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RB 98/00008 Geochemical studies of the regolith at the Mount Gunson copper deposits, Stuart Shelf, South Australia.
The principal objective of the Cooperative Research Centre for Landscape Evolution and Mineral Exploration (CRC LEME) Shields Program and the Primary Industry and Resources of South Australia (PIRSA) Regolith Terranes Group in South Australia is to...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1998
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Bernard Hill. Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 5/9/2002 to 4/9/2005.
As part of a project examining the Adelaidean cover rocks that surround the Pernatty Culmination on the southern Stuart Shelf for possible economic stratiform copper mineralisation of the various styles known to be present in the Mount Gunson area,...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Woocalla (part of the Mount Gunson Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal over a reduced area, for the period 4/8/1995 to 3/8/2000.
Stuart Metals took up EL 2099 covering ground in the Wirrappa - Lake Blyth - Bookaloo Siding area primarily to explore it for stratiform copper mineralisation of the various styles present in the Mount Gunson area. In addition, it was thought that the...-
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The Lake Torrens Project; plus the Olympic Domain Project. Joint annual reports for the period 1/1/2006 to 31/12/2010.
Licensee Copper Range originally took up a group of three tenements located in central South Australia covering areas within and west of Lake Torrens, with the intent, much reinforced following the Carrapateena deposit discovery made in 2005, of...-
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Published: 04 Mar 1911
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Mount Gunson. Progress reports and technical reports to licence expiry/re-issue over a larger area, for the period 25/10/1979 to 20/12/1985.
As part of an ongoing search for extensions to the Cattlegrid orebody style of stratiform Cu-Fe-Mn mineralisation within its exploration licences on the Stuart Shelf, besides testing for any indications of Olympic Dam type Cu-U-Au deposits in the...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Yeltacowie (part of the Mount Gunson Project). Technical reports and annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 4/5/1998 to 3/5/2003.
Stuart Metals took up EL 2516 covering ground in the Elizabeth Creek - Yeltacowie Homestead area primarily to explore it for stratiform copper mineralisation of the various styles present in the Mount Gunson area. In addition, it was thought that the...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Gunson (part of the Mount Gunson Project). Annual reports for the period 15/7/1994 to 17/10/2008 [ Index Part 3 of 4 ].
During the eighth year of tenure, work done on EL 2639 included: - the conduct of infill ground gravity and CSAMT surveys; - geophysical modelling and interpretation of the new survey data; - geological interpretation and refinement of drilling...-
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Uro Bluff [latterly with Cultana and Tregolana]. Progress reports, joint progress reports and final report to the full surrender of EL 1003 Uro Bluff, for the period 13/3/1980 to 15/1/1985.
Exploration which aimed to test the base of the Neoproterozoic Tapley Hill Formation for economic sedimentary copper deposits has included 10 rotary drillholes (total 1731.8 m), notably with a successful intersection of 1 metre of chalcocite - bearing...-
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Charlinga. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 25/10/1979 to 24/10/1981.
Ongoing exploration for possible Mount Gunson - type base metal occurrences has included percussion drilling on a metal ratio geochemical anomaly identified proximal to inferred buried Beda Volcanics at Charlinga (10 holes totalling 1218 m), plus the...-
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Published: 23 Nov 1981
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CSR Mount Gunson Project : logs of exploratory/stratigraphic drillholes, Elizabeth Creek and Canegrass Dam areas.
Includes geological logs for the following drillholes: Mount Gunson to Canegrass Dam area: 3-14-1P to 3-14-46P (Mount Gunson Mines, 1972). Canegrass Dam area: 3-14-19P to 3-14-41P (Pacminex, Feb 1972); TOC1 - TOC4 (Pacminex, Nov 1976); SP1 -...-
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Stuart Creek. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/8/1979 to 18/10/1982.
One vertical stratigraphic diamond drillhole [the 1a re-drill] was fully cored to 1450 m total depth over a regional gravity high in the western half of the licence which was thought to be prospective for Olympic Dam type polymetallic mineralisation...-
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Dingo Hill. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 23/3/1977 to 22/3/1979.
An area of the southern Stuart Shelf, with untested potential for hosting possible stratiform base metal deposits within a probable concealed Early Proterozoic sedimentary basin embayment, was explored by BP as part of their regional mineral...-
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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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Tthe Stuart Range Joint Venture Project. Joint progress reports and final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 21/4/1980 to 31/3/1981.
When Getty Oil took over management of the Stuart Range Project licences, it reviewed all of Newmont's drillhole data and undertook reclogging of the drill cores with the aim of correlating stratigraphy across the project area. Starting in October...-
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Beddome Hill. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 23/3/1977 to 22/3/1979.
An area centred approximately 90 km north-west of Woomera has been explored for possible economic copper mineralisation associated with geophysical anomalies thought to originate within Adelaidean metasedimentary bedrock. After considerable delays and...-
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Lincoln Gap (part of the Eastern Eyre Peninsula Project). First annual report and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/9/2009 to 29/9/2011.
An area located approximately 20 km south-west of Port Augusta has been explored for possible economic unconformity-hosted uranium at the base of the Pandurra Formation, for copper sulphides near the Beda Volcanics - Pandurra Formation contact, and...-
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Mount Gunson (part of the Mount Gunson Project). Third partial surrender report, for the period 16/6/1994 to 22/9/2010.
No work has been undertaken recently on the currently relinquished portion of EL 4460. However, previously this piece of ground, located between Lake Dutton and the southern end of Pernatty Lagoon, has formed part of three successive licences held...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Mount Moseley (part of the Mount Gunson Project). Annual reports for the period 10/10/2002 to 28/10/2018.
An area centred approximately 50 km south of Woomera, near the Oakden Hills, is being explored for three separate types of mineralisation: • stratiform copper mineralisation similar to that of the world-class Central African Copper Belt and White Pine...-
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Published: 20 Dec 1918
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Myall Creek. Progress reports to licence full surrender, for the period 14/5/1998 to 30/3/2000.
Exploration for Olympic Dam type Cu-Au in the Myall Creek area, located 15-50 km north of Whyalla, comprised surface geological mapping and orientation calcrete geochemical sampling, together with the re-logging, petrographic examination and...-
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Mount Moseley. Annual and final reports for the period 24/12/96 to 23/12/98.
Exploration targets were gold and base metals in Adelaidean and basement rocks, 20 km southwest of Mount Gunson. Regional and infill calcrete sampling did not reveal any areas worthy of follow up, and geophysical interpretation indicated depths to...-
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