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Wallaroo and Moonta mines and smelters, Yorke's [sic] Peninsula, South Australia. History, nature and methods.
A detailed account of the large scale copper mining and processing operations occurring in the 'Copper Triangle' region of South Australia in the few years following the end of the First World War. The included metrics and pictorial coverage of many...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1921
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Mount Plantagenet. Progress reports, annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 8/1/1982 to 7/1/1986.
Detailed base and precious metals exploration undertaken by Utah Development Company in the area of the Worumba Anticline has targeted possible stratiform Zambian Copperbelt - type deposits. Exploratory work has included 72 geochemical vertical...-
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Mount Allalone. Progress and annual reports for the period 14/6/89 to 31/7/95.
Base metal exploration of two lead-zinc mineralized areas previously discovered by Billiton and WMC within Hutchison Group metasediments near Mt Allalone, northwest of Buckleboo on central Eyre Peninsula, comprised ground magnetic and EM surveys, RAB...-
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Published: 02 Nov 1995
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RB 54/00075 Ediacara silver-lead-copper Mineral Field. (Mineralisation investigation) Progress report no. 1.
Lead and copper mineralisation occurs in rocks of Cambrian age in the Ediacara Mineral Field. Rich pockets of ore minerals of limited extent occur in the Transition beds and in the overlying carbonates, associated with breccias or turbidites....-
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Published: 19 Mar 1962
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RB 98/00026 Partial leach geochemical survey, Monarto South, South Australia.
A partial leach soil geochemical survey has been conducted over shallowly buried Cambrian Kanmantoo Trough metasediments in the Monarto South area. The survey was designed to cover a aeromagnetic high anomaly, that is interpreted to be related to a...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1998
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Porter Hill. Annual reports for the period 26/8/1998 to 26/5/2000 (the commencement of the Lake Torrens Project joint reporting period) : part of a data release made on 31/12/2006 upon a subsequent partial surrender.
Following the detection in late 1997, by reconnaissance mobile metal ion partial leach analytical methods, of anomalous base and precious metal concentrations in the soil above several low amplitude magnetic anomalies on Tasman Resources' EL 2340, the...-
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Published: 25 Oct 1999
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Data release - as updated : Statton Hill (part of the Baratta Project). Annual reports, first partial surrender report and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 8/10/2007 to 14/1/2016.
Copper and gold exploration has been conducted within an area centred about 80 km east of Hawker, which it was thought had potential for epigenetic vein style mineralisation within buried Adelaidean sandstone and shale strata, formed in a stratabound...-
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Published: 19 Jan 1916
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bulgunnia (part of the Gawler JV Project). Annual reports for the period 19/11/1997 to 1/1/2013.
Within an area of the Wilgena and Christie Domains centred 40 km north of Tarcoola, exploration is continuing for Archaean to Proterozoic basement-hosted epithermal, hydrothermal and metamorphic type gold and base metal occurrences. Here an 841 square...-
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Carappee Hill. Data release made in lieu of submitting a licence second partial surrender report : annual reports for the period 10/10/1995 to 16/10/2003.
Palaeoproterozoic metasediments of the Hutchison Group, and Lincoln Complex granitoids, were the targets of exploration for gold, base metals and granite dimension stone in an area 40 km south of Kimba. Initial calcrete sampling indicated that...-
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Wildingi [Claypan] and Galaxy [Outstation]. Licence-specific annual reports, plus joint final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 22/11/1995 to 13/4/1999.
21 gold exploration targets with anomalous regolith Au > 10 ppb were generated by extensive regional and infill calcrete sampling of an area 80 km south-west of Coober Pedy. Aircore, RAB and RC drilling at four of these prospects (269 holes, total...-
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Winnininnie (part of the Manna Hill Project). Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/4/2013 to 18/4/2015.
A small area centred ~14 km north-east of Yunta that straddles the Barrier Highway has been explored for possible economic vein-style and structurally controlled gold which may have formed within Adelaidean bedrock sediments. During the 2013-2014...-
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Published: 02 Jul 1915
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Data release - as updated : World's End. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/3/2009 to 2/3/2016.
An area centred about 30 km south-east of Burra has been explored for possible buried economic Burra style copper mineralisation and for Mongolata Goldfield type alluvial and reef gold. The host metasedimentary unit to the Monster mine, the...-
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Published: 16 Mar 1916
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Data release - as updated : One Tree Hill (part of the Manna Hill Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 5/11/2007 to 4/11/2017.
Exploration for possible economic vein-style and structurally controlled gold with Adelaidean bedrock sediments in an area located between the towns of Yunta and Manna Hill was conducted using low cost remote sensing, geochemical and geophysical...-
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Published: 15 Dec 1917
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Data release - as updated : Benda Range (part of the Manna Hill Project). Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 6/5/2008 to 14/12/2017.
Exploration for possible economic vein-style and structurally controlled gold with Adelaidean bedrock sediments in an area located south of Manna Hill township was conducted using low cost remote sensing, geochemical and geophysical methods. The...-
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Published: 15 Jan 1918
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The Hummocks. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 30/6/2009 to 17/8/2017.
EL 4278 was Southern Uranium's first mineral exploration foray into the northern Yorke Peninsula. The subject tenement was pegged in January 2009 in order to secure ground surrounding the northern reaches of the Pine Point Fault. This particular...-
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Published: 31 Aug 1917
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : The North-western Murray Basin Project. Joint annual reports for the period 29/8/2006 to 28/8/2012.
Twelve licence areas owned and operated by Gold Fields Australasia (GFA), comprising two subareas respectively located approximately 50 km east of Burra and 15 km south-east of the Benda Range, on the eastern edge of the Adelaide Fold Belt, are being...-
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Published: 29 Sep 1912
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Mount Grainger (part of the Mount Grainger JV Project). Annual reports for the period 25/10/1996 to 24/10/2000.
Exploration over a structurally complex part of the Nackara Arc region centred ~30 km north-east of Peterborough has sought economic Telfer-type gold deposits hosted within folded domal structures in Adelaidean strata, which have been intruded during...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Wartaka, Iron Knob, Reid Lookout and Old Wartaka (the Parkinson Dam Project). Annual reports and joint annual reports for the period 17/2/2005 to 26/4/2019.
Four small, adjacent licences located on the south-eastern, shallow subcrop margin of the Gawler Ranges, which together make up an area centred about 25 km north-east of Lake Gilles and 60 km west of Port Augusta, are being explored for possible...-
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Published: 30 Apr 1918
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Port Hughes. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 29/11/2010 to 17/8/2017.
A licence consisting of three separate small sub-blocks that cover a large number of freehold broad-acre farms in the Bute - Agery - Moonta South district has been explored for possible buried economic IOCG mineralisation, which may have formed on or...-
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Published: 31 Aug 1917
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Macclesfield (part of the Mount Barker Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 6/4/2016 to 5/6/2019.
An area surrounding the township of Macclesfield, and lying a short distance south-east of Terramin Limited's Bird-in-Hand historic gold mine redevelopment project, has been explored for inferred sediment-hosted primary gold mineralisation that may...-
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Published: 13 Jun 1919
