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RB 90/00076 Kanmantoo Trough geological investigation - Karinya Syncline regional soil sampling.
Regional soil sampling has targeted the pyritic-carbonaceous Cambrian Karinya Shale and rock units immediately above and below it, along with lineament and structural features. Three prospect areas, Frankton, The Gap and Accommodation Hill, have been...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1990
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RB 98/00026 Partial leach geochemical survey, Monarto South, South Australia.
A partial leach soil geochemical survey has been conducted over shallowly buried Cambrian Kanmantoo Trough metasediments in the Monarto South area. The survey was designed to cover a aeromagnetic high anomaly, that is interpreted to be related to a...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1998
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RB 91/00019 Kanmantoo Trough geological investigations Karinya Syncline detailed geochemical surveys.
Results of earlier regional soil sampling conducted by SADME across the Karinya Shale, plus tectonic/structural considerations, had identified 3 prospect areas, Frankton, The Gap and Accommodation Hill, for follow-up mapping, soil sampling, and the...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1991
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RB 96/00040 Resources '96 Convention. Kanmantoo tectonics, sedimentology and metallogeny excursion. Field guide.
An integrated scientific research program addressing structural, sedimentological and metallogenic aspects of basin evolution has been conducted in the Kanmantoo Trough for the past three years. Joint collaboration in this program involved MESA, the...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1996
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RB 96/00032 Mount Barker Creek 1. Well completion report.
Mount Barker Creek 1 was drilled by MESA Mineral Provinces Branch at a location 30 km southeast of Adelaide during May 1994 to test a model of stratiform lead-zinc mineralisation within the Kanmantoo Trough, and to confirm the composition and...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1996
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Kanmantoo. Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial surrender report at licence renewal [part] : progress reports for the period 28/4/1989 to 27/4/1992. [Index Part 1 of 3].
Exploration for gold in the eastern Adelaide Hills, in an area of Cambrian Kanmantoo Group sediments stretching from Kanmantoo in the south to Mount Rhine in the north, was undertaken initially by licence farminee East West Minerals utilising regional...-
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Published: 02 Oct 1992
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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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Mount Karinya. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 5/8/1999 to 4/8/2002.
During September 1999, a single diamond drillhole, fully cored to 599 m total depth, was put down within the Karinya Syncline 12 km south-east of Eudunda, targeting possible economic buried syngenetic - epigenetic Pb-Zn-Ag mineralisation hosted in...-
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Published: 14 Jul 1901
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Kanmantoo (mine prospect). Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 18/1/2005 to 17/1/2010.
Three small adjacent licence sub-blocks, that together cover ~1.5 square km of inferred prospective brownfields ground immediately surrounding Mining Lease ML 5776 held over the former Kanmantoo open pit copper mine (which peripheral ground is herein...-
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Published: 14 Jan 1910
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Wheal Ellen prospect. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 26/8/2004 to 25/8/2009.
The Wheal Ellen prospect situated at the centre of EL 3232 is named after the historical lead-zinc-silver mine which was worked there, primarily in the 1850s. Numerous other old shallow workings are also present along strike and in beds running...-
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Published: 29 Sep 1909
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Currency Creek (latterly part of the Fleurieu Joint Venture). Annual reports submitted until the commencement of project licences' joint reporting, for the period 4/6/1992 to 3/6/1995.
The subject licence was obtained to cover possible southerly extensions of sub-economic metallic mineralisation that had recently been discovered near Strathalbyn at the Angas prospect, situated 12 km to the north-east within Aberfoyle's EL 1582....-
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Strathalbyn (part of the Fleurieu Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 4/6/2007 to 10/4/2019.
Base metal exploration of buried Cambrian metasediments, undertaken over part of the Bremer River valley located east and south-east of Strathalbyn, has consisted of a review of historical exploration results, limited new geochemical sampling of...-
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Dudley East areas 1 and 2 (the Dudley Project). Joint annual reports for the period 3/8/2018 to 2/8/2020, plus respective licence's final reports to 2/8/2020 and 27/10/2021 upon their successive full surrender.
Two very small areas bordering the coastline of the Dudley Peninsula on the eastern end of Kangaroo Island have been explored for possible economic, felsic igneous intrusive late-stage pegmatitic vein - hosted, lithium, tantalum, tin, REE and kaolin...-
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Published: 28 Jul 1921
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Data release - as updated : Sherlock. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 25/6/2012 to 24/6/2017.
An area centred ~50 km south-east of Tailem Bend has been explored for possible economic buried primary stratiform and epithermal deposits of base metals that may have formed within Cambrian bedrock, close to where the current licensees and previous...-
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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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Kanmantoo. Final report on drill testing of a deep magnetotelluric (MT) conductive zone having inferred monzonite related Cu-Au mineral potential, Project ADI RD02-281 [part of Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2022].
Hillgrove Resources Limited (Hillgrove) was granted ADI Round 2 programme subsidy funds to allow it to undertake diamond drill testing of a combined MT - gravity - magnetic anomaly located near its Kanmantoo mine, which it has termed the Stella...-
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Published: 28 Feb 1922
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Langhorne Creek, Bremer, Hartley and Currency Creek (the Fleurieu Project). Joint annual reports for the period 1/10/2008 to 30/9/2013.
In the sixth year of the project, the principal activity was the drilling of two inclined diamond holes for 633.5 m during October 2008 to investigate a possible northern buried extension of the known Rankine Trend mineralisation on EL 3641 ground...-
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Cambrian black shales in the Karinya Syncline - stratigraphic distribution, sedimentology and kerogen composition.
The Heatherdale Shale and the stratigraphically younger Karinya Shale are transgressive units within the Lower Cambrian of the Karinya Syncline. Black muds of the Heatherdale Shale were deposited in an outer ramp setting of the Stansbury Basin under...-
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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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