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RB 87/00107 Appraisal of gold tailings, Glenloth Goldfield.
Gold ore was treated by 5 head stamp battery between 1904 and 1924, then by 10 head stamp battery between 1935 and 1963 on adjacent sites. Tailings are stored on both sites and an indicated total of 13 620 tonnes containing 15.8 kg of gold at an...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1987
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RB 85/00018 Appraisal of gold tailings at the Tarcoola state battery and cyanide works.
Tarcoola State Battery and Cyanide plant crushed and treated 33 514 tonnes of ore from 1901 to 1955 yielding 1 161 092.8 grams of gold bullion. An indicated 29 250 tonnes containing 2.18 g/t Au, 320 ppm Cu, 2970 ppm Pb, 870 ppm Zn, 250 ppm As and 6.0...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1985
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RB 86/00089 Appraisal of gold tailings, New Milo mine, Wadnaminga Goldfield.
New Milo mine, the largest mine on the Wadnaminga Goldfield, was discovered in 1889 and has produced 10 665 tonnes of ore which yielded 359 401.17 grams of gold bullion. Tailings stockpiled on site are estimated at10 000 tonnes containing 2.08 g/t Au....-
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Published: 01 Nov 1986
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RB 78/00011 Mount Howden mine revisited.
Semi quantitative spectroscopy on samples from the Mount Howden Mine gave anomalous results. The best recording was 35cm of greater than 1% Zn, greater than 1% Pb and 10ppm Ag. An interval (10m thick) of above background copper, silver, lead, Zinc,...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 81/00003 Appraisal of gold tailings - Deloraine Goldfield.
From 1912 - 1939, 44 900 tonnes of auriferous gold ore with grade of 18.6 g/t Au were treated and the tailings stored on site, containing an indicated 35 400 tonnes of 3.62 g/t Au and 0.23% Cu. Cyanidation tests indicate that 101 600 g of gold can be...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1981
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RB 79/00150 Evaluation of gold tailings and slimes, Government Stamp Battery, Peterborough.
Tonnages and gold content of tailings and slimes stockpiled at the Government Stamp Battery at Peterborough were calculated from hand auger drilling and mining return records. The amount of recoverable gold was determined by mineralogical and...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 89/00050 Evaluation of previously cyanided tailings and slimes, Peterborough state battery.
Cyanidation of tailings from ore crushed at the Government Stamp Battery at Peterborough ceased in 1964. Previously cyanided tailings stockpiled between 1897 and 1964 contain 5 020 tonnes averaging 3.2 g/t gold (total gold content 16 162 grams). No...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1989
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RB 93/00026 Pulpara Kia Ora Bendigo bedrock drilling programme, 1992.
During the period September to December 1992, as part of the SA Exploration Initiative (SAEI), SADME completed an investigative drilling programme of concealed bedrock in the area of the Delamerian Bendigo Granite and surrounding metasediments of...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1993
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RB 94/00019 BARTON Bedrock Drilling Project, 1993.
Between June and December 1993, 184 vertical RC stratigraphic drillholes totalling 10,126.2 m (average hole depth 55 m) were drilled by Mines and Energy South Australia at 2 km spacing along roadsides traversing much of the BARTON 1:250k map sheet...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1994
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RB 98/00010 Regolith studies related to the Challenger gold deposit, Gawler Craton, South Australia. Geochemistry and stratigraphy of the Challenger gold deposit - Volume 1: text, and Volume 2: appendices.
The Challenger gold deposit lies in the northern Gawler Craton, South Australia, 750 km NW of Adelaide, and 140 km NW of Tarcoola. A 1.5 km traverse (the regolith line) was chosen for the study of geochemical dispersion and regolith stratigraphy...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1998
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RB 98/00008 Geochemical studies of the regolith at the Mount Gunson copper deposits, Stuart Shelf, South Australia.
The principal objective of the Cooperative Research Centre for Landscape Evolution and Mineral Exploration (CRC LEME) Shields Program and the Primary Industry and Resources of South Australia (PIRSA) Regolith Terranes Group in South Australia is to...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1998
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RB 98/00022 Review of open file company exploration data from the early 1980s to mid-1997, over the Yunta, Winnininnie, Anabama and Oakvale 1:100 000 map sheets, OLARY 1:250 000 map sheet, South Australia.
Significant exploration focussed on: · stratabound 'Telfer-style' gold in Adelaidean metasediments in the Nackara Arc, using stratiform or stratabound structurally-controlled genetic models; and structurally controlled gold and base metal...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1997
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RB 98/00021 Review of open file company exploration data from 1992 to mid-1997, Olary Domain, CURNAMONA 1:250 000 map sheet, South Australia.
This report comprises Open file company data, released since the previous MESA review (Yates and Randell, 1994) of the CURNAMONA 1:250 000 map sheet, includes exploration for base and precious metals (especially stratiform/stratabound Broken...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1997
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RB 98/00026 Partial leach geochemical survey, Monarto South, South Australia.
A partial leach soil geochemical survey has been conducted over shallowly buried Cambrian Kanmantoo Trough metasediments in the Monarto South area. The survey was designed to cover a aeromagnetic high anomaly, that is interpreted to be related to a...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1998
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RB 89/00065 Black Hill Norite Complex.
The Cambro-Ordovician Black Hill Norite inlier protrudes through Tertiary marine sediments of the Murray Basin about 85 km east of Adelaide. Available evidence suggests that the complex may be a layered mafic-ultramafic intrusive suite with potential...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1989
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RB 91/00015 Murray Basin Basement Transect Project. 1990 well completion reports.
During the period March to June 1990, 9 stratigraphic rotary mud/diamond cored holes with a total penetration of 3056 m, including 433.25 m of NQ or HQ cored diamond tails, were drilled by SADME in three cases and by its contractor Rockdril for the...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1991
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RB 93/00004 Tarcoola - Tallaringa bedrock drilling 1991. Summary.
Archaean and Early and Middle Proterozoic rocks of the north-western Gawler Craton have features which suggest good prospectivity for base metals, precious metals and other commodities. However, outcrop is poor and there has been relatively little...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1993
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RB 97/00025 Preliminary report of palaeodrainage in the St Vincent Basin and Mount Lofty Ranges.
Generalised contouring of the Mount Lofty Ranges aimed at reconstructing the Tertiary landsurface topography has identified the locations of a number of possible buried fluvial valleys and channels associated with the St Vincent Basin palaeodrainage,...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1997
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RB 97/00015 Angas Strathburn prospects. Comparison of mobile metal ion versus standard soil geochemistry.
A Mobile Metal Ion (MMI) geochemical survey was conducted over known Pb-Zn-Ag-Au mineralisation within Cambrian Kanmantoo Group metasediments of the Tapanappa Formation at the Angas prospect near Strathalbyn, South Australia. A similar survey was...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1997
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RB 90/00010 Petrology of cuttings from Kakoonie 1 near Black Hill, Sedan district.
Cuttings from Kakoonie 1 on the SW margin of the Black Hill complex indicate alternating intersections of gabbroic lithologies with modified marginal facies and altered contact rocks. Local compositional changes in the gabbros are evident and a...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1989
