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RB 79/00086 Stuart Highway, Bookaloo to Mount Gunson section. Drilling for construction water.
Six holes totalling 659 m were drilled at four locations on the Bookaloo - Mount Gunson section of the Stuart Highway. Supplies of construction quality groundwater were obtained at three of the locations. There is some evidence to suggest that the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 4 partnership DPY4-47, Myall Creek Neoproterozoic stratabound base metal (copper) mineral prospect. Project final report.
The known Myall Creek stratabound copper occurrence located ~23 km north of Whyalla, which was discovered in 1975 by Australian Selection, consists of low-grade (0.3 to 2.2% Cu) Zambian Copperbelt or Kupferschiefer - style copper sulphides extending...-
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Bulgunnia, Gosse and Kingoonya (the Mentor Project). Data release made at the surrender of subsequent licences : annual reports for the period 27/10/1992 to 15/11/1997. [Index entry Part 1 of 2 - a very long abstract is split between these two parts].
The Gawler Joint Venture partners (Dominion Mining and Resolute Resources) have been exploring three near-contiguous areas located in the north of the Tarcoola - Kingoonya district, seeking possible economic concealed epithermal/mesothermal...-
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Review of stratigraphic petrography, Pandurra area.
All previously collected rock specimens were reclassified and discussed.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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Facies variations in the Woocalla Formation and their relation to base metal mineralization.
Metal sulphides occurring in dolomitic mud and silt facies (Sweet Nell type deposits) were probably deposited in a supratidal environment, where the dolomitic shale facies with Cu mineralization probably originated closer inshore, while Pb, Zn...-
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Geology of the Cattlegrid mine, [March] 1972 - [December] 1982.
This report is intended to be a convenient single reference to the Cattlegrid ore deposit geology. It represents an updated summary of a large amount of data, gleaned largely from internal company reports. The subject matter relates mainly to the...-
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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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Results of August, 1974 drilling at the MG14 target, EL 81, Mount Gunson.
14 cored holes have intersected copper mineralization in shaley facies of the Woocalla Dolomite, and extending up into dark claystone at the base of the Whyalla Sandstone. The mineralised rocks occupy a shallow depression in the post-Pandurra erosion...-
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Island Lagoon. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 23/3/1977 to 22/3/1979.
Basal Neoproterozoic Tapley Hill Formation - hosted stratiform copper was targeted primarily in this exploration programme, which consisted of reconnaissance deep percussion drilling (17 holes for a total advance of 4167 m) on the centres of...-
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Lake Hart. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 23/3/1977 to 3/2/1978.
Exploration for possible Precambrian sediment-hosted base metal deposits within an area lying just west and south of Lake Hart has comprised a photogeological study, geological mapping at 1:87,000 scale, a gravity survey along a single 30 km traverse,...-
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Pandurra. Combined first annual/final report to licence full surrender, for the period 26/6/2013 to 23/10/2014.
A small area centred ~50 km west of Port Augusta was taken up to explore for possible buried epigenetic and structurally controlled gold mineralisation in Archaean and Proterozoic basement rocks. The target was related to a 3.5 km long, >3 ppb Au...-
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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
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Pernatty Lagoon [East]. First partial surrender report, for the period 27/6/1997 to 26/6/2001.
No work performed. Relinquished portions of the licence were considered to have low potential for economically viable Olympic Dam and Tunkillia style copper mineralisation, a conclusion based on the outcome of literature research, reconnaisance field...-
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Island Lagoon. First partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 23/3/1977 to 22/3/1979.
Tapley Hill Formation - hosted, Zambian Copperbelt style stratabound copper was targeted in an exploration programme which consisted of ground magnetic surveying and stratigraphic percussion drilling and geophysical logging (10 holes for 2058 m total...-
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RB 91/00007 Pandurra Formation.
Pandurra Formation crops out in a broad belt extending 230 km NW from Whyalla and near Pernatty Lagoon and is present in the subsurface for a further 200 km to the NW. Possible equivalents exist on Eyre Peninsula and near Lake Frome. It comprises...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1991
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Geology of the Roopena and Uno 1:100 000 sheet areas, eastern Gawler Craton.
This report describes the results of a MESA consultant's second generation regional geological mapping and drillhole data interpretation work for the Roopena and Uno 1:100 000 sheets on PORT AUGUSTA, performed during 1993 and 1994 as part of the SAEI...-
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Regolith map of the southern Gawler Ranges margin (300 dpi & 600 dpi pdf formats).
This inaugural regolith map of the southern Gawler Ranges margin provides a valuable regional overview of the main regolith types and their associated landforms, plus a general outline of the major areas of bedrock or regolith-dominated terrain, as...-
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Published: 14 Jul 2016
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Pernatty Lagoon. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/6/1969 to 15/9/1970.
There is no abstract created for this record-
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Lake Dutton. Progress reports and annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 5/11/1970 to 4/11/1971.
Possible stratiform / hydrothermal syngenetic base metals deposited on the flanks of the Pernatty Culmination in the vicinity of fault lineations were targeted in an ongoing regional drilling programme (in part comprising 7 vertical rotary percussion...-
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