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Data release - as updated : Salt Creek. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/3/2015 to 12/3/2022.
A small area located on the inland side of The Coorong, midway between Salt Creek and Chinaman Wells, has been explored for possible economic evaporitic deposits of dolomitic magnesite which can be used to supply local markets for carbonate minerals....-
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Published: 27 May 2022
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Murray Bridge. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 26/7/2005 to 24/9/2015.
An area covering the valley of the River Murray between Murray Bridge and Mannum, and also extending for a considerable distance eastwards into the Murray Mallee (across farmland on the counties of Younghusband, Burdett and Ettrick), has been explored...-
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Published: 25 Aug 2015
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Ooldea. Fourth partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 19/11/2003 to 1/4/2014.
A small licence area located 170 km north-northwest of Fowlers Bay in far western South Australia is being explored for possible economic Tertiary heavy mineral sands (HMS) deposits, targeting accumulations of rutile, zircon or ilmenite that may have...-
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Published: 21 May 2015
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Whichelby (part of the Poochera Kaolin Project). Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/9/2012 to 17/9/2022.
The Great White Kaolin Project (previously the Poochera Kaolin Project), until recently, comprised four Exploration Licences operated by Andromeda Industrial Minerals Pty Ltd, namely, EL 6096 Whichelby, EL 6202 Mount Hall, EL 6426 Mount Cooper and EL...-
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Published: 03 Dec 2022
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Kalkaroo (part of the Mundi Mundi Plains JV Project). Annual reports for the period 21/4/2010 to 1/6/2018.
During 2010-2011, the sixth year of the subject licence, as part of its continuing search for buried economic Tertiary sediment-hosted roll front style secondary uranium deposits, Marmota conducted the following work: • acquired a 58.6 line km moving...-
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Published: 17 Jul 2018
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Oakvale Station. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 6/4/2018 to 5/4/2020.
A large area of the northern Murray Basin lying adjacent to the SA-NSW state border and also immediately north of the Danggali Wilderness Area of South Australia has been explored for possible economic buried marine placer deposits of Tertiary heavy...-
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Published: 16 Sep 2020
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Pureba Conservation Park, Nunnyah Conservation Reserve, Koolgera Conservation Reserve, Jellabinna, Ooldea South and Ooldea Range (part of the Eucla Basin Project). Joint first partial surrender report, for the period 27/10/2004 to 31/1/2009.
Exploration for possible economic heavy mineral sands carried out by Iluka Resources within the now relinquished portions of its multi-licence acreage has comprised aircore drilling of the Cainozoic sedimentary sequence (173 holes for a total...-
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Published: 31 Jan 2009
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Boondina. Second partial surrender report, for the period 28/5/2007 to 27/5/2014.
A small licence area located 30 km north of Fowlers Bay in far western South Australia is being explored for possible economic Tertiary mineral sands deposits, targeting accumulations of rutile, zircon or ilmenite that may have formed as marginal...-
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Published: 26 May 2015
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Oolgelima Creek. First annual report plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 31/8/2012 to 30/8/2014.
Three separate small areas on the eastern edge of the Stuart Range, that are located 30 to 45 km north and north-east of Coober Pedy, have been explored both for possible buried Proterozoic basement-hosted IOCG-style mineralisation and for large...-
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Published: 10 Oct 2014
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Cockabidnie. Annual reports for the period 25/5/2016 to 24/5/2019.
An area covering the northern end of the Campoona Syncline is being explored for possible economic buried graphite formed within Palaeoproterozic schistose rocks, which may exist as northern extensions to the Central Campoona graphite resource as well...-
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Published: 26 May 2018
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Kalanbi West and Ooldea South (part of Eucla Basin tenement Group 2). Final report at licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 28/4/2005 to 23/8/2017.
Between 2008 and 2013, Iluka drilled a total of 45 vertical exploratory aircore holes on EL 3330/4546 for a total penetration of 1324.9 m, as part of reconnaissance drilling along traverses spaced 1 km apart with holes put in at 50 m intervals....-
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Published: 13 Sep 2017
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Eucla Basin Area 'S' (part of Eucla Basin tenement Group 4). First partial surrender report, for the period 19/10/2009 to 13/4/2017.
70% of the original area of the subject licence, which is located north of the Trans Australian Railway and approximately 200 km north-west of the town of Ceduna and 75 km east of the Maralinga Village, has been relinquished due to it being regarded...-
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Published: 16 May 2017
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North Well Creek. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 15/11/1994 to 14/11/1999.
Exploration, initially for rare metal elements, was carried out in the vicinity of diapiric structures intruded by leucogranite in the area between Arkaroola Village and Umberatana Homestead. Work comprising petrography, rock chip sampling, stream...-
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Published: 08 Feb 2000
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Outalpa Station. Annual reports to licence forfeiture/cancellation, for the period 30/4/2015 to 16/7/2019.
A small licence area located ~21 km north-west of Olary township was taken up to explore for possible economic stratabound iron ore (magnetite) hosted by metamorphosed Adelaidean glacial sedimentary strata of the Yudnamutana Subgroup. During licence...-
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Published: 16 Jul 2019
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Warriner Creek and Trumpeter (part of the Lake Eyre Joint Venture Project). Annual reports plus later combined annual reports to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 20/12/1999 to 22/9/2010.
Exploration for possible economic buried iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposits in two areas located approximately 100 km south-east of Coober Pedy has sought to delineate and test a number of linear and elliptical geophysical anomalies...-
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Published: 05 Aug 2010
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PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 8 partnership DPY8-31 - Peterlumbo Hill area, Eyre Peninsula, skarn and/or porphyry type Mesoproterozoic epithermal Cu-Au and Ag-base metal prospects. Drilling final report.
Investigator Resources (IVR) applied on 30/1/2015 to participate in the PACE Initiative Year 8 (2015) collaborative drilling grant program between industry and government being administered by DSD. The application for subsidy funds submitted by IVR...-
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Published: 20 Jan 2016
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Lake Cadibarrawirracanna. First annual report plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 31/8/2012 to 30/8/2014.
An area centred over Lake Cadibarrawirracanna, which is located ~70 km east-northeast of Coober Pedy, has been explored both for possible buried Proterozoic basement-hosted IOCG-style mineralisation and for large sedimentary evaporite occurrences of...-
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Published: 10 Oct 2014
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Barton. First partial surrender report, for the period 18/1/2006 to 28/9/2015.
Two parts comprising 50% of a licence located 130 km north of Fowlers Bay and immediately south of the Trans Australia Railway, in the vicinity of Barton Siding, have been relinquished due to their perceived diminished potential for finding economic...-
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Published: 15 Dec 2015
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Vivian. First annual report for the period 29/11/2012 to 28/11/2013.
A large area centred ~38 km east-northeast of Kingoonya is being explored for possible economic metallic mineralisation that may have formed in buried Proterozoic volcanic and plutonic basement rocks that are thought to lie at a shallowest depth of...-
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Published: 04 Dec 2013
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Fig Tree Corner, Ooldea South, Barton, Colona North, Ooldea Range and Pidinga (the Eucla Basin HMS Project tenement Group One). Joint annual reports for the period 1/3/2011 to 31/12/2015.
During the 2011-2012 joint reporting year, Iluka undertook drilling on ELs 3638, 3742 and 4544 with three aims: to extend the Typhoon HM deposit resource, to follow-up results of brownfields drilling at the Sonoran prospect, and to do further infill...-
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Published: 28 Feb 2016