The Nairne Pyrite Deposit occurs at Drukunga, three and a half miles east of Nairne, and 29 miles from Adelaide on the eastern flank of the Mount Lofty Ranges. The deposit is being worked for iron sulphides. Operations commenced in 1955 as a joint...

Two seismic refraction tests were carried out near Williamstown to determine whether the method could be used to trace buried river channels in the search for deep lead gold deposits. The bedrock surface could not be detected as the velocity of the...

Further to the design and cost estimate for a mobile gold treatment plant, the South Australian Government Department of Mines requested a design and cost estimate for a mobile crushing and sampling plant. The plant is to be capable of reducing 6-9...

The Cambrian sediments in the vicinity of the Mount Barker Creek and about the Callington-Kanmantoo mines have been studied. Evidence is produced to show there is rapid thickening of members above the Inman Hill Formation north of Mount Barker Creek....

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Two separate parcels of ore were submitted by the Department of Mines for beneficiation tests. The samples were taken from a shaft at the Ediacara silver-lead deposit. This deposit is being examined by the Department of Mines.

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Further electromagnetic and induced polarization work has been carried out in the Tarcoola Blocks mine and Brown Hill areas at Tarcoola to extend and substantiate previous investigations (ref. RB 59/128, 23 November 1964). The latest results...

The lease application was made on 11th September 1959. The locality was inspected by Mr. B.P. Thomson, Senior Geologist, and Mr. G. Bruff, Secretary, on 28th September 1959. The lease area was not manned and no evidence was found that active...

Small amounts of copper carbonate, which were mined on a small scale in 1890, occur in Adelaide System slates, 25 miles north south east of Radium Hill and 4 miles south south west of Mutooroo Homestead. No payable concentrations of copper were found...

An inspection of Mineral Claim 2274 was made on August 7th in company with the claimholders. The copper prospect is situated in the extreme south-eastern corner of section 2, Hd. Campoona, eleven miles by road northwest of Cleve Township. The...

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Greywackes and phyllitic slates of the Kanmantoo Series intruded by quartz veins carrying gold and in part lateralised occur in the area mapped. Gold values are too low to warrant further development and it is recommended that permission be granted to...

Two high grade hematite orebodies reported by R.L. Jack (Bulls, 3 and 9, Geological Survey of South Australia) were located and mapped on Section 5, Hundred of Campoona. Samples were taken for petrological examination and assay. No further action is...

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Small quantities of gold from both shallow alluvial and underground workings have been produced since discovery in 1892. Mineralization is associated with NW trending faults cutting the Auburn Dolomite and Watervale Sandstone Member of the Burra...

9.1 million tonnes of crude ore and 2.5 million tonnes of dressed ore, averaging 3.39 and 3.61% copper respectively, were produced from 1890 to 1923. Output totalled 336 000 tonnes of copper and 1682 kg of fine gold. Some of the gold was purchased...

Mines are significant as Wheal Gawler was the first metalliferous mine in Australia, discovered 1840, produced the first mineral exports, and includes the oldest remaining mine chimney in South Australia.

13 869 tonnes of ore were treated, with recovery of 260 080 g of gold bullion by amalgamation and cyanidation. 34 500 g of gold remain in tailings at the site.

From 1873 to 1894, this goldfield, located 35 km north of Yunta, produced over 45,000 ounces (1400 kg) of gold from approximately 60,000 tonnes of ore, dug from a series of quartz-ironstone-pyrite reefs that dip southwards at 32 degrees on the...