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Known and potential mineralisation styles, Benagerie Ridge Magnetic Complex.
The north-south trending Benagerie Ridge, lying within the South Australian portion of the Curnamona Province 120-160 km to the west-northwest of Broken Hill, contains a number of magnetic complexes, some of which can be interpreted as domal...-
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Outalpa. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 8/6/1972 to 15/4/1973.
Exploration of an area located approximately 10 miles north of Manna Hill, seeking possible economic Zambian Copperbelt style stratabound copper deposits, has consisted only of an orientation geochemical survey followed by field inspection of...-
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Kalabity. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 15/3/1971 to 17/6/1973, plus related technical reports about in situ leach uranium mining methods in Wyoming.
The recently completed drilling of 189 open rotary holes (total penetration 22,427 m), plus the redrilling and geophysical re-logging by joint venturer Minad-Teton of 19 previously completed Carpentaria Exploration Co. uranium exploration holes (for a...-
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Published: 02 Jan 1974
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Strathearn. First partial surrender report, for the period 20/8/1986 to 17/5/1994.
Exploration for possible Broken Hill type mineralisation formed within the Bimba Formation, in an area located 70 kilometres north-west of Olary, has comprised the acquisition of ground magnetic, EM, IP and Sirotem surveys, plus the drilling of 43 RC...-
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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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Kalabity. First annual report for the period 22/7/1968 to 21/7/1969.
Exploration for possible economic primary and secondary uranium deposits, within an area extending for 50 miles north-westwards from Cockburn and Mingary, has consisted of the first-time (for this locality) acquisition by the licence operator of an...-
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RB 59/00049 SADM Fortville 003 well completion report.
Fortville No. 3 was drilled as a combined water and stratigraphic well. The sequence which was encountered consists of 62 feet recent sediments; 338 feet Lower Tertiary sands and lignitic clays; 2605 feet Cretaceous sediments and 483 feet Mooga...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1967
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RB 77/00145 Evaluation of the Olary silver mine and the Mount Perseverance mine.
The Olary Silver Mine and Mount Perserverance Mine occur in two separate but immediately adjacent stratigraphic intervals. The Olary Silver Mine occurs within a laterally discontinuous, massive to poorly banded siliceous ironstone which is pyritic at...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 78/00011 Mount Howden mine revisited.
Semi quantitative spectroscopy on samples from the Mount Howden Mine gave anomalous results. The best recording was 35cm of greater than 1% Zn, greater than 1% Pb and 10ppm Ag. An interval (10m thick) of above background copper, silver, lead, Zinc,...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 79/00099 Sampling of the Antro albite pegmatite, Bimbowrie Station, Olary Province.
The eponymous 'Antro' pegmatite, which lies 33 km north-west of Olary and close to the Antro Station woolshed, is an elongate soda feldspar body formed conformably within Willyama Complex mica schists. This body consists of albite, with lesser quartz...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 93/00015 Soil Air CO2/O2 Project. Progress report 6, Olary area.
TARGET: The aim was to test if analyses of soil air and subterranean gases sampled via drill holes could define zones of known and unknown mineralisation. EXPLORATION: Soil air carbon dioxide and oxygen measurements were assessed as a guide to...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1993
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RB 98/00022 Review of open file company exploration data from the early 1980s to mid-1997, over the Yunta, Winnininnie, Anabama and Oakvale 1:100 000 map sheets, OLARY 1:250 000 map sheet, South Australia.
Significant exploration focussed on: · stratabound 'Telfer-style' gold in Adelaidean metasediments in the Nackara Arc, using stratiform or stratabound structurally-controlled genetic models; and structurally controlled gold and base metal...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1997
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RB 98/00021 Review of open file company exploration data from 1992 to mid-1997, Olary Domain, CURNAMONA 1:250 000 map sheet, South Australia.
This report comprises Open file company data, released since the previous MESA review (Yates and Randell, 1994) of the CURNAMONA 1:250 000 map sheet, includes exploration for base and precious metals (especially stratiform/stratabound Broken...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1997
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RB 98/00023 Review of open file company exploration data from 1991 to mid-1997, Olary Domain, OLARY 1:250 000 map sheet (Olary and Mingary 1:100 000 map sheets), South Australia.
Open file company data, released since the previous MESA review (Yates, 1992) of exploration in the Palaeoproterozoic - Mesoproterozoic rocks on OLARY 1:250 000 map sheet (Olary and Mingary 1:100 000 map sheets), is dominated by the results of...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1997
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RB 99/00016 Wollastonite in South Australia.
Wollastonite is a calcium silicate mineral of high temperature metamorphic or igneous origins, which lately has been found to have an increasing range of industrial applications. Its main producing country is China. At Ethiudna, in South Australia's...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1999
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 5 partnership DPY5-21 - Mulyungarie area - Junction Dam Palaeoproterozoic metasedimentary/volcanogenic base metal and precious metal mineral prospects. Project interim and final reports.
In 2008, as part of work being performed for it to earn a 51% interest in the Mundi Mundi Plains joint venture exploration licences, Teck Cominco identified two geophysical targets within South Australia on Kalkaroo EL 3328 which it thought were...-
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Emu Dam (formerly Billeroo West). Data release in lieu of partial relinquishment upon licence renewal (as EL 2878) : annual reports for the period 4/11/1996 to 3/11/2001.
Exploration for possible economic Early Proterozoic stratabound Pb-Zn-Ag deposits of Broken Hill type, and for Olympic Dam style, Middle Proterozoic Benagerie Ridge volcanogenic sediment - hosted, epithermal / hydrothermal Cu-Au-Mo(-U) occurrences of...-
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Bulloo Creek (part of the Drew Hill Joint Venture Project acreage). Combined fifth annual and partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 5/8/1999 to 4/8/2004.
Exploration for possible epigenetic Au-Cu-Mo deposits within Palaeoproterozoic metasediments in the surrendered parts of the licence area, which lie just north of MacDonald Hill and are fairly close to MIM's 1997 White Dam Au-Cu discovery, has...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 3 partnership DPY3-09, Yarramba Palaeochannel uranium mineral prospects. Project final report.
A PACE Initiative Year 3 subsidised drilling programme has been undertaken by the EL 3482 licensees over part of the Yarramba Palaeochannel north of the Honeymoon U deposit, seeking similar, Tertiary sediment-hosted roll-front uranium deposits in an...-
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Unlocking South Australia's Mineral and Energy Potential - A Plan for Accelerating Exploration. Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry) : Year 3 partnership no. DPY3-54, Bonython Hill mineral prospect. Project interim and final reports.
EL 2788 (Bonython Hill) covers 120 square km of the Broken Hill Domain, and is regarded as being prospective for Broken Hill - type (BHT) lead-zinc-silver mineralisation and for iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposits. As one of its PACE...-
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