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Macdonald Hill, Mingary and Bulloo Creek (Drew Hill Project). First partial surrender/ second partial relinquishment reports at project licences' expiry/renewal, for the period 30/9/2003 to 29/9/2008.
Work carried out on the now relinquished licence portions has comprised the acquisition, processing and interpretation of Aster satellite imagery (SWIR, VNIR and Landsat TM247 images) by contractor Geoimage in November 2004, followed by a consultant's...-
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Published: 13 May 1909
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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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Mulyungarie. Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/12/2004 to 23/3/2012.
An area of shallowly covered Curnamona Province metalliferous basement rocks abutting the South Australia / New South Wales border, approximately 80 km north-east of Olary, was believed to be prospective for stratiform lead-zinc-silver and stratabound...-
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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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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Drew Hill. Progress reports and annual report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 3/8/1984 to 3/10/1994. [ Index Part 2 of 2 ].
During February-March 1990 Aberfoyle conducted detailed, 1:10,000 scale geological mapping and rock chip geochemical sampling at previous Esso base metal prospects, Bulloo Well, Putts Well and Shorts Dam, identifying several strongly zinc, lead and...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mutooroo. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 16/1/1997 to 2/4/2007. [ Index Part 1 of 2 ].
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 Hill basement domain in an area centred...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Drew Hill. Progress reports and annual report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 3/8/1984 to 3/10/1994. [ Index Part 1 of 2 ].
An area centred approximately 20 km north of Olary was taken up by Aberfoyle Resources to explore for possible economic size (>10 Mt), structure-related hydrothermal/stratiform lead-zinc and/or gold deposits which might have formed within...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Kalkaroo (formerly part of the Curnamona Cu-Au Project). Annual reports for the period 25/10/2007 to 17/1/2019.
During the first ten months of the subject reporting period, Havilah continued to carry out exploratory drilling on its Kalkaroo exploration licence and on the embedded two new mining claims, MCs 3826 and 3827, to support the preparation of its mining...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Curnamona JV Project area (including Benagerie and Kalkaroo). Combined annual reports for the period 10/5/2003 to 31/12/2007.
Ongoing exploration carried out by project operator Havilah Resources under its newly ratified, twelve exploration licence Curnamona Project Amalgamated Expenditure Agreement, for the period 15/10/2003 to 31/12/2004, consisted mainly of drilling done...-
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Kalabity. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/11/2000 to 28/3/2014.
An area situated ~100 km west of Broken Hill has been explored for buried base and precious metals epigenetic mineralisation that might have formed within Palaeoproterozoic meta-igneous and metasedimentary basement rocks of the north-eastern Olary...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bulloo Creek [ not Bulloo South ] (part of the Drew Hill Joint Venture Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 17/6/1994 to 28/9/2005.
Exploration for Kalkaroo or Portia style copper-gold deposits, and for Broken Hill type stratiform lead-zinc-silver deposits, both possibly formed within the Palaeoproterozoic basement intrusive rocks and high grade metasediments in an area lying...-
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RB 2002/00015 Geology of the Olary Domain, Curnamona Province, South Australia. Field guidebook to the Broken Hill Exploration Initiative excursion, 2001.
The Proterozoic Curnamona Province extends across central eastern South Australia and into western New South Wales. Whilst most of the Province is obscured by younger sedimentary cover, regions of exposure are present in the northwest as the Mount...-
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RB 2006/00014 Geology of the Olary Domain Curnamona Province South Australia 2006 Field Guide and Excursion Stops
This field guidebook provides brief geological summaries to sites in South Australia that were visited during the 2006 Broken Hill Exploration Initiative pre-conference excursion. Figures show the location of the field area and approximate location of...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2006
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RB 2019/00014 Old Boolcoomata region excursion notes, Curnamona Province, 20-22 July 2019
The excursion to the Old Boolcoomata region of the Olary Domain, Curnamona Province, in South Australia presents most of the stratigraphy of the late Palaeoproterozoic Willyama Supergroup and evidence for its complex deformation during the ~1600 Ma...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2019
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RB 2001/00008 Olary-Broken Hill Domain boundary - Mingary 1:100 000 map area.
Current mapping on the Mingary 1:100 000 map area has been investigating the nature of the boundary between the Olary Domain and Broken Hill Domain, both of which are subdivisions of the Curnamona Province. Earlier work had settled on a prominent...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2001
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RB 2004/00008 Geology of the Olary Domain
The aim of this report is to provide a summary of the present status of the geology of the Olary Domain, Curnamona Province. It gives a comprehensive, referenced description of all known interpretations of Willyama Supergroup basement stratigraphy,...-
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Published: 01 Feb 2004
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RB 2002/00036 Draft report on the structure and lithostratigraphy of the Ameroo Hill area, Olary Domain, South Australia
Approximately 30 square km of outcrop of Palaeoproterozoic basement rocks in the vicinity of Ameroo Hill were geologically mapped by the author at 1:10,000 scale, with the aim of identifying meso- and macroscopic rock structures and lithologically...-
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Published: 27 Jun 2002
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RB 2009/00018 BHEI 2009 - OLARY field excursion to Ameroo Hill, Tommie Wattie [Bore] and the Walparuta Inlier. [September 25-26, 2009].
The Curnamona Province is the southern remnant of the Palaeoproterozoic Pb-Zn belt, and represents but a small fragment of the original superbasin. Geological data supports the idea of the basin being a rift, with sediments in the Broken Hill Domain...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2009
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RB 2009/00010 Curnamona Province exploration review and mineral systems.
Uranium has been the mainstay of mineral exploration and mining in the Curnamona Province of South Australia since the early prospecting activity at Radium Hill in 1906 and Mount Painter in 1910. Larger scale mining and exploration began after the...-
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Published: 01 Jun 2009
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Cutana. Second partial surrender report for the period 28/10/1986 to 26/8/2000.
A partial relinquishment of EL 2635 has entailed the release of all data from the Luxembourg mine - Dey Hill area, located approximately 25 km south of Cutana, where magnetic, gravity and IP anomalies and possible strike extensions to known base metal...-
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