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Cooyerdoo Station. Progress reports to licence expiry/re-issue as part of another licence, for the period 14/9/1981 to 13/3/1983.
Following the signing of an eighteen month exploration joint venture agreement with Stockdale, farminee Mobil Energy Minerals undertook continuation of the uranium search over the anomalous ground lying east and south-east of Lake Gilles, besides...-
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Published: 12 Apr 1983
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RB 37/00077 Petrology of the cores of bores no. 1 and 2, Middleback Ranges.
A representative selection of rock types obtained in the cores of the DDH1 and DDH2 iron ore exploration holes was made with a view to studying the mineralogy, the lithology and any microstructures of interest present in the formations intersected. A...-
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Published: 05 Apr 1954
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Lake Gilles area. Data release made in lieu of submitting a partial surrender report upon licence renewal : progress reports for the period 26/10/1989 to 10/2/2001.
Menninnie Dam - style Pb-Zn mineralisation in areas north and east of Lake Gilles was the initial target of exploration. A ground magnetic survey conducted along five lines was followed by shallow auger drilling (302 holes, total 1099 m) plus lag,...-
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Menninnie Dam (part of the Fleurieu - Menninnie Dam Exploration Joint Venture Project). Combined annual report for the 5-year period 24/9/2005 to 26/10/2010, plus annual reports for the period 27/10/2010 to 26/10/2012.
During the 5-year period 2005-2010, intensified exploration undertaken at Menninnie Dam was focussed on the discovery and delineation of structurally controlled hydrothermal Pb-Zn-Ag mineralisation. Carbonate-rich Hutchison Group metasediments forming...-
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Pondooma / Ironstone Hut (part of the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 3/12/2002 to 24/9/2015.
An area originally granted as Exploration Licence 3048 Pondooma, which consisted of two separate sub-blocks centred ~60 km south-west of Whyalla, was applied for to cover a poorly exposed belt of banded iron formation (BIF) strata identified on...-
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Bull 033 The Geology and Iron Ore Resources of the Middleback Range Area
This report deals comprehensively with the physiography, prospect geology, and ore genesis, and includes an assessment of the iron ore reserves and other mineral resources of an area which has been almost the sole source of the iron ore used in...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Kimba Gap [North] (part of the Middleback Range Iron Ore Joint Venture Project). Annual reports for the period 10/10/2002 to 9/10/2006.
A small exploration licence area centred approximately 60 km west-northwest of Whyalla, which is mainly covered by Quaternary sediments, has been taken up by the South Australian Iron Ore Group Pty Ltd(SAIOG), a subsidiary of WA-based Portman Iron Ore...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Kimba Gap, Ironstone Hut, Ironstone Hill, Stony Hill, Gilles Downs and Minbrie areas (the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project). Joint annual reports for the period 2/12/2005 to 31/1/2013.
Exploration for possible economic occurrences of magnetite and/or haematite iron ore formed in concealed Proterozoic basement to the west of the Middleback Range is being carried out by Northern Eyre Peninsula Project (NEPP) joint venturer Centrex...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Waddikee. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 24/5/2005 to 23/5/2010.
An area centred ~20 km south-southwest of Kimba is being explored for possible buried Tanami style orogenic lode gold and also for Mount Isa / Broken Hill style base metals mineralisation, which could occur within reactive chemical and pelitic...-
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Published: 10 Aug 1910
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Carpie Puntha and Peterlumbo (part of the Wilcherry Hill Joint Venture Project). Data release made at the third renewal / partial surrender of the latter licence: progress reports and annual reports for the period 14/2/1989 to 30/8/2003. [Index 1 of 2].
Two contiguous areas located south of the Gawler Ranges, between Buckleboo and Franklin Harbour, were taken up primarily to explore the Early Proterozoic metasedimentary sequence for possible Broken Hill type economic stratiform / hydrothermal base...-
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Published: 16 Oct 1903
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Carpie Puntha and Peterlumbo (part of the Wilcherry Hill Joint Venture Project). Data release at the third renewal / partial relinquishment of the latter licence : progress and annual reports for the period 14/2/1989 to 30/8/2003. [Index Part 2 of 2].
Abstract continued : During January-February 1993, five traverses spaced 800 m apart of RAB drillholes put in 50 m apart (57 vertical holes for a total penetration of 2688 m) were completed at Death Adder prospect by Aberfoyle Resources to appraise...-
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Published: 16 Oct 1903
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Middleback Range. Progress reports and annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 6/6/1990 to 5/6/1995.
A licence area consisting of two separate sub-blocks that cover ~460 square km of Palaeoproterozoic BIF ironstone outcrops in the northern and southern parts of the Middleback Range on north-eastern Eyre Peninsula was taken up by The Broken Hill Pty...-
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Verran (part of the Kimba-Verran Joint Venture Project, and also part of the Eyre Peninsula Joint Venture Project). Annual and combined annual reports for the period 28/6/2002 to 11/7/2009.
No field work was conducted on the subject licence area, which comprises three sub-blocks, for all of Years 6-11 (period 2002-2008) on EL 2981. During Year 8 of the project (8th March to 28th December 2004), exploration activities were reported...-
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Ironstone Hill (part of the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 17/9/2003 to 17/9/2015.
During the majority of its tenure term, very little field work was conducted on the subject ground. Initially, office studies of available geophysical and open file geological data were performed during 2005 to try to identify possible drilling...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 5 partnership DPY5-27 - Cleve area Proterozoic unconformity-style uranium mineral prospects. Project final report.
In May 2009 a total of 45 aircore blade or hammer holes (total penetration 1332 m) were drilled by Adelaide Resources along six northeast-southwest trending traverses laid out immediately south-west of Cleve, to test a conceptual unconformity - style...-
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