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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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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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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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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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RB 66/00081 Third geochemical and geological report on the Serle - Angepena (1-mile mapsheet) area : geochemical investigation of the Mount Burr Diapir - Nichols Nob anomaly. .
Geochemical follow-up soil sampling performed near Nichols Nob, over stream sediment base metal anomalies previously recognised along the western margin of the Mount Burr Diapir, has delineated several copper anomalies. The largest of these have...-
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Published: 20 Mar 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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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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Mount Rose. Progress reports to licence expiry for the period 1/10/1968 to 30/9/1970; Mount Serle. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 10/2/1969 to 9/2/1971.
Base metal exploration carried out in the vicinity of historic copper workings in the Mount Rose area, situated approximately 30 miles east-northeast of Copley, has consisted of detailed 1:1500 scale geological mapping, soil and rock chip sampling,...-
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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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Mount Burr. Progress and final reports to licence surrender, for the period 15/10/1970 to 14/7/1971.
A small area of the northern Flinders Ranges surrounding the Nichols Nob copper occurrences was explored for possible economic massive stratiform copper deposits, targeting the known mineralised Yudnamutana Subgroup metasediments. Work comprised a...-
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Report on SML 165, Breaden Hill area, Willouran Ranges, SA.
As a result of the work outlined in this report it is concluded that the possibility of economic tonnages of copper ore within the area of Special Mining Lease no. 165 are restricted to three localities, Breaden Hill, Boorloo and East Rook. All three...-
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Anabama [Copper-Molybdenum Project]. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 26/10/1972 to 25/10/1974.
Ongoing exploration by the SA Department of Mines of the copper and molybdenum - mineralised Anabama Granite batholith, which is located 20 km south-east of Manna Hill, has involved detailed geological mapping, soil and rock chip sampling, and the...-
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Arkaba. Combined first progress/final report to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 27/11/1969 to 26/5/1970.
Soil geochemical sampling (940 samples) carried out on a 1000 foot by 1500 foot grid pattern over the Arkaba Diapir, aiming to check for possible economic zinc mineralisation that may have formed within the diapiric breccias and related fracture zones...-
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Willouran Ranges. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/5/1964 to 30/4/1966.
Exploration of the known copper-bearing Lower Adelaidean metasediments outcropping in the Willouran Ranges to the south-west of Marree addressed the many historical mine prospects and also the region as a whole. Initial work comprised a regional...-
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Published: 18 Feb 1966
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Matt Whim. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 23/6/1972 to 24/6/1973.
Exploration for stratabound copper deposits within potentially prospective Late Proterozoic host sedimentary rocks over an area of the southern Flinders Ranges comprised regional geochemical sampling and detailed (1:10,000 scale) geological mapping,...-
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Willouran Ranges. Progress reports to licence expiry for the period 1/6/1966 to 30/11/1966.
In a search for possible economic stratiform copper occurrences in Upper Proterozoic sediments of the Willouran Ranges, the licensee undertook photogeological and field mapping studies plus a regional geochemical survey of outcropping rocks and...-
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Bibliando Dome. Progress reports to licence partial surrender / renewal for the period 20/12/1973 to 16/12/1974.
The subject licence area was taken up to explore for buried economic copper mineralisation in fractured/faulted, hydrothermally-altered Neoproterozoic country rocks associated with blind, near-surface diapiric structures that may have intruded into...-
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Published: 31 Jan 1975