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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Salt Creek, Lochaber, Lake Hawdon, Kingston South-East and Kongorong. Joint annual reports for the period 19/11/1996 to 21/10/2018.
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...-
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Published: 19 Nov 2018
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Kallioota. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 5/6/2006 to 4/6/2010.
A north-northwest trending basement high or horst-like structure mapped in the subsurface at Yadlamalka, located about 50 km north of Port Augusta, which was indicated by magnetic and gravity data to lie at a depth of about 200 m to 600 m close to the...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2010
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Cooinchina Creek (synonym: the West Lake Eyre Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/9/2007 to 20/9/2010.
An area located approximately 50 km east of William Creek and abutting the western shoreline of Lake Eyre North was taken up to explore for possible concealed IOCG style base metal and uranium deposits, that could have formed in buried Archaean to...-
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Published: 30 Jun 2010
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Eucla Basin Areas C, G, I and Y (part of Iluka's Eucla Basin tenement Group 4). Joint annual reports for the period 19/10/2009 to 30/11/2011, plus licences' joint final report at their full surrender in September 2013.
Four exploration licences distributed along the northern and north-eastern edges of Iluka's Group 4 of jointly reported tenements have been fully surrendered, after work performed there recently suggested that their perceived prospectivity for...-
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Published: 10 Oct 2013
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Booborowie area. Annual technical report for period ending 08/08/2018.
Exploration Licence 5999 “Cartarpo” covers an area of 112 square km in the states mid-north between Hallett and Booborowie, northwest of the township of Burra. Historic mine workings “Cartarpo Mine” was worked for copper and cobalt between 1867-1872,...-
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Published: 05 Oct 2018
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Arkaroola. Annual reports for the period 5/12/2008 to 3/12/2015.
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...-
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Published: 20 Jan 2016
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Paralana Creek (part of the Beverley Project). Annual reports for the period 29/9/2009 to 15/11/2015.
Work undertaken on EL 4378 during the 2009-2010 reporting year included the drilling of 478 vertical rotary mud holes totalling 132,960 m, and core drilling totalling 4117 m performed in 16 of these holes for stratigraphic unit / resource...-
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Published: 24 Dec 2015
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The Northern Gawler Project. Data release made in lieu of submitting partial surrender reports for ELs 5566 and 5567 upon renewal of those licences : joint annual reports for the period 1/2/2015 to 31/1/2020.
Portions of two tenements located to the south and south-east of Coober Pedy were relinquished at the start of 2020, and all mineral exploration data previously acquired by licensee Southern Iron on these tenements and on four others that now comprise...-
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Published: 28 May 2020
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Sandy Point (part of the Roxby South Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/12/2011 to 20/12/2015.
A small licence area located approximately 40 km south of Olympic Dam, and lying close to known buried IOCG-U mineralisation previously discovered by WMC at its Wirrda Well, Acropolis and Horse Well prospects, has been explored for possible economic...-
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Published: 17 Dec 2015
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Eucolo Creek (also called the Churchill Dam Project). Annual reports for the period 31/1/2006 to 14/11/2018.
EL 3511 Eucolo Creek, of 528 square km, is situated near the eastern margin of the Gawler Craton within the Olympic Dam Domain, approximately 90 km south-west of the Olympic Dam IOCG-U deposit (3.98 billion tonnes at 1.1% Cu, 0.4 kg/t U3O8 and 0.5 g/t...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2018
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Nuckulla Hill. Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 12/7/2004 to 11/7/2009.
As part of a search for possible Tunkillia type structurally-controlled buried gold deposits within an area located approximately 120 km north-east of Ceduna, licensee Southern Gold targeted geochemical and geophysical anomalies that had previously...-
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Published: 27 Oct 2009
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Boolooroo Goldfield. Annual reports to licence expiry for the period 24/11/1995 to 14/3/2006.
Protracted exploration undertaken by an individual mineral prospector over a small area of rugged topography located in the north-central Flinders Ranges, approximately 25 km north-east of Leigh Creek, has addressed a number of potentially economic...-
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Published: 14 Mar 2006
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Unlocking South Australia's Mineral and Energy Potential - A Plan for Accelerating Exploration. Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry) : Year 2 partnership no. DPY2-27, K1 mineral prospect. Project interim and final reports.
In 2005, EL 2776/3478 farminee Western Plains Gold, to help achieve its commitment towards earning a 60% interest in the subject licence, and as part of its exploration focus on finding iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) mineralisation within...-
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Published: 19 Jun 2006
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Taylorville. First annual report plus progress reports to licence full surrender, for the period 25/3/2004 to 24/9/2005.
Digging of exploratory shallow costeans into lithified Tertiary arenaceous sedimentary units on the eastern bank of the River Murray, 2 km south-west of Taylorville, to search for inferred workable deposits of decorative fossiliferous sandstone, did...-
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Published: 13 Apr 2006
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Unlocking South Australia's Mineral and Energy Potential - A Plan for Accelerating Exploration. Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry) : Year 1 partnership no. DPY1-18, Super Nova IOCG mineral prospect. Project interim and final reports.
This PACE-subsidised drilling project aimed to discover a new copper-gold mineralised Iron Oxide Copper Gold (IOCG) magmatic centre, similar to that which forms the setting of the Olympic Dam deposit, but lying within the northern margin of the...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2005
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Mulgathing (part of the Woomera Project). First partial surrender report for the period 22/6/2012 to 27/8/2015.
EL 4931, which is centred approximately 100 km north-east of Tarcoola, is being explored principally for potentially economic banded iron formation type iron ore occurrences, and for iron oxide - associated copper-gold mineralisation within the buried...-
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Published: 13 Aug 2015
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Bond Hill. Annual reports to licence surrender for the period 17/5/2002 to 3/6/2005.
An area located between Lakes Acraman and Gairdner was taken up to explore for possible buried iron oxide - associated copper-gold deposits hosted by subcropping basement rocks of the Gawler Range Volcanics (GRV). The licensee had noted a lack of...-
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Published: 14 Apr 2005
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Investigation into public risks from potential landfill gas migration and abandoned underground clay mine workings in the Saint Agnes district of Adelaide.
Field investigations including drilling and soil gas sampling, carried out as part of a subsurface hazard assessment for a parcel of land at Saint Agnes, did not indicate any significant risks to an intended building development.-
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Published: 27 Feb 2003
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Lake Torrens South and Harris Crossing area, north of Port Augusta (the Torrens South Project). Combined annual reports plus separate final reports to licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 31/1/2006 to 30/1/2010.
Exploration for possible buried Carrapateena or Prominent Hill type iron oxide-associated copper-gold deposits along the south-eastern side of the Stuart Shelf, in the vicinity of the southern end of Lake Torrens, initially consisted of a review of...-
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Published: 07 Apr 2010
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Lake Phillipson. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 27/4/2000 to 8/8/2010.
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...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2016