The giant Olympic Dam deposit has a total resource of about 2 200 million tonnes grading 1.4% Cu, 0.5 kg/t U3O8, 0.5 g/t Au and 3.1 g/t Ag. Development of Olympic Dam, with current annual production of 67 000 t of copper and further expansion...

The mine was worked between 1935 and 1939. and recorded production totals 296.16 tonnes for 5007.4 grams of gold bullion. Gold occurs in gently west dipping Tertiary gravels overlying steeply east dipping Adelaidean Aldgate Sandstone. An indicated...

Gold was discovered near Earea Dam 50 km SE of Tarcoola in 1899. Production to date totals 59 237.59 grams of gold bullion from 1869.63 tonnes of ore, with an average head grade of 35.33 g/t gold. Gold-bearing quartz was mined from an east-dipping...

This records the history and production of various mines, occurrences and prospects in the Waukaringa area outside the main Waukaringa Goldfield, from 1873 to 1989. Apart from that obtained from the goldfield proper, 83 856 grams of alluvial and reef...

Production since 1912 totals 5206.4 grams from 146.3 tonnes of ore with average head grade of 35.6 g/t gold bullion. Gold was won from shear zones and ferruginous quartz veins within Archaean Kenella Gneiss. Sub-vertical shear zones and quartz veins...

The OLARY map area includes the SW part of the Willyama Inliers and surrounding Adelaidean (Late Proterozoic) sequences. The Early Proterozoic Willyama Supergroup is separated by NW-trending faults into blocks of metasedimentary rock of upper...

Gold was discovered at Mongolata in 1930 by Henry A Byles. Crushing from the State Battery commenced in 1933. 7 600 tonnes of ore were crushed for a yield of 319 246 grams of gold bullion, with average grade of tailings of 2.80 g/t Au. 3 120 tonnes of...

Discovered in 1889, Great Eastern goldmine, part of the New Milo - Virginia line of lode, has a recorded production of 212.85 tonnes of ore which yielded 4 333.56 grams of gold bullion. No records exist of ore treated through the battery erected on...

Kapunda DC is underlain by folded Adelaidean and Cambrian metasediments which host important mineral deposits in the area. An estimated 15 million tonnes of ore averaging 1.2% copper remains near the Kapunda mine, with potential for further...

Although gold occurs geologically widespread throughout South Australia, the State when compared to other parts of the nation has not been a major producer, with a small recorded production of about 23 t representing about 0.4% of the Australian...

Mineral exploration on CHILDARA 1:250 000 geological map sheet was reviewed from SADME open file Envelopes, to complement an overview of regional prospectivity supported via the recent acquisition of high quality aeromagnetic data and a compilation by...

2003 activity: Expenditure by companies on mineral exploration licences in South Australia for calendar year 2003 was $37.0 million, a slight increase on the $35.7 million spent in 2002. Mineral exploration drilling metreage, a key indicator of...

An area located approximately 80 km north-east of Orroroo was assessed for its potential to contain alluvial and hard rock gold deposits. Quartz veins developed within a narrow zone in the Tarcowie Siltstone at the historic Erina prospect have high...

In 2008, as part of work being performed for it to earn a 51% interest in the Mundi Mundi Plains joint venture exploration licences, Teck Cominco identified two geophysical targets within South Australia on Kalkaroo EL 3328 which it thought were...

A planned reconnaissance soil geochemical sampling survey in an area to the east of Lake Everard was not carried out due to the need to obtain an access agreement from local native title claimants and after making a negative re-assessment of the...

Exploration for possible buried Carrapateena or Prominent Hill type iron oxide-associated copper-gold deposits along the south-eastern side of the Stuart Shelf, in the vicinity of the southern end of Lake Torrens, initially consisted of a review of...

Exploration for possible buried economic iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) mineral deposit targets within the subject area of the north-western Gawler Ranges utilised existing and newly acquired regional gravity data to attempt to identify...

In October 2003, Minotaur Exploration completed part of a regional infill ground gravity survey over the now relinquished portion of EL 3100, along N-S lines at a station spacing of 1 km x 2 km. A significant gravity anomaly which coincides with an...

An area located on the northern Stuart Shelf between Olympic Dam and Prominent Hill, approx. 50 km south-southwest of the latter, has been explored for possible Olympic Dam type iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposits and for Canadian...

An area located approximately 110 km north of Kimba, on the eastern margin of Lake Gairdner, has been explored for possible buried iron oxide - associated copper-gold±uranium (IOCG-U) mineralisation formed within the Mesoproterozoic or older basement...