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Woomera, Emmie Bluff, Salt Creek, Portulacca Ridge and Red Lake. Progress reports for the period 21/8/1979 to June 1983.
Continuing exploration in the Woomera area has included the acquisition of a ground magnetic and gravity survey over the Buller Dam anomaly, which lies on the western flank of the Acropolis aeromagnetic anomaly, and this work confirmed that the former...-
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Millers Creek Homestead. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/3/1980 to 28/3/1986.
Following a review of existing regional geophysical and geological data for the north-western Stuart Shelf, grid-based gravity and ground magnetic surveys were run to further outline two broad gravity highs associated with discrete magnetic anomalies,...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Acropolis South and North Roxby. Joint annual reports for the period 26/4/2003 to 3/5/2009.
Exploration for possible economic deposits of buried, Mesoproterozoic basement-hosted IOCG-U style mineralisation is being conducted over two separate multiple-block licence areas in the Olympic Dam district, EL 2931 (Acropolis South) and EL 2932...-
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Groundwater geochemistry in CSR's Stuart Shelf tenements, SA.
194 stored groundwater samples taken from CSR's exploratory drillholes put down on the southern Stuart Shelf after 1973 have been analysed for copper and zinc, plus also lead on occasion, and another 84 such stored samples dating from 1977 were...-
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Olympic Dam operations. Environmental management programme annual report. 01/03/90 - 28/02/91.
Reports on monitoring of: - air and solid waste pollution; - drill pad rehabilitation; - meteorology, vegetation, flora, fauna and soil salinity; - mine ground water drainage; - artesian water drawdown at Wellfield A in the Great Artesian Basin;...-
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Rawlinson Hill, Mount Sabine, Snow Hill and Billa Kalina Homestead (Stuart Shelf / Arckaringa Basin). Joint progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/2/1981 to 28/4/1987.
Over the report period Agip Australia completed the drilling and geophysical logging of 39 open rotary holes totalling 3845 m to investigate if economic coal seams occur within Permian sediments of the southern Arckaringa Basin. Although the Permian...-
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Andamooka Creek, Willaroo Dam, Island Dam and Stuart Shelf / Andamooka Ranges (the Stuart Shelf Project). Joint annual reports on activities undertaken by the Joint Venture consortium for the period 11/10/1996 to 10/10/2009 [ Index Part 1 of 2 ].
The four Stuart Shelf Joint Venture Project exploration licences collectively cover approximately 2668 square km of semi-arid pastoral land surrounding the Olympic Dam mine and extending east and south-eastwards as far as Lake Torrens [the Olympic Dam...-
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Billa Kalina Homestead. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 30/6/1977 to 14/2/1979.
Airborne and ground geophysical surveys were undertaken in the Billa Kalina area, prior to commencing to drill in a search for Olympic Dam type Cu-U-Au mineralised haematitic breccias, in order to delineate and detail several broad magnetic anomalies...-
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Tthe Stuart Range Joint Venture Project. Joint progress reports and final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 21/4/1980 to 31/3/1981.
When Getty Oil took over management of the Stuart Range Project licences, it reviewed all of Newmont's drillhole data and undertook reclogging of the drill cores with the aim of correlating stratigraphy across the project area. Starting in October...-
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Francis Swamp (part of the Stuart Range Joint Venture Project). Progress report to to the end of the Newmont JV agreement exploration phase, for the period 21/8/1979 to 9/5/1980.
As part of an ongoing multi-licence programme of exploration for Roxby Downs / Olympic Dam style copper-gold-uranium [IOCG-U] mineralisation that might exist along the eastern margin of the Stuart Shelf, the licensees took up the Francis Swamp area in...-
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Strangways Springs (part of the Stuart Range Joint Venture Project). Progress reports to the end of the Newmont JV agreement exploration phase, for the period 15/5/1979 to 9/5/1980.
As part of an ongoing multi-licence programme of exploration for Roxby Downs / Olympic Dam style copper-gold-uranium [IOCG-U] mineralisation that might exist along the eastern margin of the Stuart Shelf, the licensees took up the Strangways Springs...-
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William Creek (part of the Stuart Range Joint Venture Project). Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 11/8/1977 to 10/8/1979.
Exploration for possible Olympic Dam type mineralisation in an area located 20 km south-west of William Creek has consisted of grid-based ground gravity and magnetic surveys followed by the drilling of a deep diamond exploratory / stratigraphic hole...-
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Winjabbie. First partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 20/10/2005 to 19/10/2010.
The western half of EL 3432, which now lies within the continuously restricted access Red Zone of the Woomera Prohibited Area, has been relinquished at expiry of term, acting upon advice received from DMITRE. During its 5-year tenure period the...-
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Published: 03 Dec 1912
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Andamooka (part of the Stuart Shelf Project). Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 2/5/1975 to 1/5/1977. [ Index Part 2 of 2 ].
(Abstract continued) During the fifth quarter of WMC's tenure of EL 190, a programme of stepout appraisal diamond drilling was continued, to assess the size of the copper-uranium occurrence discovered by hole RD1 (previously called RDD1 by WMC)....-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 6 partnership DPY6-02, evaluation of the Vulcan IOCGU mineralised system. Project final report.
Tasman Resources has discovered a new potential iron oxide - associated copper-gold-uranium (IOCGU) ore deposit at the Vulcan prospect, located 30 km north-northeast of Olympic Dam. The prospectivity of the Mesoproterozoic basement rocks in this...-
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Published: 28 Sep 1910
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Stuart Shelf. Progress reports, annual reports and final report to licence renewal / re-issue, for the period 17/6/1986 to 15/9/1996.
On 21/11/1986, Western Mining Corp. (WMC) signed a joint venture agreement with PNC Exploration (Australia) Pty Ltd [a subsidiary of the Power and Nuclear Fuels Corp. of Japan], whereby PNC can earn up to 25% equity in EL 1338 by funding exploration...-
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Beddome Dams. Progress reports to licence surrender for the period 28/7/1980 to 3/8/1983.
Ground magnetic and regional infill and detailed gravity surveys, plus Maxi-Probe ground EM soundings, were carried out on two grids laid out near Beddome Hill, which lies 35 km west of Roxby Downs Homestead, to investigate a 4-6 mGal regional gravity...-
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Published: 28 Sep 1983
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Kangaroo Bluff. Progress reports to licence full surrender, for the period 27/8/1980 to 16/12/1982.
Following the acquisition and interpretation of a semi-detailed aerial magnetic survey, with ground gravity and magnetic surveys follow-up, 4 aircore/diamond drillholes, totalling 508.5 m, and 78 shallow RAB drill holes, totalling 974 m, were drilled...-
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Published: 27 Jan 1983
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Groundwater helium survey, Mount Gunson area, South Australia.
Groundwater sampling of 131 exploration holes, 3 stock wells and 7 deep diamond drillholes was carried out as part of a series of surveys to determine the usefulness of helium as a pathfinder for uranium deposits in a variety of geological,...-
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Portulacca Ridge. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 16/3/1977 to 15/3/1979.
Areas around Woomera and extending to the north, to around 30 km west of Olympic Dam, were explored for concealed base metal deposits of Olympic Dam - type. Trace stratabound lead and zinc mineralisation (sphalerite and galena - few thousand ppm) had...-
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