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Bimbowrie Homestead. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 5/11/84 to 1/3/89.
TARGET: Evaluation and further exploration of the Ethiudna wollastonite deposit. EXPLORATION: Geological reconnaissance, relogging of drill core, a ground magnetic survey, and three campaigns of exploratory and resource delineation diamond drilling...-
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Mutooroo. Progress reports for the period 19/8/89 to 17/1/92.
TARGET: Evaluation of the historic Mutooroo copper mine area for shallow copper-gold-cobalt mineralization that may be amenable to open pit mining. EXPLORATION: A review of all existing data, re-assaying of drill cores, and exploratory reverse...-
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Peaked Hill. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/10/1987 to 15/10/1988.
TARGET: Possible bedrock gold and base metal mineralisation in the Maldorky - Mutooroo region, south-east of Olary. EXPLORATION: Stream sediment (163) and rock chip (7) geochemical sampling. RESULTS: Five areas with low-level gold anomalies were...-
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Published: 16 May 1989
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Olary North. Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/8/1965 to 31/7/1967.
Two separate prospect areas have been explored with reconnaissance and follow-up IP surveys (total 264 line km), ground magnetic surveys (34 line km), minor TX - Afmag and REM surveys (4 line km), and regional and detailed geological mapping (1:12,000...-
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Published: 11 Aug 1967
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SADM/Amdel Project 1/1/140: geochronology of the [State's] eastern basement rocks. Progress reports 1 to 22 for the period 14/9/1971 to August 1979.
More than 275 selected rock chip samples of Precambrian basement or near-basement igneous lithologies were described in detail petrographically and, if they were found to contain suitable minerals, then analysed using radiometric methods, the aim...-
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Trinity mine area. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender/re-issue over a much larger area, for the period 23/11/1976 to 22/8/1977.
Base metal exploration over an area situated south of the Barrier Highway, 25 km south-west of Cockburn, consisted of geological mapping, the searching out and sampling of gossans, ground magnetic surveying, and the drilling of 84 percussion holes...-
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Beryllium survey, Olary district, May - September 1961.
TARGET: Beryllium in granitic and metamorphic rocks between Old Boolcoomata Homestead and Putts Tank. EXPLORATION: Evaluation of known outcropping beryl prospects using a beryllium detector device, and reconnaissance stream sediment sampling of...-
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Footes Well. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 14/2/1991 to 5/10/1993.
Exploration for possible albitite or ironstone-hosted Starra or Trough Tank (Qld) style gold-copper mineralisation in the Footes Well area, 25 km north-west of Manna Hill and 50 km west of Olary, included stream (BLEG), rock and soil geochemical...-
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Kalabity - Old Boolcoomata area [= Olary 'A' Farmin Block]. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 14/1/1971 to 13/1/1972.
As part of exploration for economic metallic mineral deposits within an area of partly outcropping Precambrian calcsilicate rocks present on Kalabity Station, a field reconnaissance of all known mineralised areas was carried out initially. The...-
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Plumbago. Partial surrender report for the Crocker Well and Radium Hill areas, for the period 23/9/1976 to 12/3/1981.
Intensive shallow RAB and percussion pattern drilling of highly sheared and deformed Early Proterozoic granitoid rocks, seeking economic, low grade but large tonnage Rossing style deposits of vein-type uranium ore, particularly in association with a...-
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Published: 12 Mar 1981
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Macdonald Hill. Final report at licence surrender, for the period 16/4/2009 to 14/5/2009.
Exploration for possible economic porphyry - related copper-gold mineralisation within an area located immediately south of MacDonald Hill has comprised reconnaissance geological mapping plus limited regional minus 40 mesh auger soil sampling of...-
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Whey Whey Creek (the Black Elephant Project). Data release to accompany first partial surrender at licence expiry/renewal : annual reports for the period 9/10/2006 to 8/10/2011.
A tenement area located 25 km south-west of Olary was taken up for exploration because in the licensees' opinion it is favourably located on the southern margin of the Curnamona Craton, and covers Willyama Supergroup metasediments and metavolcanics...-
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Sunset Ridge (Manna Hill Feldspar Project). Annual reports to licence surrender, for the period 18/1/2005 to 6/7/2011.
An assessment has been made of the economic potential of several adjacent albite feldspar deposits jointly known as the Manna Hill occurrence, which are associated with pegmatites formed within the eastern Weekeroo Inlier near Weekeroo Hill,...-
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RB 2004/00009 Radium Hill uranium mine and low level radioactive waste repository management plan. Phase 1 - Preliminary investigation, 2004.
This report is Phase 1 of a management plan for the 'Radium Hill Mine Site and Low-Level Radioactive Waste Repository', and is essentially a preliminary investigation to establish a greater understanding of the characteristics of the site. Phase II...-
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Published: 01 Jul 2004
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RB 2006/00017 Geological notes on the Coppertop, Montstephen, southern Morialpa and southeastern Plumbago Inliers
Four areas on the south-western margin of the Palaeo-Mesoproterozoic Willyama Inliers were mapped in detail to elucidate the nature of their lithostratigraphy, structure and mineralisation. These basement inliers are composed of...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2006
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RB 2003/00011 Metamorphic investigation of the Palaeoproterozoic metasediments of the Willyama Inliers, southern Curnamona Province, South Australia.
The deformed metasediments of the South Australian Willyama Inliers (in the southern Curnamona geological province) preserve petrologic evidence of a complex and protracted metamorphic history. To assist with unravelling this history, there currently...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2003
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Radium Hill copper prospect, Olary area, SA. Progress and technical reports for the period 1/12/1965 to 30/11/1967.
Evaluation of the subsurface potential of the abandoned Dalkey mine copper workings at Radium Hill was carried out through surface investigations, IP surveying and percussion and diamond drilling (2162 feet, including 989 feet of wireline coring) of...-
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Mutooroo. Annual reports and final report to licence surrender, for the period 27/7/1992 to 14/7/1999.
Gold and base metal exploration was centred around the old Mutooroo line of copper workings 15 km south-southwest of Cockburn. Work comprised an SP survey and soil, rock chip, float, shallow auger, BLEG and stream sediment sampling, the latter...-
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Weekeroo Hill. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 18/4/1974 to 21/12/1974.
In a search for possible economic epithermal / stratiform / metamorphic base metals and gold within the Weekeroo Inlier, detailed geological mapping, rock chip sampling and an office evaluation of previous exploration were carried out for the Weekeroo...-
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Report on rotary percussion drilling at Crocker Well (April - May 1967), and grade evaluation of East Crocker deposits.
During April - May 1967 Electrolytic Zinc undertook a programme of air hammer drilling of 20 vertical, six-inch diameter holes at the Crocker Well uranium deposit. Ten holes totalling 1869 feet were put down on the mineralised section of grid line...-
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