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RB 60/00034 Paull Consolidated (or Friends) copper mine. Results of surface sampling and diamond drilling.
Between September 1963 and February 1964 a programme of diamond drilling and surface sampling was carried out at the abandoned Paull Consolidated mine and its environs, located approximately 18 miles north-east of Leigh Creek. Spectrographic analyses...-
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Published: 11 Feb 1965
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RB 93/00042 Orroroo bedrock drilling 1993.
Eighty three reverse circulation drill holes totalling 2615.5 metres were drilled on Quorn, Orroroo, Paratoo and Carrieton 1:100 000 sheets to determine bedrock geology and geochemistry below sedimentary cover. The program is a part of the South...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1993
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Three Creeks area (part of the Hawker Project). Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 5/6/2006 to 4/6/2010.
The Three Creeks EL 3567 covers, for the most part, the north-westerly plunging Yednalue Syncline. Lying to the south-east of the Worumba Anticline (a diapiric structure cored by disrupted Callanna Group), the syncline comprises Umberatana Group...-
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Published: 17 Sep 1910
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Eukaby. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 22/6/1972 to 31/5/1973.
As part of North's continuing exploration for possible buried syngenetic, Broken Hill - type stratiform base metal deposits in the Eukaby area, extensive deep directional diamond core drilling (9 of 14 holes totalling 11,603 feet) was carried out in...-
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Wiawera. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/12/1996 to 12/12/2001.
Exploration for possible sheeted vein type gold, Telfer - style gold, and BIF hosted gold and base metal sulphide deposits that may have formed in Adelaidean metasediments occupying the area between Anabama and Radium Hill, 10-30 km south-east of...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Devonborough Downs and Olary (the Olary Project). Joint annual reports for the period 21/1/2012 to 20/1/2014.
Two adjacent licences together covering a large area located to the south of the Barrier Highway between Olary and Manna Hill are being explored for possible large tonnage, mainly buried low grade magnetite deposits that could have formed within the...-
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Mount Victor. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 30/11/1981 to 29/11/1986.
Evaluation of the potential of the Nillinghoo Goldfield district to hold Telfer - type low grade, shallowly dipping stratabound gold deposits suitable for open pit extraction has included aerial photograph, Landsat and regional magnetic data...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Wadnaminga and Outalpa (the Olary JV Project, later renamed the Blue Rose Project). Joint annual reports for the period 19/7/2008 to 18/7/2018.
During Year 12 of the Olary JV Project (2008-2009), field work was undertaken only on EL 3849 Outalpa to make up for the earlier underspending on that licence relative to commitments. In early 2009, a ground radioactivity survey was acquired using a...-
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Published: 27 Nov 1918
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Manunda Creek. Combined first progress/final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 23/8/1977 to 22/8/1978.
Exploration for possible economic Olympic Dam - type epithermal/hydrothermal or Zambian Copperbelt - type stratabound/replacement base metal deposits, in an area located approximately 40 km south-east of Yunta, focussed on magnetic anomalies and...-
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Progress reports on exploration of seven mining claims in the Big Lode mine area, for the period January 1971 to December 1972.
An area of 1.2 square km surrounding the Big Lode mine historic copper workings was reserved for 18 months under tenure of seven Mining Claims, to allow for the detailed geological mapping of rock structures possibly controlling observed secondary...-
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ExpNotes PARACHILNA (v2): Explanatory Notes PARACHILNA (second edition, 1999)
The PARACHILNA map area (31 to 32°S, 138 to 139.5°E) occupies the central Flinders Ranges which are made up of folded, mostly marine sedimentary Neoproterozoic and Cambrian rocks of the Adelaide Geosyncline, and adjoining plains underlain by Cainozoic...-
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IS M49 Geology of the Clare Valley
The geological history of the present-day observable rocks that outcrop in the Clare Valley district of South Australia is described in easily understandable language by a SA Government geological mapping expert. His interpretative map depicting the...-
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RB 65/00095 Geochemical and geological investigation of the Serle - Angepena area, Mount Coffin Diapir.
Most of the geochemical copper anomalies outlined by soil sampling in the Mount Coffin Diapir area are attributed to secondary dispersion of copper by weathering from epigenetic sources of low economic importance. One anomaly, caused by mineralised...-
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Published: 10 Nov 1967
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Razorback Ridge (part of the Braemar Iron Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 10/6/2010 to 9/6/2013.
Iron ore exploration undertaken within two small licence subareas centred 60 km south of Yunta, in the vicinity of the outcropping Razorback Ridge banded iron formation of Sturtian age, was directed at assessing the economic potential of the...-
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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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Olary (latterly part of the Olary Project). Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 21/1/2008 to 20/01/2015.
A large area located immediately south and south-west of Olary has been explored initially for possible economic buried primary epithermal to mesothermal copper-gold and gold only mineralisation that might have formed in Adelaidean and older bedrock,...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1915
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SADM/Amdel Project 1/1/130 : geological and geochemical investigations of the Lyndhurst Diapir. Progress reports and final report for the period December 1970 to October 1972.
The objectives of this research project were: 1. to determine the petrological history of the component rocks in the diapir, and, if possible, the origin of the copper found in blocks or rafts of sedimentary rock now included within diapiric breccia...-
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Oakbank Dam (part of the Lodestone Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 4/11/2010 to 1/8/2016.
An area centred ~70 km south-southeast of Olary has been explored for buried mineral sands placer deposits that may have formed within the Cainozoic Murray Basin sedimentary cover, as well as for possible economic stratabound iron ore occurrences that...-
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Data release - as updated : South Dam. Annual reports to licence full surrender, for the period 10/12/2009 to 4/11/2020.
A small licence area located on the northern margin of the Murray Basin, approximately 70 km north-east of Burra and about 40 km south of the previously studied Razorback Ridge banded iron formation magnetite deposit, has been explored for possible...-
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RB 2012/00004 MARREE, South Australia, [geological map] sheet SH54-5. South Australia. Geological Survey. 1:250 000 Series - Explanatory Notes.
The MARREE mapsheet area includes the south-western portion of the Strzelecki Desert plus parts of the Tirari Desert, north-western Flinders Ranges and north-eastern Willouran Ranges, between latitudes 29 to 30 degrees S and longitudes 138 to 139...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2012
