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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 93/00019 Geology of the Upalinna Diapir, central Flinders Ranges.
Investigation of the Upalinna Diapir, located 20 km east of Wilpena Pound in the Adelaide Geosyncline, has identified a number of structural and sedimentary features normally associated with evaporite diapirs. The Upalinna Diapir is a small,...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1993
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Arkaba Hill (part of the Torrens Project). First partial surrender report, for the period 9/7/2012 to 7/3/2017.
Two adjacent portions of the subject licence, which are centred ~13 km south-southwest of Wilpena Pound National Park, have been surrendered following a downgrading of their perceived prospectivity for possible economic buried sediment-hosted oxide...-
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Mount Craig (part of the Torrens Project). First partial surrender report, for the period from 20/2/2014 to 7/3/2017.
A small part of the subject licence, which lies ~25 km south of Wilpena Pound National Park, has been surrendered following a downgrading of its perceived prospectivity for possible economic buried sediment-hosted oxide and sulphide base metal...-
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Mount Caernarvon (part of the Torrens Project). First partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period from 17/1/2012 to 16/1/2017.
Four portions of the subject licence, which lies adjacent to and south-west of Wilpena Pound National Park, have been surrendered following a downgrading of their perceived prospectivity for possible economic buried sediment-hosted oxide and sulphide...-
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Manna Hill [not 'Mannahill']. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/10/1987 to 15/1/1990.
TARGET: Possible concealed, saddle-reef type lode developments of inferred Telfer-style gold deposits at the Manna Hill Goldfield. EXPLORATION: Reconnaissance inspection of old mine workings, rock chip sampling (79), and shallow RAB bedrock drilling...-
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Maggie Hill. Combined first quarterly and final report to licence surrender, for the period 30/11/1988 to 28/2/1989.
TARGET: Gold associated with major structures and hosted by calcareous rocks. EXPLORATION: Stream sediment and BLEG (bulk leach extractable gold) sampling at 22 sites. Au (by bulk cyanide leach), As and Fe analysis. RESULTS: Because no anomalous gold...-
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PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 8 partnership DPY8-21 - Yerelina Gladstone Mining Field sediment-hosted and structurally controlled hydrothermal/replacement style stratabound base metal prospects. Final report.
High-grade silver-lead-zinc mineralisation formed within the Neoproterozoic Tapley Hill Formation (THF) was historically mined 100 years ago at Yerelina in the northern Flinders Ranges. Despite the existence of numerous poorly documented small-scale...-
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Published: 08 Dec 1915
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Geology of the Willippa Anticline, central Flinders Ranges.
In the central Flinders Ranges, Neoproterozoic and early Palaeozoic rocks are found outcropping within a series of broad, open, dome and basin-shaped folds. This region contains most of the diapiric structures in the Adelaide Geosyncline, many, but...-
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Mount Burr. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 12/9/1979 to 17/9/1980.
Strike-oriented residual soil sampling (662 samples taken at nominal 100 m spacings along 90 km of traverses) over the pyritic and carbonaceous basal Tindelpina Shale Member of the Tapley Hill Formation, in the northern Flinders Ranges 65 km east of...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1981
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RB 65/00120 Report on geophysical surveys in the Mount Coffin Diapir area, with appendix on additional IP measurements.
Geophysical surveys made in the Mount Coffin diapir area show the presence of anomalous zones indicative of sulphide mineralisation. The more intensive anomalies are, however, believed to be due to pyritic shales. Geochemical anomalies within the...-
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Published: 14 Jun 1968
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Mount Craig (part of the Hawker Project). Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 15/11/2005 to 14/11/2010.
Copper Range's principal exploration targets in the Adelaide Fold Belt are secondary, near-surface oxide copper deposits that are structurally controlled and related to hydrothermal events focussed along faults late in the deformational history of the...-
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Published: 06 Apr 1911
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Bute. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 23/3/1993 to 11/12/1998.
Gold and base metal exploration conducted near the SA Lower North township of Bute, 140 km north-west of Adelaide, comprised the conduct of IP and ground magnetic surveys and RC drilling (4 holes, total 350 m). Two holes drilled on magnetic anomaly...-
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Published: 23 Mar 1999
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Mount Hack. Combined first annual / final report at licence surrender, for the period 16/5/1995 to 22/3/1996.
A review of existing mineral exploration data pertaining to an area located 50 km north-east of Blinman indicated that geochemical copper anomalism is associated with the Mount Roebuck Fault and the Pinda Diapir. The potential for finding supergene...-
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Wheal Motley area. Progress reports to licence surrender for the period 16/7/1970 to 26/3/1971.
Exploration for possible economic stratabound/hydrothermal copper and other base metal deposits in an area located on the northern margin of the Murray Basin, south-west of Yunta, failed to find evidence of diapiric breccia and did not reveal any...-
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Published: 20 Jan 1971
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Mount Lyndhurst. Progress and final reports for the period 4/1/1973 to 3/1/1975.
Exploration for stratabound copper mineralisation in the Mount Lyndhurst area, allied with intensive prospecting of existing Mineral Claims and other historic base metal prospects and reported showings, has demonstrated a favourable geological...-
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Published: 02 Jan 1975
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Anabama Hill. Combined first annual/final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/7/1992 to 26/7/1993.
Exploration for base metal mineralisation near Anabama Hill, 40 km south-east of Manna Hill, comprised rock chip sampling and RAB/RC drilling (58 holes, total 1847 m). Anomalous copper (to 0.19% Cu) and zinc were intersected in hydrothermally altered...-
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Billy Springs and Mount Livingstone. Progress and final reports to licences' expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/7/1969 to 19/11/1970.
Orientation and regional reconnaissance stream sediment geochemical surveying (1438 samples) of early Marinoan shallow marine carbonate strata, carried out over a wide area surrounding the historic Billy Springs lead-zinc mine, failed to locate any...-
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Island Lagoon [South]. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 2/4/1970 to 1/4/1971.
In a search for possible Mount Gunson - type copper mineralisation thought to have been formed within Adelaidean dolomitic metasediments in the southern Island Lagoon shore area, a field reconnaissance was carried out to look for postulated vectors to...-
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Published: 24 Mar 1971
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Bourne. Final report at licence expiry/full surrender for the period 15/7/1968 to 14/7/1969.
A possible association between copper and uranium mineralisation such as had been reported in the early 1950s at the Nicholl's Nob mine, located just to the east of the subject licence, was pursued by E-Z, who in this case examined the western...-
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