Baroota. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 10/11/2008 to 9/11/2012.
Published: 15 Aug 1912 Created: 12 Nov 2024 Revised: 12 Nov 2024

Exploration conducted over an area of the western Adelaide Fold Belt centred about 15 km east of Port Germein was designed to appraise the subsurface gold and copper potential of a possibly economically mineralised diapir or diatreme present in...

Exploration conducted over an area of the western Adelaide Fold Belt centred about 15 km east of Port Germein was designed to appraise the subsurface gold and copper potential of a possibly economically mineralised diapir or diatreme present in the vicinity of the historic Whyte Park mine and nearby lesser surface copper workings. Due to the large number of private vineyards recently developed on land covering the southern, better exposed portion of the structural inlier, it was decided to concentrate attention on the smaller, more covered northern portion, which lies within a SA state forestry reserve. Work undertaken by Archer Exploration during the first 18 months of licence tenure comprised a geophysical image interpretation of available magnetic and gravity data for the region, plus the collection and assaying of 380 soil samples and 102 rock chip samples. The results of the soil sampling identified copper and chromium anomalies of interest which appeared to be associated with faults bounding the northern inlier portion. Eight selected rock chip samples were examined petrographically to characterise the variety of rock types present in the inlier and to advance ideas about their likely origin. During 2010 it was planned to acquire new gravity data over the inlier area, since it was thought that the existing regional spaced data was too sparse to permit useful density modelling of potential drill targets at depth. No further work was done before a change in corporate exploration focus caused the licensee to decide to surrender the tenement.

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Record No mesac24770
Topic Geoscientific Information
Type of Resource Document
Category Type
Document Type Mineral Company Report - Mineral Exploration
Contributor Pontifex and Associates Pty Ltd
Sponsor Archer Exploration Ltd
Tenement EL 4201
Tenement Holder Pirie Resources Pty Ltd
Operator Archer Exploration Ltd
Geological Province Adelaide Geosyncline
Mine Name Whyte Park copper workings
Stratigraphy Skillogalee Dolomite
Commodity
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Geographic Locality: Southern Flinders Ranges;Mount Remarkable Range;Baroota;Wirrabara Forest;Port Germein Gorge;Tandowie;Whyte Park Inlier
Doc No: Env 11948

Geographic Locality: Southern Flinders Ranges;Mount Remarkable Range;Baroota;Wirrabara Forest;Port Germein Gorge;Tandowie;Whyte Park Inlier Doc No: Env 11948

Language English
Metadata Standard ISO 19115-3

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License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Persistent identifier https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/mesac24770
Citation Bollenhagen, W.J.;Purvis, A.C. 1912. Baroota. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 10/11/2008 to 9/11/2012. Mineral Company Report - Mineral Exploration
https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/mesac24770

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