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Warraweena. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/6/1973 to 21/9/1974.
Geological mapping, further surface geochemical sampling, test IP surveys and limited shallow diamond drilling (2 holes, total 201.3 m, including 147 m of NQ/BQ wireline coring) were done over a previously identified stream sediment zinc anomaly at...-
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RB 79/00058 Reaphook Hill scholzite deposit. MLs 4114, 4368 - C.W. Johnston.
The rare zinc phosphate mineral, scholzite, has been found in gossans developed on Early Cambrian Parachilna Formation siltstone and sandstone near Reaphook Hill in the Flinders Ranges. Other rare phosphate minerals, including tarbuttite,...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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Boolooroo Goldfield. Annual reports to licence expiry for the period 24/11/1995 to 14/3/2006.
Protracted exploration undertaken by an individual mineral prospector over a small area of rugged topography located in the north-central Flinders Ranges, approximately 25 km north-east of Leigh Creek, has addressed a number of potentially economic...-
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Published: 14 Mar 1906
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Wilkawillina (part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Annual reports submitted until the commencement of joint reporting for all six Project licences, for the period 5/8/1999 to 3/8/2002.
A large area centred on the Wilkawillina Gorge of Ten Mile Creek, in the central Flinders Ranges near Oraparinna, is being explored for possible buried economic zinc silicate (willemite) epigenetic or replacement mineralisation of Beltana type, as...-
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Mount Plantagenet. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 11/2/1971 to 10/2/1973.
Ongoing exploration for economic epigenetic and syngenetic copper occurrences in the vicinity of the Worumba Diapir, east of Hawker, has concentrated on field mapping, soil and channel sampling and shallow percussion drilling (47 holes for 3755+ feet)...-
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Published: 23 May 1972
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Reaphook Hill and Mount Frome (part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Respective early annual reports, for the period 17/1/2000 to 16/1/2002.
Two adjoining licence areas located ~50-70 km to the east and south-east of Blinman are being explored for possible economic buried willemite (zinc silicate), scholzite (zinc phosphate) and other base metal mineralisation associated with particular...-
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Reaphook Hill and Mount Frome (a tenement group having amalgamated expenditure commitments, which is part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Joint annual reports for the period 4/8/2001 to 1/7/2015.
During the third year of exploration nominally ending on 1/7/2002 [and subsequent to the starting date of 5/3/2002 for the application of provisions of the Flinders Ranges Project's multi-tenement Amalgamation of Expenditure Agreement (AEA), whence...-
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Published: 07 Aug 1915
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Mount Deception (part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 14/10/1999 to 27/4/2017.
The surrendered two remnant portions EL 5725 Mount Deception formerly were part of a much larger multi-tenement package which is currently still being explored by Perilya, primarily looking for economic stratabound zinc silicate mineralisation similar...-
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Published: 21 Jun 1917
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Wilkawillina [Gorge] (part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Fourth partial surrender report, for the period 5/8/1999 to 27/4/2017.
The subject now relinquished portion of EL 5723 forms part of a much larger multi-tenement package currently being explored by Perilya, primarily looking for zinc silicate mineralisation similar to that occurring at the Beltana deposit. Overall, the...-
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Published: 22 Jun 1917
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Wirrealpa. Progress, partial surrender and final reports to licence surrender for the period 13/11/1978 to 26/2/1988.
Economic deposits of Mississippi Valley type stratabound lead-zinc mineralisation within in Cambrian limestones were the targets of exploration undertaken on and near the Wirrealpa Diapir. A preliminary field reconnaissance had shown that surface...-
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Beltana mine area. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 27/9/1982 to 8/12/1987.
Renewed exploration by E-Z of the area surrounding the Beltana zinc mine has investigated the possibility for finding deep, unweathered Cambrian or Proterozoic carbonate-hosted zinc-lead sulphide mineralisation. It was considered that this target had...-
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Mount Aleck - Arkaba Station areas. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 22/9/1980 to 18/9/1986.
Possible Cambrian carbonate-hosted Mississippi Valley style Pb-Zn deposits were the targets of exploration in the Chace and Druid Ranges, located north of Hawker, and also nearby at Mount Aleck. Following geological reconnaissance mapping at 1:20,000...-
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Reaphook Hill. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/9/1980 to 18/11/1987.
Economic stratabound Mississippi Valley-type zinc-lead-silver deposits in Early Cambrian carbonate rocks were the targets of exploration carried out north and west of Reaphook Hill in the central Flinders Ranges. Regional geological mapping (at...-
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Wirrealpa. Progress and technical reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 13/9/1988 to 12/9/1989.
Possible economic stratabound or epigenetic lead-zinc or copper deposits, formed in altered carbonate rocks lying marginal to the Wirrealpa Diapir, were the targets of new exploration centred on the area of the old Wirrealpa lead-silver mine....-
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Published: 06 Nov 1989
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Mount Frome. Progress and final reports to licence surrender, for the period 25/10/1979 to 25/2/1988.
As part of a regional project of exploration for Mississippi Valley type (MVT) lead-zinc mineralisation emplaced in tectonically and structurally 'prepared ground' within Lower Cambrian limestones, Dampier/BHP investigated rocks of this age which...-
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Mount Chambers. Progress and technical reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 13/9/1988 to 12/9/1989.
TARGET: Downdip extensions of known Cambrian stratabound mineralisation occurring at the Eric lead-zinc prospect, principally along a mineralised, disconformable interpreted syn-depositional palaeosurface developed within the Wilkawillina Limestone....-
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Published: 14 Nov 1989
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Erudina. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 5/8/91 to March 1992.
TARGET: Microscopically fine-grained, Carlin - type gold within Early Cambrian carbonate rocks in the Reaphook Hill area, which could be mined by open pit methods. EXPLORATION: Geological reconnaissance, a review of previous drilling, stream sediment...-
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Commodore. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 22/9/1980 to 21/10/1986.
Multicommodity exploration undertaken in the Commodore - Parachilna area of the west-central Flinders Ranges, just outside of the western boundary of the newly proclaimed national park and the included Heysen Range, has comprised limited gravel...-
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Mount Aleck. Partial surrender report for the period 19/11/1982 to 18/11/1983.
Exploration for Mississippi Valley - type stratabound base metal deposits in the relinquished area covering the eastern flank of the Mernmerna Syncline, 10 km south-west of Wilpena Pound, has proved to be unsuccessful. At the Vanessa prospect, 28...-
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Source rock maturity study and petroleum geochemistry of the Arrowie Basin.
This section of the study was based on source rock analyses performed on 75 outcrop and shallow drill core samples from 25 localities, plus other new data derived from Cambrian sediments intersected in the deep petroleum exploration wells Moorowie 1,...-
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Published: 13 Jan 1986
