Alcurra is located near the eastern margin of the Proterozoic Musgrave Province. The region includes rocks from two distinct geological provinces, the eastern limit of exposure of the Musgrave Province, and the north-western margin of the Mesozoic...

The Mount Toondina structure, a small but pronounced vertically fault-bounded inlier of Permian sediments within a flat-lying Mesozoic sequence, is represented by an annular magnetic feature located 45 km south of Oodnadatta. A single gravity profile...

A regional drilling programme was undertaken to investigate the economic potential of possible Permian coal occurrences within buried extensions to the Lake Phillipson Trough, in its adjacent northern Penrhyn Trough and south-eastern Ingomar regions...

Reconnaisance calcrete and rock chip geochemical sampling plus RAB/aircore drilling (8 vertical holes, total 432 m) were carried out during gold exploration conducted north-east and south-west of Glendambo. Crystalline basement was not reached in the...

Calcrete geochemical sampling conducted on the eastern and western sides of Lake Harris, 30 km south-west of Kingoonya, returned a number of low order anomalies peaking at 9 ppb Au. Two of three RAB holes (total 100 m) that were drilled south of...

This tenement was procured by WMC for an attempt to locate buried strata of the Lower Permian Mount Toondina Formation of the Arckaringa Basin, and to determine if they are coal-bearing, in the area to the south-west of the Wilkinson Lakes. However,...

With the dawning of renewed interest in one of South Australia’s historic gold provinces, driven by the newly acquired data from the Department’s highly successful Gawler Craton Airborne Survey (GCAS), the Geological Survey of South Australia has...

Exploration for possible kimberlite pipes in the Mount Arthur - Mount Toodla area, 30 km east-southeast of Oodnadatta, has included preliminary gravity and ground magnetic surveys, stream sediment sampling, and the drilling of a single diamond cored...

Investigations into the coal prospectivity of the buried Permian sedimentary sequence within the northern Arckaringa Basin, 70 km north-east of Coober Pedy, included an extensive data review, 6-line gravity survey, and reconnaissance drilling of 4...

Exploration was undertaken for possible stratabound uranium occurrences formed within the Jurassic Algebuckina Sandstone or the overlying Cretaceous Cadna-owie Formation, over an area lying near the north-western margin of the...

In a search for possible hard rock or sandstone type uranium deposits in the vicinity of the Peake Inlier, a review of past exploration results was performed, but no field work was conducted.

As part of a MESA-led reappraisal of the source rock potential of the Eringa Trough, Pedirka Basin, this study was commissioned to carry out an organic geochemical and petrographic investigation of coals and carbonaceous sediments from the margins of...

Exploration for possible sedimentary uranium accumulations in Tertiary and Middle Proterozoic cover strata north of Tarcoola included air photo interpretation, 3160 line km of aerial magnetic and radiometric surveys, a 460 station regional...

In gold and base metal exploration carried out in an area located approximately 50 km south-east of Oodnadatta, no significant gold or other trace metal values were obtained from surface geochemical sampling of the basal conglomerate unit of the...

The 2000 Mt Wintinna coal deposit is located approximately 700 km north-northwest of Port Augusta in South Australia. The area has opencut potential, and is proposed for development to supply a thermal power station. Meekatharra Minerals Ltd holds...

Exploration as part of a continuing regional search for possible diamondiferous kimberlites was undertaken 70 km west-northwest of Roxby Downs. Extensive sampling of current drainage lines in interdune swales, plus loam sampling in other...

The sources of target aeromagnetic signatures in an area about 40 km northeast of Granite Downs Homestead were interpreted to be at depths greater than 100 m, and attributable to acid intrusives rather than kimberlites. Rock chip and lag sampling...

Diamond exploration undertaken along part of the western flank of the Peake and Denison Ranges, 120 km north-east of Coober Pedy, was aimed at discovering the source(s) of nine microdiamonds and of widespread diamondiferous kimberlitic indicator...

Exploration for possible roll-front sedimentary uranium deposits developed in porous and arenaceous Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous sediments of the Algebuckina Sandstone and Cadna-owie Formation, where these onlap likely uranium-providing...

TARGET: Possible sedimentary uranium, leached from crystalline rocks of the Musgrave Block and concentrated in sediments of the Eromanga Basin, in settings associated with the basal Mesozoic unconformity. EXPLORATION: 1:80 000 scale photogeological...