Strawberry Hill. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 4/10/89 to 3/1/94.
Created: 13 Nov 2024 Revised: 13 Nov 2024

Exploration in the Wanilla - Cummins area searching for economic accumulations of heavy minerals in Eocene sands comprised 2 phases of aircore drilling (167 holes, total 4049 m). A resulting drill intersection yielded a 0.72% heavy-mineral...

Exploration in the Wanilla - Cummins area searching for economic accumulations of heavy minerals in Eocene sands comprised 2 phases of aircore drilling (167 holes, total 4049 m). A resulting drill intersection yielded a 0.72% heavy-mineral concentrate containing up to 40% ilmenite, 23% leucoxene, 21% zircon, 6% rutile and 2% monazite. The best mineral sands grade obtained was 3 m at 1.41% TiO2 and 0.15% ZrO2. Although this work has disclosed a new heavy mineral sands province with favourable mineralogy, no sizeable reworked marine deposits were identified, and the disproving of the original exploration concept has downgraded the area's potential. A subsequent switch of objective to finding possible Proterozoic Broken Hill - style stratiform metallic ore occurrences involved undertaking soil, rock chip and BLEG stream sediment sampling, ground magnetics, and aircore drilling (97 holes, total 3250 m), which disclosed low-order Pb/Zn and Au/As anomalies in Hutchison Group BIF, amphibolites, graphitic schist and calc-silicate rocks beneath shallow lateritic cover.

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Record No mesac33153
Topic Geoscientific Information
Type of Resource Document
Category Type
Document Type Mineral Company Report - Mineral Exploration
Contributor Australian Photogeological Consultants;Pontifex and Associates Pty Ltd
Sponsor Southern Ventures NL;Dominion Mining Ltd
Tenement EL 1614
Tenement Holder Southern Ventures NL;Dominion Metals Pty Ltd
Operator Southern Ventures NL;Dominion Mining Ltd
Geological Province
Mine Name Bald Hill prospect;Beaumont geochemical anomaly;Ildoura geochemical anomaly
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Notes: Includes:  - Photogeomorphic study of the Strawberry Hill project area, South Australia (Australian Photogeological Consultants, Canberra, consultant's report for Southern Ventures, April 1990). Appendix 6 of EL 1614 second quarterly report...

Notes: Includes: - Photogeomorphic study of the Strawberry Hill project area, South Australia (Australian Photogeological Consultants, Canberra, consultant's report for Southern Ventures, April 1990). Appendix 6 of EL 1614 second quarterly report to 4/4/90; - Elliott, P.J., January 1992. Report on an interpretation of regional aeromagnetics over the Strawberry Hill EL 1614, South Australia (geophysical consultant's report for Dominion Mining Ltd). Appendix 1 in EL 1614 second annual report to 3/4/92. Geographic Locality: Southern Eyre Peninsula;Marble Range;Strawberry Hill;Bald Hill;Wanilla;Cummins Doc No: Env 08240 Drillhole: SH2 - SH298

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Language English
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Persistent identifier https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/mesac33153
Citation Ward, C.W.;Wills, K.J.A.;Elliott, P.J.;Johnson, R.D. Strawberry Hill. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 4/10/89 to 3/1/94. Mineral Company Report - Mineral Exploration
https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/mesac33153

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