New work undertaken on an area located near Manunda Homestead during the current licence period has been restricted by the need to try to attract a joint venture partner, efforts towards which have proved unsuccessful. A geological inspection of the...

Airborne magnetic/radiometric surveys and follow-up gravity surveys carried out in a search for possible Olympic Dam type orebodies have indicated depths to magnetic basement in excess of 1000 m in the Lake Hart area of the Stuart Shelf. The...

Detailed mapping at 1:3600 scale of a small study area near the centre of the licence, and located about 10 miles north-west of Radium Hill, indicates that most mineralisation is concentrated in the post-Proterozoic sequence, and appears largely to be...

Aquitaine Australia Minerals Pty Ltd (Aquitaine) entered into a joint venture with North Flinders Mines on 21 August 1975, over an area defined by Exploration Licence 272 (ex EL 153). The area included two main prospective zones for copper deposits:...

In a search for economic Tertiary brown coal in the south-eastern Murray Basin, a large reconnaissance drilling programme was undertaken during February-April 1981 to test known carbonaceous sediments reported as encountered by previous drillholes and...

Drilling of two percussion holes (aggregate 400 metres) near Yerila, south of Lake Blanche, failed to give encouragement to the search for possible Permian coal and Tertiary uranium in the southern Eromanga Basin / Lake Blanche Lineament uplift area...

XRF analyses of 25 selected samples of halite interbedded with Early Cambrian strata, which had been taken from stored Wilkinson 1 drill core and cuttings, returned a maximum value for contained bromine of 470 ppm Br. This result was not of enough...

Geological mapping, further surface geochemical sampling, test IP surveys and limited shallow diamond drilling (2 holes, total 201.3 m, including 147 m of NQ/BQ wireline coring) were done over a previously identified stream sediment zinc anomaly at...

As part of continuing exploration for possible economic buried stratiform / hydrothermal copper mineralisation in the Yudnamutana Mining Field, the target lower Callanna Group strata were geologically mapped, petrologically studied and geochemically...

Exploration for possible stratiform or hydrothermal, fault-associated copper deposits in the area of basal Adelaidean metasediments lying to the north of known such mineralisation at the abandoned historic Ukaparinga mine, immediately north of...

Airborne and ground magnetic surveys were conducted in the Bundulla area of the Nullarbor Plain (SA), prior to drilling a prominent circular aeromagnetic feature. 2 percussion/rotary mud holes, each drilled to TD 369.5 m, penetrated crystalline...

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Stratiform base metal sulphide deposits and sedimentary uranium accumulations were targeted in the Stuart Creek area, which straddles the Torrens Fault on the eastern margin of the Stuart Shelf. Two airborne magnetic and radiometric surveys totalling...

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.

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.

A reassessment of Marathon Petroleum's 1979 regional stream sediment sampling programme led to the decision to resample a number of areas within EL 871. The Mt Neill and Mt Fitton areas were chosen, as a result of possible similarities with the...

Scout drilling of gravity low anomalies in the western half of the buried Permian Wallira Trough (2 rotary mud holes totalling 100 m), in a search for possible economic Upper Permian coal seams which might extend westward from those discovered in the...

Investigations included drilling in the eastern part of EL 41, costeaning and close space drilling near Nob Well and Apollonaris anomaly, water well sampling, and ground search for carnotite.

Targets of ongoing subsurface investigations in the plains area north-west of Lake Frome, now being conducted under a new joint venture, were respectively to delineate further sedimentary uranium occurrences within buried Middle and Late Tertiary...

In a continuation of diamond and base metal exploration of newly discovered carbonatite / kimberlite intrusive bodies in an area located immediately north of Orroroo, these bodies were examined petrographically and analysed to compare their...