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Proterozoic basement exploration, 1979-1982, Billeroo West [EL 722 partial relinquishment report to 14/9/82].
Basement magnetic anomaly M2 located near Sandyoota Dam on Curnamona Station, one of three anomalies mapped within EL 722 south of Lake Frome by geophysical consultant J. Ashley, was investigated for Olympic Dam style mineralization by detailed ground...-
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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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Review of Mineral exploration activity, 2003 and 2004.
2003 activity: Expenditure by companies on mineral exploration licences in South Australia for calendar year 2003 was $37.0 million, a slight increase on the $35.7 million spent in 2002. Mineral exploration drilling metreage, a key indicator of...-
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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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Lake Carnanto. Progress reports for the period 27/5/83 to 26/5/84.
A consultant's review of the pre-Mesozoic base metal potential of the EL recommends follow-up of magnetic anomalies in shallow basement, which may possibly be associated with zinc mineralization in a Middle Proterozoic siltstone - shale sequence.-
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Telechie Dam. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal for the period 27/8/1979 to 26/8/1981.
Exploration for possible primary epithermal/hydrothermal uranium deposits of Olympic Dam - type, hosted by buried Precambrian basement rocks in an area located 150 km to the south south-east of Lake Frome, has consisted of the acquisition of gravity...-
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Billeroo West. Progress and technical reports for the period 30/6/80 to 7/11/87.
TARGET: Sedimentary uranium in Tertiary palaeochannels, plus Olympic Dam or sedex type base and precious metal deposits in the Proterozoic basement. EXPLORATION: Ground magnetic, gravity and SIROTEM surveys, one 600 metre deep diamond drill hole (BW...-
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Published: 24 Dec 1987
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Benagerie. Progress reports and annual reports, plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 13/11/1979 to 9/3/1989.
TARGET: Sedimentary uranium in Tertiary sandstone, plus Olympic Dam type copper-gold mineralisation and Broken Hill or Mount Isa type stratiform base metal mineralisation in the underlying basement rocks. EXPLORATION: Stratigraphic drilling (162...-
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Lake Namba. Progress and final reports for the period 4/11/1975 to 26/10/1981.
TARGET: Sedimentary uranium deposits in the Lower Tertiary sediments overlying the Mesozoic Frome Embayment and Cambrian Moorowie Syncline stratigraphic succession, adjacent to and overlying the western flank of the Proterozoic Benagerie Ridge....-
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Culberta Bore. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/6/1980 to 19/6/1981.
TARGET: Possible uranium, base metals and gold hosted within concealed Early Proterozoic basement. EXPLORATION: Acquisition and interpretation of ground gravity and magnetic surveys, plus the drilling of a rotary/diamond hole (CU1) to 507.8 m total...-
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Published: 25 Sep 1981
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Lake Coontayunta. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 4/1/1979 to 18/12/1979.
An exploration licence area covering the projected northerly trending, buried portion of the Precambrian Benagerie Ridge basement was taken up by CRA to explore principally for possible secondary sandstone-hosted uranium mineralisation in Tertiary and...-
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Published: 30 Nov 1979
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Culberta Bore. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 26/1/1978 to 25/1/1980.
The potential for finding economic Olympic Dam style copper-uranium mineralisation beneath the Strzelecki Desert cover in an area located 30 km east of Lake Frome was investigated by a review of prospectivity factors, and by the acquisition of...-
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Published: 11 Apr 1980
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Lake Yantawena (East). Progress reports for the period 27/11/1970 to 26/11/1972.
An airborne scintillation spectrometer survey with follow-up ground radioactivity surveying, new geological and gamma logging of deep water bores, and subsequent road traverse drilling of 64 regional reconnaissance open rotary holes totalling 24,447...-
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Poverty Lake (part of the Benagerie JV Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 17/5/2002 to 11/7/2012.
Exploration for Olympic Dam type or Cloncurry style iron oxide - associated copper-gold deposits, and for Broken Hill / Cannington style stratabound silver-lead-zinc deposits, both possibly formed within buried Palaeoproterozoic basement in a small...-
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[East of] Lake Frome area (part of the Benagerie Ridge JV Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 10/10/2002 to 9/10/2012.
EL 3019 located in the Curnamona Province of South Australia covers a portion of the north-south trending buried palaeotopographic high known as the Benagerie Ridge. The north-south elongate licence area occupies part of Quinyambie Station, and is...-
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Coombs Springs. First annual report, submitted prior to the start of project joint reporting, for the period 13/11/2006 to 12/11/2007.
A small area centred ~140 km north-northwest of Olary is being explored for possible buried Tertiary palaeochannel or sheet sandstone-hosted, roll-front style sedimentary uranium mineralisation, as well as for possible Mesoproterozoic basement-hosted...-
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Published: 04 Jan 1908
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Coombs Springs and Lake Millyera (the Coombs Springs Project). Joint annual reports plus individual licence final reports to their respective full surrender, for the period 13/11/2007 to 22/1/2014.
Two small adjacent licence areas on the plains near the south-eastern corner of Lake Frome, which were centred ~150 km north-northwest of Olary, have been explored for possible buried Tertiary palaeochannel or sheet sandstone-hosted, roll-front style...-
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Culberta Bore and Curraworra Bore. Annual reports and combined final report to licences' respective expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/4/2005 to 12/4/2010.
An area located approximately 50 km south-west of Quinyambie has been explored for possible economic, buried IOCG style mineralisation within Proterozoic basement rocks underlying the north-eastern margin of the Benagerie Ridge. In addition, after...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Kalkaroo (formerly part of the Curnamona Cu-Au Project). Annual reports for the period 25/10/2007 to 17/1/2019.
During the first ten months of the subject reporting period, Havilah continued to carry out exploratory drilling on its Kalkaroo exploration licence and on the embedded two new mining claims, MCs 3826 and 3827, to support the preparation of its mining...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Moolawatana. Annual reports for the period 27/1/1999 to 24/09/2015.
A dispersed three-part licence area located on the plains between Lake Callabonna and Lake Frome, and centred approximately 33 km east of Parabarana Hill, is being explored for possible economic primary gold and base metal deposits associated with...-
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Published: 04 Jun 1909
