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Red Lake. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 23/2/1978 to 2/1/1983.
Exploration undertaken on ground situated east of Pernatty Lagoon has included the acquisition of extensive ground magnetic and gravity surveys plus a small aerial magnetic and radiometric survey, and performing many specific gravity and magnetic...-
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Copperlinka. Progress and annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/4/1991 to 6/6/1997.
Exploration for possible large, potentially open cut - mineable disseminated quartz vein - type syngenetic gold and base metal deposits within a licence area located near Outalpa, 150 km south-west of Broken Hill, has comprised geological mapping,...-
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RB 60/00040 Geology of the MARREE 1:250 000 map area.
The MARREE mapsheet area lies in arid country about 400 miles north of Adelaide, South Australia. It includes the town of Marree, on the Alice Springs railway line, and part of the Birdsville and Strzelecki tracks. The area is covered mainly by flat...-
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Published: 03 Mar 1965
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RB 79/00088 Wilkinson 1. Well completion report.
Wilkinson 1 stratigraphic well was drilled by the SA Department of Mines and Energy in mid-1978, about 250 km south-west of Coober Pedy, in the Tallaringa Trough. Here a thick section of Cambrian claystones, limestones and evaporites, at least 594 m...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1979
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Eukaby. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 22/6/1972 to 31/5/1973.
As part of North's continuing exploration for possible buried syngenetic, Broken Hill - type stratiform base metal deposits in the Eukaby area, extensive deep directional diamond core drilling (9 of 14 holes totalling 11,603 feet) was carried out in...-
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Port Augusta - Wilkatana area. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/10/1969 to 4/8/1972.
An area surrounding the Emeroo Range, and extending from the vicinity of Port Augusta to 30 km west of Hawker, was explored by Utah for possible economic stratabound base metal deposits which it was thought could be associated with certain favourable...-
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Price. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 24/2/1975 to 23/2/1977.
In continuing regional exploration conducted over north-eastern Yorke Peninsula, further reconnaissance stratigraphic drilling and wireline geophysical logging (in 3 vertical rotary percussion holes totalling 373 m) was carried out in May 1976 to test...-
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Uro Bluff. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 16/4/1975 to 15/4/1977.
Stratiform copper sulphides, hosted within the basal Tapley Hill Formation, and extensions of known kimberlite bodies were targeted in this program. Reconnaissance and closer (down to 1 km x 1 km) spaced diamond and percussion drilling (28 and 83...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Tarcoola. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 2/6/2003 to 1/6/2008.
Exploration Licence 3089 is located in the central Gawler Craton and is centred near the township of Tarcoola. Continuation of tenure over the same area, from former ELs 1827 and 2510, was renewed by Gravity Capital Ltd on 2/6/2003, and full licence...-
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Myall Creek. Progress reports to licence full surrender, for the period 14/5/1998 to 30/3/2000.
Exploration for Olympic Dam type Cu-Au in the Myall Creek area, located 15-50 km north of Whyalla, comprised surface geological mapping and orientation calcrete geochemical sampling, together with the re-logging, petrographic examination and...-
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Baratta. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 1/7/1971 to 30/6/1972.
High base metal values, particularly for zinc, that resulted from the sampling of pits and costeans at Eukaby Hill, led North to a close examination of the unremarkable calcareous siltstone host rock to find the cause of suspected syngenetic...-
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Lake Dutton. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 1/10/1968 to 30/9/1970.
Possible economic stratiform base metal mineralisation formed within the Woocalla Dolomite Formation, which is shallowly buried over a wide area south-east of Lake Dutton, was targeted by ongoing work in an area located west and south-west of Pernatty...-
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Kanyaka. Progress report to licence surrender, for the period 10/2/1972 to June 1972.
The source of anomalous lead and zinc in the Radford Creek area was traced to a ferruginous outcrop of Parachilna Formation limestone that is associated with a prominent shear and also lies near the contact with the Wilkawillina Limestone. Samples of...-
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Price. Progress and final reports to licence surrender, for the period 27/4/1977 to 6/12/1978.
Continuation by Aquitaine of its regional appraisal of the mineral potential in the Cambrian carbonate sequence on northern Yorke Peninsula, has recently involved them in acquiring and interpreting ground gravity and magnetic surveys, completing a...-
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Summary report on the Roopena area, SML 204, SA.
During early 1970 BHP investigated an area on Roopena Station, 20 miles north-northwest of Whyalla, for possible late Meso- to early Neoproterozoic stratiform copper associated with the basal Adelaidean unconformity. Previously, interesting minor...-
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Beltana. Progress report for the period 28/5/1971 to 27/8/1971.
As part of a regional geochemical survey for signatures of stratiform base metal deposits, 208 stream sediment samples were collected along the eastern flank of the Mount Deception Range, over the lower part of the Late Proterozoic Bunyeroo Formation....-
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Published: 09 Sep 1971
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Lake Torrens area. Joint progress reports and joint final report to licences' expiry/full surrender, for the period 15/6/1966 to 14/11/1969.
Extensive geochemical and geological investigations were carried out over exposed and shallowly buried, predominantly flat-lying Lower Cambrian carbonate rocks in an area extending from the western edge of the Flinders Ranges to west of Lake Torrens....-
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Published: 17 Mar 1969
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Parachilna - Mernmerna area. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/6/1966 to 14/11/1969.
Continuing exploration for Ediacara - type, Early Palaeozoic carbonate sediment-hosted lead-zinc deposits in the Bunyeroo Gorge - Parachilna Gorge area of the Flinders Ranges comprised regional and detailed stream sediment, rock chip and soil...-
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Published: 13 May 1969
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Akhurst Hill - Hedley Hill area. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/9/1966 to 13/11/1968.
In a search for possible buried Ediacara - type Early Palaeozoic sediment-hosted lead-zinc deposits in an area located 10 miles east of Andamooka, near the north-western shoreline of Lake Torrens, exploratory work comprising regional and follow-up...-
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Published: 17 Dec 1968
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Ooloo mine area. Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 24/1/2006 to 23/1/2009.
An area located about 110 km east-southeast of Marree was taken up initially to explore for possible economic silver and base metal mineralisation, but the scope of the search was later broadened to include assessing the prospectivity for primary and...-
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Published: 19 Mar 2009
