-
Outalpa. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 8/6/1972 to 15/4/1973.
Exploration of an area located approximately 10 miles north of Manna Hill, seeking possible economic Zambian Copperbelt style stratabound copper deposits, has consisted only of an orientation geochemical survey followed by field inspection of...-
Document
-
Mount Painter district (the Gunsight Joint Venture Project). Individual licence's progress reports and annual reports to project licences' joint full surrender, for the period 1/12/1982 to 16/11/1993.
There is no abstract created for this record-
Document
-
Copperlinka. Progress and annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/4/1991 to 6/6/1997.
Exploration for possible large, potentially open cut - mineable disseminated quartz vein - type syngenetic gold and base metal deposits within a licence area located near Outalpa, 150 km south-west of Broken Hill, has comprised geological mapping,...-
Document
-
RB 92/00034 Review of company mineral exploration, Willyama Block and environs, OLARY 1:250 000 map sheet, South Australia.
Open file company data from 101 exploration licences dating from 1940 is reviewed. To 1989, 1189 rotary / percussion holes (85 000 metres) and 132 diamond drill holes (31 000 metres) were drilled in exploration for uranium, base metals and, to a...-
Document
Published: 01 May 1992
-
RB 93/00015 Soil Air CO2/O2 Project. Progress report 6, Olary area.
TARGET: The aim was to test if analyses of soil air and subterranean gases sampled via drill holes could define zones of known and unknown mineralisation. EXPLORATION: Soil air carbon dioxide and oxygen measurements were assessed as a guide to...-
Document
Published: 01 Feb 1993
-
RB 93/00048 Review of company mineral exploration, CURNAMONA 1:250 000 sheet, South Australia.
Company exploration within the CURNAMONA 1:250 000 sheet area was reviewed by the study of data incorporated in the open file reports on 42 Special Mining Leases, 80 Exploration Licences and one group of Mining Leases dating from 1961. This data...-
Document
Published: 01 Feb 1994
-
RB 88/00075 Review of lead-zinc mineralisation in South Australia - Willyama Inlier and Curnamona Cratonic Nucleus.
Lower Proterozoic crystalline rocks of the Willyama Complex include phyllite, carbonaceous slate, mica-sillimanite schist and gneiss, feldspathic meta quartzite, quartzo feldspathic gneiss, calc-silicate rocks and iron formations. The oldest rocks in...-
Document
Published: 01 Sep 1988
-
Review of Mineral exploration activity, 2003 and 2004.
2003 activity: Expenditure by companies on mineral exploration licences in South Australia for calendar year 2003 was $37.0 million, a slight increase on the $35.7 million spent in 2002. Mineral exploration drilling metreage, a key indicator of...-
Document
-
Weekeroo North. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 1/8/1968 to 31/7/1970.
Exploration carried out by MIM to look for possible economic primary or secondary uranium deposits related to the Weekeroo Inlier of Palaeoproterozoic rocks has consisted of an airborne radiometric survey (750 line miles flown along E-W lines spaced...-
Document
Published: 31 Jul 1970
-
Olary North. Progress reports for the period 1/8/1965 to 31/7/1967.
Reconnaissance (20.8 line km) and follow-up (66.4 line km) IP surveys, ground magnetic surveys (18.1 line km) and regional and detailed geological mapping (1:12,000 scale) were carried out. 782 semi-regional stream sediment samples, and 1038 follow-up...-
Document
Published: 14 Mar 1967
-
Freeling Heights - Mount Adams area. Progress reports for the period 10/6/1968 to 9/12/1969.
As part of a regional search for economic uranium and copper mineralisation, the US-based company Kennecott Copper in November 1968 performed a semi-detailed airborne spectrometer survey of 550 line miles in the Shamrock Valley - Freeling Heights -...-
Document
-
Starvation Lake. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 28/10/1991 to 27/10/1993.
Exploration targeted Pb-Zn and Cu-Au mineralisation within covered extensions of the Broken Hill Block in the Starvation Lake area near the SA-NSW border. An aeromagnetic survey identified three targets which were followed up with ground magnetic...-
Document
Published: 15 Jul 1993
-
Drew Hill. First partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 4/10/1989 to 3/2/1994.
Exploration undertaken in the relinquished portion of a licence area located north-east of Olary, searching for possible economic Palaeoproterozoic stratiform base and precious metal deposits, has comprised a 2526 line km detailed aerial magnetic and...-
Document
-
Woolatchi, Boolkaree and Wittakilla. Joint first progress / final report to licence full surrender, for the period 23/11/1992 to 30/4/1993.
Exploration for Broken Hill type stratiform Pb-Zn and Olympic Dam style iron oxide - associated Cu-Au mineralisation within the covered extensions of the Mount Painter Inlier east of Moolawatana Homestead included an extensive low-level aeromagnetic...-
Document
Published: 18 May 1993
-
Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Yerelina. Annual reports for the period 18/9/2012 to 17/9/2018.
An extensive covered area centred ~100 km north of Leigh Creek and lying immediately west of the exposed basement rocks of the Mount Painter Inlier is being explored for possible Mount Isa style stratiform or Mississippi Valley type stratabound...-
Document
Published: 13 Nov 1918
-
Benagerie. Progress reports and annual reports, plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 13/11/1979 to 9/3/1989.
TARGET: Sedimentary uranium in Tertiary sandstone, plus Olympic Dam type copper-gold mineralisation and Broken Hill or Mount Isa type stratiform base metal mineralisation in the underlying basement rocks. EXPLORATION: Stratigraphic drilling (162...-
Document
-
Olary. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/5/1970 to 20/5/1972.
There is no abstract created for this record-
Document
Published: 05 Apr 1972
-
Investigation of the Kirkeeks Treasure mine, Koonamore Station, near Yunta, SA.
Pit face sampling and the drilling of a 347 foot diamond drill hole were completed at the Kirkeeks Treasure Mine. The drill hole DDK1 failed to intersect lode material. The most optimistic view of the prospect is that potential exists in the quartzite...-
Document
Published: 01 Jan 1974
-
Wooltana. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 19/3/1970 to 18/3/1972.
Renewed base metal exploration over part of the historic Yudnamutana Mining Field has targeted base metal anomalies previously found by Australian Selection in the Blue mine area. An area of about 80 square miles was assessed by reconnaissance stream...-
Document
-
Bimbowrie Hill. Progress reports to licence surrender for the period 22/10/1973 to 8/6/1976.
Exploration for possible economic stratiform, Broken Hill type base metal deposits hosted within Willyama Complex metasediments in the Bimbowrie Hill - Ameroo Hill area has consisted of a structural interpretation of aerial photos and ERTS imagery,...-
Document
