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RB 96/00025 Exploration for coal in the Coober Pedy area, South Australia.
As part of the Government's South Australian Exploration Initiative (SAEI), and in support of the South Australian Steel and Energy (SASE) Project, a small coal exploration program was initiated by MESA to investigate a number of subtle magnetic lows...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1996
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Yerda Well. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/1/2004 to 19/1/2009.
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...-
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Published: 24 Mar 1909
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Carnding. Data release made in lieu of submitting a second partial relinquishment report at licence expiry/renewal : progress reports and annual reports for the period 29/9/1994 to 16/1/2005.
Renewed brownfields gold exploration in an area situated 20-40 km north and west of the Tarcoola Goldfield, previously held in part by the licensee as EL 1848, was prompted by the May 1995 success of the Samantha/Resolute/Dominion corporate joint...-
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Published: 28 Jul 1905
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Commonwealth Hill, Perfection Well and Wirrida. Six-monthly progress, plus combined annual and final reports, to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/12/1993 to 18/7/2006.
Exploration for possible economic deposits of epithermal/hydrothermal gold, plus precious metals and base metals, which might have formed in poorly outcropping Archaean and Proterozoic basement, commenced with a detailed interpretation of SAEI imaged...-
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Published: 10 Sep 1906
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Commonwealth Hill. Combined first annual and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/1/2007 to 1/1/2008.
An area located approximately 90 km north-west of Tarcoola was reviewed for its potential to harbour possible economic Cu-Au-U-REE mineralisation, Archaean basement structure-related mesothermal/hydrothermal gold, or near surface sedimentary roll...-
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Published: 15 Feb 1908
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Mulgathing and Jumbuck areas (part of the Gawler Project Central Tenement Block). Data release at licences' joint partial surrender: project joint venture - specific annual reports for the period 1/7/2009 to 22/9/2010.
As part of the ongoing Challenger Area Joint Venture with Southern Gold intended to complete brownfields exploration near the mine and to expedite greenfields exploration of the Christie Domain for Archaean metamorphic/hydrothermal gold, work carried...-
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Published: 05 Jan 1911
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Yerda Well. Second partial surrender report, for the period 20/1/2004 to 19/1/2008.
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...-
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Rounsevell Hill. First partial relinquishment report, for the period 25/10/2002 to 24/10/2003.
Exploration undertaken in an area situated 40 km north-west of Tarcoola, targeting possible economic iron oxide - associated copper-gold mineralisation that may have formed within altered near-surface Hiltaba Suite granitic intrusions, has comprised...-
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Tarcoola - Tallaringa Bedrock Drilling Project.
Archaean, Early and Middle Proterozoic rocks of the north-western Gawler Craton have features which suggest good prospectivity for base metals, precious metals and other commodities. However, outcrop is poor and there has been relatively little...-
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Ferguson [Siding]. Data release made at partial relinquishment of a subsequent licence : annual reports for the period 13/6/1995 to 12/12/2000.
An area located 35 km south-east of Tarcoola was targeted for gold because of interpreted aeromagnetic data, which suggested the presence of discrete Archaean iron formations and mafic rocks within the more widely distributed Kenella Gneiss, a rock...-
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Published: 15 Feb 1900
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Tarcoola - Kingoonya (Glenloth) areas. Joint annual reports, and first partial relinquishment report, for the period 4/3/1993 to 24/5/2001.
Exploration for Archaean lode-style gold and Hiltaba Suite granite-related hydrothermal Cu-Au in two licence sub-areas near Tarcoola targeted Archaean greenstone lithologies interpreted from aeromagnetic data, Mesoproterozoic intrusive-associated...-
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Tarcoola. Data release made in lieu of a 25% first partial relinquishment at licence renewal: [Part 2 of 2] progress reports for the period 19/7/1984 to 6/12/1990. Part 1 of 2 also included.
Exploration of the Tarcoola Gold Field by Aberfoyle Resources began in mid-1984, following a partial relinquishment of other ground at licence renewal, when some promising gold assay values were detected from rock and mine dump sampling. Geological...-
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Coober Pedy Project. Annual reports, joint annual reports, and final reports at individual licences' full surrender, for the period 4/4/2011 to 3/4/2015.
Five separate areas located in the northern Gawler Craton adjacent to the Mount Woods Domain, which to date have received only minor attention from mineral explorers and so have had limited drilling done, have been explored for possible buried...-
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Published: 15 Apr 1915
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Kingoonya. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 27/11/2006 to 21/4/2015.
An area surrounding the township of Kingoonya and straddling the Trans Australia Railway line, that comprises six tenement sub-blocks,has been explored for possible economic occurrences of buried Tertiary roll-front style secondary uranium...-
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Published: 23 Apr 1915
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Warrior (part of the Central Gawler Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 17/2/2005 to 16/2/2010.
Tasman Resources is exploring an area that is centred about 78 km north-west of Tarcoola for possible economic buried occurrences of sedimentary roll front style uranium in Tertiary palaeochannels and nickel mineralisation in Archaean -...-
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Published: 19 Apr 1910
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Lake Phillipson. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 27/4/2000 to 8/8/2010.
During the sixth licence year, on renewed EL 2717 covering the same area as previously, the licensee, now a wholly owned subsidiary of AuIron Energy Limited (formerly Meekatharra Minerals Limited), progressed its investigations of the geology of the...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1916
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Black Camp Hill. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 29/4/1987 to 28/10/1987.
Interpretation of image processed digital magnetic data from the 1978 SADME Kokatha Aerial Magnetic Survey, plus contouring of data from this survey and from the BMR's reprocessed TARCOOLA Aerial Magnetic Survey, had defined two possible ring...-
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Mount Finke. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/3/1987 to 28/9/1989.
TARGET: Gold in the Mount Finke region. EXPLORATION: A photogeological study, aerial magnetic and radiometric surveys, image processing of aeromagnetic data reprocessed by the BMR, a regional geophysical interpretation, ground magnetic traverses,...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Commonwealth Hill area (the Eaglehawk Joint Venture Project). Annual reports for the period 22/6/2012 to 21/6/2017.
An area centred ~115 km south-west of Coober Pedy is being explored for possible economic buried precious and/or base metal mineralisation (including iron ore) that may exist in predominantly buried Archaean or younger Proterozoic basement rocks, as...-
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Published: 29 Aug 1917
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Lyons, Mount Christie, Barton, Immarna and Immarna South. Final report at licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/6/1983 to 2/6/1988.
TARGET: Possible diamonds in the Barton region. EXPLORATION: Acquisition of an aerial magnetic-radiometric-VLF EM survey (line spacing: 300 m; altitude: 70 m) led to field investigations of 142 potential kimberlite targets generated from this survey...-
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