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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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Mount Fitton Talc Province. Progress, annual and miscellaneous technical summary reports for the period 16/2/79 to 24/11/96.
Talc has been mined at Mount Fitton in the northern Flinders Ranges on a continuous basis since 1945, for industrial use in the manufacture of cosmetics, ceramics and refractory ware. From 1979 to 1996, under authority of a series of Exploration...-
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PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 8 partnership DPY8-21 - Yerelina Gladstone Mining Field sediment-hosted and structurally controlled hydrothermal/replacement style stratabound base metal prospects. Final report.
High-grade silver-lead-zinc mineralisation formed within the Neoproterozoic Tapley Hill Formation (THF) was historically mined 100 years ago at Yerelina in the northern Flinders Ranges. Despite the existence of numerous poorly documented small-scale...-
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Published: 08 Dec 1915
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Boolooroo Goldfield and Kate Hill. Joint annual reports for the period 2/1/2009 to 8/2/2019.
Two adjoining licence areas located ~ 40 km north-east of Leigh Creek township, in the ranges lying immediately east of the Telford coal basin, are being explored for possible economic occurrences of marble rock which are believed to hold enormous...-
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Mount Grieg. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 6/12/1979 to 5/6/1981.
Exploration for possible economic syngenetic/stratiform or epigenetic/hydrothermal base metals and gold hosted by Early Cambrian and older Adelaidean rocks in the Angepena area initially comprised the conduct of reconnaissance 1:50,000 scale...-
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Published: 06 Aug 1981
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RB 71/00144 Palaeoecological interpretation of South Australian Precambrian stromatolites.
Despite the palaeoecological emphasis of most recent stromatolite research outside the USSR, controversy still exists regarding the environmental restriction of these organosedimentary structures and in some cases, analogies with modern occurrences...-
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Published: 16 Sep 1971
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Kate Hill. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/cancellation, for the period from 17/7/2001 to 16/7/2004.
No field work was done on the subject licence, covering a small area centred ~20 km north-east of Leigh Creek, during the three years of its tenure. As a result, the Minister of Mines cancelled the licence.-
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Published: 25 Feb 1907
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Boolooroo Goldfield. Annual reports for the period 9/2/2007 to 8/2/2009.
The Boolooroo licence area is located ~ 40 km north-east of Leigh Creek township, in the ranges lying immediately east of the Telford coal basin, are being explored for possible economic occurrences of marble rock which are believed to hold enormous...-
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Published: 26 Feb 1909
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RB 2012/00004 MARREE, South Australia, [geological map] sheet SH54-5. South Australia. Geological Survey. 1:250 000 Series - Explanatory Notes.
The MARREE mapsheet area includes the south-western portion of the Strzelecki Desert plus parts of the Tirari Desert, north-western Flinders Ranges and north-eastern Willouran Ranges, between latitudes 29 to 30 degrees S and longitudes 138 to 139...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2012
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Billy Springs. Progress and surrender reports for the period 24/8/1973 to 23/8/1975.
Exploration to search for metasomatic talc bodies locally developed within sheared and brecciated dolomitic marbles of the Neoproterozoic Balcanoona Formation near Mount Fitton, 120 km north-east of Leigh Creek, has mainly consisted of surface...-
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Published: 16 Jul 1975
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Mount Fitton. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 28/10/1975 to 27/10/1976.
No technical data - work consisted only of office appraisal of previously obtained geological data, plus studies of newly acquired aerial photographs covering the entire licence area, to try to define structures possibly hosting new talc deposits or...-
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Published: 15 Nov 1976
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Mount Fitton. Progress and technical reports for the period 1/7/1971 to 30/6/1973.
A review has been carried out by Amdel Ltd, under contract to the licensee, of the applicability and suitability of low-cost geophysical reconnaissance tools in prospecting for concealed talc occurrences in the Mount Fitton area. It appears that use...-
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Published: 13 Jun 1973
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Mount Stuart and Patawarta Gap. Joint first annual / final report at licence's joint surrender, for the period 29/9/1993 to 5/9/1994.
Exploration for possible economic carbonate sediment-hosted Carlin style hydrothermal gold and copper mineralisation in the Mount Stuart - Patawarta Gap area of the Flinders Ranges has comprised soil, rock chip and stream sediment sampling, the...-
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Teatree Well. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 5/1/1984 to 4/1/1986.
Exploration for possible fault-related epigenetic lead-zinc deposits formed in calcareous rocks outcropping along the Mount John - Arrowie fault system, to the south-east of the Moro mine, has included extensive stream sediment and rock chip sampling...-
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Balcanoona. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 16/10/1969 to 15/10/1971.
A stream sediment reconnaissance survey (497 samples) and follow-up surveys (72 samples) plus geological prospecting were conducted in the Balcanoona area in a search for possible economic base metal deposits. Low order copper anomalism and minor...-
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Published: 15 Sep 1970
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Structural approach to talc exploration in EL 95, Mount Fitton area.
The applicability of prospecting methods based on lithological variations and structural controls have been investigated for locating the talc deposits which occur dispersed in the Mount Fitton region. Emplacement of these deposits is thought to have...-
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Published: 31 Aug 1974
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ExpNotes MARREE: Explanatory Notes MARREE
A new generation, second edition MARREE 1:250 000 scale geological map and its explanatory notes have been published. These documents represent the conclusion of the Geological Survey of South Australia's latest geological mapping program (1993 to...-
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