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Lake Gilles. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/6/1980 to 3/7/1996.
Aeromagnetic, ground magnetic and EM surveys, with follow-up rock chip, stream sediment and soil sampling, RAB drilling (688 holes, total 17,553 m) and RC drilling (12 holes, total 1149 m), have defined an extensive zone of anomalous base metal...-
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Published: 15 May 1996
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Tarcoola - Tallaringa Bedrock Drilling Project.
Archaean, Early and Middle Proterozoic rocks of the north-western Gawler Craton have features which suggest good prospectivity for base metals, precious metals and other commodities. However, outcrop is poor and there has been relatively little...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Brimpton Lake. Annual reports for the period 9/2/2005 to 8/8/2018.
An area of the southern Gawler Craton, which is located on Eyre Peninsula east of Elliston, is continuing to be explored for possible economic buried Archaean to Proterozoic bedrock-hosted primary base and precious metal deposits of inferred...-
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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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Sheoak Hill. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surreender, for the period 15/3/1983 to 14/3/1988.
TARGET: Stratiform lead-zinc-silver mineralisation of the Broken Hill or Aggeneys - Gamsberg type, associated with banded iron formations in Early Proterozoic metasediments. EXPLORATION: Data from the 1975 joint SADME / BMR Barna 1:100 000 scale...-
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Carpie Puntha and Peterlumbo. Joint second partial surrender report, for the period 14/2/1989 to 13/2/1992. Plus: Carpie Puntha and Waddikee. Joint final report to licences' expiry/renewal, for the period 14/2/1989 to 24/6/1992.
TARGET: Possible commercial Menninnie Dam type stratabound or stratiform base metal deposits in the Cowell - Kimba - Buckleboo region. EXPLORATION: Field reconnaissance and rock chip geochemical sampling of prospective areas identified from...-
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Cowell - Middleback Range and Sheoak Hill areas. Joint progress reports for the initial tenure period 15/3/1983 to 14/3/1984.
TARGET: Possible stratiform Pb-Zn-Ag mineralisation of the Broken Hill or Aggeneys-Gamsberg type associated with banded iron formations in Early Proterozoic metasediments. EXPLORATION: Regional ground magnetic surveys, geological mapping, 29 RAB...-
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Heartbreak Bore (part of Afmeco's Tarcoola Joint Venture Project). Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/1/1980 to 15/1/1982.
Portions of regional airborne radiometric and magnetic surveys, plus a small part of the HW-IV seismic refraction traverse, and 20 line km of gravity and ground magnetic surveys, were undertaken by joint venture operator Afmeco as part of its Project...-
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Roopena West. Annual reports to licence full surrender, for the period 1/10/1993 to 9/3/2000.
Infill aeromagnetic and ground gravity surveys undertaken approximately 50 km west of Port Augusta were followed by an IP survey and lag sampling. Anomalous Cu and Au values were returned, but only a minimal IP response was recorded. Regolith mapping...-
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Ironstone Hill. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 11/8/1997 to 10/8/2000.
An airborne magnetic/radiometric survey and surficial calcrete, soil and MMI sampling targeted Challenger/Tunkillia-type gold and Olympic Dam style copper-gold, associated respectively with a number of shear zones and with the Charleston Granite,...-
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Roopena. Second partial surrender report, for the period 31/7/2000 to 30/7/2005.
Two separate areas located respectively 20-45 km west-southwest and 70 km south-southwest of Whyalla have been selectively relinquished from EL 2741 in accordance with licence conditions. The ground has potential for Palaeoproterozoic to...-
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RB 2002/00017 Interpretation of the middle Palaeoproterozoic granites and gneisses (Lincoln Complex), southern Yorke Peninsula, South Australia.
The middle Palaeoproterozoic rocks (2000-1800 Ma) on southern Yorke Peninsula are part of the Cleve Subdomain in the eastern Gawler Craton, which is separated from the younger Moonta Subdomain by the Warooka Fault Zone. The rocks contain a group of...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2002
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Corrobinnie Hill. Progress reports and annual reports to licence full surrender, for the period 8/5/1991 to 20/11/1995.
Exploration undertaken principally to search for possible buried Palaeoproterozoic iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposits within concealed bedrock, mostly within the north-western portion of the Pinkawillinie Conservation Park, comprised...-
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Notes on a brief structural geological investigation of the Stony Hill area, SML 539, west of the Middleback Range.
This document presents an interpreted structural setting for the unusual enriched occurrence of iron formation in the Stony Hill area, based on photogeological and drillhole data observations of macroscopic and mesoscopic structural factors.-
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Published: 08 Jul 1971
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Midgee. Fourth partial surrender report, for the period 26/11/2003 to 24/3/2017.
Portions of two of three separate sub-blocks formerly comprising EL 5426, totalling 34 square km in area or ~25% of the licence's former extent, have been relinquished because of their now perceived diminished prospectivity for finding significant...-
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Published: 15 Feb 2017
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Midgee. Fifth partial surrender report, for the period 26/11/2003 to 24/3/2019.
Portions of the western sub-block of EL 5426, totalling 27 square km in area or 27% of the licence's former extent, have been relinquished because of their now perceived diminished prospectivity for finding significant occurrences of uranium...-
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Published: 01 Feb 2019
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Wanilla (originally part of the Wanilla JV Project). Annual reports submitted until the commencement of licences' joint reporting for the Gum Flat Iron Ore Project, for the period 13/2/2007 to 12/2/2010.
A large north-south orientated area centred ~45 km north-west of Port Lincoln was taken up to explore for possible buried Archaean komatiite-hosted nickel, volcanic hosted massive sulphides (base metals), orogenic lode gold, BIF-hosted iron ores and...-
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Published: 01 Jun 2010
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Harris Bluff. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/6/2006 to 18/10/2015.
An area located immediately north of Lake Gilles and centred on Harris Bluff in the Uno Range was taken up to explore for possible buried unconformity style uranium mineralisation which could have formed at the base of the Corunna Conglomerate, and...-
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Published: 29 Sep 2015
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Middlecamp Hills. Annual reports for the period 30/6/2009 to 29/6/2019.
Two small areas have been taken up in the Cleve Uplands district to explore structurally interesting portions of the Lower and Upper Middleback Jaspilite stratigraphic units for possible economic buried copper, gold, manganese and iron ore...-
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Published: 06 Aug 2018
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Pinerow. Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 2/10/2004 to 9/11/2008.
To continue the assessment of the dimension stone and ornamental stone potential of granitic basement outcrops present on EL 2851, a 5-year Retention Lease, RL 116, was taken out on 7/2/2006 to cover 5.9 ha of the Middle Camp granite pluton. Several...-
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Published: 08 Jan 2009