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Mount Plantagenet. Progress reports, annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 8/1/1982 to 7/1/1986.
Detailed base and precious metals exploration undertaken by Utah Development Company in the area of the Worumba Anticline has targeted possible stratiform Zambian Copperbelt - type deposits. Exploratory work has included 72 geochemical vertical...-
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RB 87/00078 Geological investigation, Mittopitta Goldfield 1985-1987.
Gold mineralization in a deep lead was appraised. Alluvial gold occurs in a 1 metre thick basal bed. Over 60 samples collected from exploratory bulldozer cuts, main open cut and drill cuttings from water bore indicate grade of 0.073 g/t Au, although...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1987
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RB 93/00041 Burra - Nackara Arc bedrock drilling programme. Terowie area.
As part of the SAEI (South Australian Exploration Initiative), thirty reverse circulation drill holes totalling 1123 m (av 37.4 m) were drilled on the Terowie 1:50 000 mapsheet area to determine bedrock geology and geochemistry below Quaternary cover,...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1993
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Milang [Homestead]. First partial surrender report for the period 25/8/2005 to 24/8/2006.
Exploration for a range of mineral commodities over relinquished parts of a licence area situated 80 km north-east of Orroroo has mainly targeted the Cainozoic to Mesozoic cover rocks for possible sedimentary gold, uranium, mineral sands and...-
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Published: 14 Sep 1906
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Springfield, Glen Oak, Willochra, Gilbert Hill, Quorn, Radford Creek and Kanyaka (the Springfield district tenement group within the Flinders Ranges Project). Joint annual report for the period 1/1/2011 to 31/12/2013.
Work said to have been completed during the 2011 reporting period included an inspection and limited sampling of retained historic Utah drill cores from the Copper Claim area, checking of the preliminary resource estimates made by Utah from its drill...-
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Mount Craig, Mount Caernarvon, Mount Havelock, Red Range and Mount Plantagenet (the Torrens Project). Joint annual reports plus a final report submitted at the full surrender of the last remaining project licences, for the period 16/9/2012 to 22/11/2019.
A group of five contiguous licences originally covering a total area of 756 square km in the south-central Flinders Ranges region, situated east-northeast of Hawker and east of the Elder Range, have been explored for possible economic buried...-
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Published: 26 Nov 1919
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Tarlton Knob. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 4/3/1984 to 4/12/1987.
TARGET: The Willouran Ranges south-west of Marree were investigated for possible Olympic Dam type base metal occurrences which might have formed within the Precambrian Callanna, Burra and Umberatana Group sediments, and the area was also concurrently...-
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Published: 19 Nov 1987
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Burra. Progress reports and final report to licence surrender, for the period 11/3/1971 to 20/1/1972.
Exploration of a Willouran inlier located near Spalding initially was aimed at finding low grade, large tonnage copper-molybdenum mineralisation of the type recently discovered at Anabama and Spilsby Island. Re-sampling of drill cores from 3 SADM...-
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Published: 07 Feb 1972
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Carrieton West (part of the Orroroo North Project). Progress reports, annual reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 13/11/1979 to 12/11/1981.
TARGET: Diamonds in the Cradock - Carrieton region. EXPLORATION: Regional and follow-up stream sediment and gridded loam sampling, heavy mineral processing and SEM microscopy of bulk samples, grid-based ground magnetic surveys, and part of a regional...-
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Nilpinna Homestead area (part of the Australian Diamond Exploration joint venture). Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/1/1980 to 22/2/1987.
Diamond exploration undertaken in the Peake and Denison Ranges included the acquisition and processing of aerial magnetic, radiometric and heliborne magnetic and VLF-EM surveys, with follow-up ground magnetic and Sirotem surveys, plus extensive...-
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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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Yongala. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 4/4/79 to 3/10/80.
In a search for possible concealed kimberlitic, carbonatitic or Cu-U-bearing igneous breccia intrusions within the Adelaidean fold belt succession, across a narrow north-south trending area west of Peterborough, 6 structurally disrupted localities...-
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Jamestown. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 25/4/79 to 23/10/80.
To guide a search for diamonds in the vicinity of Jamestown, structural loci for possible kimberlite targets were defined by lineament analysis. Ground magnetics and radiometrics, done as follow-up to stream sediment and soil sampling undertaken over...-
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Published: 31 Mar 1981
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Appila. First and final report to licence surrender for the period 7/2/79 to 6/5/79.
16 previously identified aeromagnetic anomalies in the vicinity of Gladstone and Booleroo Centre were investigated for their diamond and base metal source potential. Rock chip, loam and stream sediment sampling failed to reveal geochemical anomalies...-
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ExpNotes PARACHILNA (v2): Explanatory Notes PARACHILNA (second edition, 1999)
The PARACHILNA map area (31 to 32°S, 138 to 139.5°E) occupies the central Flinders Ranges which are made up of folded, mostly marine sedimentary Neoproterozoic and Cambrian rocks of the Adelaide Geosyncline, and adjoining plains underlain by Cainozoic...-
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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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Port Pirie district (part of the G2 [Lineament] Project). Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 29/3/1996 to 28/3/2000.
An airborne magnetic/radiometric survey to infill recent SAEI regional survey coverage was carried out within the G2 structural corridor, south-east of Port Pirie. Six bullseye magnetic highs, consistent with kimberlite emplacement, and one having...-
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Published: 20 Mar 1997
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Terowie Kimberlite Province. Progress and technical reports for the period 26/2/1980 to 26/2/1982.
Following a literature review of the mode of occurrence, field relationships, matrix mineralogy and geochemistry of Terowie - type kimberlite intrusions, the lease operator undertook large scale costeaning and bulk sampling of four kimberlites in that...-
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Lyndhurst. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/1/1980 to 15/1/1981.
70 line km of gravity traverses were undertaken over potential shallow Triassic coal basins preserved by downwarping in the Lyndhurst area, prior to rotary mud and air drilling of gravity lows (15 holes, total 1,112.85 m, including 7.35 m of coring,...-
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