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...

Exploration Licence 2887 Tumby Bay was taken out to cover prospective magnetite rich Banded Iron Formations (BIF) close to the eastern coast of the Eyre Peninsula. Potential was seen for a magnetite concentrate export operation taking advantage of...

The buried Menninnie Dam zinc-lead(-silver-copper) deposit, located approximately 55 km north of Kimba on northern Eyre Peninsula, and sitting adjacent to the south-eastern margin of the Gawler Ranges, is being evaluated for its future commercial...

As part of a regional evaluation of the variably exposed Lower Proterozoic metasedimentary sequence on eastern Eyre Peninsula for possible economic pitchblende mineralisation, portion of a semi-detailed airborne radiometric/magnetic survey was flown...

800 samples were tested for kimberlitic indicators, of which 60 were also analysed for uranium. Base metal and uranium exploration under the joint venture included reprocessing of 1976 BMR data to produce 1:50 000 aerial magnetic and radiometric maps...

A collection of Amdel petrographic reports providing raw data for a petrogenetic study of Cowell area jade specimens and related host rocks carried out by SADME, aimed at determining geological controls on the distribution of high quality nephrite...

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...

TARGET: Epithermal and unconformity - type uranium in Archaean to Early Proterozoic rocks of the southern Gawler Craton. EXPLORATION: - an aerial magnetic and radioactivity survey flown at 800 m, 1600 m and 400m spacing by Austirex in November 1979;...

During the life of the subject licence, the focus of exploration was to determine the area's potential for DSO haematite iron ore, with a secondary consideration being magnetite and haematite BIF. After conducting geophysical surveys and exploratory...

No new work was carried out on the subject Stony Hill licence area during its past year. The South Australian Iron Ore Group Pty Ltd (SAIOG) has held this tenement (successively under ELs 3287/4451/5617) since 2/12/2004, but has now surrendered it in...

In 2022 SIMEC Mining/Onesteel Manufacturing Pty Ltd successfully applied for up to $270,000 of funding through the South Australian Government’s Accelerated Discovery Initiative (ADI) program. The company proposed to undertake RC and diamond drilling...

Exploration for possible stratiform sediment-hosted lead-zinc in Lower Proterozoic metasediments of the Middleback Range area included the compilation of a lineament map from Landsat images and available aeromagnetic data, generating and interpreting...

TARGET: Unconformity related, vein-like and vein-type uranium in the Cleve Metamorphics, Katunga Dolomite and Mangalo Schist; lead-zinc sulphides of Broken Hill or Balmat-Edwards type in the Hutchison Group. EXPLORATION: Uranium exploration...

During the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project (NEPP) 2013-2014 reporting year, exploration field work took place on two of the six project tenements. On EL 4884 Minbrie, a single 151 m deep vertical RC drillhole, BURC092, was completed in August 2013,...

Investigator Resources Limited (IVR) is continuing to explore its contiguous tenement package in the Southern Gawler Ranges for economic precious and base metals, following its discovery of the Paris silver deposit in 2011. A prospective region called...

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...

The iron-rich rocks of South Australia have been classified into six deposit types - residual, chemical sedimentary iron formations, Fe-skarn and, of lesser significance, hydrothermal, clastic and magmatic. Production has been overwhelmingly from...

A low-lying small area situated 40 km west of Whyalla has been explored primarily for economic gypsum occurrences within Recent surficial sediments, while latterly, a search for metallic minerals has also commenced, via a geological survey of basement...

An area centred on the hamlet of Green Patch, located ~10 km north-west of Port Lincoln, was taken up to appraise the iron ore potential of known near surface BIF magnetite mineralisation occurring at the Greenpatch (sic) prospect that had been...

The Telephone Dam lead-zinc-silver prospect is located in the north-eastern part of the now renewed Wilcherry Hill EL 4162. During the 1980s and 1990s, diamond, RC and RAB drilling done on this prospect by Aberfoyle Resources had identified a...