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Yumali. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 7/6/1978 to 18/10/1983.
Base metal exploration activities undertaken by Thiess Brothers in the Yumali - Coomandook area investigated several coincident regional gravity and aeromagnetic anomalies arising from concealed Palaeozoic basement rocks. These anomalies are part of a...-
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Published: 14 Nov 1983
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RB 97/00015 Angas Strathburn prospects. Comparison of mobile metal ion versus standard soil geochemistry.
A Mobile Metal Ion (MMI) geochemical survey was conducted over known Pb-Zn-Ag-Au mineralisation within Cambrian Kanmantoo Group metasediments of the Tapanappa Formation at the Angas prospect near Strathalbyn, South Australia. A similar survey was...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1997
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Mount Mary. Combined first annual/final report at licence expiry/full surrender for the period 14/4/2008 to 13/4/2009.
During initial exploration of the Mount Mary area, located approximately 120 km north-east of Adelaide, the compilation and reprocessing of available gravity and magnetic data were used to interpret the bedrock geology hidden under a widespread...-
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Published: 14 Apr 1909
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Parndana. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/10/2006 to 26/10/2008.
Exploration for possible economic stratiform/syngenetic base metal deposits and/or structurally controlled epithermal/hydrothermal gold and uranium occurrences within Lower Cambrian metasediments over the central section of Kangaroo Island included...-
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Published: 22 Apr 1909
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Brownlow (part of the Padthaway and Black Hills Joint Venture Projects). Annual reports and first partial surrender report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 26/8/1998 to 25/8/2002.
The area of EL 2544, centred 90 km north-east from Adelaide, was considered to be prospective for porphyry/skarn type and iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) systems related to high level intrusive igneous plutons. Initial exploration...-
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Published: 27 Jan 1903
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Parndana (part of the Kangaroo Island Project). Second partial surrender report, for the period 8/7/2005 to 18/10/2014.
Approximately 10% of the area of EL 4581 has been relinquished upon its renewal for a second licence year. The only activities performed on this ground have been the acquisition of portions of ground gravity and airborne magnetic/radiometric surveys...-
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Published: 15 Dec 1914
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Woolpunda (part of the Murray Basin Project). Fourth partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 16/11/2000 to 3/7/2017.
An area located immediately south of the Sturt Highway that connects between Swan Reach and Loxton, in the vicinity of the Woolpunda Irrigation Area, has been explored for possible buried accumulations of Tertiary heavy mineral sands which may have...-
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Mantung (part of the Murray Basin Project). Fourth partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 14/10/1997 to 8/8/2017.
An area located in the northern SA Murray Mallee region, and centred ~ 35 km south-west of Loxton, has been explored for possible buried accumulations of Tertiary heavy mineral sands which may have formed in the sedimentary cover. In total, 513 square...-
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Currency Creek and Langhorne Creek (formerly part of the Fleurieu JV Project, then part of the Adelaide Hills Project). Joint final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 4/6/1992 to 18/10/2016.
Two slightly separated areas located in the west-central Kanmantoo Trough geological region have been explored for possible economic buried metalliferous deposits by successive licence owners over an almost 25 year - long tenure. The subject report...-
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RI 057 Cambrian Sediment-hosted Exhalative Base Metal Mineralisation, Kanmantoo Trough, South Australia
A deformed and metamorphosed succession of sandstone, greywacke, siltstone and shale which accumulated in the Early Cambrian Kanmantoo Trough hosts a number of exhalative base and precious metal deposits. This sequence is apparently devoid of...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bremer. Progress reports and annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 8/3/1991 to 7/3/1995. [ Index Part 1 of 3 ].
Exploration of an extensive area lying to the north of and surrounding Strathalbyn, 40 km south-east of Adelaide, is targeting possible economic stratiform base and precious metals mineralisation hosted within the Cambrian Kanmantoo Group...-
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Parndana, Middle River and Yerda (part of the Kangaroo Island Project). Joint annual reports, plus EL 4581 third partial surrender report, to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 19/10/2012 to 18/10/2015.
Monax Mining has being exploring since May 2005 along a 40 km stretch of the hinterland to the central-northern coast of Kangaroo Island, searching mainly for possible economic gold, silver and Mississippi Valley type base metal sulphide...-
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Published: 09 Mar 1916
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Western River (part of the Kangaroo Island Project). Second partial surrender report for the period 22/5/2003 to 12/6/2010.
Two project tenements enclosing a nearly 40 km long section of the deep-seated, east-west trending Cygnet-Snelling Shear Zone have been explored for possible economic gold and base metal sulphide mineralisation. A number of historic mine workings and...-
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Published: 16 Nov 1910
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bremer. Progress and annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 8/3/1991 to 7/3/1995. [ Index Part 2 of 3 ].
In May 1992 six traverses of shallow RAB drilling were completed at the Angas prospect (222 holes for a total penetration of 1550 m). The objective was to test the Cambrian bedrock geochemistry beneath shallow Tertiary and Recent sediments that cover...-
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The Adelaide Hills Project. Data release made at the partial surrenders / full surrender of subsequent licences: annual reports and combined annual reports for the period 27/6/2000 to 15/5/2005.
A diamond exploration project area comprising nine mineral exploration licences located in the central Mount Lofty Ranges was taken up by new public company Flinders Diamonds (FDL) to search for possible commercial accumulations of diamonds, thought...-
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Morgan and Waikerie (part of the Mindarie Heavy Mineral Sands Project and later the Murray Basin Project). Joint final report at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 30/4/1998 to 24/9/2015.
In the last phase of exploration for possible buried economic heavy mineral (HM) sands marine placer deposits in the district extending between Waikerie, Blanchetown and parts of the north-western Murray Mallee, the only field work undertaken was...-
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Published: 27 Aug 1915
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Western River Cove and Western River (part of the Kangaroo Island Project). Final report at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 22/5/2003 to 16/7/2014.
No work was undertaken on EL 4530 Western River Cove during the whole 4-year term of its tenure. EL 3088 Western River was purchased from Havilah Resources by Monax Mining in July 2005, and formed part of Monax’s package of tenements included in the...-
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Published: 17 Dec 1914
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Western River Cove - Parndana area (part of the Kangaroo Island Project). Data release: annual reports and first partial relinquishment report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 8/7/2005 to 18/10/2012.
An area in the vicinity of Parndana, located on north-central Kangaroo Island approximately 30 km west-southwest of Kingscote, is being explored mainly for possible economic gold and Mississippi Valley type base metal sulphide mineralisation...-
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Published: 26 Feb 1913
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RB 33/00072 Callawonga Creek wolfram prospect.
The Queen Mary Wolfram Mine at Callawonga Creek which was discovered in 1911, worked till 1918 and reopened in 1952 is the only one three local workings to produce worthwhile wolfram ore. The mine is located intersecting pneumatolytic quartz veins...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1954
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Swan Reach and Morgan. Joint first partial surrender report, for the period 22/11/1996 to 21/11/1997.
Possible gold, base metals and platinum group element targets lying within, or spatially associated with, Delamerian ultramafic intrusive rocks occurring over an area of the Kanmantoo Trough between Mannum and Morgan, were sought for by conducting...-
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