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RB 86/00018 Base metal exploration Flinders Ranges National Park. Final report, Stages 1 and 2. Volume 1 (of 2).
Exploration for Mississippi Valley type (MVT) lead zinc along the western margin of the Park has been confined to the upper part of the Wilkawillina Limestone of the Cambrian Hawker Group, where surface lead, zinc and copper mineralization and karstic...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1986
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RB 86/00022 Base metal exploration Flinders Ranges National Park - July 1983 to February 1986 - Summary report.
Investigations have disclosed lead zinc mineralization as open - space filling, in the upper part of the Cambrian, Wilkawillina Limestone. Lead, zinc and copper mineralization is associated with dolomitization, facies changes, and karstic features...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1986
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Wilkawillina (part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Annual reports submitted until the commencement of joint reporting for all six Project licences, for the period 5/8/1999 to 3/8/2002.
A large area centred on the Wilkawillina Gorge of Ten Mile Creek, in the central Flinders Ranges near Oraparinna, is being explored for possible buried economic zinc silicate (willemite) epigenetic or replacement mineralisation of Beltana type, as...-
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South Puttapa. Progress and final summary reports for the period 15/7/1970 to 16/7/1971.
Appraisal of the Beltana zinc deposit continued during the current licence period, principally by diamond drilling (6 holes, total 2570 feet) aimed at delineating blind extensions to the main orebody on its southern side. The drilling was very...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Ediacara, Blinman and Wilkawillina (part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Joint annual reports for the period 3/12/2001 to 31/12/2009.
During the first year of combined reporting for exploration licence 2675 “Ediacara”, 2593 “Blinman’ and 2627 “Wilkawillina”, the exploration focus was primarily on the Ediacara tenement. During mid-1999, Perilya reviewed the Ediacara Mineral Field,...-
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Published: 22 Mar 1910
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Parachilna. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 2/4/1970 to 1/4/1971.
Reconnaissance geochemical sampling of the eastern PARACHILNA mapsheet area for sediment-hosted base metal deposits has succeeded in locating several well-defined areas of interest, although approximately two-thirds of the SML area appears to be...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Ediacara, Blinman, Wilkawillina and Third Plain (the Flinders Ranges Project). Joint annual reports, for the period 1/1/2010 to 31/12/2018.
No work was completed on the subject three tenements during the 2010 reporting period, because the JV's focus then was to explore areas closer to the Beltana mine. However, it was believed that several other high priority base metal - prospective...-
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Published: 28 Feb 1919
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Third Plain (east-central Flinders Ranges). Technical report plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 1/1/1967 to 30/9/1967.
Stream sediment sampling, conducted by Kennecott as follow-up to a 1966 regional surface geochemical reconnaissance programme looking for stratabound Mississippi Valley - type base metal deposits in the central Flinders Ranges, has located a small...-
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Special Mining Leases nos 153, 153A and 153B; Mineral Claim nos 5092 and 5350. Summary report for the period 10/7/1967 to 16/7/1971.
This report summarises, in categoric fashion, all of the various exploratory and mine development activities carried out over the past four years on the broader Puttapa area exploration licence (as renewed), and within the mineral claims taken out...-
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Kanyaka. Progress report to licence surrender, for the period 10/2/1972 to June 1972.
The source of anomalous lead and zinc in the Radford Creek area was traced to a ferruginous outcrop of Parachilna Formation limestone that is associated with a prominent shear and also lies near the contact with the Wilkawillina Limestone. Samples of...-
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Mount Arden. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 6/8/1970 to 24/11/1972.
Resumed exploration for economic stratiform base metal deposits within basal Cambrian and upper Adelaidean metasediments in the area of the Arden and Ragless synclines, 20 km north of Quorn, concentrated on geochemical prospecting and detailed, 1:2000...-
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Mount Lyall. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 1/5/1969 to 24/3/1971.
The Third Plain zinc silicate (willemite) deposit, located 14 miles south-east of Blinman, has been newly assessed by North Flinders Mines for its economic potential. Originally discovered by Kennecott Explorations in late 1966, and evaluated by them...-
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Mount John. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 15/1/1969 to 14/7/1970.
In a continuation of uranium exploration work (part of the Frome Project) begun by E-Z and Newmont on their former SML 217, a surface radiometric anomaly previously identified at the Mount John prospect by ground scintillometer prospecting and shallow...-
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Kanyaka. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/8/1966 to 31/10/1967.
As part of a regional search for possible economic stratabound Early Palaeozoic base metal deposits, Kennecott Explorations carried out stream sediment sampling and geological mapping of the Kanyaka Syncline, plus more intensive near-mine exploration...-
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Published: 05 Oct 1967
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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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RB 2011/00003 PACE Geochronology: Results of collaborative geochronology projects [performed during] 2009-2010.
This report book presents the results of seven geochronology research projects completed during 2009 and 2010 as a new part of the ongoing PACE Initiative geoscientific data gathering activity underwritten by the South Australian Government. It has...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2011
