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Keyneton. Progress reports to licence full surrender, for the period 6/8/1973 to 17/4/1974.
Continuing geological, geochemical, petrographic and ground magnetic work was done by AAP along 26 sampling profiles to try to unravel possible stratigraphic and tectonic controls on known base metal mineralisation at the Royal Keyneton and Hope mine...-
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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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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Blinman (part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Annual reports to the commencement of project licences' joint reporting, for the period 21/4/1999 to 20/4/2002.
Exploration Licence 2593 “Blinman” is located 500 km north of Adelaide in the Central North Flinders Ranges, South Australia. The licence covers an area of 1616km2 and was initially granted to Minotaur Gold NL on 21 April 1999. Minotaur was targeting...-
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Report on dolomite deposits at the Neales River, north-west of Lake Eyre North, SA.
Geological investigations have delineated a dolomite deposit extending at least 8 miles along the lower Neales River and exposed in its banks. An indicated resource of approximately 20 million tons is estimated to be present. It is considered that...-
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Published: 09 Jan 1970
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Reaphook Hill and Mount Frome (part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Respective early annual reports, for the period 17/1/2000 to 16/1/2002.
Two adjoining licence areas located ~50-70 km to the east and south-east of Blinman are being explored for possible economic buried willemite (zinc silicate), scholzite (zinc phosphate) and other base metal mineralisation associated with particular...-
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Mount Caernarvon, Mount Havelock and Arkaba Hill (part of the Torrens Project). Joint final report at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 17/1/2012 to 14/12/2017.
An adjoining group of tenements located between Hawker and Wilpena Pound were taken up to explore for possible buried economic hydrothermal stratiform copper mineralisation which may have formed in sandy strata next to significant disruptive...-
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Mount Stuart. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 5/1/1984 to 4/1/1987.
Epithermal, fault-related gold and base metals in calcareous Adelaidean metasediments (cf. the Beltana and Aroona zinc-lead deposits), and sedex style base metals of Mount Isa - McArthur River type, or stratiform base metals in black shale units, were...-
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Ungarra / Triple Hill. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/3/1979 to 7/11/1983.
As part of a regional evaluation of the variably exposed Lower Proterozoic metasedimentary sequence on eastern Eyre Peninsula for possible economic pitchblende mineralisation, portion of a semi-detailed airborne radiometric/magnetic survey was flown...-
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Round Hill. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/4/1984 to 15/10/1986.
TARGET: Possible buried epithermal or hydrothermal gold deposits in the Anabama Hill area. EXPLORATION: An airborne magnetic survey (line spacing : 250 m; altitude : 80 m) covering ELs 1102, 1163 and 1234 was flown by Aerodata Pty Ltd in October...-
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Reaphook Hill. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/9/1980 to 18/11/1987.
Economic stratabound Mississippi Valley-type zinc-lead-silver deposits in Early Cambrian carbonate rocks were the targets of exploration carried out north and west of Reaphook Hill in the central Flinders Ranges. Regional geological mapping (at...-
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Wirrealpa. Progress and technical reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 13/9/1988 to 12/9/1989.
Possible economic stratabound or epigenetic lead-zinc or copper deposits, formed in altered carbonate rocks lying marginal to the Wirrealpa Diapir, were the targets of new exploration centred on the area of the old Wirrealpa lead-silver mine....-
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Published: 06 Nov 1989
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Curdimurka. Progress reports for the period 19/12/86 to 18/6/88.
TARGET: Celestite in the Lake Eyre South region. EXPLORATION: Market research, stream sediment, soil and bedrock sampling, backhoe trenching and drilling. RESULTS: A number of small celestite occurrences and strontium-bearing limestone were defined.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1988
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Commodore. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 22/9/1980 to 21/10/1986.
Multicommodity exploration undertaken in the Commodore - Parachilna area of the west-central Flinders Ranges, just outside of the western boundary of the newly proclaimed national park and the included Heysen Range, has comprised limited gravel...-
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Mount Aleck. Partial surrender report for the period 19/11/1982 to 18/11/1983.
Exploration for Mississippi Valley - type stratabound base metal deposits in the relinquished area covering the eastern flank of the Mernmerna Syncline, 10 km south-west of Wilpena Pound, has proved to be unsuccessful. At the Vanessa prospect, 28...-
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Manunda Homestead. Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 25/6/1979 to 24/6/1980.
Diamond exploration over an area located approximately 35 km south-east of Yunta was undertaken to assess an interpreted structural environment that may be similar to one existing nearby to the west close to Terowie, in which shallowly buried,...-
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Mount Burr. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 12/9/1979 to 17/9/1980.
Strike-oriented residual soil sampling (662 samples taken at nominal 100 m spacings along 90 km of traverses) over the pyritic and carbonaceous basal Tindelpina Shale Member of the Tapley Hill Formation, in the northern Flinders Ranges 65 km east of...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1981
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Mount Grieg. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 6/12/1979 to 5/6/1981.
Exploration for possible economic syngenetic/stratiform or epigenetic/hydrothermal base metals and gold hosted by Early Cambrian and older Adelaidean rocks in the Angepena area initially comprised the conduct of reconnaissance 1:50,000 scale...-
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Published: 06 Aug 1981
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Pillaworta Hill. Progress and final reports for the period 22/12/1976 to 4/9/1978.
Investigation of banded iron formation in the Lincoln Uplands of the Tumby Bay district for possible South West African type base metal sulphide deposits consisted of rock chip and soil sampling at potential gossanous outcrops, and limited drilling of...-
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Published: 22 Jun 1978
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Tthe Stuart Range Joint Venture Project. Joint progress reports and final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 21/4/1980 to 31/3/1981.
When Getty Oil took over management of the Stuart Range Project licences, it reviewed all of Newmont's drillhole data and undertook reclogging of the drill cores with the aim of correlating stratigraphy across the project area. Starting in October...-
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Progress reports on exploration of seven mining claims in the Big Lode mine area, for the period January 1971 to December 1972.
An area of 1.2 square km surrounding the Big Lode mine historic copper workings was reserved for 18 months under tenure of seven Mining Claims, to allow for the detailed geological mapping of rock structures possibly controlling observed secondary...-
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