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High Bluff. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 9/1/1978 to 23/2/1985.
Exploration for possible Alligator Rivers (Northern Territory) style uranium deposits occurring in potential host rocks (carbonaceous pelites and carbonate rocks) within an Early Proterozoic metasedimentary sequence underlying a Middle Proterozoic...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Wild Horse Plain. Annual reports for the period 8/7/2005 to 23/2/2019, plus partial surrender reports to 23/2/2021.
An upland area located approximately 100 km south-west of Whyalla on the eastern Eyre Peninsula, and with its eastern boundary running parallel to the coast at a distance of 15 km from Cowell and Franklin Harbour, is being explored for uranium,...-
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Published: 11 Jan 1921
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The Venus Bay Project. Respective joint annual and subsequent individual [for Venus Bay] annual reports to that remaining licence's expiry/full surrender, for the period 26/4/2002 to 16/9/2012.
Renewed diamond exploration has been conducted in a part of the western Eyre Peninsula where numerous kimberlite indicator mineral (KIM) anomalies occur in surficial sediments, and where the four adjoining licence areas involved lie in close proximity...-
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Published: 26 Nov 1912
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Mount Wedge. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 12/10/88 to 27/5/92.
TARGET: Possible diamonds in the Mount Wedge region. EXPLORATION: Heavy mineral sampling, an airborne magnetic-radiometric survey, remote sensing Landsat TM plus aeromagnetic and radiometric data interpretation, detailed ground follow-up of more than...-
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Triple Hill. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 10/7/1979 to 4/10/1982.
Exploration for possible buried occurrences of unconformity-related uranium mineralisation, undertaken within an area located approximately 26 km west-southwest of Cowell on eastern Eyre Peninsula, has included the acquistion during July 1979 of a 500...-
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Brief petrology of bottomhole rock samples from Apollo no. 1 and Gemini no. 1 offshore wells, Great Australian Bight, and comparison with outcropping rocks from onshore Eyre Peninsula.
Two drill cuttings samples from 2842 and 2860 feet depth KB in Apollo 1 (economic basement) were examined for their heavy mineral composition as an aid to stratigraphic correlation with Precambrian sediments found in the adjacent onshore. The well...-
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Published: 23 Dec 1975
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RB 00794 Investigation of the basement rocks from Apollo no. 1 and Gemini no. 1 (inter alia).
This student vacational project report, for the Department's Petroleum Exploration Div., aimed to correlate the basement rocks met with in Great Australian Bight area offshore and near onshore petroleum exploration wells with outcropping formations...-
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Published: 31 Dec 1899
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PACE 2020 Initiative : PACE Targeting, Year 1 partnership no. 16 - Cockabidnie Project airborne 25Hz TEMPEST electromagnetic geophysical survey. Project PT1-16 final report.
To help with exploration of the ~ 5 km long, NNE trending Kimban Campoona Syncline region located on central Eyre Peninsula, to look for a large range of potentially economic basement-hosted polymetallic and other mineral occurrences including iron...-
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Published: 15 Oct 1912
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Data release - as updated : Cockabidnie. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 31/5/2001 to 13/8/2015.
Early in 2001, Helix Resources Ltd entered into a joint venture agreement with Centrex Resources Limited to allow it to explore for precious and base metals on some of the tenements held by Centrex on the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia, including...-
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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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RB 2002/00007 The Palaeo-Mesoproterozoic geology of northern Yorke Peninsula, South Australia. Hiltaba Suite - related alteration and mineralisation of the Moonta - Wallaroo Cu-Au district (Resources '96 Convention, Adelaide, geological field excursion
Returns from copper and gold won from the Moonta-Wallaroo district supported the South Australian economy from 1860-1920. During those 60 years some 355,000 t of copper and 2 t of gold were extracted from the twin mining fields of Wallaroo and Moonta:...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1996
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Tooligie - Verran area, eastern Eyre Peninsula. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/11/1978 to 11/2/1983.
Exploration undertaken over a wide area located 40-50 km south and east-southeast of Lock on west-central Eyre Peninsula has targeted possible Precambrian - Tertiary unconformity related roll front uranium deposits. At the previously defined Driver...-
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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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RB 90/00001 Explanatory Notes for the KIMBA 1:250 000 geological map.
The KIMBA 1:250 000 geological map sheet (hereafter referred to as KIMBA) lies in central Eyre Peninsula, extending between latitudes 33° to 34° S and longitudes 135° to 136°30'E (Fig 1). The principal towns are Kimba and Cleve, with smaller towns at...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1989
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RB 2008/00003 The Corunna Conglomerate, Gawler Craton: a review of the sedimentology and new U-Pb zircon geochronology.
The Corunna Conglomerate is a sequence of unmetamorphosed fluvial to shallow marine sediments, comprising conglomerates, sandstones and siltstones, which were deposited in active fault grabens in the eastern Gawler Craton. It is found on the...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2008
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ExpNotes LINCOLN: Explanatory Notes LINCOLN
The LINCOLN 1:250,000 scale regional geological map area covers southern Eyre Peninsula and includes numerous islands lying off its eastern, southern and western coasts. The region encompasses a complex geological history and contains a variety of...-
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