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Luxemburg Well. Progress and final reports for the period 4/11/83 to 3/11/84.
Diamond drillcore obtained from the Luxemburg mine area, which was drilled by Sundowner Minerals Pty Ltd in 1969-70, was assayed and identified as consisting of altered pyroxenite, altered granitoids (adamellite, granodiorite, tonalite), and altered...-
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Copper Coast Project - Final Report - Utilising Seismic to Map, Validate and Understand 3D Basin Architecture and Vector Potential Locations of Sediment-hosted Copper Mineralisation ADI RD03-418 [Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 3, 2023].
IGO Ltd’s (IGO) Copper Coast Project is located along the eastern Spencer Gulf and is centred around Port Pirie. It sits along the eastern margin of the Gawler Craton and covers Proterozoic rocks of the Stuart Shelf, Torrens Hinge Zone, and Adelaide...-
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Published: 31 Jan 1923
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Arkaroola (part of the Frome Basin Project). Annual reports for the period 3/6/1996 to 4/12/2008. [ Index Part 1 of 2 ].
A 1243 square km rugged mountainous area in the far northern Flinders Ranges extending between Arkaroola, Moolawatana, Prospect Hill, Mount Livingston and Mount Saturday was taken up to explore primarily for gold that it was hoped could exist in...-
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Interpretation of sequence of events - Central Flinders Zone.
A synopsis of the possible pre-tectonic structural setting and sequence of geological events which has resulted in the observed development of faulted domes and diapirs within Neoproterozoic sediments of the central Flinders Ranges, and the related...-
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Published: 26 May 1993
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Assessment of the resource potential of leases held by Frontier Exploration in the Central Flinders Zone, Adelaide Geosyncline, South Australia.
Report presents a consultant's independent assessment of the petroleum potential and risked prospect status for PEL 41, using data provided by the licensee.-
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Central Flinders Ranges - Adelaide Geosyncline problem.
A Frontier Exploration internal memorandum in which Professor Rudd expounds his interpretation of, and seeks discussion on, the apparently unique geological conditions which exist in the Central Flinders Zone and are related to the testing of the...-
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Potential of PEL 41.
Report reviews the exploration potential of the three as yet still untested buried diapiric structures that have been worked up to prospect status by Frontier Petroleum, and are mooted for possible drilling by US-based recent PEL 41 farminee...-
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Resource potential of the Central Flinders Zone, Adelaide Geosyncline, South Australia.
Since 1990 Frontier Exploration Ltd has explored in the Central Flinders Zone of the Adelaide Geosyncline in order to assess its hydrocarbon and mineral potential, and the relationship of diapirs to these resources. The basic concepts used have not...-
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Summary of seismic interpretation, Marla area, Officer Basin.
Modern, multifold seismic data over the far eastern Officer Basin have been reinterpreted and seven reflectors mapped in time. Parts of six major structural zones are identified in the region: Munyarai Tough, Marla Overthrust Zone, Ammaroodinna...-
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Published: 31 Jan 1993
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Blinman, Maggie Hill and Martins Well. Quarterly, six-monthly, annual and technical reports for the period 19/12/1989 to 8/9/1999.
PEL 41 was granted to a deliberately SA-based new venture exploration company consisting of Chairman and well-known Emeritus Professor of Geology Eric Rudd, four other founding honorary and unsalaried directors, and 100 or so individual speculative...-
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Stuart Shelf Project. EL 1338 first [and Project second overall] partial surrender report, for the period 2/5/1975 to 16/6/1991.
TARGET: Possible buried base and precious metal deposits associated with aeromagnetic anomalies, and also with either coincident or unrelated gravity anomalies, lying within a relinquished sector of the large contiguous multi-licence area that Western...-
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Mutooroo Ridge. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 18/4/1977 to 17/4/1978.
Newmont Mining used a ground magnetic survey, an IP survey and a soil geochemical survey to select sites at the Mutooroo Ridge copper prospect for its subsequent drilling during May and October 1977 of 2 inclined, percussion precollared diamond cored...-
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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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Arkaroola (part of the Wooltana Joint Venture project). Progress and final reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 19/5/1971 to 18/5/1973.
Continuing exploration of the basal Neoproterozoic sedimentary sequence in the north-eastern Flinders Ranges for possible economic stratiform/stratabound Kapunda or Blinman - type copper mineralisation has concentrated on detailed 1:1200 and 1:4800...-
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RB 2021/00006 Diapirs and diapirism in the Adelaide ‘Geosyncline’, South Australia
This report book presents verbatim Dr Trevor Mount’s 1975 Ph.D. thesis entitled "Diapirs and diapirism in the Adelaide Geosyncline", including his superbly detailed maps, with the addition of some supporting documents of both geological and historical...-
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Published: 01 May 2021
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RB 62/00132 First geological and geochemical report on the Lyndhurst Diapir, for the period January to May 1966.
Investigations of the Lyndhurst Diapir were started after its reservation in January 1966. Early work consisted of the collection and analysis of orientation and reconnaissance stream sediment (513 samples) and soil samples (2016 samples). The...-
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Published: 20 Jun 1966
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Yarley. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/8/2009 to 18/8/2012.
A small area located on the southern Lake Torrens Plains immediately west of the ABC Range was taken up to allow evaluation of its potential for having buried economic sedimentary coal and/or uranium mineralisation occurrences. There are no...-
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Published: 02 Sep 1912
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Copley and Wearing Gorge areas. Joint annual reports to licences' surrender, for the period 18/6/2007 to 1/11/2011.
Several small areas in the vicinity of the Mount Coffin Diapir, which covers ~5 square km within the north-central Flinders Ranges immediately to the south-east of Copley, have been explored with the hope of finding additional copper resources near...-
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Published: 05 Sep 1911
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Copley. First partial surrender report, for the period 8/4/2009 to 7/4/2012.
Two portions of an exploration licence covering ground surrounding the Mountain-of-Light copper mine, respectively 4 km north-east and south-east of Copley, have been relinquished due to their perceived diminished potential for discovering economic...-
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Published: 07 Apr 1912
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Mount Craig (part of the Hawker Project). Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 15/11/2005 to 14/11/2010.
Copper Range's principal exploration targets in the Adelaide Fold Belt are secondary, near-surface oxide copper deposits that are structurally controlled and related to hydrothermal events focussed along faults late in the deformational history of the...-
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Published: 06 Apr 1911
