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Billeroo Creek. Progress reports for the period 17/5/88 to 16/2/91.
TARGET: Broken Hill-style Pb-Zn mineralisation in the northern Olary region. EXPLORATION: Ground magnetics, an IP survey and rotary drilling (21 holes, total 1475 m). RESULTS: Low levels of copper and gold were present at the Waltherco Hut prospect.-
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Published: 06 Mar 1991
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Mutooroo copper prospect. Economic evaluation.
Diamond drilling of the Mutooroo copper prospect located near Cockburn in South Australia has outlined probable ore reserves of 9.2 million tonnes at 1.7% copper. The ore is massive sulphide and there are no associated metal values (e.g. silver, gold,...-
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South Eagle. Progress reports for the period 3/5/82 to 21/3/88.
Following a change in exploration focus in late 1985, from the search for sedimentary uranium to looking for possible Broken Hill style stratiform Ag-Pb-Zn base metal mineralisation within concealed Palaeoproterozoic basement rocks, in the Kalkaroo...-
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Published: 02 May 1988
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Togo Dam. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 9/1/1991 to 19/3/1993.
Exploration for Hunters Dam style stratiform lead-zinc mineralisation in the Benagerie area, in geochemically anomalous Palaeoproterozoic basement units equivalent to the Bimba Formation of the Willyama Supergroup, which overlies the magnetite - rich...-
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Published: 06 May 1993
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Kalkaroo (part of the Mundi Mundi Plains JV Project). Annual reports for the period 21/4/2010 to 1/6/2018.
During 2010-2011, the sixth year of the subject licence, as part of its continuing search for buried economic Tertiary sediment-hosted roll front style secondary uranium deposits, Marmota conducted the following work: • acquired a 58.6 line km moving...-
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Published: 17 Jul 1918
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Wadnaminga and Outalpa (the Olary JV Project, later renamed the Blue Rose Project). Joint annual reports for the period 19/7/2008 to 18/7/2018.
During Year 12 of the Olary JV Project (2008-2009), field work was undertaken only on EL 3849 Outalpa to make up for the earlier underspending on that licence relative to commitments. In early 2009, a ground radioactivity survey was acquired using a...-
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Published: 27 Nov 1918
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Report on the regional photogeological mapping of the Willyama Block in SA, based on the study of small-scale colour aerial photographs. (Appendix 1 in yearly report to 23/9/1977).
Regional lithostructural geological map of all outcropping Middle Proterozoic rocks presented as 6 maps, scale 1:100000.-
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Data release - as updated : Mutooroo (part of the Border Project). Annual reports [but excluding three separately held joint annual reports] and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/4/2007 to 18/4/2020.
During licence Year 11 (2007-2008), exploration activities on renewed EL 3745 included: • acquiring 1.9 line km of TEM profiles at Dingo prospect; • acquiring 21.4 line km of ground magnetic survey coverage at 1-metre station spacing on three...-
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Kalabity - Boolcoomata region. Progress reports and technical reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 1/7/1968 to 30/6/1970.
The sources of previously reported noteworthy radiometric anomalies located near Old Boolcoomata Homestead, which had been detected in 1962 during a SADME/BMR aerial scintiilometer survey, were investigated by the present joint venturers along with...-
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Published: 31 Jul 1970
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Macdonald Hill. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/11/1979 to 12/11/1980.
Base metal exploration carried out over an area extending from 8 to 20 km north-northeast of Olary has consisted of a in-depth technical review of past exploration results, plus limited 1:10,000 scale geological mapping, bulk sampling of...-
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Bimbowrie Creek. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 14/2/1991 to 13/2/1993.
BHP Minerals took out a licence (in two parts) over the Bimbowrie Creek area, 25 km north-west of Olary, to search both for possible zinc-lead-silver and copper-gold deposits within inferred prospective units of the Palaeoproterozoic Willyama Complex....-
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Bimbowrie Hill. Progress reports to licence surrender for the period 22/10/1973 to 8/6/1976.
Exploration for possible economic stratiform, Broken Hill type base metal deposits hosted within Willyama Complex metasediments in the Bimbowrie Hill - Ameroo Hill area has consisted of a structural interpretation of aerial photos and ERTS imagery,...-
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Kalkaroo. Data release made in lieu of a partial relinquishment at licence expiry/renewal : annual reports for the period 18/1/1997 to 17/1/2000.
Ongoing exploration in the Kalkaroo joint venture (formerly called South Eagle - Yarramba) area, located 40-80 km north-east of Olary and 50-150 km west-northwest of Broken Hill, has continued to target stratabound/epithermal/hydrothermal Pb-Zn-Ag and...-
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General report on the Dome Rock copper mine.
This report discusses the present status of development of the copper lodes (containing both oxidised and sulphide ore) at the abandoned Dome Rock mine, which is located about 26 miles north-northwest of Mingary, and calculates the economic...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1959
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bonython Hill. Annual reports for the period 11/1/2001 to 22/2/2007.
A complicated basement sequence comprising Palaeoproterozoic Willyama Supergroup metasediments, intrusive igneous rocks and volcanic rocks, plus Mesoproterozoic granitoids and associated mafic dykes, which occupy the south-western corner of the Broken...-
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Published: 25 May 1907
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Kalabity. First partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 18/11/1999 to 17/1/2010.
An area located approximately 100 km west of Broken Hill and 30 km north of Olary is being explored principally for possible Mesoproterozoic Cloncurry style, stratiform copper-gold associated with banded iron formations in Thackaringa Group equivalent...-
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Benagerie (part of the Benagerie Ridge Joint Venture Project). Progress and annual reports to the commencement of multi-licence joint reporting on the Curnamona Joint Venture Project, for the period 2/5/1989 to 3/5/2003. [Index Part 1 of 3].
An area of sparsely explored, Tertiary and Cretaceous sediment and soil-covered Proterozoic bedrock centred approximately 80 km north of Olary is being explored primarily for base metal massive sulphide deposits. The underlying Benagerie Ridge...-
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Published: 19 May 1903
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Outalpa (part of the Olary/Blue Rose Project). Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/4/2002 to 18/7/2011.
An area located immediately north-west of Olary township has been explored for possible economic intrusive-related copper-gold-molybdenum mineralisation associated with high level Ordovician felsic igneous intrusions, as well as for Palaeoproterozoic...-
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Culberta Bore and Curraworra Bore. Annual reports and combined final report to licences' respective expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/4/2005 to 12/4/2010.
An area located approximately 50 km south-west of Quinyambie has been explored for possible economic, buried IOCG style mineralisation within Proterozoic basement rocks underlying the north-eastern margin of the Benagerie Ridge. In addition, after...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Wadnaminga, Manna Hill, Mount Victor, Yunta and Outalpa (the Olary JV Project, later renamed the Blue Rose Project). Joint annual reports for the period 3/4/1997 to 18/7/2008.
A group of five adjoining exploration licences covering ~3300 square km situated along the southern flank of the Proterozoic Curnamona Craton (Olary Block) and the adjoining Nackara Arc of the Adelaide Geosyncline is being explored for possible...-
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