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Hanns Hill. Progress reports for the period 19/1/81 to 6/12/82.
Follow up to stream sediment sampling near Oodnadatta in the Mount Dutton area suggests that anomalous nickel, chromium and cobalt values are associated with ironstone, and anomalous niobium with geodes. No kimberlites were discovered.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1982
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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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Burra Project licence group. Data release made in lieu of submitting partial surrender reports for ELs 6102, 6103, 6158, 6305 and 6306 : joint annual reports for the period 25/1/2018 to 2/12/2020 plus initial annual annual report.
To date exploration in the Burra region of the Adelaide Geosyncline has focussed on historic copper-gold oxide workings, with the aim of delineating further mineralisation along strike, or sulphide mineralisation at depth. Lately however, rather than...-
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Published: 04 Feb 1921
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Walparuta Project geophysical program: acquisition and interpretation of high resolution airborne magnetic / radiometric and ground gravity surveys. Final report, Project ADI RD02-264 [part of Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2022].
This report details the field acquisition and data processing, inversion and interpretation stages of the Walparuta geophysical program conducted in December 2021. The work was focussed on the Walparuta Project area, located 20 km north of Manna Hill...-
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Published: 28 Apr 1922
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Port Augusta - Wilkatana area. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/10/1969 to 4/8/1972.
An area surrounding the Emeroo Range, and extending from the vicinity of Port Augusta to 30 km west of Hawker, was explored by Utah for possible economic stratabound base metal deposits which it was thought could be associated with certain favourable...-
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Eurelia - Carrieton area. Annual and progress reports to licence amalgamation/renewal for the period 5/8/1971 to 14/2/1972.
Ongoing exploration for possible economic stratiform copper deposits occurring in Late Proterozoic metasediments forming the Eurelia Anticline has concentrated on evaluating mainly the Copper Claim prospect plus four less attractive prospects, after...-
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Wyacca (part of the Hawker Project). Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/1/2006 to 17/1/2011.
EL 3492 was originally taken out to cover the historic copper workings at Wyacca, located 40 km east of Hawker, as part of an exploration project addressing possible economic shallow oxide copper mineralisation associated with old mines and workings...-
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Published: 06 Apr 1911
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Blinman Dome geological appraisal. Progress report to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 20/7/1981 to 19/1/1982.
The occurrence of copper mineralisation in the Blinman area was reviewed, and the results and interpretations made for recent company exploration work have been critically assessed. Recommendations are made for investigating certain shallow depth...-
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Yunta. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 3/4/1997 to 22/8/2000.
Rock chip, calcrete and soil geochemical sampling were carried out at the Thanksgiving prospect, an ovate-shaped aeromagnetic anomaly situated 10 km south-east of Yunta, which is associated with skarn - style alteration of Adelaidean dolomites....-
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Leigh Creek. Progress and annual reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 4/3/1974 to 3/3/1976.
Ongoing exploration of abandoned historic mine workings and the surrounding area at the Mountain of Light prospect, located approximately 2 miles east of Copley, was aimed at delineating an economic copper oxide/carbonate - mineralised orebody and any...-
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Paratoo. Progress reports to licence full surrender, for the period 17/5/1979 to 26/3/1982.
In a search for possible diamonds and their kimberlite hosts that was undertaken within a large area centred ~60 km east of Peterborough, a preliminary literature review and photo-lineament analysis was conducted, next leading to field reconnaissance...-
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Laura. Summary and annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/8/1993 to 23/1/1996.
A manganese-rich Adelaidean stratigraphic unit outcropping along the western flank of the Mount Remarkable Range, which returned 1.8% Co, 1.5% Cu and 1.0% Zn in a grab sample from the Willowie Cobalt prospect, warrants further work because it is...-
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Eurelia. Progress and annual reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 30/10/1969 to 29/7/1971.
An exploration licence area covering 120 square miles in the vicinity of the Eurelia Anticline was taken up by Utah Development to search for possible economic Zambian Copperbelt-style stratiform copper deposits within upper Adelaidean metasedimentary...-
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Mount Davidson. Progress, annual and final reports to licence expiry for the period 15/1/1970 to 14/1/1972.
Exploration for possible hydrothermal/stratabound replacement-type base metal deposits in an area located 28 miles north-east of Hawker, adjacent to the northern margin of the Worumba Diapir, has consisted of photogeological mapping of structures...-
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Published: 17 Jan 1972
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Willochra. Progress report to licence surrender for the period 1/12/1965 to 31/5/1966.
As part of a regional investigation of the stratiform base metal mineral potential of Cambrian strata in South Australia, Kennecott has undertaken a geochemical reconnaissance of the Parachilna Formation and Wilkawillina Limestone strata present in...-
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Published: 23 May 1966
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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