Background: Leaching of copper has been improved in many instances by the inclusion of bacteria in the leaching solution. If such a system could be applied to extracting copper from the many mine dumps of low grade ore that exist in South Australia,...

Exploration for possible Olympic Dam - type base metals was undertaken in an area located 105 km south-east of Yunta, based on the recognition of steep magnetic gradient anomalies juxtaposed with a regionally significant linear crustal structure....

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TARGET: Sediment hosted uranium. EXPLORATION: Radiometric survey along tracks. 6 diamond drillholes. RESULTS: Low uranium levels in Corunna Conglomerate in DDH Au-U-6.

In a search for carbonate mineral bulk raw materials suitable for use at the BHP Whyalla blast furnace as fluxes in steel-making, 5 exploratory vertical rotary core holes totalling 200 m were drilled on the Nullarbor Plain near the coast and 28 km...

Ongoing base metal exploration in the Cleve district of eastern Eyre Peninsula has comprised detailed regional mapping, extensive geochemical and petrological sampling, and percussion drilling of selected geochemical anomalies. Assay results indicate...

In a search for carbonate mineral bulk raw materials suitable for use at the BHP Whyalla blast furnace as fluxes in steel-making, 5 exploratory vertical rotary core holes totalling 130 m were drilled on the Nullarbor Plain near the coast and south of...

Extensive geochemical and geological investigations were carried out over exposed and shallowly buried, predominantly flat-lying Lower Cambrian carbonate rocks in an area extending from the western edge of the Flinders Ranges to west of Lake Torrens....

In a search for carbonate mineral bulk raw materials suitable for use at the BHP Whyalla blast furnace as fluxes in steel-making, 5 exploratory vertical rotary cored holes totalling 189 m were drilled on the Nullarbor Plain near the coast just west of...

Iron-oxide copper-gold mineralisation of either Moonta-Wallaroo or Olympic Dam style was the target of exploration in an area extending southwards and eastwards from Port Augusta. A review of historic exploration data plus an evaluation of new and...

Exploration for possible economic buried sedimentary uranium deposits has been carried out in an area located 60-70 km south-west of Tarcoola, entirely blanketed by Quaternary aeolian sands, which holds sections of the preserved remnants of the...

Possible Mesoproterozoic unconformity-related uranium deposits within the Cariewerloo Basin, involving an inferred structural preparation component whereby basic intrusive members of the Gairdner Dyke Swarm cut across this unconformity in a manner...

Project Connelly is designed to target haematite mineralisation on OneSteel's mining and exploration leases, including EL 3516 Middleback Range, with the aim of adding to the haematite reserve. In addition to the exploration programme, reserve...

Several small areas in the vicinity of the Mount Coffin Diapir, which covers ~5 square km within the north-central Flinders Ranges immediately to the south-east of Copley, have been explored with the hope of finding additional copper resources near...

Hillgrove Resources Ltd (Hillgrove) is exploring for base metals and associated gold mineralisation in the Cambro-Ordovician basement rocks of south-east South Australia. EL 6176 is one of 8 licences held by Hillgrove in this region. The licence is...

Iluka Resources’ Eucla Basin Heavy Mineral Sands Project tenement Group 2 consisted initially ELs 3268, 3283, 3322 and 3330, which spanned the south-eastern portion of the Eucla Basin, extending from 24 km to 140 km north of Ceduna. Regionally, the...

As part of a MESA-led reappraisal of the source rock potential of the Eringa Trough, Pedirka Basin, this study was commissioned to carry out an organic geochemical and petrographic investigation of coals and carbonaceous sediments from the margins of...

Following the conduct of an aerial radioactivity survey covering an area north-east of Olary, ground checking of 9 anomalies gave only average radiation readings. Radioactivity logging of water bores located in places where the sedimentary cover...

Exploration for possible buried Ernest Henry or Olympic Dam style copper-gold mineralisation in the Nuckulla Hill area, 120 km north-east of Ceduna, did not progress during the first two years of tenure due to uncertainties in selecting a new remote...

In a search made predominantly for possible Archaean to Mesoproterozoic basement - hosted buried IOCG or mesothermal gold deposits, within an area centred approximately 40 km south-east of Tarcoola and in the vicinity of the Glenloth Goldfield, no...