Tertiary age heavy mineral sand marine placer deposits were the principal target in the Naracoorte - Penola region. Following an assessment of regional geophysical data seeking to identify possible palaeo-depositional traps adjacent to basement...

An ongoing work programme has included the latter stages of: the drilling of over 180 percussion and diamond holes totalling 24,388 m, the collection and assaying of 35,000 geochemical samples, preparation of 1150 petrographic descriptions, and...

Metal sulphides occurring in dolomitic mud and silt facies (Sweet Nell type deposits) were probably deposited in a supratidal environment, where the dolomitic shale facies with Cu mineralization probably originated closer inshore, while Pb, Zn...

TARGET: Palaeo-alluvial diamonds in the Triassic Boolcunda Basin. EXPLORATION: Initial soil sampling and ground magnetic surveys of geochemical and geophysical anomalies; comprehensive regional and follow-up heavy mineral stream sediment sampling of...

TARGET: Possible economic heavy mineral sands accumulations that may have formed within the Early to Middle Pleistocene marginal marine sediments deposited around and behind basement shoals of the Padthaway Ridge. EXPLORATION: Reconnaissance reverse...

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This EPP 26 surrender report has been furnished to the SA offshore Designated Authority as a result of the application made on 21/8/96 by BHP Petroleum for permission for the joint venture to surrender the permit, before committing to unwanted...

Analysis of Pliocene sedimentation along the Padthaway Ridge has identified a major shoreline feature in the Marmon Jabuk Range, with associated, but younger, shorelines developed in the Padthaway area. Traversing and sampling has established the...

TARGET: Now buried heavy mineral sands accumulations that may have formed within the Tertiary Parilla Sand as palaeo-beach placer deposits. EXPLORATION: Appraisal of SADME-held water bore data, photogeological studies, geomorphic mapping,...

TARGET: Possible economic heavy mineral sand accumulations in Pliocene raised beach strandlines developed along the south-western margin of the Murray Basin. EXPLORATION: Acquisition of an airborne magnetic and radiometric survey during November...

Exploration for possible economic stratabound/hydrothermal lead-zinc deposits formed in Cambrian carbonate units, and also for hydrothermal gold, was performed under a joint venture agreement by Poseidon Minerals and covered an area surrounding the...

TARGET: Possible economic heavy mineral sands accumulations that may have formed in the Pliocene palaeocoastal dune and beach ridge sand sequence of the Marmon Jabuk Range, within an area extending south-eastwards from Tailem Bend for ~80 km.....

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The heavy mineral potential of Tertiary sediments in the Chundie Swamps was investigated with 2 drill traverses (43 RC open vertical holes totalling 863 m) and reconnaissance soil mineralogical sampling. Heavy mineral contents were very low.

TARGET: In an untested area immediately west of Leigh Creek, extending as far as the eastern side of Lake Torrens, ETSA was aiming to find buried deposits of Late Palaeozoic or Mesozoic coal of a rank at least equal to that of Leigh Creek coal (and...

2 main types of copper deposit are recognized. 1 of these is of low grade, near the base of the laminite sequences in the Woocalla Dolomite, probably of syngenetic origin, and is believed to be the oldest and primary kind of deposit. (Gully, MG 14...

TARGET: Sulphides at Whyalla Sandstone - Pandurra Formation contact (Cattlegrid type), in Woocalla Dolomite (Sweet Nell type) and in black shale. EXPLORATION: Geological mapping at 1:30 000 scale, reconnaissance rock chip sampling, subsurface soil...

14 cored holes have intersected copper mineralization in shaley facies of the Woocalla Dolomite, and extending up into dark claystone at the base of the Whyalla Sandstone. The mineralised rocks occupy a shallow depression in the post-Pandurra erosion...

Opening up of the Cattlegrid pit has greatly elucidated the geology of the Whyalla Sandstone and the ore bearing zone of the Pandurra Formation and with the discovery of the MG 14 basic dyke and overlying mineralization, a much more direct association...

During licence Year 11, the lithological logs were digitised and are now presented for the remaining eight holes of the first drilling program (completed in 2002), together with the holes from the second (2003), and third (2004) drilling programs....