Three contiguous licences located at the south-western end of the Nackara Arc structural province have continued to be explored for possible economic buried diamond mineral occurrences in the cover and bedrock that may exist in association with...

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...

EL 5279 is located in the Lake Eyre region approximately 245 km north of the settlement of Marree, and abuts the south-eastern corner of the Simpson Desert National Park. The licence is the northernmost one of five original applications that were made...

EL 5520 is being explored as part of a regional search for possible economic Beltana-style zinc silicate hydrothermal replacement mineralisation hosted by brecciated Cambrian or Neoproterozoic bedrock carbonates. No field work was completed by licence...

An area comprising two separate sub-blocks centred ~115 km south-southeast of Coober Pedy and located to the west of the Stuart Highway is being explored for Archaean to Palaeoproterozoic banded iron formation iron ore mineralisation of economic...

Initial exploration for stratiform Cu-Au mineralisation hosted within Adelaidean sediments in the Morialpa area, 40 km north- west of Olary, comprised soil, stream sediment, rock chip and ironstone lag geochemical sampling, and 1:10,000 scale...

An area centred ~20 km south-southwest of Kimba is being explored for possible buried Tanami style orogenic lode gold and also for Mount Isa / Broken Hill style base metals mineralisation, which could occur within reactive chemical and pelitic...

102 vertical open RC holes (total penetration 3699 m) were drilled along traverses laid out over an area extending 40-50 km north to north-west of Pinnaroo, targeting possible south-eastwards extensions to the Mindarie and Mercunda heavy mineral (HM)...

EL 4177, made up of three disjoint parts, is located on the central-western side of Yorke Peninsula near the towns of Port Victoria, Maitland and Arthurton, and covers a total area of 243 square km. The underlying basement rocks there are part of the...

During licence year 6, the commencing year of renewed EL 3895 Cutana, no work took place because Havilah's RC drilling rig, along with all company personnel, were fully occupied on completing the mining feasibility evaluation drilling programmes...

A previously discovered (SADM, 1950s) partly outcropping body of magnetite-rich Palaeoproterozoic BIF rock (jaspilite), located ~46 km east of Tarcoola, has been investigated afresh for its current economic potential as an iron ore resource. Similar...

During November-December 2011 a helicopter-borne VTEM survey was flown over the northern portions of Phoenix Copper Ltd’s (Phoenix) ELs 4031 and 4312 on western Yorke Peninsula to test for Cu-Au mineralisation in Hiltaba Suite rocks (host to the...

An area located approximately 90-110 km north-northeast of Marree was taken up to explore for possible telethermal gold mineralisation hosted by Great Artesian Basin sediments. A number of surficial and enigmatic gold geochemical anomalies exist in...

35 surface samples of various clastic sediments deposited on Kangaroo Island were studied microscopically to see if the respective abundances, composition and mineralogical features of their heavy mineral grain components might shed light on possible...

Olympic Dam style iron oxide hosted copper-gold mineralisation was the target of exploration in an area 20 km east of Port Broughton. Geological field observations and a review of available data indicate that the target Mesoproterozoic basement in...

Calcrete was sampled over the entire foot of Yorke Peninsula, approximately 200 km by road from Adelaide, to follow up aeromagnetic structures and anomalous base metals in groundwater. Several samples returned slightly elevated base metals, from...

Following initial assessment of available data, exploration for copper, gold and base metals in an area 60 km west of Tarcoola concentrated on regional calcrete sampling. Analysis for gold and a suite of base metals indicated several areas of...

A substantial area (~50 square km in extent) of unusual surface ironstone enrichment on the Quaternary peneplain lying to the east of Etadunna Homestead on the southern Birdsville Track was investigated for its possible economic potential as a source...

The Gawler Iron Project is situated approximately 25 km north of the Trans-Australian Railway and 200 km south-west of Coober Pedy, along the western margin of the Gawler Craton in South Australia. The project area formerly had not been systematically...

In a search for possible Adelaidean bedrock stratabound sources of gold which have weathered to generate the alluvial gold deposits worked at the historic Gomersal and Moppa Goldfields, the licensee undertook structural modelling of available...