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Mount Davidson. Progress, annual and final reports to licence expiry for the period 15/1/1970 to 14/1/1972.
Exploration for possible hydrothermal/stratabound replacement-type base metal deposits in an area located 28 miles north-east of Hawker, adjacent to the northern margin of the Worumba Diapir, has consisted of photogeological mapping of structures...-
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Published: 17 Jan 1972
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Mount Plantagenet. Progress and annual reports to licence expiry for the period 28/1/70 to 29/1/71.
SML 376 covers an old copper mining district located 10-15 miles east of Hawker in the central Flinders Ranges, which contains many small workings of low grade copper mineralisation developed in the core of a diapir-like structure known as the Worumba...-
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Report on SML 165, Breaden Hill area, Willouran Ranges, SA.
As a result of the work outlined in this report it is concluded that the possibility of economic tonnages of copper ore within the area of Special Mining Lease no. 165 are restricted to three localities, Breaden Hill, Boorloo and East Rook. All three...-
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Blinman. Progress, annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 29/1/1970 to 28/1/1972.
After conducting a thorough evaluation and gap analysis of the past exploration carried out on the Blinman Dome and environs, the licence operator decided to carry out regional stream sediment sampling (1000 samples taken over 60 square miles) in the...-
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Report on geological mapping of the Mount McTaggart copper prospect [in] SML 575.
Detailed 1:1200 scale geological mapping on the existing prospect grid, plus geochemical and petrological studies of mineralised and host rock samples, suggest that the mineralisation at Mount McTaggart may be related to pneumatolytic metasomatism....-
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Clare. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 12/3/1970 to 11/3/1971.
In a search for possible economic stratiform / hydrothermal base metal occurrences and stratabound phosphate mineral deposits in the Clare Hills district, an initial reconnaissance visit and literature search was followed by the conduct of a regional...-
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Published: 10 Jun 1971
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Angepena Hill. Progress and annual reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 14/12/1973 to 13/12/1975.
A search for possible additional reserves of secondary copper ore was undertaken by Bridge Minerals on historic mine workings in the Angepena Station area, 25-40 km east of Leigh Creek, to complement that company's recent discovery of significant...-
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Willouran Ranges. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/5/1964 to 30/4/1966.
Exploration of the known copper-bearing Lower Adelaidean metasediments outcropping in the Willouran Ranges to the south-west of Marree addressed the many historical mine prospects and also the region as a whole. Initial work comprised a regional...-
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Published: 18 Feb 1966
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Pitcairn. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 28/5/1970 to 27/5/1971.
In a search for base metals within an area located east of Peterborough, detailed stream sediment sampling (1499 samples) and statistical analysis of the results defined several discrete anomalies of interest that warrant geological inspection and...-
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Paralana. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 16/5/1966 to 15/12/1966.
Regional stream sediment sampling conducted over an area of historically prospective ?Archaean, Proterozoic and Palaeozoic rocks in the Mount Painter - Mount Babbage - Mount Livingstone - Yudnamutana area did not reveal any base or precious metal...-
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Artipena. First progress/final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 21/5/1970 to 20/5/1971.
Reconnaisance and detailed geochemical surveys, plus limited diamond drilling at the Baratta mine (2 holes for 480 feet), failed to find any extensions to known but worked-out near surface Cu-Pb-Zn lodes. It was concluded that only a small area...-
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Uroonda. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 18/6/1970 to 17/12/1971.
During base metal exploration conducted in the hills on the eastern side of the Springfield Basin, just south of Cradock township, minor copper and lead anomalies were disclosed by regional stream sediment sampling (1090 samples assayed). There...-
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Published: 23 Dec 1971
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Report on Beltana concession, SML 113, South Australia.
SML 113 covering about 1000 square km of Upper Proterozoic and Lower Cambrian sediments, and scattered masses of intrusive diapir, was taken out in the vicinity of Beltana to explore for copper deposits analogous to those found by SA Department of...-
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Kangaroo Island. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 15/9/1971 to 14/9/1972.
Exploration for possible Kanmantoo mine style economic copper mineralisation on the Dudley Peninsula at the far eastern end of Kangaroo Island has consisted of a geological survey of coastal cliff exposures of known sulphide-rich bedrock strata, and...-
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Lake Dutton. Progress reports and annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 5/11/1970 to 4/11/1971.
Possible stratiform / hydrothermal syngenetic base metals deposited on the flanks of the Pernatty Culmination in the vicinity of fault lineations were targeted in an ongoing regional drilling programme (in part comprising 7 vertical rotary percussion...-
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Eudunda. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 28/11/1975 to 27/11/1976.
Orientation geochemical sampling, and 1:25,000 scale geological mapping that included long sectional mapping of four railway cutting bedrock exposures in the Eudunda area, revealed pervasive low grade stratiform copper mineralisation in Sturtian...-
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Willouran Ranges. Progress reports to licence expiry for the period 1/6/1966 to 30/11/1966.
In a search for possible economic stratiform copper occurrences in Upper Proterozoic sediments of the Willouran Ranges, the licensee undertook photogeological and field mapping studies plus a regional geochemical survey of outcropping rocks and...-
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Carrieton. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 19/6/1970 to 18/12/1971.
An area of 117 square miles surrounding Carrieton Railway Siding was prospected for possible economic diapir-related base and precious metals hosted within bounding Adelaidean strata. A comprehensive regional stream sediment survey was conducted...-
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Published: 24 Dec 1971
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Booleroo - Wirrabara area. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/cancellation for the period 21/3/1973 to 20/3/1974.
As part of diamond exploration carried out in an area located approximately 8 miles east of Port Pirie, aeromagnetic anomalies noted from reviewing data of a previous survey acquired by Westchester Mining Corp. were investigated in the field. The...-
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Published: 27 Mar 1974
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Arkaroola. Progress, technical and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 1/5/1968 to 30/4/1969.
In a search for the possible buried source primary sulphide orebodies to historically worked secondary copper mineral occurrences in Adelaidean metasediments exposed in the Arkaroola Creek and Barraranna Creek areas, a programme of prospecting,...-
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