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Report on the Shamrock uranium prospect.
Uranium mineralisation was first discovered at the old Shamrock Copper Mine during a systematic search of old mine dumps by the South Australian Department of Mines in 1955. Follow-up investigations located a small high-grade uranium lode (Valley...-
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Mount Misery. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/11/1981 to 29/11/1985.
Stratabound, chemically precipitated Telfer - type replacement style vein gold was the target of exploration undertaken over an area 25 km north-west of Yunta, which contains good exposures of Neoproterozoic Umberatana Group clastic metasediments that...-
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Red Lake. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 23/2/1978 to 2/1/1983.
Exploration undertaken on ground situated east of Pernatty Lagoon has included the acquisition of extensive ground magnetic and gravity surveys plus a small aerial magnetic and radiometric survey, and performing many specific gravity and magnetic...-
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Mount Plantagenet. Progress reports, annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 8/1/1982 to 7/1/1986.
Detailed base and precious metals exploration undertaken by Utah Development Company in the area of the Worumba Anticline has targeted possible stratiform Zambian Copperbelt - type deposits. Exploratory work has included 72 geochemical vertical...-
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Bendigo Station (the Fairview Joint Venture). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/11/1992 to 8/11/1995.
As part of continued exploration over a 48% reduced licence area from prior EL 1416 (see Env 8585 for relinquishment report), 36 exploratory inclined RC drillholes (total penetration 3404 m) evaluated nine high-priority aeromagnetic targets, with some...-
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Antro, Ameroo, Plumbago, Telechie Dam and Pimpena (the North Ltd Olary Project). Joint annual reports and final report to licences' joint surrender, for the period 12/7/1993 to 24/9/1996.
Exploration for Broken Hill style stratiform Zn-Pb-Ag and/or Roxby Downs - Cloncurry style discordant Cu-Au and Zn deposits, in the Bimbowrie - MacDonald Hill - Telechie Dam - Boolcoomata area, north-west of Olary, comprised ground magnetic and...-
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Bendigo Station. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 6/8/1987 to 5/8/1992.
Copper and gold exploration comprising outcrop, stream sediment and soil geochemical sampling, and the conduct of ground magnetic and IP surveys, plus RC percussion (67 vertical holes, total 6624 m) and diamond cored tail drilling (in 2 holes, total...-
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Published: 02 Jul 1992
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RB 79/00016 Far Western barite occurrences, Oraparinna, Out of Hds, Co. Taunton, Flinders Ranges.
At Oraparinna, in the Flinders Ranges, barite has formed in fracture zones cross-cutting an Elatina Formation siltstone, within the Umberatana Group of Marinoan age. The occurrences are in a Class B Environmental Area as defined in the Flinders...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 79/00024 Adelaidean sedimentation. The Adelaide Geosyncline and Stuart Shelf.
In southern South Australia, the meridional Torrens Hinge Zone, at approximately longitude 138º, separates the cratonic Stuart Shelf with its undeformed, relatively thin sedimentary cover in the west, from the folded Adelaide Geosyncline to the east....-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 79/00046 Universal Milling (SA) barite deposit, Linke's Lode, Flinders Ranges.
Since 1962, recorded production from Universal Milling's barite deposit, part of Linke's lode, has totalled 28,542 tonnes. The deposit is in a Class B Environmental Area within the Flinders Ranges National Park. The steep barite lode has formed in a...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 79/00098 Steetley's barite deposit - Linkes Lode, Flinders Ranges, ML 3414, Out of Hundreds, County Taunton.
Since 1962, recorded production from Steetley's barite deposit, which forms part of Linke's lode, has totalled 6,237 tonnes. The deposit is in a Class B Environmental Area within the Flinders Ranges National Park. The steep barite lode has formed in...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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AMIRA Project P544: Proterozoic sediment-hosted copper deposits. Quarterly progress reports and final report for the period July 2000 to October 2003.
The original objectives of this project were: 1) To understand the processes responsible for transporting, concentrating and fixing copper and other ore constituents during sedimentary basin evolution 2) To document the various stages and paragenesis...-
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Data release - as updated : Goode Hill. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/6/2002 to 28/8/2015.
Exploration of an area of Neoproterozoic metasedimentary rocks bordering, and in part intruded by, Ordovician plutons of the Anabama felsic intrusive complex, has targeted possible analogues to the Blue Rose copper-gold skarn mineralisation...-
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Published: 04 Nov 1915
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Deep Well (part of Mount Grainger JV Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 16/6/1999 to 15/6/2004.
Exploration of a small area within the Nackara Arc region, lying 15-20 km north-west of the Mount Grainger Goldfield, has sought economic Telfer-type stratabound gold deposits hosted within folded domal structures in Adelaidean strata, which have been...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Iron Peak. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 12/11/2003 to 11/11/2008.
The banded iron formations associated with various Neoproterozoic tillites in South Australia have for some time been recognised as being potential sources for iron ore, however, the low grade nature of the iron mineralisation within these bands has...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2009
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : The North-western Murray Basin Project. Joint annual reports for the period 29/8/2006 to 28/8/2012.
Twelve licence areas owned and operated by Gold Fields Australasia (GFA), comprising two subareas respectively located approximately 50 km east of Burra and 15 km south-east of the Benda Range, on the eastern edge of the Adelaide Fold Belt, are being...-
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Published: 29 Sep 1912
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Data release - as updated : Mongolata. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 13/2/2004 to 12/2/2009.
An area centred ~15 km east-northeast of Burra has been explored for possible economic buried porphyry style copper-gold deposits, initially by grant licensee Bonanza Gold Pty Ltd during the first year of tenure, and thereafter for the next three...-
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Data release - as updated : Kapunda North / Bagot Well North (part of the Eudunda Project). Licence-specific annual reports and final report submitted to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 15/11/2005 to 12/12/2015.
Exploration for copper mineralisation within an area centred immediately north-northeast of Kapunda has as its initial objective to find shallow deposits of oxide and carbonate ores similar to those mined historically at Burra and Kapunda, focussing...-
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Manners Well. Combined first annual/final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/10/2018 to 1/10/2019.
An intensely faulted and folded area centred ~65 km north-east of Parachilna, where extensive hydrothermal alteration is evident in the Neoproterozoic bedrock, and where considerable past small-scale surface mining activity has occurred, but where no...-
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Mount Craig, Mount Caernarvon, Mount Havelock, Red Range and Mount Plantagenet (the Torrens Project). Joint annual reports plus a final report submitted at the full surrender of the last remaining project licences, for the period 16/9/2012 to 22/11/2019.
A group of five contiguous licences originally covering a total area of 756 square km in the south-central Flinders Ranges region, situated east-northeast of Hawker and east of the Elder Range, have been explored for possible economic buried...-
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Published: 26 Nov 1919
