A renewed effort to determine the diamond mineral potential of the 15.6 square km of land comprising Flinders Island was instigated during January 1999, under tenure of EL 2577, by Orogenic Exploration Pty Ltd, a company related to the previous...

Olympic Dam style copper-gold mineralisation was the target of exploration in two adjoining areas which lie about 100 km north-northeast of Port Augusta and 55 km west of Hawker, on alluvial plains adjacent to south-eastern Lake Torrens. All of the...

During the 2006-2007 licence reporting year (Year 16), on renewed EL 3516 Middleback Range, incoming new licensee OneSteel determined from a review of BHP Billiton's drilling database that some 3.1 Mt of JORC 'inferred' category iron ore (haematite)...

During licence Year 11, the lithological logs were digitised and are now presented for the remaining eight holes of the first drilling program (completed in 2002), together with the holes from the second (2003), and third (2004) drilling programs....

The Neoproterozoic is characterised by global environmental change and the diversification of many groups in the fossil record including animals and photosynthesising microflora. The cause-effect relationships between environmental and biotic changes...

An area centred approximately 50 km west-northwest of Tarcoola was taken up to explore for possible economic Tertiary palaeochannel-hosted roll front type sedimentary uranium mineralisation. EL 3372 contains the Warrior Palaeochannel, a tributary of...

Development of the Prominent Hill copper-gold deposit in the Mount Woods region will require an adequate source of water to support planned mining and ore processing operations, currently estimated to involve at least 6 million tonnes of ore per year....

Exploration Licence 2494 was granted in March 1998 to Paladin Energy Minerals NL and Brightstar Power Corporation Pty Ltd - the Paladin Brightstar Joint Venture (PBJV), with Paladin Resources NL as manager. The target commodity being explored for by...

Since the first edition of this map was released in May 2007, the collection by the Department's Geological Survey of much new geoscientific data and interpretations arising from South Australian regional surveys and exploration activities has...

Exploration for a range of mineral commodities over relinquished parts of a licence area situated 80 km north-east of Orroroo has mainly targeted the Cainozoic to Mesozoic cover rocks for possible sedimentary gold, uranium, mineral sands and...

An extensive area of Tertiary Lake Eyre Basin and Mesozoic Eromanga Basin sediments lying immediately to the north of the uranium-rich Mount Babbage and Mount Painter inliers is being explored for possible economic roll-front style palaeochannel...

During 2005, consultant geomorphologist Richard Russell was contracted by FDL to undertake a study of existing 'unsourced’ kimberlite indicator mineral (KIM) anomalies that occur in the northern part of the Springfield Project area. The initial aim of...

In the reporting period to 30th June 1995 for Exploration Licence 1944, Heathgate Pty Ltd completed no fieldwork, however geological evaluation work was undertaken. This work consisted of laboratory testing of drill core from a 1991 drilling program...

A small area located on the southern Lake Torrens Plains immediately west of the ABC Range was taken up to allow evaluation of its potential for having buried economic sedimentary coal and/or uranium mineralisation occurrences. There are no...

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...

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...

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...

Hallett Cove is one of South Australia’s foremost natural science treasures. Exposed examples for prime geological concepts of superposition of strata, depositional unconformities (representing time breaks), and folding and faulting of sedimentary...