Australia Plains. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/5/2010 to 2/5/2015.
Published: 25 Jun 1915 Created: 12 Nov 2024 Revised: 12 Nov 2024

An area centred ~15 km east of Eudunda, in the north-eastern Mount Lofty Ranges, has been explored initially for possible economic outcropping stratabound/replacement style phosphate mineralisation that may have formed within Adelaidean dolomitic...

An area centred ~15 km east of Eudunda, in the north-eastern Mount Lofty Ranges, has been explored initially for possible economic outcropping stratabound/replacement style phosphate mineralisation that may have formed within Adelaidean dolomitic metasediments, and subsequently, for buried economic stratabound/metamorphic graphite mineralisation that it was hoped might exist within the Karinya Syncline Cambrian carbonaceous black shale units. During licence Year 1, the licensee undertook an interpretation of available open file radiometric data to try to identify outcropping or near-surface phosphate prospects. This exercise proved unrewarding, partly because of missing potassium channel radiometric data. During licence Year 2, the exploration focus shifted to an assessment of graphite potential. Stored drillhole cuttings samples of the target Karinya Shale were obtained from the DSD Core Library to submit for analysis of their total carbon content, but the assay results from the 9 samples tested were disappointing. Selected samples of Cambrian rock material from stored historic diamond drill cores cut by the E&WS Dept in 1965 at the Sutherland quartzite quarry were also taken and submitted for multi-element analysis, to help evaluate the host unit's mineralisation potential. No further work was done during licence Years 3 and 4, before the decision was made to fully surrender tenure.

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Record No mesac25821
Topic Geoscientific Information
Type of Resource Document
Category Type
Document Type Mineral Company Report - Mineral Exploration
Contributor
Sponsor
Tenement EL 4482
Tenement Holder Pirie Resources Pty Ltd
Operator Archer Exploration Limited
Geological Province
Mine Name Frankton North prospect;Frankton South prospect;Sutherland's quarry
Stratigraphy
Commodity
Notes
Geographic Locality: Northern Mount Lofty Ranges;Australia Plains;Bower;Eudunda;Brownlow;Dutton;Stonefield
Doc No: Env 11740
Drillhole: FN1;(252746);FS2;(252745);Sutherland 1 - Sutherland 7;(76800 - 76806)

Geographic Locality: Northern Mount Lofty Ranges;Australia Plains;Bower;Eudunda;Brownlow;Dutton;Stonefield Doc No: Env 11740 Drillhole: FN1;(252746);FS2;(252745);Sutherland 1 - Sutherland 7;(76800 - 76806)

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/mesac25821
Citation Bollenhagen, W.J. 1915. Australia Plains. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/5/2010 to 2/5/2015. Mineral Company Report - Mineral Exploration
https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/mesac25821

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