The Poona Copper Mine on northern Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, was worked from 1988-92 on an extension of the original Poona lode, a narrow, shear-hosted copper sulphide vein deposit in Moonta Porphyry of Mesoproterozoic age. The orebody is...

The principal objective of the Cooperative Research Centre for Landscape Evolution and Mineral Exploration (CRC LEME) Shields Program and the Primary Industry and Resources of South Australia (PIRSA) Regolith Terranes Group in South Australia is to...

Significant exploration focussed on: · stratabound 'Telfer-style' gold in Adelaidean metasediments in the Nackara Arc, using stratiform or stratabound structurally-controlled genetic models; and structurally controlled gold and base metal...

This report comprises Open file company data, released since the previous MESA review (Yates and Randell, 1994) of the CURNAMONA 1:250 000 map sheet, includes exploration for base and precious metals (especially stratiform/stratabound Broken...

As part of the South Australian Steel and Energy Project, Mines and Energy South Australia completed an exploration programme for iron ore at the Hawks Nest prospect during 1995 and 1996. Along with detailed magnetic and gravity surveys, the work...

A partial leach soil geochemical survey has been conducted over shallowly buried Cambrian Kanmantoo Trough metasediments in the Monarto South area. The survey was designed to cover a aeromagnetic high anomaly, that is interpreted to be related to a...

The Cambro-Ordovician Black Hill Norite inlier protrudes through Tertiary marine sediments of the Murray Basin about 85 km east of Adelaide. Available evidence suggests that the complex may be a layered mafic-ultramafic intrusive suite with potential...

During the period March to June 1990, 9 stratigraphic rotary mud/diamond cored holes with a total penetration of 3056 m, including 433.25 m of NQ or HQ cored diamond tails, were drilled by SADME in three cases and by its contractor Rockdril for the...

Archaean and Early and Middle Proterozoic rocks of the north-western Gawler Craton have features which suggest good prospectivity for base metals, precious metals and other commodities. However, outcrop is poor and there has been relatively little...

The metamorphic rocks to be examined on the field excursion have been assigned to the Tapanappa Formation (Early Cambrian Kanmantoo Group), a generally monotonous sequence of greywackes with narrow siltstone partings. This formation hosts most...

Generalised contouring of the Mount Lofty Ranges aimed at reconstructing the Tertiary landsurface topography has identified the locations of a number of possible buried fluvial valleys and channels associated with the St Vincent Basin palaeodrainage,...

A Mobile Metal Ion (MMI) geochemical survey was conducted over known Pb-Zn-Ag-Au mineralisation within Cambrian Kanmantoo Group metasediments of the Tapanappa Formation at the Angas prospect near Strathalbyn, South Australia. A similar survey was...

This report is a summary of company exploration of the Coober Pedy Ridge and Mount Woods Inlier, northern Gawler Craton, for the period until 1993, being information extracted from data on open file with the emphasis on data referring to the iron ore...

5 profiles were recorded to define the extent of a subsurface alluvial channel. The western limit is controlled by outcropping Adelaidean bedrock, while to the east interpreted depths of 30-40 metres to bedrock were indicated. To date the eastern...

Cuttings from Kakoonie 1 on the SW margin of the Black Hill complex indicate alternating intersections of gabbroic lithologies with modified marginal facies and altered contact rocks. Local compositional changes in the gabbros are evident and a...

During the period December 1989 to March 1990, exploratory drilling undertaken by SADME Mineral Resources Branch over the northern part of Kangaroo Island investigated the potential for base and precious metal mineralisation within rocks of the...

This report summarizes information on 10 South Australian mineral deposits with individual aggregate gold resources and/or historic production of 1 tonne or more. By far the largest is the Olympic Dam Cu-U-Au-Ag deposit, with a measured and indicated...

The Lady Jane Gold Mine, located 8 km NE of Callington, consists of an arsenic and gold rich quartz vein lode, within the Cambrian Tapanappa Formation. Arsenopyrite was reported to be the principal ore mineral, with supergene copper in places. The...

Company exploration within the CURNAMONA 1:250 000 sheet area was reviewed by the study of data incorporated in the open file reports on 42 Special Mining Leases, 80 Exploration Licences and one group of Mining Leases dating from 1961. This data...

An appraisal of Mineral Claim 2597 at the Golden Slope workings on the Mount Grainger Goldfield has revealed gold mineralization associated with hydrothermally altered basal arkosic sandstone of Appila Tillite and the underlying Burra Group shale. A...