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Anabama. First partial surrender report, for the period 14/8/2015 to 13/8/2017.
Half of a small licence area located in the Anabama district has lately been surrendered. The ground had been taken up to explore for possible economic buried base metal mineralisation that might have formed on and near the south-eastern margin of the...-
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Published: 12 Dec 1917
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Mount Craig (part of the Torrens Project). First partial surrender report, for the period from 20/2/2014 to 7/3/2017.
A small part of the subject licence, which lies ~25 km south of Wilpena Pound National Park, has been surrendered following a downgrading of its perceived prospectivity for possible economic buried sediment-hosted oxide and sulphide base metal...-
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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 1918
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North Well Creek. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 15/11/1994 to 14/11/1999.
Exploration, initially for rare metal elements, was carried out in the vicinity of diapiric structures intruded by leucogranite in the area between Arkaroola Village and Umberatana Homestead. Work comprising petrography, rock chip sampling, stream...-
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Published: 07 Feb 1900
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Morialpa. Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial surrender report : progress reports and annual reports for the period 16/12/1995 to 8/8/2003.
Initial exploration for stratiform Cu-Au mineralisation hosted within Adelaidean sediments in the Morialpa area, 40 km north- west of Olary, comprised soil, stream sediment, rock chip and ironstone lag geochemical sampling, and 1:10,000 scale...-
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Published: 29 Aug 1903
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Weekeroo. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/10/1970 to 30/9/1971.
A detailed examination of mineralised rock sequences within the metamorphosed Precambrian basement and Adelaidean cover rocks of the Weekeroo area, and recording of their relationship to successive deformational events and resulting rock structures,...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1971
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Mount Victor. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/8/1994 to 7/5/1999.
Gold exploration in the vicinity of the Kirkeek's Treasure mine, located approximately 75 km north of Yunta, comprised mapping, sampling and assaying of mine lode veins, of mineralised outcrops along strike to the east, and of nearby weathered...-
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Willouran Ranges Stratiform Copper Project. Quarterly reports and annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/12/1976 to 21/12/1978.
Detailed geological mapping, rock and soil sample geochemistry, sedimentary petrology, and rotary percussion and diamond drilling were undertaken in the Willouran Ranges, south-west of Marree, to explore for stratiform copper mineralisation,...-
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Wiawera. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/12/1996 to 12/12/2001.
Exploration for possible sheeted vein type gold, Telfer - style gold, and BIF hosted gold and base metal sulphide deposits that may have formed in Adelaidean metasediments occupying the area between Anabama and Radium Hill, 10-30 km south-east of...-
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Deep Well (part of Mount Grainger JV Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 16/6/1999 to 15/6/2004.
Exploration of a small area within the Nackara Arc region, lying 15-20 km north-west of the Mount Grainger Goldfield, has sought economic Telfer-type stratabound gold deposits hosted within folded domal structures in Adelaidean strata, which have been...-
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Red Banks (part of the Burra Project tenement group). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 21/1/2010 to 24/12/2015.
Exploration undertaken within an area centred ~10 km east of Burra comprised portable XRF soil geochemical sampling, and the re-processing of available geophysical data. The aim was to identify possible buried copper oxide and copper carbonate...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Clare (part of the Spalding Project). Annual reports for the period 2/1/2007 to 1/1/2010.
In Phoenix Copper's opinion, although several previous explorers had investigated the Spalding Inlier area, many targets remained insufficiently tested. The principal structural target the company wished to explore is the intersection between an...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Parry (part of the Northern Flinders Ranges Magnesite Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 4/1/1999 to 3/1/2004.
Exploration Licence (EL) 2570 Mt Parry was granted to Magnesium Developments Limited on the 4 January 1999. Exploration within EL 2570 focussed on magnesite (MgCO3), which occurs within a sequence of interbeds with the Neoproterozoic, Skillogalee...-
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Published: 25 Feb 1904
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Mount Grainger (part of the Mount Grainger JV Project). Annual reports for the period 25/10/1996 to 24/10/2000.
Exploration over a structurally complex part of the Nackara Arc region centred ~30 km north-east of Peterborough has sought economic Telfer-type gold deposits hosted within folded domal structures in Adelaidean strata, which have been intruded during...-
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Data release - as updated : Kapunda North / Bagot Well North (part of the Eudunda Project). Licence-specific annual reports and final report submitted to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 15/11/2005 to 12/12/2015.
Exploration for copper mineralisation within an area centred immediately north-northeast of Kapunda has as its initial objective to find shallow deposits of oxide and carbonate ores similar to those mined historically at Burra and Kapunda, focussing...-
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Hardy (part of the Blue Hills Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 5/10/2017 to 4/10/2022.
The Hardy licence [wrongly named ‘Altimeter’ by the licensee] is situated within the eastern Adelaide Fold Belt north-east of Burra, and is centred 30 km east of Oodla Wirra near the north-western margin of the Murray Basin. The area was considered...-
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Published: 02 Oct 1922
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Bibliando. Second partial surrender report, for the period 8/4/2009 to 7/4/2018.
Three sub-blocks together comprising ~23% of a small tenement's former area have recently been relinquished from the NW and SE margins of EL 5408, which is centred about 100 km east of Hawker. The licensee thinks that the remainder still holds...-
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Published: 25 Sep 1918
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Mount Norwest. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 19/6/2014 to 14/12/2017.
An area located in the south and central Willouran Ranges, and centred ~45 km south-west of Marree, has been explored for possible buried economic Neoproterozoic stratiform copper mineralisation and inferred MVT, replacement or diapir-related other...-
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Published: 24 Jan 1918
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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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Mount Caernarvon (part of the Torrens Project). First partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period from 17/1/2012 to 16/1/2017.
Four portions of the subject licence, which lies adjacent to and south-west of Wilpena Pound National Park, have been surrendered following a downgrading of their perceived prospectivity for possible economic buried sediment-hosted oxide and sulphide...-
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