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Bendigo Station. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 6/8/1987 to 5/8/1992.
Copper and gold exploration comprising outcrop, stream sediment and soil geochemical sampling, and the conduct of ground magnetic and IP surveys, plus RC percussion (67 vertical holes, total 6624 m) and diamond cored tail drilling (in 2 holes, total...-
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Published: 02 Jul 1992
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RB 60/00082 Coober Pedy Opalfield.
Mapping of the Coober Pedy Opalfield has shown that opal occurrence, although erratic, is not entirely unpredictable. Several groups of workings are present in an area of about 150 square miles. The host rock is a distinctive pink and white...-
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Published: 30 Apr 1965
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RB 78/00006 Progress report on the geology of part of the Worumba Anticline.
The Worumba Anticline is a regional fold in the gradational zone between the Olary Arc and the broader folding of the central Flinders Ranges. The limbs of the anticline comprise complete upper Adelaidean successions, of which the Holowilena...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 90/00016 Beda Volcanics and Backy Point Formation of the eastern Gawler Craton.
Beda Volcanics and Backy Point Formation crop out in only a few localities on northeastern Eyre Peninsula, north of Whyalla, but drilling has shown them to extend for approximately 170 km to the north below younger cover. The Beda Volcanics comprise...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1991
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Prospect Hill. Progress reports and annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 23/11/1990 to 22/11/1994.
Continued evaluation of possible economic primary tin oxide mineralisation in the Prospect Hill area, 20 km north-west of Moolawatana Homestead, concentrated on infill channel geochemical sampling and mineragraphic/petrogenetic sampling of costeans...-
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Peake Hill. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/7/2013 to 8/7/2017.
A small area located on and adjacent to the eastern margin of the Denison Range, ~ 60 km south-east of Oodnadatta, has been explored for possible buried economic sediment-hosted uranium mineralisation. During licence Year 1 the licensee reviewed all...-
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Postmark. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 7/5/1970 to 5/5/1972.
Exploration for possible economic sedimentary uranium deposits in the Postmark area on the northern margin of the Murray Basin in South Australia comprised two airborne radiometric and scintillometric surveys together totalling approximately 1350...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Ooldea. Progress and technical reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 6/12/1989 to 5/1/2000.
An occurrence of primary magnetite mineralisation within buried Archaean magnetic basement, first inferred from a strong northeast-trending linear magnetic anomaly observed at a location 20 km south of Ooldea Siding at the northern edge of the...-
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Published: 16 Nov 1999
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Lake Gairdner North (part of the West Roxby Project). Data release: annual reports for the period 23/7/2007 to 22/7/2012.
An area centred approximately 55 km west-southwest of Woomera was taken up to explore its IOCG mineralisation potential. Early field work consisted of the acquisition of infill gravity coverage over an irregular outline regional gravity low anomaly...-
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Strangways [Springs]. Annual report plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/1/2011 to 6/1/2013.
An area extending along the Marree - William Creek - Oodnadatta Track, some distance to the west of Lake Eyre South and centred 140 km north of Olympic Dam, has been explored for possible economic buried Mesozoic sandstone-hosted (Kazakhstan style)...-
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Amdel Ltd project - Fluid inclusion studies of South Australian ores, rocks and minerals. Progress reports nos 1 to 6 for the period 7/5/1976 to 3/4/1980.
In September 1975 the South Australian Department of Mines accepted a proposal from Amdel Ltd to purchase and set up some microthermometry apparatus, in order to commence fluid inclusion studies of selected rock types and minerals in South Australia....-
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Talisker prospect. Progress reports to licence expiry for the period 21/4/1969 to 20/4/1970.
IP and resistivity surveys, 1:200 scale geological mapping, and soil and rock chip sampling were carried out over exploration grids covering bleached metasedimentary outcrops that might indicate possible buried lode extensions in the vicinity of the...-
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Oodnadatta. Combined first progress / final report to licence surrender for the period 22/6/1972 to 28/1/1973.
Reconnaissance prospecting, plus close inspections and sampling of historically briefly worked auriferous areas in the basal Mesozoic sediments on the banks of the Neales River, suggest that any reserves and grades present there would be insufficient...-
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Published: 08 Nov 1972
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RB 2008/00003 The Corunna Conglomerate, Gawler Craton: a review of the sedimentology and new U-Pb zircon geochronology.
The Corunna Conglomerate is a sequence of unmetamorphosed fluvial to shallow marine sediments, comprising conglomerates, sandstones and siltstones, which were deposited in active fault grabens in the eastern Gawler Craton. It is found on the...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2008
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Lake Arthur East, Lake Arthur West and Lake Arthur (the Lake Surprise Project and the Mumpie Project). Data release made in lieu of submitting partial surrender reports : annual and joint annual reports for the period 29/8/2006 to 28/8/2014.
A wide basinal area located east of Marree and bordering the northern Willouran Ranges is being explored afresh for sedimentary uranium occurrences in response to market conditions and the demonstrated prospectivity of the local cover rocks, which...-
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Published: 30 Oct 2014
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Data release - as updated : Lake Carnanto (part of the Curnamona Project). Annual reports to licence full surrender, for the period 13/1/2004 to 14/7/2014.
An area located ~140 km north-northeast of Olary has been explored for possible economic buried sedimentary uranium mineralisation hosted by Tertiary palaeochannel sands of the Callabonna Sub-basin. Previous exploration activities had partly defined...-
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Published: 07 Mar 2014
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Lake Frome [West]. Second partial surrender report, for the period 18/10/2013 to 8/5/2019.
The subject relinquished portion of EL 6291, comprising 29% of the ground formerly held by the licensee since its second partial surrender in October 2015, has been explored for possible buried sediment-hosted uranium mineralisation of Beverley type...-
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Published: 09 Jul 2019
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Peake Creek. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/9/2005 to 15/9/2009.
An area located immediately west of the Denison Inlier of the Proterozoic Peake and Denison Ranges, approximately 70 km south-east of Oodnadatta, was explored for possible roll-front style sedimentary uranium deposits that may have formed within...-
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Published: 20 Oct 2009
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 3 partnership DPY3-49, Bird-In-Hand Mine Deeps Project gold mineral prospects. Project final report.
At the historic Bird-In-Hand mining claim, where previous mine exploration drilling beneath the old workings by current licence operator Maximus Resources had delineated an inferred remaining gold resource of 53,000 ounces over the depth extent from...-
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Hawker. First partial surrender report for the period 2/7/2007 to 1/7/2008.
Exploration of the outcropping Proterozoic/Cambrian stratigraphic boundary in the Chace Range region of the southern Flinders Ranges, in one licence subarea taken out close to Hawker and another a short distance to the north-east, targeted possible...-
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Published: 18 Dec 2008
