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Mirra Bore. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 17/5/1988 to 16/11/1989.
Exploration for gold and base metals in the Willouran Ranges, conducted over an area located approximately 26 km south-west of Marree, was aimed at evaluating known quartz-limonite vein stockwork - type gold mineralisation on four prospects, plus...-
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Published: 30 Oct 1989
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Port Pirie district (part of the G2 [Lineament] Project). Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 29/3/1996 to 28/3/2000.
An airborne magnetic/radiometric survey to infill recent SAEI regional survey coverage was carried out within the G2 structural corridor, south-east of Port Pirie. Six bullseye magnetic highs, consistent with kimberlite emplacement, and one having...-
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Published: 20 Mar 1997
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Prince Alfred mine. Second partial surrender report, for the period 9/4/1998 to 8/10/1999.
Areas near the Prince Alfred mine, located approximately 70 km north of Orroroo, were relinquished on the basis of them having either a non-prospective mineral association or too low values of trace metal geochemistry. Anomalous copper and traces of...-
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Published: 15 Nov 1999
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Montacute. Annual report to licence surrender for the period 21/2/2003 to 2/8/2004.
In a search for possible economic base and precious metal mineralisation associated with historic mines located on shear zones in Adelaidean strata, exploration comprising rock chip, soil and stream sediment sampling in the Montacute - Forest Range...-
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Radium Hill copper prospect, Olary area, SA. Progress and technical reports for the period 1/12/1965 to 30/11/1967.
Evaluation of the subsurface potential of the abandoned Dalkey mine copper workings at Radium Hill was carried out through surface investigations, IP surveying and percussion and diamond drilling (2162 feet, including 989 feet of wireline coring) of...-
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Willouran Hill. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 24/8/1998 to 23/8/2000.
A review of previous exploration indicated prospectivity for secondary Cu mineralisation near old workings in the Willouran Hill area, approximately 20 km south-west of Marree. A more systematic evaluation of anomalous Au was also considered to be...-
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Mount Denison (part of the BHP Billiton - Rio Tinto - Phelps Dodge' Peake and Denison Joint Venture Project). First partial surrender report, for the period 12/7/1993 to 16/9/2003.
Exploration carried out over the northern Peake and Denison Ranges since 1993 has targeted possible large-scale Proterozoic iron oxide associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposits considered to have formed in stratigraphic/structural settings similar to...-
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Mount Lyndhurst (part of Perilya's Flinders Ranges Project). Annual and final reports to licence surrender for the period 13/12/1999 to 7/7/2004.
Numerous base metal occurrences and historic mines occur in the Mt Lyndhurst area, hosted mainly in Neoproterozoic rocks of the Adelaide Geosyncline. Investigations at several prospects have included detailed mapping plus soil and rock chip sampling....-
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Mount Bryan. First partial surrender report, for the period 25/10/1996 to 24/10/1998.
No targets were developed from interpretation of existing aeromagnetic data over an area centred around the township of Burra. 73.15% of the original area of the subject licence has now been relinquished.-
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Published: 17 Dec 1998
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Paratoo. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 4/11/1996 to 3/5/1998.
1:40,000 scale geological mapping and soil geochemical sampling performed in the vicinity of the Paratoo copper mine, 300 km north-east of Adelaide, demonstrated both structural and lithological controls to known mineralisation. Stored historic...-
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Carrieton. Relinquishment report for the period 18/12/95 to 23/2/96.
Data review only - no new work.-
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Published: 30 Jan 1996
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Crystal Brook area (part of G2 [Lineament] Project). Annual and final reports for the period 29/3/1996 to 28/3/2000.
An aeromagnetic / radiometric survey was carried out within the G2 structural corridor, south-east of Port Pirie, as part of a search for possible Moonta, Olympic Dam or Ernest Henry type gold - copper mineralisation, and for any diamond-bearing...-
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SADM/Amdel Project MP 1/31/10 : Mineralogical investigation [following earlier economic assessment and roasting tests] of the Ukaparinga mine copper ore. Progress reports for the period October 1966 to February 1972.
24 diamond drill core samples of primary copper ore from the Ukaparinga mine, which is located about 4 km south of Williamstown, plus 3 hand specimen samples of oxidised ore taken from a near surface adit of this mine, have been investigated by...-
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Mafeking (part of the Mount Grainger JV Project). Second partial relinquishment report for the period 16/6/99 to 22/7/2004.
Exploration over part of the Nackara Arc region, within two now relinquished licence sub-areas located respectively 15 km north of Oodla Wirra and 10-20 km south and south-east of Paratoo, has sought economic Telfer-type stratabound gold deposits...-
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Puttapa. Progress reports for the period 11/1/1969 to 15/7/1970.
Ongoing base metal exploration to look for further analogues to the Beltana willemite discovery, carried out over an area located east of the Puttapa Rail Siding, has consisted of semi-detailed 1:4800 scale geological mapping and geochemical stream...-
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River Wakefield - Blyth area. First and final report at licence surrender for the period 10/8/1977 to 9/3/1978.
In a search for possible economic, near-surface Zambian Copperbelt - style syngenetic, stratiform base metal deposits, geochemical samples were taken at 2 m intervals from 39 shallow auger boreholes drilled to an average depth of 14 m into Lower...-
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Wheal Motley area. Progress reports to licence surrender for the period 16/7/1970 to 26/3/1971.
Exploration for possible economic stratabound/hydrothermal copper and other base metal deposits in an area located on the northern margin of the Murray Basin, south-west of Yunta, failed to find evidence of diapiric breccia and did not reveal any...-
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Published: 20 Jan 1971
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Mount Lyndhurst (Flinders Ranges Project). Evaluation of the Lorna Doone and Lynda mine copper prospects and surrounding areas. Progress reports for the period 4/1/1973 to 3/1/1975.
In August 1972 Cultus Pacific commenced exploring a number of historic copper prospects near Lyndhurst in the northern Flinders Ranges, with a view to assessing their feasibility for open-cut mining. The programme of work completed so far has...-
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Published: 04 Mar 1974
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Weekeroo Hill. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 18/4/1974 to 21/12/1974.
In a search for possible economic epithermal / stratiform / metamorphic base metals and gold within the Weekeroo Inlier, detailed geological mapping, rock chip sampling and an office evaluation of previous exploration were carried out for the Weekeroo...-
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Umberatana area. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/3/1972 to 18/3/1973.
Geochemical and geophysical surveys of the Blue mine - Wheal Turner area, plus semi-detailed geological and structural mapping in the Wild Dog Creek area, identified the Wortupa Quartzite and surrounding strata as the main hosts of low grade secondary...-
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