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Report on the computerised Landsat lineament analysis, North Flinders Ranges, South Australia.
A computerised lineament analysis of Landsat digital image data covering the northern portion of the Flinders Ranges has shown a strong correlation between the known mineralisation and fracture structuring peripheral to granites, suggesting that...-
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RB 97/00039 Lineament tectonic data, South Australia, with a focus on the Cooper Basin.
The lineament mapping methods used by E.S.T. (Tim) O'Driscoll, which were a crucial factor in the discovery of Olympic Dam, the world's largest known Cu-U-Au-Ag deposit, and of several other lesser Australian metallic orebodies, have now been applied...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1997
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mutooroo mine. Annual reports for the period 13/3/2000 to 1/11/2013.
Exploration Licence 2704 covering 23 square km surrounding the historic abandoned Mutooroo copper mine, located ~55 km east of Olary, was granted to Havilah Resources NL so that the company could assess the economic potential of the remaining sulphide...-
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Published: 02 Dec 1913
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Mineralization, geology, and structure, SML 118, Olary Province, South Australia.
A geological consultant's study of the Glenorchy - Plumbago granitic fault block area in the western half of SML 118, to try to elucidate its relationship to known uranium mineralisation, suggests that there is a structural association of lodes with...-
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Published: 23 Feb 1968
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Yerelina. Annual reports for the period 18/9/2012 to 17/9/2018.
An extensive covered area centred ~100 km north of Leigh Creek and lying immediately west of the exposed basement rocks of the Mount Painter Inlier is being explored for possible Mount Isa style stratiform or Mississippi Valley type stratabound...-
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Published: 13 Nov 1918
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Jubilee Dams. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 11/8/1977 to 14/12/1977.
A programme of ground magnetic surveying along 7 short traverses, plus air/mud drag-bit percussion drilling (5 vertical open holes totalling 509 m) was used to investigate a set of previously untested discrete aeromagnetic high anomalies covered by...-
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Published: 02 Dec 1977
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RB 73/00313 Crustal Study Project. An account of the work circumstances surrounding the Mount Fitton South mine 'big bang' controlled underground blast of 25/10/1972
As part of the Trans-Australia Seismic [Refraction] Survey (TASS) conducted during 1972 by the Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics of the Commonwealth of Australia (BMR), approximately 82 t of explosive was instantaneously detonated by...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1973
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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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Lake Callabonna. Partial surrender reports at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 6/12/2013 to 24/08/2023.
Ten separate small portions of EL 5360 together covering 249 square km have recently been relinquished due to their perceived diminished prospectivity for IOCG mineralisation. The only work done on these sub-blocks has consisted of part of a ground...-
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Published: 09 Dec 1915
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Amdel Ltd project - Fluid inclusion studies of South Australian ores, rocks and minerals. Progress reports nos 1 to 6 for the period 7/5/1976 to 3/4/1980.
In September 1975 the South Australian Department of Mines accepted a proposal from Amdel Ltd to purchase and set up some microthermometry apparatus, in order to commence fluid inclusion studies of selected rock types and minerals in South Australia....-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 2 partnership DPY2-19, Honeymoon area base metal and hard rock uranium mineral prospects. Project final report.
EL 2937 licensee Southern Cross Resources has utilised PACE Initiative Year 2 funding assistance to carry out a collaborative drilling project to test 2 primary base metal/uranium targets within Willyama Group basement at a location 5 km south-east of...-
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