During 2007-2008, the first year of the diamond exploration joint venture with the Filsell brothers in the Paratoo area, Flinders Mines' activities comprised: • acquiring part of a detailed helicopter-borne infill aerial magnetic ('helimag') survey,...

A small licence area located ~50 km south-east of Yunta was taken up to explore basement for possible economic buried IOCG type and gold-only mineralisation, as well as for possible stratiform Broken Hill type lead-zinc-silver occurrences and for...

The Kingston coal (lignite) deposit, delineated by Western Mining Corp. in the early 1980s, has been re-assessed for the energy generation potential its coal represents, viewed in the context of recent increased demand for liquid transport fuels and...

An area of the western Yorke Peninsula, comprising three separate sub-blocks, was taken up to explore for possible economic buried IOCG-U deposits similar to those at Hillside (located 25 km to the east of sub-block 'B'), Olympic Dam, Prominent Hill...

Exploration Licence 2704 covering 23 square km surrounding the historic abandoned Mutooroo copper mine, located ~55 km east of Olary, was granted to Havilah Resources NL so that the company could assess the economic potential of the remaining sulphide...

Exploration Licence (EL) 2570 Mt Parry was granted to Magnesium Developments Limited on the 4 January 1999. Exploration within EL 2570 focussed on magnesite (MgCO3), which occurs within a sequence of interbeds with the Neoproterozoic, Skillogalee...

Work targeting Archaean to Proterozoic iron ore in BIF that was carried out by the Iron Road JV partners during 2010-2011 comprised studies of the geological setting and physical characteristics of magnetite iron mineralisation delineated by Stage I...

The Peterlumbo Project area covers an area of 583 km2 and is situated 60 km north-west of Kimba, immediately south of the Gawler Ranges on the northern Eyre Peninsula. The initial primary exploration target within the tenement was the covered source...

An area lying immediately west of Port Lincoln and extending for ~10 km inland is being explored for buried occurrences of multiple metallic mineral commodities that may have been deposited within faulted, folded and metamorphosed Archaean basement...

An area located immediately east of Lake Frome was considered to be prospective for iron-oxide associated copper - gold - rare earth element (IOCG-REE) mineralisation of Olympic Dam style formed within concealed Mid-Proterozoic granitic basement....

The continuation during 2010 of exploration of the Palaeoproterozoic bedrock in a small area located 60 km west-northwest of Cowell has mainly consisted of the conduct of three shallow drilling campaigns and the examination and analysis of downhole...

A number of shallow Neogene salt lakes, that extend in chain-like fashion along the length of the inner Coorong and its hinterland as far south as Lacepede Bay, have been investigated for possible economic evaporitic mineral deposits that may have...

During the 2008-2009 licence year, most of the new work done consisted of appraisal rotary mud drilling at Four Mile East (112 holes for 24,460 m) and Four Mile West (113 holes for 19,120 m), with the addition of one NQ diamond cored hole (AKC093) for...

An area located immediately south of Bindyi Homestead on Koonamore Station was taken up to explore for possible economic stratabound iron ore (magnetite) hosted by metamorphosed Adelaidean glacial sedimentary strata of the Yudnamutana Subgroup....

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...

An area located ~ 70 km north-east of Ooldea Siding and 50 km east of Maralinga is being explored for the industrial mineral kaolin, and more particularly its crystallographic form halloysite, which typically occurs as microtubules or nanotubes which...

An area of southern Eyre Peninsula consisting of two separate tenement subgroups located in the Port Lincoln west and Cummins districts respectively is being explored for possible economic shallowly buried stratabound occurrences of haematite and...

A licence consisting of three separate small subareas located just north of the Barrier Highway between Manna Hill and Winnininnie was taken up to explore for possible economic stratabound iron ore (magnetite) hosted by metamorphosed Adelaidean...

A licence consisting of two separate small subareas, both located in the Yunta - Nillinghoo district, was taken up to explore for possible economic stratabound iron ore (magnetite) hosted by metamorphosed Adelaidean glacial sedimentary strata of the...

A known, undeveloped stratabound Neoproterozoic magnesite deposit at Witchelina, for which resources and reserves have historically been defined, has been taken up afresh in anticipation that a beneficiation procedure can be developed that will result...