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RB 95/00037 Stonefield bedrock drilling, 1995.
Twenty-three vertical open RC drillholes with a total penetration of 2663 m were drilled by MESA during February and March 1995 along four W-E traverses in the Stonefield area near Truro, to determine bedrock geology and geochemistry below sedimentary...-
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Published: 01 May 1997
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Lilydale. First annual report and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 10/3/2004 to 6/7/2005.
Exploration for possible concealed porphyry style Cu-Au deposits of a kind similar to the nearby Blue Rose prospect surface skarn occurrence was undertaken over an area of the eastern Nackara Arc, 50 km south-east of Yunta. Work comprised inspection...-
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Published: 06 Jul 1905
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Giles Nob. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 8/7/1983 to 7/7/1988.
Exploration for possible economic gold deposits in an area located approximately 25 km south of Olary addressed three principal objectives: . hydrothermally-sourced gold within quartz-albite-dolomite vein stockworks formed in phyllitic siltstones of...-
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Princess Royal, Burra West, Burra North, Florieton, Mount Bryan, Burra Central, Mongolata, Redbanks, Hallett Hill and The Gums (the Burra Project tenement group). Joint annual reports for the period 1/5/2009 to 30/4/2017.
A multi-licence project area centred on the historic abandoned Burra copper mine is being explored for possible economic, buried Burra type copper oxide and copper carbonate mineralisation that may have formed within Neoproterozoic metasedimentary...-
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Anabama. First partial surrender report, for the period 14/8/2015 to 13/8/2017.
Half of a small licence area located in the Anabama district has lately been surrendered. The ground had been taken up to explore for possible economic buried base metal mineralisation that might have formed on and near the south-eastern margin of the...-
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Published: 12 Dec 1917
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Clare (part of the Spalding Project). Annual reports for the period 2/1/2007 to 1/1/2010.
In Phoenix Copper's opinion, although several previous explorers had investigated the Spalding Inlier area, many targets remained insufficiently tested. The principal structural target the company wished to explore is the intersection between an...-
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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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Hallett. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 23/5/2013 to 22/5/2018.
Exploration for possible buried vein style copper-gold mineralisation, that may have formed in contact metamorphosed hornfelsic rocks adjacent to an inferred buried Delamerian or younger mafic intrusive body, has been conducted in a preliminary...-
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Published: 22 May 1918
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Craigie Plains [not 'Eudunda']. Annual report from 22/2/2016 to full surrender 08/03/2023.
Exploration licence 5747 covers 955 square km located ~ 110 km north-east of Adelaide, on the eastern side of the Mount Lofty Ranges. It forms part of SeeSaw Resources “Bower Project” and forms a down-facing “horseshoe” shape that loops from Craigie...-
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Published: 08 May 1923
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Clare. Progress reports to licence expiry for the period 14/2/86 to 13/8/87.
TARGET: Copper and gold in structurally controlled replacement zones within Torrensian Burra Group sediments. EXPLORATION: Rock chip sampling in an area of previously reported anomalous gold in fine-grained sediments, and the conduct of complex...-
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Published: 10 Oct 1987
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Anabama North and Anabama (the Anabama JV Project). Data release made at licences' joint full surrender: joint annual reports for the period 1/5/2008 to 18/12/2014.
An area centred ~50 km south-east of Manna Hill township on the Barrier Highway was taken up to explore for possible economic buried epithermal, VHMS style copper-gold or other base and precious metal mineralisation which could have formed within...-
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Terowie. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 21/10/1974 to 20/10/1976.
Known, previously worked anomalous surface copper, lead, zinc and gold occurrences within gossanous basal Burra Group metasediments located on the flanks of the overturned Ulooloo Anticline, have been investigated with 1:2500 scale geological mapping,...-
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Macdonald Hill. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/11/1979 to 12/11/1980.
Base metal exploration carried out over an area extending from 8 to 20 km north-northeast of Olary has consisted of a in-depth technical review of past exploration results, plus limited 1:10,000 scale geological mapping, bulk sampling of...-
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Terowie. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 17/11/1976 to 26/6/1978.
In an area of strongly folded, sericitised and silicified lower Adelaidean sedimentary rocks located km north-east of Terowie, an initial four areas of base metal geochemical anomalism were identified on prior EL 158 by surface sampling and geological...-
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Barossa Valley. Combined first annual/final report to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 19/11/2007 to 18/11/2008.
In a search for possible Adelaidean bedrock stratabound sources of gold which have weathered to generate the alluvial gold deposits worked at the historic Gomersal and Moppa Goldfields, the licensee undertook structural modelling of available...-
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Published: 11 Feb 1909
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RB 2006/00017 Geological notes on the Coppertop, Montstephen, southern Morialpa and southeastern Plumbago Inliers
Four areas on the south-western margin of the Palaeo-Mesoproterozoic Willyama Inliers were mapped in detail to elucidate the nature of their lithostratigraphy, structure and mineralisation. These basement inliers are composed of...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2006
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RB 2007/00006 The geology and mineral potential of the PORT AUGUSTA [mapsheet] area, eastern Gawler Craton.
The PORT AUGUSTA 1:250,000 mapsheet area covers the north-eastern part of the Eyre Peninsula, the northern Spencer Gulf and the south-western Flinders Ranges, and extends from latitude 32°00'S to 33°00'S and longitude 136°30'S to 138°00'S. The main...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2007
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Port Pirie. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 21/8/1979 to 30/6/1982.
Continuing exploration for possible buried Mount Gunson and Olympic Dam type copper deposits, or other stratabound base metal occurrences within shelfal facies of Adelaidean sediments or in the pre-Adelaidean Wandearah Formation Carpentarian age...-
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Mirra Bore. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 17/5/1988 to 16/11/1989.
Exploration for gold and base metals in the Willouran Ranges, conducted over an area located approximately 26 km south-west of Marree, was aimed at evaluating known quartz-limonite vein stockwork - type gold mineralisation on four prospects, plus...-
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Published: 30 Oct 1989
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Weekeroo Hill. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 18/4/1974 to 21/12/1974.
In a search for possible economic epithermal / stratiform / metamorphic base metals and gold within the Weekeroo Inlier, detailed geological mapping, rock chip sampling and an office evaluation of previous exploration were carried out for the Weekeroo...-
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