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Lake Dey Dey, Lake Maurice, Ooldea Range, Waldana, Lake Maurice West, Leemurra, Punthanna, Yadina and Lake Maurice East. Joint progress reports and final report to licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 25/4/1979 to 15/11/1982.
The exploration concept was based on searching for secondary uranium mineralisation that might be derived from the Musgrave Block basement rocks and that could have become precipitated within calcrete horizons from ponded uraniferous surface drainage...-
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Boorthanna 001 Well completion report.
Boorthanna 1 was drilled as a combined mineral/petroleum exploration hole and stratigraphic test in the southern section of the Boorthanna Trough, 29 km west of William Creek township, to: (1) penetrate the Devonian section in the search of potash...-
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Data release - as updated : World's End. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/3/2009 to 2/3/2016.
An area centred about 30 km south-east of Burra has been explored for possible buried economic Burra style copper mineralisation and for Mongolata Goldfield type alluvial and reef gold. The host metasedimentary unit to the Monster mine, the...-
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Published: 16 Mar 1916
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Manners Well. Combined first annual/final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/10/2018 to 1/10/2019.
An intensely faulted and folded area centred ~65 km north-east of Parachilna, where extensive hydrothermal alteration is evident in the Neoproterozoic bedrock, and where considerable past small-scale surface mining activity has occurred, but where no...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Camel Lake. Annual reports to licence surrender for the period 16/11/2012 to 15/11/2023.
An area located ~ 70 km north-east of Ooldea Siding and 50 km east of Maralinga is being explored for the industrial mineral kaolin, and more particularly its crystallographic form halloysite, which typically occurs as microtubules or nanotubes which...-
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Published: 21 Nov 1923
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Narrina. Combined first annual/final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/10/2018 to 1/10/2019.
An intensely faulted and folded metasedimentary area centred ~50 km east-northeast of Blinman, where extensive hydrothermal alteration is evident in the Neoproterozoic bedrock, and where considerable past small-scale surface mining activity has...-
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Pidinga Lakes. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/12/1969 to 17/12/1970.
Shallow drilling of sediments on the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin (in 25 vertical rotary mud holes with a total penetration of ~1280 m) to test for secondary uranium mineralisation, although limited by drilling difficulties, has resulted in the...-
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Published: 26 Feb 1971
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Pidinga Lakes. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/12/1969 to 17/12/1970.
Shallow drilling of sediments on the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin (in 7 vertical rotary mud holes with a total penetration of ~110 m) to test for secondary uranium mineralisation, although limited by drilling difficulties, has resulted in the...-
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Published: 05 Jan 1971
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Lake Conway - Oodnadatta area (the South Australia Potash Project). First progress report plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 14/8/1969 to May 1970.
TARGET: Potash in Devonian evaporites within deep Palaeozoic basins. Secondary targets were coal and sulphur in the Devonian to Permian section. The area was selected because of the recent discovery of Devonian evaporites in SADM Cootanoorina 1....-
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Published: 15 May 1970
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RB 67/00085 Minlaton stratigraphic no. 2 borehole, Yorke Peninsula. Drilling completion report.
This borehole was drilled to a total depth of 321 ft. 4 ins., and a complete cored section was obtained of the lower part of the Middle Cambrian Ramsay Limestone and of the Lower Cambrian Red Bed Clastics, in which thin bands of gypsum had been...-
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Published: 07 Nov 1968
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Yalymboo, Dingo Hill and Black Oak Hill (the Cariewerloo Project). Joint annual reports and separate final reports to licence's respective expiry/full surrender, for the period 5/6/2006 to 20/6/2009.
Possible Mesoproterozoic unconformity-related uranium deposits within the Cariewerloo Basin, involving an inferred structural preparation component whereby basic intrusive members of the Gairdner Dyke Swarm cut across this unconformity in a manner...-
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Published: 19 Nov 1909
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Eureka Bluff. Annual reports and combined 4th-5th annual/final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 29/11/2005 to 28/11/2010.
An area located 50 km north-northeast of Wudinna, and situated on the southern margin of the Gawler Ranges, has been explored for possible economic deposits of both Olympic Dam style epithermal copper-gold-uranium and Tanami style orogenic lode gold,...-
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Published: 28 Feb 1911
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Data release - as updated : Playford. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/10/2005 to 18/6/2015.
A largely sand dune and salt lake - covered area of the north-central Stuart Shelf, centred about 65 km north-west of the Olympic Dam mine, is being explored for possible economic buried IOCGU mineralisation that may be hosted by Mesoproterozoic...-
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Published: 25 Oct 1915
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Winjabbie. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 20/10/2005 to 19/10/2010.
An almost wholly sand dune - covered area of the west-central Stuart Shelf, centred about 15 km north-northeast of Woomera township, is being explored for possible economic buried IOCGU mineralisation that may be hosted by Mesoproterozoic basement...-
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Published: 14 Dec 1910
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Yaninee. Annual report and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/1/2014 to 15/1/2016.
An area extending for 40 km to the west and south of Wudinna was taken up by Minotaur to evaluate the economic potential of known but poorly defined occurrences of the industrial minerals gypsum and alunite. The company's office-based compilation and...-
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Lake Torrens Areas 1 and 2, Lake Torrens South and Lake Torrens North (the Lake Torrens Brine Potash Project). First joint annual report plus final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 5/1/2015 to 16/6/2016.
Much of the eastern side of the very large, 5,745 square km saline playa Lake Torrens, which occupies one of the most arid parts of Australia, was taken under licence by a Northern Territory - based company with the intent of systematically sampling...-
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Published: 14 Jun 1916
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Erudina Station. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/7/1981 to 19/7/1982.
An area located south-west of Lake Frome, which it was thought might be tectonically analogous to the Torrens Hinge Zone, but developed on the opposite side of the Adelaide Geosyncline, has been explored for possible economic Mount Gunson or Olympic...-
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Published: 30 Sep 1982
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RB 2013/00014 IOCG-style mineralisation in the central eastern Gawler Craton, SA; characterisation of alteration, geochemical associations and exploration vectors.
While South Australia is well known as having within its borders major iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposits such as Olympic Dam, Prominent Hill, Carrapateena and Hillside, there has until now been a lack of publically accessible...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2013
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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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Hermitage Creek. Progress and annual reports for the period 22/7/1995 to 23/11/2000.
An area prospective for major metalliferous mineralisation at depth was identified at the intersection of the G2 and G7 structural corridors, 8 km south-west of Rhynie. Its potential was enhanced by coincident gravity, magnetic, radiometric and...-
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Published: 02 Jan 1901
