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RB 77/00051;Env 03054 Porphyry style copper/molybdenum mineralization at Anabama Hill and the Cronje Dam copper prospect.
For a project to determine the base metal potential of known copper-mineralised igneous rocks which outcrop in an area located approximately 59 km south-west of Olary, the South Australian Government has completed detailed mapping, geochemical...-
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Published: 17 May 1977
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RB 78/00147 Geochemical sampling of the Sturt tillite and basal Tapley Hill Formation - ADELAIDE 1:250 000 area.
1389 samples were collected. Pronounced copper zinc anomaly occurs immediately north of Mount Rufus area and lesser copper, lead and zinc anomalies continue along strike to the north. Anomalies occur in Sturt Tillite and Tapley Hill Formation mostly...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 79/00087 Geochemical sampling of the Sturtian tillite and basal Tapley Hill Formation, Copley.
In a sampling programme carried out over the Sturtian Merinjina Tillite and basal Tapley Hill Formation strata on parts of the COPLEY 1:250 000 mapsheet area, 684 soil samples and 71 rock samples were collected at 25 m and 12.5 m intervals along 24...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1981
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RB 94/00044 Soil air carbon dioxide and oxygen as a guide to oxidising sulphide concealed beneath shallow cover. Soil air CO2/O2 project: review report 1.
A joint project between Dr I.G. Watmuff (consultant) and the Department of Mines and Energy, South Australia, to appraise the soil air CO2/O2 technique as a guide to concealed oxidising sulphides, has been completed. Testing was conducted over known...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1994
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RB 98/00017 Callington Bremer mine potential heavy metal contamination site. Preliminary site investigation report.
Recently, residents from the SA township of Callington contacted authorities regarding anomalous levels of copper found in soils at their town properties. Subsequently, the State Environment Protection Agency, the Mount Barker Council and the SA...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1998
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RB 98/00018 Barossa Valley Recharge Project. Drilling - Phase 1 and 2, 1996-1997. Report.
Eight new groundwater wells were drilled near Angaston as part of an investigation into the recharge mechanisms of the Barossa Valleys aquifer systems. It is currently believed that rainfall permeates the hard rock complexes of the hills around...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1998
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RB 95/00030 SAEI Triassic Coal Exploration Program. Exploration Licence Application ELA 228/93, Hawker - Quorn area, South Australia.
The results of a data review by MESA in 1992 to assess the prospectivity of the northern Flinders Ranges for concealed Triassic coal highlighted four main areas as having the best potential for a discovery. Following exploration for coal by MESA/ETSA...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1996
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Carrick Hill. Combined first annual / final report at licence surrender for the period 18/8/2008 to 17/8/2009.
An area located approximately 80 km north-east of Orroroo was assessed for its potential to contain alluvial and hard rock gold deposits. Quartz veins developed within a narrow zone in the Tarcowie Siltstone at the historic Erina prospect have high...-
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Published: 24 Oct 1909
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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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Port Broughton, Redhill and Mount Remarkable - Port Augusta areas (part of the Moonta North Project ELs combined reporting group). Annual reports and joint final report at licences' surrender, for the period 19/4/2002 to 22/5/2006.
Economic deposits of iron-oxide associated copper-gold mineralisation of the Moonta-Wallaroo or Olympic Dam style, hosted in Palaeoproterozoic basement rocks of the Moonta Sub-domain, were targeted by exploration in three now surrendered licences,...-
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Cradock 2 area (part of the Springfield Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 17/12/2007 to 16/12/2009.
As part of a regional search for possible pre - Late Permian diamondiferous kimberlite intrusions in the vicinity of the Springfield Basin, undertaken by farminee Flinders Mines, a subset of 2008 airborne magnetic survey data was interpreted and...-
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Published: 04 Feb 1910
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Three Creeks area (part of the Hawker Project). Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 5/6/2006 to 4/6/2010.
The Three Creeks EL 3567 covers, for the most part, the north-westerly plunging Yednalue Syncline. Lying to the south-east of the Worumba Anticline (a diapiric structure cored by disrupted Callanna Group), the syncline comprises Umberatana Group...-
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Published: 17 Sep 1910
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Kanmantoo. Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial surrender report at licence renewal [part]: progress reports and annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 1/8/1996 to 31/7/1999. [Index Part 3 of 3].
On assuming operatorship of EL 1965 through joint venture by its subsidiary Kelaray Pty Ltd, Pima Mining NL undertook a regional bedrock geochemical sampling programme by auger drilling during January-March 1997 a total of 3326 vertical holes, 0.3 to...-
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Published: 11 Mar 1904
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 4 partnership DPY4-39, Torrens Hinge Zone / Stuart Shelf project area Mississippi Valley type (MVT) mineral prospects. Project final report.
The recent Geoscience Australia - run regional seismic traverse across the Stuart Shelf has revealed the architecture of the buried Neoproterozoic sediments there, and also that of the structures created during the Delamerian inversion. Dewatering of...-
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Published: 29 Oct 1907
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Southern Hummocks Range (part of Lochiel Project). Final report at licence surrender for the period 27/8/2007 to 7/3/2008.
Investigation of an anecdotal historic ?alluvial gold occurrence located adjacent to the Lochiel - Ninnes Road has consisted of a field reconnaissance and some surface geochemical sampling (31 soil, 2 weathered metasedimentary bedrock) along a 20 m...-
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Port Augusta. Annual report to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 3/9/2004 to 2/9/2005.
An area located immediately north of Port Augusta was taken up to explore for possible economic gold, base metals and diamonds. However, continuing uncertainties concerning who were the correct holders of Native Title rights and a consequent lack of...-
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Marree. Annual report to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 16/9/2005 to 15/9/2006.
During a search for possible economic shallow alluvial or bedrock-hosted gold in the district surrounding Marree, two grab samples taken at sites located respectively south-west and east of the township found traces of gold, including 15.4 ppm Au in a...-
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Depot Creek [part of Tasman Resources' Lake Torrens Project amalgamated expenditure / joint EL reporting agreement with PIRSA]. Final report at licence surrender for the period 24/9/99 to 23/9/2004.
Exploration for possible sediment-hosted base metals and for Olympic Dam style deposits, in an area bordering the eastern side of Lake Torrens and located approximately 48 km west of Leigh Creek, has consisted only of geophysical data reprocessing and...-
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Published: 18 Mar 1905
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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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Kanmantoo. Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial surrender report at licence renewal [part] : progress reports for the period 28/4/1989 to 27/4/1992. [Index Part 1 of 3].
Exploration for gold in the eastern Adelaide Hills, in an area of Cambrian Kanmantoo Group sediments stretching from Kanmantoo in the south to Mount Rhine in the north, was undertaken initially by licence farminee East West Minerals utilising regional...-
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Published: 02 Oct 1992