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Mount Misery. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/11/1981 to 29/11/1985.
Stratabound, chemically precipitated Telfer - type replacement style vein gold was the target of exploration undertaken over an area 25 km north-west of Yunta, which contains good exposures of Neoproterozoic Umberatana Group clastic metasediments that...-
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RB 87/00109 Geological investigations and exploration activities, 1982 to 1986, at Mount Grainger gold mine, Hundred Coglin, County Herbert. Volume 1 (of 2).
Investigations consisted of: 1) economic appraisal, mapping and sampling of mineralised structures within mineral leases; 2) regional investigation to east of Mount Grainger mine (report in RB 84/31) - includes details of exploration by Abignano Ltd....-
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Published: 01 Sep 1987
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RB 86/00095 Appraisal of gold tailings - Countess of Jersey battery - Mineral Claim 1906 - Wadnaminga Goldfield.
In mid 1892, a 10 head stamp battery was constructed about 4 km NE of the Countess of Jersey gold mine. Reportedly 300 tonnes of ore from the mine was treated at the battery, but no records are available. Recent hand auger sampling and surveying of...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1986
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RB 95/00025 Geological investigation of Mineral Claim 2597, Mount Grainger Goldfield.
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...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1995
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Leighton. Annual and final reports to licence surrender for the period 19/11/2007 to 21/8/2009.
Basal Umberatana Group glacial tillitic sedimentary sequences and upper Burra Group interglacial arenaceous sediments were explored for possible economic stratabound gold mineralisation in an area located about 10-40 km north-west of Burra. In the...-
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Mount Grainger (Oodla Wirra). Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 8/10/1970 to 7/10/1971.
Extensive literature and geological and geochemical field investigations of historic mines and prospects at the Mount Grainger and Oodla Wirra Goldfields have failed to disclose any remaining economic gold occurrences. The sparse native gold occurs...-
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Published: 12 Oct 1971
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Mount Grainger (part of the Mount Grainger JV Project). Annual reports for the period 25/10/1996 to 24/10/2000.
Exploration over a structurally complex part of the Nackara Arc region centred ~30 km north-east of Peterborough has sought economic Telfer-type gold deposits hosted within folded domal structures in Adelaidean strata, which have been intruded during...-
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Hope Bank. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 6/1/1987 to 6/9/1988.
TARGET: Telfer-style gold in the Wabricoola area, NW of Yunta. EXPLORATION: Image processing of BMR airborne magnetic survey data, and detailed stream sediment (452) and soil (110) geochemical sampling. RESULTS: Anomalous low order gold values that...-
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Published: 25 Aug 1988
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Mount Victor. Progress report for the period 29/10/1970 to 28/10/1971.
9 rock chip, mine dump, tailings, and hand auger alluvium samples were collected from abandoned gold workings. No significant assays were returned, and the area has limited potential for either bedrock or alluvial gold.-
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Waukaringa. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 9/6/1987 to 5/10/1988.
TARGET: Stratabound gold in prospective areas of Adelaidean sedimentary outcrop peripheral to the Waukaringa Goldfield. EXPLORATION: After undertaking a literature review and assessment of previous exploration results, plus a regional geophysical...-
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Ulooloo. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 29/7/1986 to 6/3/1989.
TARGET: Economic fine-grained, Telfer style gold mineralisation occurring as syngenetic stratabound deposits formed in sedimentary basins during or soon after periods of basin subsidence and instability. The eastern limb of the large, overturned...-
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Published: 22 Feb 1989
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Mount Grainger. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/8/1986 to 19/2/1988.
TARGET: Stratabound gold, or hydrothermally altered vein stockwork copper-gold mineralisation that commonly is structurally emplaced within folded, brittle fractured competent Adelaidean metasedimentary units, in an area 20 km east of Peterborough....-
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Published: 01 Mar 1988
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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 62/00084 Mount Grainger gold mine.
The main source of historical gold production at Mount Grainger has been a zone of hydrothermal wall rock alteration in the lower part of the Appila Tillite. This zone of alteration or sericitization, where a stable illite/mica mineral formed, has...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1968
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Nackara. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 24/9/1984 to 12/9/1986.
Exploration for possible economic buried stratabound Telfer - style gold mineralisation or placer gold deposits which could have formed in Adelaidean glacial sediments in the Nackara district, as well as for base metal and/or diamond mineralisation,...-
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RB 2007/00006 The geology and mineral potential of the PORT AUGUSTA [mapsheet] area, eastern Gawler Craton.
The PORT AUGUSTA 1:250,000 mapsheet area covers the north-eastern part of the Eyre Peninsula, the northern Spencer Gulf and the south-western Flinders Ranges, and extends from latitude 32°00'S to 33°00'S and longitude 136°30'S to 138°00'S. The main...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2007
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Nackara. First partial surrender report, for the period 24/9/1984 to 22/8/1985.
Exploration was undertaken for Telfer - style stratabound gold at the contact between the Tapley Hill Formation and the Tarcowie Siltstone, and for placer type gold in glacial sequences such as the Appila Tillite and Wilyerpa Formation (94 stream...-
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Oodla Wirra. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/11/1983 to 8/11/1985.
Exploration activities have included reconnaissance (1:20,000 scale) and detailed (1:1000 scale) geological mapping, limited surface rock chip sampling (9 samples), and the excavation of 31 costeans to expose for examination more than 580 linear m of...-
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Published: 04 Dec 1985
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Mount Grainger. Progress report to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 8/7/1968 to 7/5/1969.
No economic or potentially economic mineralisation was noted during a geological survey of the old surface and underground gold workings on the Mount Grainger Goldfield. The Mount Grainger anticlinal structure is considered by the authors to be quite...-
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Yunta. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/11/1970 to 11/11/1971.
Exploration of an area that surrounds Yunta township, seeking possible economic hydrothermal gold or base metal deposits, has consisted of regional and detailed (1:4800 scale) geological mapping, plus stream sediment geochemical sampling (514...-
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Published: 05 May 1971
