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RB 55/00006;Amdel 00126 Accessory minerals of South Australian granites.
The purpose of the work described was to compare and contrast the petrography, accessory minerals, and absolute ages of 25 granitic and allied rock samples collected from widely scattered localities in South Australia. The processes that are...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1961
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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
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RB 83/00058 Williamstown kaolin-sillimanite-mica deposits.
Report describes these unusual mineral deposits which are currently the only source in Australia of refractory grade sillimanite and filler grade mica.-
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Published: 01 Jul 1983
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RB 94/00022 Review of heavy mineral sand exploration in South Australia - Eucla Basin.
The Cainozoic Eucla Basin has been the focus of recent heavy mineral exploration due to the recognition of Tertiary coastal features including the Ooldea Range. Hypsometric and Landsat data, together with detailed work on the Tertiary stratigraphy of...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1994
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Quondong Vale. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/3/2012 to 13/3/2017.
Iluka Resources is exploring for possible economic heavy mineral (HM) deposits that may have formed in the northern Murray Basin, with a strategy of targeting any mineralised Loxton-Parilla Sand formation sediments deposited during the Pliocene marine...-
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Published: 05 May 1917
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Meribah, Halidon, Mantung, Karoonda and Woolpunda (parts of the Murray Basin HMS Project). Individual licence first or second partial surrender reports, describing relevant subsets of exploration work performed between 29/9/1997 and 5/9/2018.
Portions of the Tertiary shallow marine clastic sedimentary sequence (Loxton and Parilla sands) deposited in the central western Murray Basin within SA's Murray Mallee district have been explored for possible economic heavy mineral sand (HMS)...-
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Chimpering Rock Hole, Yarrana Hill, Moornaba Rock Hole, Euria Well, Koonibba Mission, Lake Tallacootra, Dunn Hill, Wallala Hill, Mount Centre and Nalara. Quarterly and annual progress reports plus technical reports, for the period 25/7/1989 to 24/7/1992.
Hitherto untried exploration for heavy mineral sands on the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin, conducted by the Ceduna Joint Venture partners since 1989 over ten contiguous licence areas in the Ooldea - Barton area centred 150 km north-west of Ceduna,...-
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Puntabie, Maltee, Mount Cooper and Pureba South [the north-western Eyre Peninsula (eastern Eucla Basin) heavy mineral sands exploration Tenement Group 3]. Final report at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 28/4/2004 to 5/5/2016.
Iluka Resources has been exploring the four subject areas, located east of the townships of Streaky Bay and Ceduna, since April 2004, as part of a continuing regional search for possible economic, zircon-rich Tertiary marine placer mineral sands...-
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Published: 20 May 1916
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Petina - part of the north-western Eyre Peninsula (eastern Eucla Basin) heavy mineral sands exploration tenement group [Group 3]. Final report at licence surrender, for the period 13/2/2004 to 4/5/2016.
Iluka Resources has been exploring the subject area, located east of the townships of Streaky Bay and Ceduna, since October 2003, as part of a continuing regional search for possible economic, zircon-rich Tertiary marine placer mineral sands deposits...-
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Published: 20 May 1916
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Colona North and Barton (the Barton Magmatic Nickel-Copper-Platinum Project) and Fig Tree Corner (the three together constituting Eucla Basin Mineral Sands Tenement Group 1). Joint annual reports for the period 10/9/2001 to 28/2/2010.
Two adjoining exploration Licences 2840 “Colona North” and 2841 “Barton” were acquired by Adelaide Exploration Limited to search principally for nickel, copper and platinum group precious metals (PGM) mineralisation within Proterozoic and Archaean...-
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Kybunga (latterly a part of the Balaklava HMS Project - Iluka tenements Group 9). First annual report 3/5/2012 to 2/5/2013, plus a joint annual report and final report for Group 9 submitted at the five project licences' full surrender on 24/9/2015.
Ground within the northern onshore Saint Vincent Basin was taken up by Iluka Resources to re-appraise the heavy mineral sands (HMS) potential of buried Tertiary sediments there, after some unsuccessful exploration had previously been undertaken in the...-
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Published: 22 Sep 1915
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Olary Project (latterly part of the Lodestone Project). Licence individual annual reports, plus related project joint annual reports, for the period 4/11/2009 to 20/1/2019.
Iluka Resources is exploring for possible economic heavy mineral (HM) deposits that may have formed in the northern Murray Basin, with a strategy of targeting any mineralised Loxton-Parilla Sand formation sediments deposited during the Pliocene marine...-
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The Venus Bay Project. Respective joint annual and subsequent individual [for Venus Bay] annual reports to that remaining licence's expiry/full surrender, for the period 26/4/2002 to 16/9/2012.
Renewed diamond exploration has been conducted in a part of the western Eyre Peninsula where numerous kimberlite indicator mineral (KIM) anomalies occur in surficial sediments, and where the four adjoining licence areas involved lie in close proximity...-
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Published: 26 Nov 1912
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : The North-western Murray Basin Project. Joint annual reports for the period 29/8/2012 to 28/8/2014.
During Year 7 of the project, Goldfields did no more field work, but undertook office-based analyses of bedrock geochemical and geological data obtained in its 2012 aircore drilling campaign. Image processing and interpretation of the Canegrass...-
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Published: 28 Feb 1915
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Cocata and Warramboo (part of the Eyre Peninsula Project). Annual reports and joint annual reports to licences' joint expiry/renewal, for the period 7/6/1996 to 5/6/2001.
Two adjacent licence areas forming part of a contiguous set of project tenements in the central Eyre Peninsula region are being explored by Adelaide Resources (AR) primarily for gold and base metals, which it is thought may occur in buried deposits...-
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Published: 28 Aug 1901
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Alawoona. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 29/4/1987 to 28/4/1991.
TARGET: Possible economic heavy mineral sand accumulations in Pliocene raised beach strandlines developed along the south-western margin of the Murray Basin. EXPLORATION: Acquisition of an airborne magnetic and radiometric survey during November...-
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Published: 13 May 1991
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Manunda Homestead. Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 25/6/1979 to 24/6/1980.
Diamond exploration over an area located approximately 35 km south-east of Yunta was undertaken to assess an interpreted structural environment that may be similar to one existing nearby to the west close to Terowie, in which shallowly buried,...-
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Uno Station. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 10/9/1970 to 9/9/1971.
The discovery in July 1970 of a strong surface radioactive thorium anomaly emanating from outcrop near Uno Homestead, 48 km north-west of Iron Knob, which was made by a Japanese company's geophysical prospecting party, prompted the leasing of the...-
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Published: 10 Sep 1971
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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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Mineralogy of heavy mineral separates from sediments of Kangaroo Island, South Australia.
35 surface samples of various clastic sediments deposited on Kangaroo Island were studied microscopically to see if the respective abundances, composition and mineralogical features of their heavy mineral grain components might shed light on possible...-
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Published: 07 Jun 1902
