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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 2 partnership DPY2-34, Drew Hill JV area Curnamona Group base metal mineral prospects. Project final report.
During early 2005, the Drew Hill joint venture partners conducted a regional base metal exploration programme over their mineral tenements located approximately 20-70 km north-east of Olary. Possible epithermal iron oxide copper-gold (IOCG)...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 3 partnership DPY3-59, Kalkaroo Dome fault-hosted gold mineral prospects. Project final report.
The main aim of Havilah Exploration's PACE Initiative Year 3 approved drilling programme was to test the east-west trending, quartz-veined breccia zone that passes through the central Kalkaroo Dome, specifically in the footwall of the Kalkaroo Cu-Au...-
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Unlocking South Australia's Mineral and Energy Potential - A Plan for Accelerating Exploration. Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry) : Year 2 partnership no. DPY2-27, K1 mineral prospect. Project interim and final reports.
In 2005, EL 2776/3478 farminee Western Plains Gold, to help achieve its commitment towards earning a 60% interest in the subject licence, and as part of its exploration focus on finding iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) mineralisation within...-
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Published: 19 Jun 1906
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Unlocking South Australia's Mineral and Energy Potential - A Plan for Accelerating Exploration. Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry) : Year 2 partnership no. DPY2-14, Willow IOCG mineral prospect. Project interim and final reports.
Bimbowrie EL 3278 is located within the Palaeoproterozoic Olary Domain of the Curnamona Province, South Australia. The property is prospective for a variety of mineralisation styles including granite batholith primary (hard-rock) uranium, Broken Hill...-
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Wompinie (part of the Drew Hill Joint Venture Project). Progress and annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 24/11/1995 to 5/12/2008.
Exploration for Kalkaroo or Portia style copper-gold deposits, and for Broken Hill type stratiform lead-zinc-silver deposits, both possibly formed within the Palaeoproterozoic basement intrusive rocks and high grade metasediments in an area lying...-
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Published: 14 May 1909
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Boolcoomata, Macdonald Hill, Mingary, Bulloo South / Bulloo Creek, Drew Hill and Wompinie (the Drew Hill Project). Separate and joint annual reports for the period 30/9/2003 to 9/1/2008.
Three adjacent but separate exploration licences, ELs 3136, 3137 and 3138, together covering 491 square km of ground located north-east of Olary and also surrounding Mingary, were initially granted to Exco Resources NL (Exco) at the end of September...-
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Curnamona Province.
CURNAMONA PROVINCE SUMMARY Age: Sedimentation - late Palaeoproterozoic to early Mesoproterozoic. Felsic and mafic volcanism - late Palaeoproterozoic to early Mesoproterozoic. Granitic intrusion - late Palaeoproterozoic to early...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2003
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Bimbowrie. Annual reports for the period 4/11/2009 to 11/11/2018.
During licence Year 6 (2009-2010), the first year of tenure of renewed EL 4375, the main exploration activities undertaken by Sinosteel-PepinNini Curnamona Management Pty Ltd (SPCM) were to conduct two drilling campaigns, the first designed to...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Kalabity. Annual reports for the period 25/2/2009 to 11/3/2019.
The main exploration activities undertaken during the first year of tenure of renewed EL 4239 (licence Year 6, 2009-2010) consisted of drill testing of uraniferous prospects defined by previous exploration, after the prior acquisition of an airborne...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Kalabity. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 25/2/2004 to 24/2/2009.
A large area in the central-eastern Olary Domain surrounding Kalabity Homestead is thought to be prospective for Broken Hill type stratiform Pb-Zn-Ag deposits, Mt Isa - Century style stratiform Zn-Pb deposits, Cloncurry style strata bound Cu- Au...-
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Published: 21 Apr 1909
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Outalpa. Annual reports for the period 10/12/2009 to 9/12/2018.
An area consisting of three separate sub-blocks that are spread out ~25 km north of Manna Hill and from 10 to 20 km to the north and north-west of Olary is being explored for possible economic gold as basement shear and vein hosted style deposits, as...-
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Published: 05 Mar 1919
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Cutana. Annual reports for the period 10/12/2009 to 9/12/2018.
An area consisting of three separate sub-blocks located ~20 to 35 km north-east of Olary and ~20 km east of Cutana is being explored for possible economic gold as basement shear and vein hosted style deposits, as well as for possible extensions of the...-
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Unlocking South Australia's Mineral and Energy Potential - A Plan for Accelerating Exploration. PACE Copper Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry) : Year 9 partnership no. DPY9-44 - Benagerie Dome. Drilling project final report.
A PACE Initiative - subsidised collaborative drilling programme has been completed by Havilah Resources Limited between February and June 2017 on its EL 5873 Benagerie and ML 6346 (Portia gold mine) ground holdings in the central western Curnamona...-
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Macdonald Hill, Mingary and Bulloo Creek (Drew Hill Project). First partial surrender/ second partial relinquishment reports at project licences' expiry/renewal, for the period 30/9/2003 to 29/9/2008.
Work carried out on the now relinquished licence portions has comprised the acquisition, processing and interpretation of Aster satellite imagery (SWIR, VNIR and Landsat TM247 images) by contractor Geoimage in November 2004, followed by a consultant's...-
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Published: 13 May 1909
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Whey Whey Creek (the Black Elephant Project). Data release to accompany first partial surrender at licence expiry/renewal : annual reports for the period 9/10/2006 to 8/10/2011.
A tenement area located 25 km south-west of Olary was taken up for exploration because in the licensees' opinion it is favourably located on the southern margin of the Curnamona Craton, and covers Willyama Supergroup metasediments and metavolcanics...-
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Benagerie (part of the Benagerie Ridge Joint Venture Project). Progress and annual reports to the commencement of multi-licence joint reporting on the Curnamona Joint Venture Project, for the period 2/5/1989 to 3/5/2003. [Index Part 1 of 3].
An area of sparsely explored, Tertiary and Cretaceous sediment and soil-covered Proterozoic bedrock centred approximately 80 km north of Olary is being explored primarily for base metal massive sulphide deposits. The underlying Benagerie Ridge...-
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Published: 19 May 1903
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Curnamona JV Project area (including Benagerie and Kalkaroo). Combined annual reports for the period 10/5/2003 to 31/12/2007.
Ongoing exploration carried out by project operator Havilah Resources under its newly ratified, twelve exploration licence Curnamona Project Amalgamated Expenditure Agreement, for the period 15/10/2003 to 31/12/2004, consisted mainly of drilling done...-
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RB 2006/00017 Geological notes on the Coppertop, Montstephen, southern Morialpa and southeastern Plumbago Inliers
Four areas on the south-western margin of the Palaeo-Mesoproterozoic Willyama Inliers were mapped in detail to elucidate the nature of their lithostratigraphy, structure and mineralisation. These basement inliers are composed of...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2006
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RB 2009/00018 BHEI 2009 - OLARY field excursion to Ameroo Hill, Tommie Wattie [Bore] and the Walparuta Inlier. [September 25-26, 2009].
The Curnamona Province is the southern remnant of the Palaeoproterozoic Pb-Zn belt, and represents but a small fragment of the original superbasin. Geological data supports the idea of the basin being a rift, with sediments in the Broken Hill Domain...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2009
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RB 2009/00010 Curnamona Province exploration review and mineral systems.
Uranium has been the mainstay of mineral exploration and mining in the Curnamona Province of South Australia since the early prospecting activity at Radium Hill in 1906 and Mount Painter in 1910. Larger scale mining and exploration began after the...-
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Published: 01 Jun 2009
