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University student thesis : Detailed geological investigation of the Burra open pit, Burra, SA.
Detailed geological and structural mapping of Samin's partly excavated new Burra open cut was performed by the author at a scale of 1:480 during the period December 1972 to end of January 1973. By the latter date the pit had been excavated downwards a...-
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Williamstown. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 16/12/1971 to 15/12/1972.
Exploration for possible stratiform or hydrothermal, fault-associated copper deposits in the area of basal Adelaidean metasediments lying to the north of known such mineralisation at the abandoned historic Ukaparinga mine, immediately north of...-
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Published: 12 Apr 1973
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Anabama Hill. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/11/1980 to 6/11/1982.
In order to further test a large Delamerian granite pluton for its potential to host an economic porphyry molybdenum deposit of the Climax, Colorado type (following initial exploratory drilling and IP surveys that had been carried out by the SA...-
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South Warren Reservoir. Progress report to licence expiry for the period 10/10/1973 to 9/10/1974.
The Ukaparinga and Southern Hills prospects lie within EL 99, a small exploration tenement located near the Warren Reservoir, 20 km south-east of Gawler. The included Ukaparinga mine area is privately held under three mineral claims, over which...-
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Published: 20 Aug 1974
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Outalpa. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 8/6/1972 to 15/4/1973.
Exploration of an area located approximately 10 miles north of Manna Hill, seeking possible economic Zambian Copperbelt style stratabound copper deposits, has consisted only of an orientation geochemical survey followed by field inspection of...-
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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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Mount Plantagenet. Progress reports, annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 8/1/1982 to 7/1/1986.
Detailed base and precious metals exploration undertaken by Utah Development Company in the area of the Worumba Anticline has targeted possible stratiform Zambian Copperbelt - type deposits. Exploratory work has included 72 geochemical vertical...-
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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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Mount Clive. Progress and annual reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 26/8/1991 to 8/2/1995.
Exploration for possible buried diapir or diatreme - associated diamonds, copper and gold, within an intensively faulted, folded and eroded area of the northern Flinders Ranges situated 35 km east and south-east of Lyndhurst, comprised gravel, stream...-
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Bendigo Station. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 6/8/1987 to 5/8/1992.
Copper and gold exploration comprising outcrop, stream sediment and soil geochemical sampling, and the conduct of ground magnetic and IP surveys, plus RC percussion (67 vertical holes, total 6624 m) and diamond cored tail drilling (in 2 holes, total...-
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Published: 02 Jul 1992
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Kanmantoo. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 25/4/1979 to 15/12/1984.
Exploration conducted in the Mount Pleasant - Tungkillo area included stream, soil and rock chip sampling, an airborne magnetic/radiometric survey, ground magnetic, gravity, IP and EM surveys, and drilling. These activities provided further...-
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Published: 21 Feb 1985
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RB 35/00035 Report on (the) Spring Creek copper mine.
The abandoned and flooded Spring Creek mine, located 7 miles south of Wilmington on the north-western slope of Mount Remarkable, was visited by an officer of the SA Dept of Mines in order to check whether any radioactive minerals were present in still...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1953
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RB 39/00028 Yudnamutana copper deposits in: Government drilling operations. Diamond drilling.
During September-October 1954, the Department of Mines drilled two exploratory diamond cored holes in the historic Yudnamutana Mining Field to test beneath abandoned shallow underground copper mine workings for inferred possible low grade but perhaps...-
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Published: 23 Feb 1955
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RB 54/00075 Ediacara silver-lead-copper Mineral Field. (Mineralisation investigation) Progress report no. 1.
Lead and copper mineralisation occurs in rocks of Cambrian age in the Ediacara Mineral Field. Rich pockets of ore minerals of limited extent occur in the Transition beds and in the overlying carbonates, associated with breccias or turbidites....-
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Published: 19 Mar 1962
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RB 51/00017 Diamond drilling, Prince Alfred copper mine.
Sediments in the area consist of blue dolomitic flaggy and laminated slates and grits, and are equated with the Sturtian Series of the Adelaide System. Copper lodes occur parallel to the beds, which dip between 50-70°W. During the period March to July...-
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Published: 08 Aug 1960
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RB 57/00039 Progress report no. 2 on investigation of Dawesley aeromagnetic anomaly.
Two diamond drillholes were completed over the period January to July 1963 in the initial stages of investigation of the Dawesley aeromagnetic anomaly, aiming mainly to test two IP anomalies 1 mile apart that had been detected on SADM grid line 1000...-
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Published: 30 Aug 1963
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RB 60/00034 Paull Consolidated (or Friends) copper mine. Results of surface sampling and diamond drilling.
Between September 1963 and February 1964 a programme of diamond drilling and surface sampling was carried out at the abandoned Paull Consolidated mine and its environs, located approximately 18 miles north-east of Leigh Creek. Spectrographic analyses...-
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Published: 11 Feb 1965
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RB 60/00064 O'Donoghues Castle copper prospect, Balcanoona Station.
Irregular oxidised orebodies up to about 3 feet thick, containing copper carbonates, quartz, sphaerocobaltite (cobalt carbonate) and wad (hydrated manganese oxide), occupy both shear zones aligned parallel with bedding, and crush zones developed...-
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Published: 26 Mar 1965
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RB 60/00071 (Report on the) Ukaparinga (Unaparinga) copper mine, Williamstown.
Copper carbonates are sporadically distributed throughout steeply dipping mica schist in a zone up to about 70 ft. wide. The host rocks have been regarded as overturned metamorphosed Burra Group (Torrensian) beds resting on the Aldgate Sandstone...-
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Published: 05 Apr 1965
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RB 77/00051;Env 03054 Porphyry style copper/molybdenum mineralization at Anabama Hill and the Cronje Dam copper prospect.
For a project to determine the base metal potential of known copper-mineralised igneous rocks which outcrop in an area located approximately 59 km south-west of Olary, the South Australian Government has completed detailed mapping, geochemical...-
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Published: 17 May 1977
