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Woodchester. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/5/1977 to 2/5/1978.
As part of a regional search for possible economic Mount Torrens - type stratiform base metal occurrences within the Kanmantoo Trough, the soil surrounding all outcropping pyritic Cambrian metasediment units within the licence area was geochemically...-
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Published: 17 Mar 1978
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Eurelia - Carrieton area. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 27/5/1974 to 26/5/1976.
Continuing exploration for economic stratiform copper occurrences in the Carrieton area has involved considerable further drilling (69 rotary drag bit holes for a total of 2864 m, 19 percussion / precollar cased holes for a total of 2381 m, and 6...-
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RB 00831 Bookartoo ochre deposit, secn 85 Hd Parachilna.
The Bookartoo ochre mine, which lies 19 km south-east of Parachilna on the western face of the Heysen Range, for centuries has been a traditional and important source of quality ceremonial decorative pigment for the aborigines of central and eastern...-
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RB 05/00281 Report on the Spring Creek mine (in the Hundred of Gregory).
Expert inspection, by a government geologist, of the recently drained lower workings within the Spring Creek copper mine, below the entry adit level, has confirmed a previously expressed Chief Inspector of Mines' opinion that the wide working face...-
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Published: 11 Sep 1917
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RB 71/00129 Investigation of the Bendigo copper and molybdenum prospect. Report no. 1.
Oxidized copper minerals and molybdenite occur in quartz veins cutting sericitized granodiorite 2 miles (3km) east of Bendigo Homestead. Coincident copper soil and I.P. anomalies were tested by drilling. A zone of probable secondary copper,...-
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Published: 17 Aug 1971
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The Springfield Project [Part]. Data release at licences' partial relinquishment / full surrender: base metal exploration farminee's joint annual reports for the period 27/10/2006 to 31/12/2009.
Copper Range is exploring a number of the Springfield Project mineral tenements for base and precious metals under the terms of a joint venture agreement that it made with licensee Flinders Diamonds on 19/3/2007, whereby the latter retains all rights...-
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Published: 20 Aug 1910
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RB 25/00011 Report on diamond drilling marble deposits at Penrice near Angaston.
To support the production of soda ash at its Osborne plant in Adelaide, South Australia, ICI Australia has been obtaining crushed marble from the Barossa Valley region as process raw material. Since June 1945, the South Australian Department of Mines...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1949
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RB 26/00118 Gibraltar pyrite deposit near Nairne, SA.
Ideal location - 26 miles from Adelaide - good climate. 3½ miles from Nairne on Adelaide-Melbourne railway line. Electric supply to Nairne-Power requirements could probably be obtained from supply company. Small flow permanent water beside deposit,...-
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Published: 15 Nov 1949
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SADME/Amdel mineral research project OD 1/1/249: Warrakimbo micaceous iron oxide deposit - ore beneficiation testing and product assessment. Progress reports on work completed during the period May 1980 to March 1987.
In May 1980 Amdel was asked to carry out preliminary investigations to determine the beneficiation potential of the various minerals present in a sample of Warrakimbo micaceous iron oxide. In the first stage of the work a mineralogical examination and...-
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Mount Lyndhurst area. Progress reports.
Drilled 12 holes aggregating 2240 feet.-
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South of Burra area. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 1/6/1964 to 25/2/1966.
Exploration reconnaissance work has been carried out over many old copper mines and prospects situated within a 172 square mile area located south of the town of Burra [the impetus being that recently the South Australian Department of Mines had...-
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Published: 25 Feb 1966
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Oulnina Park. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 5/1/1990 to 14/6/1993.
Auriferous quartz/haematite/manganese oxide veins within fine-grained Upper Proterozoic metasedimentary rocks in the Benda Range area, 15 km south-southeast of Mannahill, were investigated by regional surface rock chip geochemical sampling, costeaning...-
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SADME/Amdel mineral research project : Leigh Creek Coalfield - coal petrology investigations. Progress reports for the period April 1979 to June 1980.
Coal samples collected by the SADME Fossil Fuels Div. from the Leigh Creek Coalfield during its recent drilling programme have been examined and analysed according to preset parameters to allow comparison of average coal quality between this field and...-
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Published: 04 Jul 1980
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Baratta. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 1/7/1971 to 30/6/1972.
High base metal values, particularly for zinc, that resulted from the sampling of pits and costeans at Eukaby Hill, led North to a close examination of the unremarkable calcareous siltstone host rock to find the cause of suspected syngenetic...-
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Eurelia - Carrieton area. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 1/11/1976 to 31/10/1977.
Exploration near Carrieton for possible economic stratiform copper deposits hosted by metasediments at the base of the Adelaidean System, as the culmination to a 9-year long programme carried over from Utah's former EL 137 and six prior tenements...-
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Waukaringa. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 27/11/1970 to 26/5/1971.
Ground magnetic traverses carried out over prospective gold and base metal-bearing stratigraphic horizons in the vicinity of the abandoned Waukaringa Goldfield yielded several magnetic anomalies thought to correspond to massive pyritic ore in buried...-
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Mount Rose. Progress reports to licence expiry for the period 1/10/1968 to 30/9/1970; Mount Serle. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 10/2/1969 to 9/2/1971.
Base metal exploration carried out in the vicinity of historic copper workings in the Mount Rose area, situated approximately 30 miles east-northeast of Copley, has consisted of detailed 1:1500 scale geological mapping, soil and rock chip sampling,...-
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Truro prospect. Consultant's final report on mineral potential evaluation, for the period October 1970 to May 1971.
An area covering 24 square km of private land situated approximately 10 km east of Truro township was taken up by Asarco under a number of privately negotiated option agreements to acquire the relevant mineral rights, should an economic base/precious...-
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Blinman, Worumba and Oraparinna [Diapirs] copper prospects. Progress and technical reports to licence full surrender, for the period 1/8/1965 to March 1967.
Four diapiric structures located in the central Flinders Ranges near Blinman were explored for characteristic indications of large, disseminated porphyry-type copper deposits located within or closely associated with diapiric breccia. Reconnaisance...-
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Published: 23 Mar 1967
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Final exploration report, Kapunda area, South Australia, for the period 24/7/1964 to 12/11/1968 [plus supporting data transferred from other sources].
During a period of almost 52 months, Mines Exploration, the operator of the presently active Kanmantoo copper mine, has also been conducting near-mine exploration at the historic Kapunda copper mine prospect, searching for economic extensions to known...-
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Published: 20 Jan 1969
