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Kalabity. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 15/3/1971 to 17/6/1973, plus related technical reports about in situ leach uranium mining methods in Wyoming.
The recently completed drilling of 189 open rotary holes (total penetration 22,427 m), plus the redrilling and geophysical re-logging by joint venturer Minad-Teton of 19 previously completed Carpentaria Exploration Co. uranium exploration holes (for a...-
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Published: 02 Jan 1974
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RB 93/00048 Review of company mineral exploration, CURNAMONA 1:250 000 sheet, South Australia.
Company exploration within the CURNAMONA 1:250 000 sheet area was reviewed by the study of data incorporated in the open file reports on 42 Special Mining Leases, 80 Exploration Licences and one group of Mining Leases dating from 1961. This data...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1994
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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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Crocker Well and Jackson Hill. Joint and separate progress reports, and separate final reports to licences' full surrender, for the period 21/10/1991 to 23/9/1993.
Exploration for diamonds and for base and precious metals over an extensive area located 50 km north-west of Olary comprised regional helicopter-supported drainage sampling of gravel and stream sediments. Kimberlite indicators (chromite) were...-
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Published: 23 Sep 1993
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Kalabity - Old Boolcoomata area [= Olary 'A' Farmin Block]. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 14/1/1971 to 13/1/1972.
As part of exploration for economic metallic mineral deposits within an area of partly outcropping Precambrian calcsilicate rocks present on Kalabity Station, a field reconnaissance of all known mineralised areas was carried out initially. The...-
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Plumbago. Partial surrender report for the Crocker Well and Radium Hill areas, for the period 23/9/1976 to 12/3/1981.
Intensive shallow RAB and percussion pattern drilling of highly sheared and deformed Early Proterozoic granitoid rocks, seeking economic, low grade but large tonnage Rossing style deposits of vein-type uranium ore, particularly in association with a...-
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Published: 12 Mar 1981
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Whey Whey Creek (the Black Elephant Project). Data release to accompany first partial surrender at licence expiry/renewal : annual reports for the period 9/10/2006 to 8/10/2011.
A tenement area located 25 km south-west of Olary was taken up for exploration because in the licensees' opinion it is favourably located on the southern margin of the Curnamona Craton, and covers Willyama Supergroup metasediments and metavolcanics...-
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RB 2004/00009 Radium Hill uranium mine and low level radioactive waste repository management plan. Phase 1 - Preliminary investigation, 2004.
This report is Phase 1 of a management plan for the 'Radium Hill Mine Site and Low-Level Radioactive Waste Repository', and is essentially a preliminary investigation to establish a greater understanding of the characteristics of the site. Phase II...-
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Published: 01 Jul 2004
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Report on rotary percussion drilling at Crocker Well (April - May 1967), and grade evaluation of East Crocker deposits.
During April - May 1967 Electrolytic Zinc undertook a programme of air hammer drilling of 20 vertical, six-inch diameter holes at the Crocker Well uranium deposit. Ten holes totalling 1869 feet were put down on the mineralised section of grid line...-
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The petrology of a uranium-bearing adamellite body at Crocker Well, Olary Province, SA.
The petrology of a uranium-bearing adamellite body at Crocker Well in the Olary Province is described. The study of the adamellite has been carried out to investigate whether significant mineralogical or chemical trends are associated with the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1967
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Kalabity. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 3/10/85 to 2/10/86.
Limited PNC investigations targeting possible economic primary uranium deposits in the Kalabity area, 60 km north of Olary, included reprocessing of gravity data, 1:25,000 scale geological mapping, rock chip sampling for geochemical and petrographic...-
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Report on the July-August 1969 rotary-percussion drilling programme at the "Buried Southern Lode", Mount Victoria.
A programme of rotary-percussion drilling (11 vertical holes, total 1522 feet) was undertaken at Mount Victoria to further test the South Australian Department of Mines' several previous (in 1954 and 1955) shallow intersections of relatively low grade...-
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Published: 17 Dec 1969
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Koonamore - Mount Victor area. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 14/1/1977 to 13/1/1979.
Following the conduct of a reconnaissance resistivity survey to locate possible Tertiary palaeochannels within an intermontane basinal area which extends 10 to 50 km west and north-west from Crocker Well, 16 open rotary holes were drilled for a total...-
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Published: 18 Dec 1979
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Exploration for new uranium ore bodies, Crocker Well area, SA.
With regard to the challenge of finding further uranium deposits within SML 118, it has become obvious that the Crocker Well area possesses certain unique geological features which are unlikely to be repeated elsewhere in the region, and thus merits a...-
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Published: 23 Feb 1968
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Toweroo Bore. Progress reports to licence surrender for the period 30/9/1968 to 30/4/1970.
Uranium exploration, undertaken over a small area of poorly outcropping to shallowly subcropping amphibolite facies metamorphosed Early Precambrian basement located near Toweroo Bore, 35 km north-northwest of Crocker Well, has comprised 144 line km of...-
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Published: 04 Feb 1970
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Report on November 1969 wagon-drill programme, "Jagged Rocks" prospect, SA.
19 test vertical or inclined wagon drillholes totalling 1420 feet were put down at the site of a SADM prospector's 1954 discovery of davidite mineralisation, which occurs as part of two outcrops separated by a wide (1390 feet) expanse of alluvial...-
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Published: 22 Dec 1969
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Boolcoomata. Progress report to licence surrender for the period 23/7/1970 to 22/10/1970.
Field checking of 40 of the most prominent aerial radiometric anomalies, recorded in August 1969 in the Outalpa section of former SML 209, did not reveal any uranium mineral occurrences, although 5 of the anomalies showed significant ground...-
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Radium Hill. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 29/6/1972 to 28/6/1973.
Exploration for possible economic uranium and/or base metal mineralisation in the Radium Hill district consisted of a consultants' review of the exploration potential of the area based on data from existing mines and prospects, plus the conduct of a...-
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Published: 25 Jul 1973
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Plumbago - Glenorchy area [= Olary 'B' Farmin Block]. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 10/2/1972 to 9/2/1973.
In a search for possible remaining economic primary or secondary uranium deposits in an area of known such mineral occurrences located around Mount Victoria, a consultant was engaged by Esso Minerals to conduct detailed 1:12,000 scale geological...-
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Ethiudna [= Olary 'B' Farmin Block]. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 14/1/1971 to 13/1/1972.
Exploration carried out mainly to look for possible large primary deposits of uranium ore in localities surrounding Ethiudna Hill initially addressed the potential of several hard rock showings of uranium mineralisation which had been found by...-
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