Jul 1996
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Kanmantoo. Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial surrender report at licence renewal [part] : progress reports for the period 28/4/1989 to 27/4/1992. [Index Part 1 of 3].
Exploration for gold in the eastern Adelaide Hills, in an area of Cambrian Kanmantoo Group sediments stretching from Kanmantoo in the south to Mount Rhine in the north, was undertaken initially by licence farminee East West Minerals utilising regional...-
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Published: 02 Oct 1992
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 2 partnership DPY2-32, Kanmantoo mine area and regional greenfields Cu-Au and Ag-Pb-Zn mineral prospects. Project final report.
The Hillgrove Kanmantoo joint venture project is located 50 km east of Adelaide in the Mount Lofty Ranges of South Australia, and covers 497 square km of the highly prospective Early Cambrian Tapanappa Formation, which offers outstanding potential for...-
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Currency Creek and Langhorne Creek (formerly part of the Fleurieu JV Project, then part of the Adelaide Hills Project). Joint final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 4/6/1992 to 18/10/2016.
Two slightly separated areas located in the west-central Kanmantoo Trough geological region have been explored for possible economic buried metalliferous deposits by successive licence owners over an almost 25 year - long tenure. The subject report...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Langhorne Creek, Bremer, Hartley and Currency Creek (the Fleurieu Project). Joint annual reports for the period 1/10/2008 to 30/9/2013.
In the sixth year of the project, the principal activity was the drilling of two inclined diamond holes for 633.5 m during October 2008 to investigate a possible northern buried extension of the known Rankine Trend mineralisation on EL 3641 ground...-
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Cambrian black shales in the Karinya Syncline - stratigraphic distribution, sedimentology and kerogen composition.
The Heatherdale Shale and the stratigraphically younger Karinya Shale are transgressive units within the Lower Cambrian of the Karinya Syncline. Black muds of the Heatherdale Shale were deposited in an outer ramp setting of the Stansbury Basin under...-
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RI 057 Cambrian Sediment-hosted Exhalative Base Metal Mineralisation, Kanmantoo Trough, South Australia
A deformed and metamorphosed succession of sandstone, greywacke, siltstone and shale which accumulated in the Early Cambrian Kanmantoo Trough hosts a number of exhalative base and precious metal deposits. This sequence is apparently devoid of...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bremer. Progress reports and annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 8/3/1991 to 7/3/1995. [ Index Part 1 of 3 ].
Exploration of an extensive area lying to the north of and surrounding Strathalbyn, 40 km south-east of Adelaide, is targeting possible economic stratiform base and precious metals mineralisation hosted within the Cambrian Kanmantoo Group...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Sherlock. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 25/6/2007 to 24/6/2012.
An area centred ~50 km south-east of Tailem Bend is being explored for possible economic buried primary stratiform and epithermal deposits of base metals that may have formed within Cambrian bedrock, close to where previous explorers' drilling had...-
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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 3 of 3 ].
Ongoing resource definition drilling completed by Aberfoyle at its Angas prospect during Year 4 of EL 1706 identified sub-economic mineralisation in the form of a narrow tabular, steeply dipping body containing approximately 2 Mt of base metal...-
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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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Truro. First annual report plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 13/9/1996 to 30/3/1999.
Following earlier identification by PIRSA of mineralised gossans located at the stratigraphic contact between the Cambrian Karinya Shale and Backstairs Passage Formation, exploration comprising rock chip, soil and stream sediment geochemical sampling,...-
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Published: 27 Jul 1998
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Kanmantoo Trough. Notes on stratigraphic and sedimentological investigations, 1986-1987.
Geologists' working notes, made preparatory to publication of scientific findings in technical journals (as latter summarised and referenced in Volume 2, chapter 7 of SADME Bulletin 54).-
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Published: 01 Jan 1987
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Cambrian mineral resources come of age - the Kanmantoo revival.
The Kanmantoo Trough is an arcuate zone of metamorphosed and deformed Cambrian rocks of the Stansbury Basin that crop out along the eastern Mount Lofty Ranges, through Fleurieu Peninsula, and extend to Kangaroo Island in the south. Related Cambrian...-
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Kangaroo Island. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 15/9/1971 to 14/9/1972.
Exploration for possible Kanmantoo mine style economic copper mineralisation on the Dudley Peninsula at the far eastern end of Kangaroo Island has consisted of a geological survey of coastal cliff exposures of known sulphide-rich bedrock strata, and...-
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Parndana. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/10/2006 to 26/10/2008.
Exploration for possible economic stratiform/syngenetic base metal deposits and/or structurally controlled epithermal/hydrothermal gold and uranium occurrences within Lower Cambrian metasediments over the central section of Kangaroo Island included...-
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Published: 22 Apr 2009
