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Clare Valley groundwater resources. Progress report 4: drilling Phases III and IV.
Two additional phases of the drilling program to assess the groundwater resources in the Clare Valley were undertaken during March 1998 at Wendouree (Phase III), and during July 2000 at Wendouree and Watervale Oval (Phase IV). The Phase III program...-
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Leighton. Annual and final reports to licence surrender for the period 19/11/2007 to 21/8/2009.
Basal Umberatana Group glacial tillitic sedimentary sequences and upper Burra Group interglacial arenaceous sediments were explored for possible economic stratabound gold mineralisation in an area located about 10-40 km north-west of Burra. In the...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 4 partnership DPY4-63, Mongolata area epithermal gold and base metal mineral prospects. Project final report.
An observed trend between base metals anomalism in soils and previously identified magnetic and gravity anomalies within inferred Adelaidean basement metasediments present within the eastern part of Mongolata EL 3164 provided the impetus for the...-
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Mintaro. Annual and final reports to licence surrender, for the period 19/11/2007 to 21/8/2009.
Basal Umberatana Group glacial tillitic sedimentary sequences and upper Burra Group interglacial arenaceous sediments were explored for possible economic stratabound gold mineralisation in an area located near and to the north of Mintaro, which...-
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Published: 11 Sep 1909
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Princess Royal, Burra West, Burra North, Florieton, Mount Bryan, Burra Central, Mongolata, Redbanks, Hallett Hill and The Gums (the Burra Project tenement group). Joint annual reports for the period 1/5/2009 to 30/4/2017.
A multi-licence project area centred on the historic abandoned Burra copper mine is being explored for possible economic, buried Burra type copper oxide and copper carbonate mineralisation that may have formed within Neoproterozoic metasedimentary...-
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Paratoo (was formerly part of the Grainger Project; recently made part of the Flinders Ranges JV Project). Annual reports from the time of cessation of previous joint venture(s) reporting, for the period 20/7/2007 to 1/11/2016.
During 2007-2008, the first year of the diamond exploration joint venture with the Filsell brothers in the Paratoo area, Flinders Mines' activities comprised: • acquiring part of a detailed helicopter-borne infill aerial magnetic ('helimag') survey,...-
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Published: 30 Jan 1919
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Data release - as updated : Mount Grainger (part of the Flinders Ranges Diamond Project and the Nackara Arc Gold Project). Combined annual reports and annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 6/2/2008 to 5/2/2017.
An area centred ~40 km east of Peterborough in the vicinity of Mount Grainger Goldfield has continued to be explored for possible small diamondiferous kimberlite bodies and for buried economic stratabound, structurally controlled and disseminated...-
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Published: 19 Sep 1916
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Burra Project licence group. Data release made in lieu of submitting partial surrender reports for ELs 6102, 6103, 6158, 6305 and 6306 : joint annual reports for the period 25/1/2018 to 2/12/2020 plus initial annual annual report.
To date exploration in the Burra region of the Adelaide Geosyncline has focussed on historic copper-gold oxide workings, with the aim of delineating further mineralisation along strike, or sulphide mineralisation at depth. Lately however, rather than...-
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Published: 04 Feb 1921
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Clare (part of the Spalding Project). Annual reports for the period 2/1/2007 to 1/1/2010.
In Phoenix Copper's opinion, although several previous explorers had investigated the Spalding Inlier area, many targets remained insufficiently tested. The principal structural target the company wished to explore is the intersection between an...-
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Data release - as updated : Benda Range (part of the Manna Hill Project). Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 6/5/2008 to 14/12/2017.
Exploration for possible economic vein-style and structurally controlled gold with Adelaidean bedrock sediments in an area located south of Manna Hill township was conducted using low cost remote sensing, geochemical and geophysical methods. The...-
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Published: 15 Jan 1918
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Economic geology and mineralogy of Birdwood kaolin, South Australia.
White clay is won from 5 pits operated by 3 companies for use in white cement and cream brick manufacture with some as a filler / extender. White clay formed by intensive kaolinization of mica schist and fine grained micaceous quartzite. Irregular...-
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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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RB 65/00035 Clare Regional Geochemical Project.
This investigation was a feasibility study, therefore environmental factors are dealt with in much more detail than would be necessary in a routine geochemical report. Apparently these factors has little significant effect on the results. Spot...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1967
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Hallett (part of the Nackara Gold Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/8/2002 to 4/10/2012.
An area of high country in the far northern Mount Lofty Ranges was taken under licence to try to find the primary source(s) of widely dispersed detrital gold known from Recent and Tertiary cover sediments in the region, while focussing mainly on...-
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Benda Range (part of the Manna Hill Project). Second partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 6/5/2008 to 5/5/2013.
141 square km or ~51.5% of the former area of EL 4139 has been relinquished as a condition of renewing tenure for a second 5-year licence term. The only field work undertaken on the relinquished ground has been reconnaissance traverse geological...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Burra Hill (part of the Burra South Project). Annual reports submitted until the commencement of project licences' joint reporting, for the period 1/5/2006 to 30/4/2009.
Within a small licence area centred about 15 km south-south-east of Burra township in the northern Mount Lofty Ranges, Copper Range initially targeted near-surface copper oxide mineralisation associated with an altered and brecciated contact zone...-
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Paratoo (part of the Paratoo Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 18/4/2013 to 27/6/2014.
An small area located immediately north-east of Paratoo township has been explored for possible buried Burra mine type epithermal/hydrothermal copper mineralisation, as well as for gold and rare earth metals which may have accumulated in proximity to...-
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Published: 10 Jun 1914
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Leighton. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 15/3/2010 to 14/3/2014.
A small area centred ~18 km west-northwest of Burra has been explored for possible buried primary porphyry type copper-gold mineralisation, and also for small scale secondary copper carbonate deposits of Burra style. Reprocessing of existing...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bagot Well North, Tarnma, Bagot Well and Australia Plains (the Eudunda Group of tenements). Joint annual reports for the period 5/10/2009 to 4/8/2017.
As part of a renewed search for possible buried economic volcanogenic or epigenetic stratiform copper oxide or copper carbonate deposits, thought to be associated with poorly exposed fault structures and related hydrothermal alteration of Adelaidean...-
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Published: 19 Sep 1917
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bald Hill North. Annual reports for the period 25/7/2006 to 24/7/2009.
A small area centred ~5 km west of Burra township is being explored for possible buried economic, Monster mine type stratiform copper oxide or copper carbonate deposits, thought to be associated with poorly exposed fault structures and related...-
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