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Rounsevell Hill. First partial relinquishment report, for the period 25/10/2002 to 24/10/2003.
Exploration undertaken in an area situated 40 km north-west of Tarcoola, targeting possible economic iron oxide - associated copper-gold mineralisation that may have formed within altered near-surface Hiltaba Suite granitic intrusions, has comprised...-
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Oakbank, Sergeant's Dam and Oakvale, northern Murray Basin, South Australia (part of the Oakvale Project). Joint third partial surrender report, for the period 3/12/1997 to 1/12/2001.
Within the now relinquished licence portions, parts of six traverses of reverse circulation aircore drilling (involving 68 vertical open holes, total 1918.5 m) tested 60 km strike length of interpreted heavy mineral sand - bearing marine beach facies...-
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Port Broughton. Progress reports, annual reports, technical reports, and final report to licence expiry/ surrender, for the period 15/7/1991 to 19/9/2001.
Exploration targetted Roxby Downs style and Ernest Henry style copper-gold mineralisation in an area of intensely magnetic, concealed Proterozoic metasedimentary and intrusive igneous basement terrain, characterised by complex regional geophysical...-
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Published: 12 Dec 1900
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Coober Pedy Project. Annual reports, joint annual reports, and final reports at individual licences' full surrender, for the period 4/4/2011 to 3/4/2015.
Five separate areas located in the northern Gawler Craton adjacent to the Mount Woods Domain, which to date have received only minor attention from mineral explorers and so have had limited drilling done, have been explored for possible buried...-
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Published: 15 Apr 1915
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Iron Peak. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 12/11/2003 to 11/11/2008.
The banded iron formations associated with various Neoproterozoic tillites in South Australia have for some time been recognised as being potential sources for iron ore, however, the low grade nature of the iron mineralisation within these bands has...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2009
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Gum Flat. Annual reports submitted prior to the commencement of joint reporting on the Gum Flat Iron Ore Project, for the period 27/9/2005 to 26/9/2008.
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...-
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Published: 20 Nov 1907
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Tumby Bay. Annual reports [to the 24/11/2006 commencement of the Eyre Peninsula Project licences' combined reporting status] for the period 18/1/2002 to 17/1/2007.
Exploration Licence 2887 Tumby Bay was taken out to cover prospective magnetite rich Banded Iron Formations (BIF) close to the eastern coast of the Eyre Peninsula. Potential was seen for a magnetite concentrate export operation taking advantage of...-
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Published: 05 Mar 1907
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Olary (part of the Braemar Iron Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/cancellation, for the period 20/9/2010 to 19/9/2015.
A licence area in the Olary district comprising three separate sub-blocks has been explored for possible economic stratabound iron ore occurrences within partly concealed Neoproterozoic bedrock. The subject ground was taken up by Wentworth Metals...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Outalpa (part of the Curnamona Project). Annual reports for the period 10/6/2012 to 9/6/2018.
The Outalpa (EL 3472) licence area, comprised of two separate sub-blocks respectively centred ~30 km north-northeast and ~45 km north-northwest of Manna Hill, is one of five adjacent tenements held by PepinNini Minerals within the eastern Adelaide...-
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Cronje Dam and Oak Bank Outstation (the Cronje Dam Sedimentary Uranium Project). Annual and joint annual reports, plus final report at remaining licence's expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/10/2005 to 1/11/2014.
An area comprised of three separate sub-blocks generally located ~60 km south of Manna Hill and ~70 km south-southeast of Olary has been explored for Tertiary sedimentary uranium which may have formed in buried north to south trending palaeochannels...-
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Manunda, Tiverton Outstation, Iron Peak and Pualco Range (the Razorback Ridge Iron Ore Project, later the Mawson Iron Project). Joint annual reports for the period 10/12/2009 to 9/12/2016.
Three adjoining licence areas in the Baratta Trough within the northern Nackara Arc have been taken up to explore for possible economic buried Neoproterozoic metasedimentary semi-stratabound iron ore. Central EL 4267 covers ~3 km strike length of the...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Acropolis South and North Roxby. Joint annual reports for the period 26/4/2003 to 3/5/2009.
Exploration for possible economic deposits of buried, Mesoproterozoic basement-hosted IOCG-U style mineralisation is being conducted over two separate multiple-block licence areas in the Olympic Dam district, EL 2931 (Acropolis South) and EL 2932...-
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Moseley Nobs (part of the Wilcherry Project). First partial surrender report, for the period 23/3/2017 to 22/3/2019.
The easternmost and westernmost thirds (portions totalling ~52%) of the former area of EL 5931, located approximately 30 km north of Kimba, have been relinquished due to their perceived diminished prospectivity for economic buried occurrences of...-
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Moseley Nobs and Uno [West] (part of the Wilcherry Project). Second partial surrenders' respectively combined report, for the overall period 1/11/2014 to 7/4/2021.
14 square km or 35% of the former area of EL 5931, and 3 square km or ~5.2% of the former area of EL 6379, have recently been relinquished due to their now perceived diminished prospectivity for buried base and precious metal mineralisation. Work...-
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Published: 17 May 1921
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Paragon Bore. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 17/11/2016 to 16/11/2018.
A small area located ~80 km west-northwest of Coober Pedy, containing the known Paragon Bore BIF iron deposit and strike continuations of its host bedrock unit, was taken up to evaluate the probable iron resource to JORC-compliant Inferred and...-
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Published: 15 Jan 1919
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Pinkawillinie (part of the Wilcherry Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 1/11/2012 to 10/4/2019.
An area originally consisting of three separate licence sub-blocks that are centred ~30 km north-west of Kimba has been explored for possible economic buried occurrences of basement-hosted epithermal/hydrothermal/metamorphic gold, silver, iron,...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mabel Creek [South-east]. Annual reports for the period 6/9/2013 to 5/9/2018.
An area comprising two separate small sub-blocks that are located 20 and 70 km west of Coober Pedy is being explored for possible buried economic Archaean stratiform, skarn type BIF iron ore as well as for possible buried Prominent Hill type IOCG...-
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Published: 18 Mar 1919
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Mount Miccollo (part of the Wilcherry Project). Second and third partial surrender report, for the period 10/6/2011 to 27/5/2021.
An area centred ~100 km west of Port Augusta is being explored for possible economic buried, basement-hosted occurrences of epithermal/hydrothermal/metamorphic gold, silver, iron, uranium, and base metals mineralisation. On the now relinquished...-
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Uno (part of the Wilcherry Project). First partial surrender report, for the period 29/7/2009 to 24/1/2020.
An area centred ~105 km west-southwest of Port Augusta is being explored for possible economic buried, basement-hosted occurrences of epithermal/hydrothermal/metamorphic gold, silver, iron, uranium, and base metals mineralisation. On the now...-
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Mount Carulina and Trapeze Hill (the Oodnadatta Project). Joint annual reports plus succeeding single licence annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 6/3/1995 to 12/10/2009. [ Index Part 1 of 2 ].
[ Note - here is Part 1 of the abstract relating to 2 separately indexed parts ]. As an adjunct to its widespread search for possible diamondiferous kimberlite diatremes on its Abminga Project acreage situated nearby to the north-west, Caldera...-
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Published: 09 Feb 1910