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Pualco West. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 26/10/1972 to 25/10/1973.
Reconnaissance and detailed bulk loam sampling undertaken to look for diamonds or kimberlite indicator minerals in the vicinity of the Pualco Anticline, plus spectrographic analyses of the derived heavy mineral concentrates for gold and base metals...-
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Published: 12 Dec 1973
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Mount Misery. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/11/1981 to 29/11/1985.
Stratabound, chemically precipitated Telfer - type replacement style vein gold was the target of exploration undertaken over an area 25 km north-west of Yunta, which contains good exposures of Neoproterozoic Umberatana Group clastic metasediments that...-
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Lilydale. Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial surrender report : progress reports, annual reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal over a much reduced area, for the period 5/1/1988 to 4/1/1993.
Initial exploration carried out near Lilydale Homestead, 80 kilometres south-east of Yunta, targeted possible Starra-style gold in the Braemar Ironstone facies. Flying of an airborne semi-detailed magnetic and radiometric survey identified magnetic...-
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Copperlinka. Progress and annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/4/1991 to 6/6/1997.
Exploration for possible large, potentially open cut - mineable disseminated quartz vein - type syngenetic gold and base metal deposits within a licence area located near Outalpa, 150 km south-west of Broken Hill, has comprised geological mapping,...-
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RB 88/00013 Appraisal of gold tailings Homeward Bound gold mine, Mannahill Goldfield.
Mineral Lease 5316, covering workings of Homeward Bound mine, is traversed by a stratabound quartz, ironstone, calcite, pyrite lode in thinly laminated grey calcareous siltstones of Umberatana Group, Enorama Shale.Homeward Bound reef has been explored...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1988
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RB 84/00031 Appraisal of gold tailings - Mount Grainger Goldfield.
Between 1901 and 1916 gold ore from Mount Grainger Goldfield, 10 km north of Oodla Wirra, was treated by battery amalgamation and cyanidation at the Mount Grainger Mine. Tailings and slimes from this ore processing period still remain on site, and...-
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Published: 01 May 1984
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RB 86/00003 Treatment of gold tailings - Waukaringa Goldfield. A review of operations and metallurgical investigations, 1983-1985.
Alma and Victoria and Alma Extended, reportedly treated 60 000 and 2 834 tonnes of gold ore respectively. Tailings remaining on site contain minimum 37 710 tonnes grading 2.71 g/t gold and 1 080 tonnes grading 1.94 g/t gold respectively. Attempts in...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1986
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RB 87/00037 Re-evaluation of gold tailings at Alma-Victoria and Alma extended mines Waukaringa Goldfield.
These 2 largest mines on the goldfield, reportedly treated 54 810 and 2 302 tonnes of ore on site during the late nineteenth century, and 3 789 tonnes of ore from the Alma battery. Based on survey and sampling programme in 1983 a minimum 37 710 tonnes...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1987
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RB 82/00083 Baratta silver-lead field. Summary of mineral investigations and mining activity, 1969-1981.
An intensive search for a large low grade silver lead zinc deposit was unsuccessful, although widespread low grade mineralization is present. Associated gold values over 26 metre interval at Eukaby Hill are too low grade to support large scale...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1982
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RB 87/00045 Appraisal of gold tailings, Westward Ho gold mine, Mannahill Goldfield.
Discovered in 1886, Westward Ho mine has a recorded production of 3 765.5 tonnes which yielded 34 729.48 grams of gold bullion. 4 000 tonnes were treated at a stamp battery at the mine and tailings were later cyanided. Remaining on site is an...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1987
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RB 86/00095 Appraisal of gold tailings - Countess of Jersey battery - Mineral Claim 1906 - Wadnaminga Goldfield.
In mid 1892, a 10 head stamp battery was constructed about 4 km NE of the Countess of Jersey gold mine. Reportedly 300 tonnes of ore from the mine was treated at the battery, but no records are available. Recent hand auger sampling and surveying of...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1986
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RB 89/00044 Mineral resources of the Kapunda District Council area.
Kapunda DC is underlain by folded Adelaidean and Cambrian metasediments which host important mineral deposits in the area. An estimated 15 million tonnes of ore averaging 1.2% copper remains near the Kapunda mine, with potential for further...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1989
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Carrick Hill. Combined first annual / final report at licence surrender for the period 18/8/2008 to 17/8/2009.
An area located approximately 80 km north-east of Orroroo was assessed for its potential to contain alluvial and hard rock gold deposits. Quartz veins developed within a narrow zone in the Tarcowie Siltstone at the historic Erina prospect have high...-
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Published: 24 Oct 1909
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Primrose Hill. First partial relinquishment report for the period 13/8/2007 to 12/8/2008.
In a search for possible economic buried IOCG type mineralisation within inferred Proterozoic basement, a new regional gravity survey incorporating the subject EL 3890 Primrose Hill and Minotaur's adjacent EL 3944 Sunny Creek was undertaken in July...-
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Primrose Hill. Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 13/8/2007 to 12/8/2009.
Exploration of an area located approximately 60 km north of William Creek, looking for possible economic buried iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) mineralisation within inferred concealed Proterozoic basement east of the Peake and Denison...-
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Published: 12 Oct 1909
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Leighton. Annual and final reports to licence surrender for the period 19/11/2007 to 21/8/2009.
Basal Umberatana Group glacial tillitic sedimentary sequences and upper Burra Group interglacial arenaceous sediments were explored for possible economic stratabound gold mineralisation in an area located about 10-40 km north-west of Burra. In the...-
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Port Broughton, Redhill and Mount Remarkable - Port Augusta areas (part of the Moonta North Project ELs combined reporting group). Annual reports and joint final report at licences' surrender, for the period 19/4/2002 to 22/5/2006.
Economic deposits of iron-oxide associated copper-gold mineralisation of the Moonta-Wallaroo or Olympic Dam style, hosted in Palaeoproterozoic basement rocks of the Moonta Sub-domain, were targeted by exploration in three now surrendered licences,...-
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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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Boolooroo Goldfield. Annual reports to licence expiry for the period 24/11/1995 to 14/3/2006.
Protracted exploration undertaken by an individual mineral prospector over a small area of rugged topography located in the north-central Flinders Ranges, approximately 25 km north-east of Leigh Creek, has addressed a number of potentially economic...-
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Published: 14 Mar 1906
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Mount Norwest. Annual and final reports to licence surrender for the period 29/9/2004 to 15/4/2008.
A structurally complex area located 50-70 km south-west of Marree was taken up to explore for possible diamonds, this strategy being based on recognition of apparently favourable geological criteria for the presence of diamond-bearing kimberlites and...-
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Published: 26 Aug 1908
