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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Eurinilla. Annual reports submitted until the commencement of the Curnamona JV Project (that also includes Benagerie and Kalkaroo), for the period 5/7/2001 to 28/9/2005.
In a continuation of mineral exploration on a small licence centred ~100 km north of Olary, no new work was performed by licensee Alphadale over the three-year period July 2001 to July 2004. A new joint venture partner was sought to carry forward the...-
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RB 2002/00003 Progress report on regolith mapping on the Mingary 1:100 000 map area, South Australia.
Regolith mapping over the Mingary 1:100 000 map area in the northeast of the State is in progress. To date, the Cockburn North, Cockburn South, Mutooroo North, Mutooroo South and Radium Hill South 1:25 000 maps have been completed. A well-developed...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2002
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RB 2002/00027 Mafic rocks of the Mingary 1:100 000 map area - A review.
The Mingary 1:100 000 map area in the north-east of the state covers part of the Curnamona Province. Five suites of basic intrusives have been identified in the area. The most widespread is a series of amphibole-bearing sills which, having an...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2003
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RB 2004/00025 Beryl in South Australia
Gem-quality varieties of beryl occur rarely in South Australia and exist in insufficient quantities to be of current economic interest. Non-gem grade beryl, by contrast, is a widespread accessory mineral in many pegmatites of South Australia, but, at...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2004
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RB 2004/00009 Radium Hill uranium mine and low level radioactive waste repository management plan. Phase 1 - Preliminary investigation, 2004.
This report is Phase 1 of a management plan for the 'Radium Hill Mine Site and Low-Level Radioactive Waste Repository', and is essentially a preliminary investigation to establish a greater understanding of the characteristics of the site. Phase II...-
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Published: 01 Jul 2004
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RB 2002/00015 Geology of the Olary Domain, Curnamona Province, South Australia. Field guidebook to the Broken Hill Exploration Initiative excursion, 2001.
The Proterozoic Curnamona Province extends across central eastern South Australia and into western New South Wales. Whilst most of the Province is obscured by younger sedimentary cover, regions of exposure are present in the northwest as the Mount...-
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RB 2006/00014 Geology of the Olary Domain Curnamona Province South Australia 2006 Field Guide and Excursion Stops
This field guidebook provides brief geological summaries to sites in South Australia that were visited during the 2006 Broken Hill Exploration Initiative pre-conference excursion. Figures show the location of the field area and approximate location of...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2006
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RB 2006/00017 Geological notes on the Coppertop, Montstephen, southern Morialpa and southeastern Plumbago Inliers
Four areas on the south-western margin of the Palaeo-Mesoproterozoic Willyama Inliers were mapped in detail to elucidate the nature of their lithostratigraphy, structure and mineralisation. These basement inliers are composed of...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2006
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RB 2019/00014 Old Boolcoomata region excursion notes, Curnamona Province, 20-22 July 2019
The excursion to the Old Boolcoomata region of the Olary Domain, Curnamona Province, in South Australia presents most of the stratigraphy of the late Palaeoproterozoic Willyama Supergroup and evidence for its complex deformation during the ~1600 Ma...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2019
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RB 2001/00008 Olary-Broken Hill Domain boundary - Mingary 1:100 000 map area.
Current mapping on the Mingary 1:100 000 map area has been investigating the nature of the boundary between the Olary Domain and Broken Hill Domain, both of which are subdivisions of the Curnamona Province. Earlier work had settled on a prominent...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2001
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RB 2005/00012 Prospectivity analysis of Bimbowrie Station, Curnamona Province, South Australia - interim report
In May 2004 the Minister for the Department of Environment and Heritage purchased Bimbowrie Station pastoral lease. The station was purchased because it encompasses part of the Olary Ranges, which is part of the environmentally important Broken Hill...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2005
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RB 2003/00011 Metamorphic investigation of the Palaeoproterozoic metasediments of the Willyama Inliers, southern Curnamona Province, South Australia.
The deformed metasediments of the South Australian Willyama Inliers (in the southern Curnamona geological province) preserve petrologic evidence of a complex and protracted metamorphic history. To assist with unravelling this history, there currently...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2003
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RB 2002/00036 Draft report on the structure and lithostratigraphy of the Ameroo Hill area, Olary Domain, South Australia
Approximately 30 square km of outcrop of Palaeoproterozoic basement rocks in the vicinity of Ameroo Hill were geologically mapped by the author at 1:10,000 scale, with the aim of identifying meso- and macroscopic rock structures and lithologically...-
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Published: 27 Jun 2002
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RB 2014/00003 Geology and mineral resources of Bimbowrie Conservation Park – the MacDonald Corridor and adjacent parts of the Palaeo- to Mesoproterozoic basement.
Former sheep station ‘Bimbowrie’, situated in the Olary Ranges, South Australia, was purchased by the South Australian Government as a conservation park in 2004. It has had a long history of mining, mineral exploration and geoscientific investigation....-
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Published: 01 Jan 2014
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RB 2009/00018 BHEI 2009 - OLARY field excursion to Ameroo Hill, Tommie Wattie [Bore] and the Walparuta Inlier. [September 25-26, 2009].
The Curnamona Province is the southern remnant of the Palaeoproterozoic Pb-Zn belt, and represents but a small fragment of the original superbasin. Geological data supports the idea of the basin being a rift, with sediments in the Broken Hill Domain...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2009
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RB 2009/00010 Curnamona Province exploration review and mineral systems.
Uranium has been the mainstay of mineral exploration and mining in the Curnamona Province of South Australia since the early prospecting activity at Radium Hill in 1906 and Mount Painter in 1910. Larger scale mining and exploration began after the...-
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Published: 01 Jun 2009
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RB 2009/00007 The Mingary 1:100 000 map area.
Geological mapping of the Mingary 1:100 000 map area was completed in 2006 as part of the Broken Hill Exploration Initiative (BHEI). The mapping project began in 1995, and concentrated on the mapping of lithologies using a slightly modified version of...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2009
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Billeroo West and Lake Charles. Data release made in lieu of submitting separate first partial surrender reports for ELs 2013 and 2560 : annual reports for the period 1/9/1994 to 25/10/2000.
Exploration of an area on the eastern flank of the Benagerie Ridge, 100 km north of Mingary, targeted stratiform Pb-Zn-Ag mineralisation associated with metasediments of the Bimba Formation, an interpreted lateral equivalent of the Broken Hill Group....-
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Telechie Dam. First annual report for the period 1/6/1994 to 31/5/1995.
Exploration for Cloncurry or Olympic Dam type Cu-Au-U and for Broken Hill-style Zn-Pb-Ag deposits in the Telechie Dam area, north-west of Olary, comprised a review of previous company work, the acquisition of open file airborne magnetic survey data,...-
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Outalpa. Annual report and final report to licence surrender, for the period 15/3/2007 to 23/12/2008.
In a search for possible economic base metal, copper-gold or uranium deposits hosted by Palaeoproterozoic basement rocks in an area located immediately north-west of Olary, some initial limited rock chip and soil sampling carried out over selected...-
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Published: 01 May 1909
