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Strathalbyn [not Hartley] (part of the Fleurieu Project). Second partial surrender report, for the period 4/6/2007 to 3/6/2014.
Two portions of an area extending east and south-east of Strathalbyn, together totalling 50 square km or ~40% of the former area of EL 5078, have been relinquished to satisfy the terms of the Fleurieu Project Amalgamated Expenditure Agreement signed...-
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RB 33/00072 Callawonga Creek wolfram prospect.
The Queen Mary Wolfram Mine at Callawonga Creek which was discovered in 1911, worked till 1918 and reopened in 1952 is the only one three local workings to produce worthwhile wolfram ore. The mine is located intersecting pneumatolytic quartz veins...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1954
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Parndana. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 6/4/1981 to 5/4/1982.
In a search for base metals on northern Kangaroo Island, the licensee investigated an untested regional magnetic anomaly in the Middle River area, following the assumption that Kanmantoo type stratiform mineralisation would give a distinctive magnetic...-
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RB 2000/00019 Dawesley Bremer Catchment, phase 2 sampling program for potential environmental contaminants.
A previous regional soil and stream sediment sampling program (cf. RB 2000/00002) has delineated areas of heavy metal contamination in the Dawesley-Bremer Catchment. Heavy metal contamination was found to occur sporadically along both Dawesley Creek...-
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Published: 01 May 2000
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RB 2013/00016 A user's guide to migmatites.
Migmatites are complex, high-grade crystalline rocks that have formed by partial melting. They have been recognised within the crustal rock record across most of geological time, are seen to be developed in various tectonic settings, and can affect a...-
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Published: 01 Nov 2013
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RB 2000/00002 Soil and stream sediment sampling of the Dawesley-Bremer Catchment for potential environmental contaminants.
A program of soil and stream sediment sampling was conducted along the Dawesley - Bremer Catchment to determine the extent and magnitude of potential heavy metal contamination downstream from the Brukunga Pyrite Mine. Arsenic, cadmium, copper and zinc...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2000
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Mount Rough. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/12/1994 to 10/6/1998.
Ground magnetic survey and gravity survey traverses were conducted south-southwest of Tintinara over aeromagnetic features considered to be prospective for base and precious metals. 13 rotary mud/diamond drillholes (respective total penetration 1048...-
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Published: 24 Aug 1998
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Callington district and Bremer mine area. Various Mineral Claim group exploration progress reports for the period 3/1/1970 to 30/9/1972.
TARGET: Possible syngenetic copper sulphide orebody extensions in Early Cambrian metasediments beneath the Wheal Friendship - Wheal Maria and Bremer mine areas of the Callington district. EXPLORATION: Gridding plus detailed geological mapping and rock...-
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Peep Hill. Combined first annual/final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 11/10/1996 to 10/10/1997.
Geological mapping plus regional rock chip geochemical sampling and soil C-horizon geochemical sampling conducted in the Australia Plains area, 12 km north-east of Eudunda, have identified a base metals anomalous zone at the base of the Karinya Shale.-
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Swan Reach and Morgan. Joint first partial surrender report, for the period 22/11/1996 to 21/11/1997.
Possible gold, base metals and platinum group element targets lying within, or spatially associated with, Delamerian ultramafic intrusive rocks occurring over an area of the Kanmantoo Trough between Mannum and Morgan, were sought for by conducting...-
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Cambrian mineral resources come of age - the Kanmantoo revival.
The Kanmantoo Trough is an arcuate zone of metamorphosed and deformed Cambrian rocks of the Stansbury Basin that crop out along the eastern Mount Lofty Ranges, through Fleurieu Peninsula, and extend to Kangaroo Island in the south. Related Cambrian...-
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Tunkalilla Beach. Annual report and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/10/2000 to 18/10/2002.
Possible Cambrian sedex style base metal mineralisation within sulphide-rich units of the Talisker Calc-siltstone and Tapanappa Formation of the Kanmantoo Group was the conceptual target of exploration in the Tunkalilla Beach area of the southern...-
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Strathalbyn. Progress and annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 28/5/1970 to 27/5/1971.
Exploration of the Strathalbyn - Macclesfield area was attempted by Bridge Minerals because it appeared to contain lithologic units, structures and alteration styles similar to those controlling Broken Hill South's recently defined Kanmantoo deposit...-
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Published: 21 May 1971
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Murray Basin Project. Joint annual reports, plus individual licence final reports at their respective full surrender, for the period 19/12/1997 to 30/6/2018.
Previous investigations of the Late Tertiary Murray Basin shallow marine littoral zone clastic sedimentary sequence (Loxton and Parilla sands) for heavy mineral sand (HM) placer accumulations have discovered numerous occurrences of economic to...-
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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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Yankalilla. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 23/6/1975 to 9/5/1977.
Possible economic Mississippi Valley or Irish Midlands type, stratabound hydrothermal Pb-Zn mineralisation was the target of a regional appraisal of Lower Cambrian carbonate rocks on the western Fleurieu Peninsula. Initially, the licensee performed a...-
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Mount Crawford clay deposits. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 1/3/1968 to 28/2/1970.
As part of the evaluation of a known occurrence of possibly pegmatite-related, kaolinised Cambrian talcose sandstone in the Mount Crawford area, located about 35 miles north-east of Adelaide, 74 scout auger drillholes were sunk, 25 separated clay...-
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Published: 15 Jan 1969
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Kanmantoo. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/partial surrender, for the period 19/12/1975 to 18/12/1977.
Detailed 1:5000 scale geological mapping, soil and weathered bedrock auger drill chip geochemical sampling, and intensive grid-based geophysical surveys, were undertaken in the Kanmantoo - Dawesley - Bremer Fault scarp and Aclare mine - Scott Creek...-
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Published: 12 Jan 1978
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Kongolia. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/8/1975 to 17/8/1977.
Exploration carried out by North Broken Hill under fairly thick Cainozoic cover in the Sedan - Cambrai district initially sought possible economic deposits of epithermal base metals associated with known basic and ultrabasic rocks of the Black Hill...-
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Exploration report on the geology of the Kitticoola Cu-Au mine, near Palmer, SA.
Detailed underground geological mapping and mine surveying of accessible openings, plus limited surface mapping and ground EM traverses, were lately carried out at the Kitticoola mine. From the results of this work it was concluded that to attempt a...-
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Published: 15 Feb 1972