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Paralana. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 16/5/1966 to 15/12/1966.
Regional stream sediment sampling conducted over an area of historically prospective ?Archaean, Proterozoic and Palaeozoic rocks in the Mount Painter - Mount Babbage - Mount Livingstone - Yudnamutana area did not reveal any base or precious metal...-
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Giant Head. Progress and final reports for the period 15/10/1973 to 14/10/1974.
An intersection of about 5 feet of massive sulphides (85% pyrite, 15% chalcopyrite) in a vertical water bore at Giants Head, at or near the contact of brecciated diapiric sediments (Wywyana Formation?) and leucocratic granite, was investigated....-
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Published: 30 Oct 1974
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Wooltana. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 1/5/1964 to 30/4/1966.
Reconnaissance and follow-up stream sediment sampling and bank soil sampling carried out across an area of rugged terrain surrounding Wooltana Homestead, within which lie historical small mine workings and minor surface occurrences of secondary copper...-
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Published: 18 Feb 1966
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Cathedral Rock. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 14/11/1975 to 13/11/1976.
Ongoing exploration for stratabound copper deposits in the vicinity of abandoned copper workings in the Olary district comprised three rounds of increasingly detailed geochemical rock chip sampling surveys, plus geological mapping, petrology and...-
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Published: 12 Nov 1976
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Yudnamutana - Freeling Heights area. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 13/8/1970 to 12/8/1971.
An area within the central-northern Mount Painter basement inlier that surrounds the rugged granite massif of Freeling Heights was explored via helicopter-assisted regional stream sediment sampling (2386 samples at an average sample density of 22.8...-
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Published: 05 Apr 1971
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Ethiudna Hill. Progress, partial surrender and final reports to licence expiry for the period 1/11/1974 to 31/10/1975.
Exploration for possible economic stratabound / stratiform copper deposits in an area of the central Olary Province has targeted existing prospects where recent previous work had only addressed the uranium potential. Inco's investigation of...-
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Moolawatana. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 16/7/1970 to 15/7/1971.
An area of previously reported anomalous ground surface base metal geochemistry spanning the northern Mount Painter and adjacent Mount Babbage basement inliers was re-sampled by the licensee to validate the earlier results, via regional stream...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1971
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Cockburn. Progress reports to licence surrender for the period 8/10/1970 to 16/9/1971.
Possible economic buried Tertiary sedimentary uranium, plus any Palaeoproterozoic basement - hosted base metal deposits, were targeted in the region to the west of Cockburn by conducting an airborne radiometric survey (700 line miles at 0.5-1 mile...-
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Arkaroola. Progress, technical and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 1/5/1968 to 30/4/1969.
In a search for the possible buried source primary sulphide orebodies to historically worked secondary copper mineral occurrences in Adelaidean metasediments exposed in the Arkaroola Creek and Barraranna Creek areas, a programme of prospecting,...-
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Radium Hill. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 29/6/1972 to 28/6/1973.
Exploration for possible economic uranium and/or base metal mineralisation in the Radium Hill district consisted of a consultants' review of the exploration potential of the area based on data from existing mines and prospects, plus the conduct of a...-
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Published: 25 Jul 1973
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Cathedral Rock. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 20/7/1973 to 19/7/1975.
Investigations of the copper potential of a series of folded and faulted, Carpentarian age, albite / actinolite / quartz / magnetite altered fine-grained metasediments exposed in the vicinity of Cathedral Rock on Old Boolcoomata Station commenced...-
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Published: 08 Aug 1975
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Mutooroo. Progress report and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 2/7/1976 to 9/11/1976.
As part of a regional search for volcanogenic massive sulphide (VHMS) base metal deposits, a geological reconnaissance plus rock chip sampling was carried out in the vicinity of old copper workings in the Black Hills / Mutooroo Ridge region, 40 km...-
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Wooltana West [plus Dinnertime Hill and Arkaroola]. Progress and final reports for the period 1/7/1968 to 30/6/1969.
An area of several square miles surrounding Arkarooola Homestead has been explored for possible economic copper occurences, which could include deeper lode extensions at several abandoned mines. Aerial reconnaissance and ground prospecting traverses...-
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Wadnaminga. Progress reports to licence expiry for the period 1/4/1971 to 31/3/1972.
Exploration for possible economic base metal and gold occurrences in the Anabama area has comprised semi-detailed geological mapping at 1:21,600 scale, rock chip sampling (502 samples), regional and infill stream sediment sampling (1034 samples),...-
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Plumbago - Glenorchy area [= Olary 'B' Farmin Block]. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 10/2/1972 to 9/2/1973.
In a search for possible remaining economic primary or secondary uranium deposits in an area of known such mineral occurrences located around Mount Victoria, a consultant was engaged by Esso Minerals to conduct detailed 1:12,000 scale geological...-
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Ethiudna [= Olary 'B' Farmin Block]. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 14/1/1971 to 13/1/1972.
Exploration carried out mainly to look for possible large primary deposits of uranium ore in localities surrounding Ethiudna Hill initially addressed the potential of several hard rock showings of uranium mineralisation which had been found by...-
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Yunta. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/11/1970 to 11/11/1971.
Exploration of an area that surrounds Yunta township, seeking possible economic hydrothermal gold or base metal deposits, has consisted of regional and detailed (1:4800 scale) geological mapping, plus stream sediment geochemical sampling (514...-
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Published: 05 May 1971
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Manna Hill. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 8/10/1970 to 7/10/1971.
Exploration for possible economic base metal sulphides hosted within a 10 square mile block of Carpentarian basement schists and gneiss, or within adjoining younger Adelaidean metasedimentary cover rocks, in an area located just north and west of...-
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Mutooroo mine area. Data release made in lieu of submitting a partial relinquishment report at the expiry/renewal of a long-held licence - progress reports for the period 1/4/1962 to 21/6/1975.
Renewed exploration of the former Mutooroo mines area and adjacent localities which also lie within outcropping Willyama Complex basement rocks, searching for economic deposits of massive copper sulphides, has comprised intensive regional and detailed...-
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ExpNotes MARREE: Explanatory Notes MARREE
A new generation, second edition MARREE 1:250 000 scale geological map and its explanatory notes have been published. These documents represent the conclusion of the Geological Survey of South Australia's latest geological mapping program (1993 to...-
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