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Mount Painter, Mount Gee and Mount Ward. Progress reports and technical reports to licences' respective expiry/full surrender, for the period 31/6/1965 to 29/11/1985.
Exploration disclosed widespread uranium mineralisation, with drill-indicated reserves of 6 million tonnes, at an average grade of 0.8 kg / tonne U3O8, existing in 5 major deposits. About 625 drill holes totalling 53,000 m tested these major deposits...-
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RB 55/00040 The Wooltana Volcanic Belt, South Australia.
Mapping of the Wooltana Volcanic Belt in the northern Flinders Ranges of South Australia has shown that 2000 feet of Willouran trachytic lavas, with minor andesites and rhyolites, outcrop along the southern margin of the Mount Painter complex and...-
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Published: 31 Jul 1962
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RB 79/00067 Mount Painter gravity survey.
A detailed gravity survey was conducted in the Mount Painter area of the northern Flinders Ranges of South Australia during November, 1976. Reduction of the results by graphical and mathematical methods has shown that the bulk density of the schists...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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Unlocking South Australia's Mineral and Energy Potential - A Plan for Accelerating Exploration. Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry) : Year 1 partnership no. DPY1-18, Super Nova IOCG mineral prospect. Project interim and final reports.
This PACE-subsidised drilling project aimed to discover a new copper-gold mineralised Iron Oxide Copper Gold (IOCG) magmatic centre, similar to that which forms the setting of the Olympic Dam deposit, but lying within the northern margin of the...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1905
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Arkaroola. Annual reports for the period 5/12/2008 to 3/12/2015.
During the 2008-2009 licence year, most of the new work done consisted of appraisal rotary mud drilling at Four Mile East (112 holes for 24,460 m) and Four Mile West (113 holes for 19,120 m), with the addition of one NQ diamond cored hole (AKC093) for...-
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Published: 20 Jan 1916
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Fitton. Annual reports for the period 20/9/2010 to 19/9/2018.
An area comprising two separate sub-blocks located in the northern Flinders Ranges, which adjoins outside the western outcrop edge of the Mount Painter Inlier, has been taken up to explore for possible buried primary, bedrock-hosted vein or breccia...-
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Published: 13 Nov 1918
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Woolatchi, Boolkaree and Wittakilla. Joint first progress / final report to licence full surrender, for the period 23/11/1992 to 30/4/1993.
Exploration for Broken Hill type stratiform Pb-Zn and Olympic Dam style iron oxide - associated Cu-Au mineralisation within the covered extensions of the Mount Painter Inlier east of Moolawatana Homestead included an extensive low-level aeromagnetic...-
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Published: 18 May 1993
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Paralana Creek. Progress reports to licence surrender for the period 15/4/1968 to 14/4/1970.
Following a semi-detailed airborne geophysical survey of the Mount Painter region, 14 anomalies located over Precambrian metamorphics and Tertiary sediments were checked in the field, without success. However, a subsequent ground radioactivity survey...-
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Published: 27 May 1970
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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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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Arkaroola, Moolawatana and Mount Hopeless (the Frome Basin Project). Joint annual report for the period 1/1/2016 to 31/12/2018.
Exploration Licence 5017 Arkaroola, Exploration Licence 5118 Mt Yerila and Exploration Licence 5261 Petermorra cover a combined area of approximately 1831 square km within the northern Flinders Ranges and the Frome Basin. The area is being targeted...-
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Published: 16 Jan 1919
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SADME Mount Painter hematitic breccia investigations: drillhole and geochronological data.
Contains summarised diamond drillhole logs and geophysical logs, plus two geochronological dating reports for monazite grain concentrates derived from selected rock chip samples, all representing aspects of the uraniferous, haematitic granitic breccia...-
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Report on rotary-percussion drilling, Mount McTaggart copper prospect, SML 575, South Australia, [carried out in] October 1971.
The Mount McTaggart prospect is located 15 miles south-west of Arkaroola Base Camp and 3 miles west of the Arkaroola-Balcanoona Road. A programme of ten rotary percussion holes totalling 3457 feet commenced on 11/10/1971 and was completed on...-
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Arkaroola. First partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 5/12/2001 to 4/12/2011.
An area on northern Arkaroola Station, which has since 26/4/2012 has been legally quarantined from mineral exploration operations under the South Australian Mining Act, was considered by its former titleholders to be prospective for an array of...-
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Mount Freeling and Wooltana [Station] areas. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 28/6/2010 to 27/6/2015.
An area of the central far northern Flinders Ranges consisting of two separate sub-blocks has been explored for possible economic iron ore / manganese mineralisation which could be present within the unconformable contact between Mesozoic and...-
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Published: 29 Sep 1915
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Unlocking South Australia's Mineral and Energy Potential - A Plan for Accelerating Exploration. Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry) : Year 2 partnership no. DPY2-12, Big Bang IOCG mineral prospect. Project interim and final reports.
This PACE Initiative - subsidised drilling project aimed to discover a new copper-gold mineralised Iron Oxide Copper Gold (IOCG) magmatic centre, similar to that which forms the setting of the Olympic Dam deposit, but lying within the northern margin...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1905
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 2 partnership DPY2-46, Yudnamutana M2 high sulphide IOCG mineral prospect. Project final report.
Quasar Resources in joint venture with Alliance Resources has recently completed its stage 1 drilling programme at the high priority M2 iron oxide - associated copper-gold prospect within its Exploration Licence 2874, completing 9 drillholes targeting...-
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Woolatchi Creek. Progress, partial surrender and technical reports to licence surrender, for the period 12/4/1982 to 27/8/1985.
Diamond drillhole WC1 was drilled by Marathon to a total depth of 173.5 m over the Woolatchi Creek aeromagnetic anomaly, as part of an ongoing search for uranium and base metals in the north-eastern Flinders Ranges and Lake Frome Plains region....-
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Woolatchi Creek. Progress and annual reports for the period 20/2/80 to 11/4/83.
41 open-hole rotary drillholes (total 5999 metres) were drilled and geophysically logged to search for possible sedimentary uranium occurrences in the Early Cretaceous Parabarana Formation and in overlying altered Miocene sands, over an area of the...-
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Camp Hill. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 6/8/1971 to 5/8/1972.
Exploration for sedimentary uranium deposits in Tertiary and Cretaceous sediments lying adjacent to the northern margin of the Flinders Ranges Precambrian basement outcrop, has consisted of rotary drilling (3 holes, total 1375 feet) and gamma ray...-
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Mount Painter area. Progress and final reports, 1969.
TARGET: All minerals, particularly uranium.EXPLORATION: Examination of outcrops, aerial radiometric survey, drilling of 9 non-core holes.RESULTS: No mineralization or anomalous radioactivity was found.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1969
