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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Boolooroo Goldfield and Kate Hill. Joint annual reports for the period 2/1/2009 to 8/2/2019.
Two adjoining licence areas located ~ 40 km north-east of Leigh Creek township, in the ranges lying immediately east of the Telford coal basin, are being explored for possible economic occurrences of marble rock which are believed to hold enormous...-
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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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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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Wooltana. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 19/3/1970 to 18/3/1972.
Renewed base metal exploration over part of the historic Yudnamutana Mining Field has targeted base metal anomalies previously found by Australian Selection in the Blue mine area. An area of about 80 square miles was assessed by reconnaissance stream...-
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The Needles. Progress reports and annual report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 22/6/1973 to 21/6/1975.
Ongoing exploration for economic base and precious metals in the Blue mine area at the eastern end of the Umberatana Syncline has comprised detailed, 1:5000 scale prospect mapping, preparation of a preliminary new tectonic and structural analysis...-
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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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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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RI 035 Geology of The Beltana 1:63,360 Map Area
Includes Palaeontological report on Nilpena limestone. Appendix 3 in: Leeson, B.-
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The Needles. Progress and technical reports for the period 19/1/1976 to 18/7/1977.
Investigation of basal Adelaidean Callanna Beds metasediments in the vicinity of the Blue mine and Wheal Turner, north of The Needles in the northern Flinders Ranges, sought to disclose possible Zambian type stratiform massive copper sulphides...-
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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 69/00006 Exploration of the Mount Coffin Diapir, northern Flinders Ranges (logs not published).
Diapiric marbles and dolomitic siltstone breccia of presumed Willouran age intrude younger Umberatana Group rocks which have been folded into an elongate domal structure and, in part, rest unconformably on the diapiric core. Within the diapir several...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1971
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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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RB 63/00058 Geology of the Beltana 1:63 360 map area.
Rocks belonging to the upper part of the Adelaide System and the overlying Cambrian, outcrop in the eastern part of the Beltana area in the Nuccaleena Dome, and form the basement underlying the more recent sediments to the west. In the central and...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1970
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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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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
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Mount Norwest (part of the Willouran Ranges Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/cancellation, for the period 8/9/2010 to 7/9/2013.
A search primarily directed at assessing the stratiform copper and magnesite potential of an area centred 50 km south-west of Marree has consisted mainly of office studies comprising the collection and review of open file geoscientific data. Early in...-
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Yednalue. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/2/2012 to 12/2/2016.
During licence Year 11 (2012-2013), David Miller rehabilitated his three drillsites that had been used in April 2011, delivered representative drill samples from his six holes to the DMITRE Drill Core Library, and further considered the logistics of...-
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Published: 10 Feb 1916
