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Mount Mitchell. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 20/10/1980 to 19/10/1982.
Exploration was undertaken for lode and alluvial tin mineralisation which might exist within ground adjacent to the abandoned Mount Mitchell tin mine, and also for reef gold in altered granite and dolerites outcropping adjacent to the numerous small...-
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Parabarana. Progress and technical reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/5/1972 to 17/5/1974.
Under a joint venture agreement made between North Flinders Mines and Dampier Mining Co. (a BHP Exploration subsidiary), operative over the 7 square mile SML 705 between 14/9/1973 and 14/3/1974, at least 3500 feet of additional appraisal diamond...-
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Karoonda. Final report at licence full surrender, combined with related partial surrender reports for Peake, Swan Reach, Waikerie and Malinong, covering the period 7/7/1980 to 6/7/1981.
Within the surrendered sections of the subject exploration licences in the Karoonda, Marmon Jabuk, Swan Reach, Blanchetown and Cooke Plains areas, following the conduct there of a 45.4 line km gravity survey and the drilling and geophysical logging of...-
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Published: 12 Jun 1981
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Glenloth Well. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/3/1973 to 29/3/1974.
Two inclined percussion holes were drilled at the Mount Mitchell tin prospect for a total penetration of 504 feet. The aim was to test a discrepancy between subsurface sample negative tin assay results obtained by the Department of Mines, and good...-
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Published: 21 Feb 1974
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Mount Gunson - Pernatty. Quarterly reports and annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/2/1987 to 15/4/1994.
Ongoing copper exploration in the Mount Gunson area was directed primarily at locating economic stratiform mineralisation in the Tapley Hill Formation, which overlies Pandurra Formation and the associated Cattlegrid orebody. New work comprised...-
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RB 53/00058 Report on site investigation, Kimba Area School, Kimba Parklands, Hd Solomon.
The site for the proposed Kimba Area School occupies 8½ acres of the parklands in the north western corner of Kimba Township, with a gentle slope to northward. Test pits reveal mallee type soil profiles overlying weathered granite. The generalised...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1961
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RB 43/00054 Report on foundation test for silo at Wallaroo for SA Cooperative Bulk Handling Ltd.
Percussion boring of a proposed silo site on old slag dumps at Wallaroo shows approximately 15 feet of slag on deeply weathered granite basement but with thin old shore material on the latter on the seaward side. The site is geologically...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1956
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RB 48/00069 Report on groundwater prospects, sections 15 and 23 Hd Charleston - W.H. Rudiger.
There is no abstract created for this record-
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Published: 01 Jan 1959
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RB 48/00105 Report on groundwater prospects, Port Kenny School, Hd Wright.
There is no abstract created for this record-
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Published: 01 Jan 1959
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RB 97/00028 Reconnaissance granite sampling of the Mesoproterozoic Hiltaba Suite granite on northern Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, for dimension stone.
Reconnaissance sampling of Mesoproterozoic Hiltaba Suite granite on northern Eyre Peninsula, to identify all potentially quarryable granite varieties, was carried out by MESA during 1996/97. A total of 157 outcrops were inspected and 99 samples...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1998
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RB 96/00037 Report on a groundwater search program over various Pitjantjatjara Homelands in the Musgrave Ranges area, South Australia.
The search by MESA for potable groundwater incorporated the use of Transient Electromagnetics, a ground resistivity method. This successfully provided drilling targets at two sites, Blue Hills and Wallatinna, but was unsuccessful in areas with shallow...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1996
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Tarcoola. Data release in lieu of a 25% second partial surrender at licence renewal : progress and annual reports for the period 7/12/1990 to 20/4/2003. [ Index Part 1 of 4 ].
The abstract for this Envelope is contained (in three parts) as separately indexed records, due to SAMREF database system individual record data size limits presently applicable.-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 2 partnership DPY2-21, Yarlbrinda Shear Zone, subsidiary fault plays, Tunkillia - style gold prospects. Project final report.
It has lately been recognised by explorers that subsidiary fault splays developed adjacent to the main Yarlbrinda Shear Zone may be more prospective for hydrothermal gold deposits than the main zone. In an approved PACE Initiative Year 2 drilling...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 2 partnership DPY2-45, Old Well and New Well shear-associated gold mineral prospects. Project final report.
The Yarlbrinda and Yerda Shear Zones of the central Gawler Craton, partly present within EL 3107 in the Tarcoola-Glenloth-Lake Harris region, were the target for a number of mineral exploratory drillholes put down there by by licence farminee Minotaur...-
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Giles Nob. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 8/7/1983 to 7/7/1988.
Exploration for possible economic gold deposits in an area located approximately 25 km south of Olary addressed three principal objectives: . hydrothermally-sourced gold within quartz-albite-dolomite vein stockworks formed in phyllitic siltstones of...-
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Yarramba. Annual reports submitted until the commencement of licences' joint reporting on the South Eagle / Honeymoon Project, for the period 10/4/2000 to 26/8/2009. [ Index Part 1 of 2 ].
Southern Cross Resources Australia Pty Ltd (Southern Cross) purchased Rio Tinto Exploration Limited’s share of the Northern Olary Joint Venture, including its interest in the subject EL 2310 Yarramba, in November 2000. Southern Cross has held the...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mutooroo (the Olary Creek Project). Annual reports for the period 15/11/2005 to 7/2/2019.
An area centred ~50 km south west of Cockburn is being explored for possible economic base and precious metal mineralisation that may have formed in buried Palaeoproterozoic basement rocks, as well as for any secondary uranium mineralisation that may...-
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Monarto (part of the Adelaide Hills Project). First partial surrender report, for the period 23/5/2013 to 22/5/2016.
28 square km, or the whole southern half, of an area centred ~14 km north-west of Murray Bridge has now been relinquished because of a recently assigned competing land usage classification that would make it difficult to do mineral exploration there....-
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Geological report no. 1 on the Cutana copper mine, Olary district, SA.
Secondary copper mineralisation at the Cutana copper mine appears to be limited to a length of about 30 feet at the surface, where historic workings have excavated a swell to 3 feet wide in a quartz-ironstone reef that otherwise narrows to 18 inches...-
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Published: 11 Feb 1971
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Weekeroo. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/10/1970 to 30/9/1971.
A detailed examination of mineralised rock sequences within the metamorphosed Precambrian basement and Adelaidean cover rocks of the Weekeroo area, and recording of their relationship to successive deformational events and resulting rock structures,...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1971
