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Red Lake. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 23/2/1978 to 2/1/1983.
Exploration undertaken on ground situated east of Pernatty Lagoon has included the acquisition of extensive ground magnetic and gravity surveys plus a small aerial magnetic and radiometric survey, and performing many specific gravity and magnetic...-
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RB 89/00070 Gawler Ranges Excursion, October 7th-9th, 1989.
Summarises the chemical classification and macroscopic visual attributes of basement igneous rocks seen in outcrop within the regional geological settings of northern Eyre Peninsula and the Gawler Ranges.-
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Published: 01 Sep 1989
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RB 90/00016 Beda Volcanics and Backy Point Formation of the eastern Gawler Craton.
Beda Volcanics and Backy Point Formation crop out in only a few localities on northeastern Eyre Peninsula, north of Whyalla, but drilling has shown them to extend for approximately 170 km to the north below younger cover. The Beda Volcanics comprise...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1991
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Data release - as updated : Sunset Hill. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 24/11/2008 to 13/4/2017.
An area taken up to comprise the middle member of a block of three tenements located in the Myall Creek region ~ 30 km west-southwest of Port Augusta has been explored for possible economic buried stratabound copper sulphide mineralisation as well as...-
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Published: 23 May 1917
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Lake Torrens - Port Augusta and Point Paterson areas. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 26/11/1977 to 30/11/1979.
SALT MINING STUDY: Field tests on the feasibility of Lake Torrens salt production to supply raw material for the planned Redcliff Petrochemical Project were continued, with project planning technical data demonstrations given to visiting officials of...-
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Groundwater geochemistry in CSR's Stuart Shelf tenements, SA.
194 stored groundwater samples taken from CSR's exploratory drillholes put down on the southern Stuart Shelf after 1973 have been analysed for copper and zinc, plus also lead on occasion, and another 84 such stored samples dating from 1977 were...-
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Pandurra. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 7/6/1977 to 6/6/1979.
In a continuing search for possible shallow Mount Gunson type stratiform copper deposits within Adelaidean strata of the southern Stuart Shelf, detailed investigations conducted near Pandurra Homestead have included geological mapping, rock chip...-
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Pandurra. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 18/9/1979 to 17/9/1981.
Continued exploration for stratabound base metals across an area of the southern Stuart Shelf, extending west and north-west of Port Augusta, has included an evaluation of the results of previous stratigraphic drilling on the prior-held EL 332, plus...-
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Published: 16 Nov 1981
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Cultana [latterly with Uro Bluff, Tregolana and Sugarloaf Hill]. Progress reports, joint progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/6/1980 to 19/6/1984.
In the search for Mount Gunson type sedimentary copper, 4 deep exploratory diamond drillholes (out of 22 totalling over 5000 m) intersected subeconomic mineralisation at the target base of the Sturtian Tapley Hill Formation (best value 3 m @ 1.55% Cu...-
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Published: 22 Aug 1984
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Pernatty Ridge. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/12/1989 to 12/12/1991.
Possible stratabound, Kupferschiefer - style copper sulphide within the basal sediments of the early Neoproterozoic Tapley Hill Formation was the target of exploration in the Pernatty Ridge area. Aberfoyle's work has comprised a review of existing...-
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Geophysical logging of drill holes in the Mount Gunson and Pandurra Homestead areas, SA.
Formation responses in the 2 study areas and comparisons with earlier logs from the Bookaloo area and PL 32 have led to the recognition of diagnostic features in the identification of different formations. More data are required before geophysical...-
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Petrology of samples from Charlinga, Pandurra and Mount Gunson DDHs LD24, LD25, J-12, MG11 - MG14 and WOB-12.
Samples studied for stratigraphic identification.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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Geophysical logging of percussion drill holes, June - August 1978.
Formation responses in 12 drill holes were studied. SP and PR logs were run for only 6 holes because of highly saline groundwater conditions. No meaningful electrical logs were obtained.-
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RB 00794 Investigation of the basement rocks from Apollo no. 1 and Gemini no. 1 (inter alia).
This student vacational project report, for the Department's Petroleum Exploration Div., aimed to correlate the basement rocks met with in Great Australian Bight area offshore and near onshore petroleum exploration wells with outcropping formations...-
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Published: 31 Dec 1899
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Kallioota. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 5/6/2006 to 4/6/2010.
A north-northwest trending basement high or horst-like structure mapped in the subsurface at Yadlamalka, located about 50 km north of Port Augusta, which was indicated by magnetic and gravity data to lie at a depth of about 200 m to 600 m close to the...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1910
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North Tent Hill (part of the Tent Hill Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/1/2011 to 17/1/2013.
No work undertaken. Licence retained for two years as part of regional project acreage which was subject to unsuccessful farm-out negotiations.-
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Published: 14 Mar 1913
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South Tent Hill and North Tent Hill. Joint annual reports submitted until licences' expiry/renewal, for the period 20/10/2005 to 19/10/2010.
Two adjoining licence areas located immediately west and north-west of Port Augusta, which cover the southern end of the Cariewerloo Basin and extend north-westwards for 60 km, are being explored for possible economic unconformity-style uranium...-
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Published: 14 Dec 1910
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Tregalana (part of the Spencer Project). Annual reports for the period 22/2/2005 to 12/9/2018.
A north-south elongated, narrow licence area centred ~30 km north of Whyalla and covering ground inland adjacent to the Lincoln Highway, has been taken up to explore for possible economic buried stratiform/stratabound, Mississippi Valley type...-
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Published: 18 Sep 1918
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RB 2016/00014 Geology of the Six Mile Hill 1:75 000 Special Edition Map Sheet.
The Six Mile Hill 1:75 000 Map Sheet was produced as part of a mapping program integrated into the Mineral Systems Drilling Program (MSDP) along the southern margin of the Gawler Ranges. The objective of the mapping program was to provide a regional...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2016
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RB 2014/00006 Geology of the Cultana 1:100 000 map sheet (6432).
The revised digital geology map of the Cultana 1:100 000 map sheet and accompanying geological descriptions in this report are the first components of the 2nd edition PORT AUGUSTA 1:250 000 map sheet to be completed. The subject map sheet occupies the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2014
