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RB 2020/00022 Delamerian igneous basement to the Murray Basin in South Australia: a drill core review - volume 1.
This report presents the results of a Geological Survey of South Australia drillhole core samples logging project addressing a selection of the cored historical exploration and stratigraphic holes that have penetrated probable Delamerian Orogeny -...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2020
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RB 2017/00023 Report on Mineral Systems Drilling Program drillhole MSDP01, Six Mile Hill area.
MSDP01 is one of four diamond drillholes drilled during 2015 in the Six Mile Hill area as part of the Mineral Systems Drilling Program (MSDP). The hole was drilled vertically to 1116.8 m depth over the period 31/7/2015-15/9/2015, and intersected six...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2017
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RB 2022/00011 Eucla Basin and peripheral paleovalleys.
The Cenozoic Eucla Basin is located on the southern margin of the Australian continent, with a present-day basin onshore edge which extends for over 2,000 km from Western Australia into South Australia. The basin’s sediment fill comprises a thin...-
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Published: 01 Nov 2022
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RB 2020/00024 The South Australian Atlas of Geoscience and Mineral Exploration Data – Delamerian basement to the Murray Basin
The Delamerian basement to the Murray Basin has been selected as the focus region for a major Geological Survey of South Australia project being conducted as part of the MinEx CRC National Drilling Initiative...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2020
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Caroline, Mount Harcus and Pine Ridge (the Musgrave Project). Joint annual reports for the period 1/7/2011 to 31/12/2018.
Three Exploration Licences spread across the central and eastern Musgrave Ranges are now being explored by NiCul Minerals Limited (a wholly owned subsidiary of PepinNini Minerals Limited) which currently owns 100% of each tenement. The ground held is...-
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Published: 28 Feb 2019
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : The North-western Murray Basin Project. Joint annual reports for the period 29/8/2012 to 28/8/2014.
During Year 7 of the project, Goldfields did no more field work, but undertook office-based analyses of bedrock geochemical and geological data obtained in its 2012 aircore drilling campaign. Image processing and interpretation of the Canegrass...-
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Published: 28 Feb 2015
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Fitton. Annual reports for the period 20/9/2010 to 19/9/2018.
An area comprising two separate sub-blocks located in the northern Flinders Ranges, which adjoins outside the western outcrop edge of the Mount Painter Inlier, has been taken up to explore for possible buried primary, bedrock-hosted vein or breccia...-
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Published: 13 Nov 2018
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Intercept Hill. Annual reports for the period 20/2/2014 to 19/2/2019.
An area centred ~30 km north-east of Woomera is being explored for possible economic buried IOCG style epithermal-hydrothermal mineralisation. The intent is to drill up to eleven untested targets which are already described in previously reported work...-
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Published: 25 Feb 2019
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Meadows (part of the Mount Barker Project). First annual report plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/4/2017 to 19/4/2019.
A small area covering part of the Meadows Fault scarp and part of the adjoining Tertiary-Recent Meadows Basin has been explored for inferred sediment-hosted primary gold mineralisation that may have formed in favourable Neoproterozoic bedrock...-
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Published: 13 Jun 2019
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Mount Goddard (part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 8/12/2010 to 9/6/2015.
The subject licence, located approximately 60 km south-east of Leigh Creek, forms part of a much larger tenement package currently being explored by Perilya, primarily looking for zinc silicate mineralisation similar to the Beltana deposit, although...-
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Published: 17 Jul 2015
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Wartaka, Iron Knob, Reid Lookout and Old Wartaka (the Parkinson Dam Project). Annual reports and joint annual reports for the period 17/2/2005 to 26/4/2019.
Four small, adjacent licences located on the south-eastern, shallow subcrop margin of the Gawler Ranges, which together make up an area centred about 25 km north-east of Lake Gilles and 60 km west of Port Augusta, are being explored for possible...-
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Published: 30 Apr 2018
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Kalkaroo (part of the Mundi Mundi Plains JV Project). Annual reports for the period 21/4/2005 to 20/4/2010.
An area of shallowly covered Curnamona Province metalliferous basement rocks abutting the South Australia / New South Wales border, approximately 80 km north-east of Olary, is believed to be prospective for Broken Hill and McArthur River style...-
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Published: 06 Oct 2010
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Millers Creek (part of the Billa Kalina Project). Joint annual reports, plus final report to licence's full surrender, for the period 30/8/2012 to 14/7/2016.
During licence Year 7, a small ground gravity survey was acquired at Peeweena Dam on the western side of EL 4854, to try to validate a significant 10 mGal anomaly first identified by a previous widely spaced (7 km x 7 km) BMR regional gravity survey...-
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Published: 20 May 2016
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Dudley East area 2 (part of the Dudley Project). Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/8/2018 to 2/8/2020.
A small area which was centred on the eastern end of Kangaroo Island, ~10 km south-east of Penneshaw, has been explored for exploitable quantities of lithium or tantalum-bearing minerals, specifically spodumene, zinnwaldite and lepidolite, because...-
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Published: 14 Sep 2020
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Kanmantoo. Annual reports for the period 3/11/2009 to 16/12/2018.
No exploration was undertaken on EL 3277 during the 2008-2009 final year of its term. An application for licence renewal was submitted and a subsequent licence, EL 4401, was granted to Hillgrove Resources on 17/12/2009. During the first year of EL...-
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Published: 10 Feb 2018
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Mount Deception (part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 14/10/1999 to 27/4/2017.
The surrendered two remnant portions EL 5725 Mount Deception formerly were part of a much larger multi-tenement package which is currently still being explored by Perilya, primarily looking for economic stratabound zinc silicate mineralisation similar...-
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Published: 21 Jun 2017
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Eurelia Diamond Project. Joint annual reports for the period 1/1/2014 to 17/11/2018.
Since taking over ownership of five licences that previously formed parts of Flinders Mines' Springfield Project, by a purchase agreement that took force in June 2014, Diamond Resources has been working to define, identify and prioritise advanced...-
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Published: 31 Dec 2018
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Cocata and Warramboo (part of the Eyre Peninsula Project). Annual reports and joint annual reports to licences' joint expiry/renewal, for the period 7/6/1996 to 5/6/2001.
Two adjacent licence areas forming part of a contiguous set of project tenements in the central Eyre Peninsula region are being explored by Adelaide Resources (AR) primarily for gold and base metals, which it is thought may occur in buried deposits...-
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Published: 28 Aug 2001
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Coober Pedy south-east - Mount Brady Mafic Intrusive Complex exploratory drilling programme. Final report, Project ADI RD02-293 [part of Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2022].
In an area centred ~40 km south-east of Coober Pedy, following its processing of open file GCAS aeromagnetic data (Region 8A/8B) using Vector Residual Mag Intensity (VRMI) and high frequency residual gradients, the licensee had identified two untested...-
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Published: 30 Jun 2022
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 2 partnership DPY2-10, Watraba (eastern Eucla Basin) heavy mineral sands prospect. Project final report.
This partly PACE-funded drilling project aimed to discover a heavy mineral sand deposit along the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin in the EL 3363 Watraba project area, located 40 kilometres north to north-west of Ceduna. Drilling tested an...-
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Published: 18 Dec 2006