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Hartley. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 27/3/1985 to 26/12/1985.
A process of rationalisation of several prior-held CRAE tenements covering Cambrian trough sediments which partly outcrop in the south-eastern Mount Lofty Ranges has led to limited ongoing exploration by that company. Ground-based follow-up of all...-
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Published: 23 Dec 1985
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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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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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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Kanmantoo. Progress reports, annual reports and technical reports for the period 1/1/1998 to 2/11/2008.
Exploration Licence (EL) 2663 Kanmantoo is located on the eastern flank of the Adelaide Hills, and exists as two separate blocks forming a belt up to 10 km wide and approximately 75 km long that covers an area dominated by outcropping and subcropping...-
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Published: 16 Dec 1908
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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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Interpretation of Murray Bridge - Narrung airborne geophysical surveys, South Australia.
As part of CRAE's programme for brown coal exploration in the Murray Basin in South Australia, airborne magnetic and radiometric surveys were undertaken in the vicinity of Lakes Albert and Alexandrina by contractors Geosearch and Geoex. Various...-
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Published: 24 Mar 1981
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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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Data release at first partial surrender on 20/8/1989 : report on investigations into the platinoid potential of the Black Hill Norite, EL 1419, Sedan, SA.
TARGET: Possible primary magmatic platinoid and/or other precious metals deposited at or near the base of expected cumulate layered rock sequences within the Black Hill Norite. EXPLORATION: After making preliminary regional geophysical and drillhole...-
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Blackford. Second partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 3/11/1978 to 19/12/1987.
Shallow Tertiary coal deposits were the target in the area north of Kingston SE lying between Tilleys Swamp and Coola Coola Swamp. Within this area, 44 rotary mud vertical open exploratory holes totalling 3658 m were drilled and geophysically logged....-
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Mount Pleasant, Birdwood (The Promenade) and Hartley (Strathalbyn). Joint progress and prospectivity appraisal reports to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 30/7/1985 to 29/11/1988.
Possible economic gold and stratiform / stratabound base metal sulphide deposits, that had been surmised to have formed within certain reactive metasedimentary units in folded and faulted Cambrian strata lying between Mount Pleasant and Strathalbyn in...-
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Published: 05 Feb 1988
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Bull Creek. Second partial relinquishment report at licence surrender/re-issue, for the period 21/3/1980 to 19/3/1985.
In a search for possible economic near-surface gold or base metal occurrences within a now relinquished EL portion located near Bull Creek in the southern Adelaide Hills, a literature search, assaying of stored historic diamond drillhole core samples,...-
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Published: 02 Apr 1985
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Mount Pleasant (part of the Kanmantoo Project). Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/delayed renewal, for the period 31/8/1976 to 30/8/1978.
At the newly discovered Mount Torrens lead prospect, grid auger soil geochemical sampling, 1:5000 scale geological mapping, limited ground geophysical test surveying and the drilling of 23 percussion holes totalling 3388 m indicated the existence of...-
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Published: 22 Sep 1978
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Vivonne Bay, Kangaroo Island. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 27/4/1977 to 26/4/1979.
Exploration for possible economic stratiform/volcanogenic base metal sulphide deposits hosted by the (elsewhere) pyrite - bearing Early Cambrian Bruckunga Formation, in the Vivonne Bay district on south-central Kangaroo Island, was hampered by the...-
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Published: 27 Apr 1979
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RB 76/00047 Pallamanna Fault.
The Pallamanna Fault is a Palaeozoic feature on the western margin of the Murray Basin near Murray Bridge. Geophysical methods were used to delineate it and to estimate its throw. The results suggest that the fault zone itself is steeply dipping (70°...-
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Published: 29 Mar 1976
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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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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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Kangaroo Island Project. Joint annual reports and final report to licences' joint surrender, for the period 1/10/1996 to 30/9/1998.
Diamond exploration which was undertaken across practically the whole of Kangaroo Island, barring national and conservation parks and reserves, sought to test the potential of the island to contain kimberlite pipes and / or associated rock types, and...-
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Coonalpyn. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 29/3/1982 to 6/9/1985.
Cambrian rocks lying beneath relatively thin Phanerozoic cover on the western edge of the Murray Basin were targeted by CSR principally for stratiform volcanogenic massive copper sulphide deposits, and for epigenetic Palaeozoic gold occurrences...-
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Kongolia. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/8/1975 to 17/8/1977.
Exploration carried out by North Broken Hill under fairly thick Cainozoic cover in the Sedan - Cambrai district initially sought possible economic deposits of epithermal base metals associated with known basic and ultrabasic rocks of the Black Hill...-
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