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Woomera, Portulacca Ridge and Red Lake. Joint final report at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 15/2/1983 to 7/11/1986.
The three licences now being surrendered were originally taken out by Seltrust in the mid-1970s to search for stratabound base metals and Olympic Dam type mineralisation. After Seltrust withdrew from the subsequently formed Stuart Shelf joint venture...-
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RB 57/00015 Seismic refraction tests, Williamstown area (22/7/1963).
Two seismic refraction tests were carried out near Williamstown to determine whether the method could be used to trace buried river channels in the search for deep lead gold deposits. The bedrock surface could not be detected as the velocity of the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1965
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RB 88/00015 Seismic refraction survey Teetulpa Goldfields.
2 seismic refraction profiles aimed to test the method in searching for alluvial channels incised into Adelaidean bedrock in EL1413. Interpreted depths to bedrock of 6-10 metres were confirmed by follow-up drilling and an indication of the bedrock...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1988
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RB 88/00052 Mittopitta Goldfield seismic refraction survey 1988.
5 profiles were recorded to define the extent of a subsurface alluvial channel. The western limit is controlled by outcropping Adelaidean bedrock, while to the east interpreted depths of 30-40 metres to bedrock were indicated. To date the eastern...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1988
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Wynbring [Siding]. Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial surrender report upon licence expiry/renewal : annual reports for the period 30/8/2004 to 29/8/2009.
An area located approximately 160 km north-northwest of Ceduna is being explored for possible economic nickel-copper-platinum group metal magmatic mineral deposits, which may have formed within Archaean to Proterozoic basement rocks in a geological...-
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Margaret Creek (part of the G2 Lineament Project). First and second partial relinquishments' combined report, for the period 13/10/2000 to 12/10/2004.
Diamond exploration undertaken within the relinquished portions of EL 2759, which are located immediately south of William Creek and near the Oodnadatta Track, was focussed on the margin of the Gawler Craton where it is cut by the NNW-trending G2...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Carrapateena Arm, Hatch Hill, Beda Arm and Lake Torrens South (the OZ Minerals Carrapateena Project). Annual reports (separate and joint) for the period 8/1/2008 to 6/1/2016.
Exploration of the Lake Torrens JV Project area during 2008, managed by Teck Cominco Australia (Teck), consisted of diamond drilling some wedge holes off a parent to determine the lateral and vertical dimensions of bornite and chalcopyrite - dominated...-
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PACE Copper Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 9 partnership DPY9-42 - Mount Woods Project area, Gawler Craton: assessing the potential for ISGC style mineralisation within the Mount Woods Inlier. Drilling final report
Historically, exploration undertaken for finding Iron Oxide - associated Copper-Gold (IOCG) mineralisation on the eastern Gawler Craton, over the long period since the discovery of the Olympic Dam deposit in July 1975, has targeted positive gravity...-
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Teetulpa Goldfield. Progress and final reports to licence surrender, for the period 17/7/1987 to 24/12/1987.
TARGET: Possible untested ?Pliocene deep leads of auriferous gravels that might be concealed beneath reported thick calcrete caprocks, in an area that lies downstream from historic alluvial gold workings in Brady's Gully and Strawbridge's Gully....-
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Published: 23 May 1988
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North-eastern Peake and Denison Inliers. Final report for approved geophysical work programme, Project ADI RD01-094 [part of Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 1, 2021].
Licenceholder Minotaur Exploration has received a grant of ADI Round 1 subsidy funds from DEM to assist it in understanding the Proterozoic basement geology of the Peake and Denison Inliers, with the aim of making a step-change in the modelling of...-
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Melton Station. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/7/1989 to 17/7/1990.
TARGET: Possible economic alluvial gold occurrences hidden beneath a broad floodplain formed north of the Waukaringa Goldfield. EXPLORATION: Acquisition of two seismic refraction profiles to try to map bedrock depth, which could not be interpreted,...-
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Published: 19 Sep 1990
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Binda Boudna and Billa Kalina (the Stuart Shelf IOCG-U Project). Joint annual reports plus individual licence final reports to their respective expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/5/2013 to 1/5/2018.
Two adjoining licence areas located within the north-eastern Gawler Craton, to the east of the Mount Woods Domain, and centred about 150 km NNW of the Olympic Dam mine, were taken up to explore for possible economic buried IOCGU mineralisation which...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : North Roxby Downs, Acropolis South, Parakylia, Roxby Downs North, Hidden Swamp and Roxby Downs (the Theseus Project). Joint annual reports for the period 4/5/2012 to 30/6/2018.
Brownfields exploration for possible buried economic Mesoproterozoic basement-hosted IOCG type mineralisation, so far undertaken by BHP Billiton ('BHPB') within six semi-contiguous licences together covering an area extending from 40 km south to 68 km...-
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Warrina North, Warrina South, Mount Brady, Yarrabolina Hill, Mount Woods and Kangaroo Dam (the Mount Woods JV Project). Joint annual reports [on JV partners' independent exploration programmes] for the period 1/5/2010 to 31/1/2017.
During the 2011-2012 project reporting period, exploration activities within the Mount Woods Project area which were conducted by OZL primarily targeted IOCG style mineralisation. Work included: · a continuation of office-based target generation and...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Andamooka (part of the Stuart Shelf Project). Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 2/5/1975 to 1/5/1977. [ Index Part 2 of 2 ].
(Abstract continued) During the fifth quarter of WMC's tenure of EL 190, a programme of stepout appraisal diamond drilling was continued, to assess the size of the copper-uranium occurrence discovered by hole RD1 (previously called RDD1 by WMC)....-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Pernatty Lagoon [East]. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 27/6/1997 to 26/6/2002.
An area of the Stuart Shelf located between Pernatty Lagoon and the Beda Arm of Lake Torrens, with its western boundary lying 15 km east of the historic Mount Gunson copper mining field, is being explored for possible economic basement-hosted IOCG...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Andamooka (part of the Stuart Shelf Project). Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 2/5/1975 to 1/5/1977. [ Index Part 1 of 2 ].
An inaugural exploration licence covering land in the Roxby Downs Station and Andamooka Station holdings was taken up by Western Mining Corp. (WMC) to document the stratigraphic section present in the northern portion of the Stuart Shelf tectonic...-
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Binda Boudna. First partial relinquishment report, for the period 2/5/2013 to 1/5/2015.
Half of a licence area located about 140 km north-west of Roxby Downs and 80 km north-east of Prominent Hill has been relinquished due to its perceived diminished prospectivity for finding economic buried IOCG mineralisation. Existing potential field...-
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RB 2003/00013 North-western Murray Basin geological synthesis, South Australia.
The Murray Basin is an intracratonic basin filled with Cainozoic fluvial to shallow marine sediments. Deposition in the Eocene and early Oligocene was characterised by floodplain and swamp deposits, emplaced with occasional interbeds of shelly clays...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2003
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RB 2016/00032 Geological Survey of South Australia Discovery Day 2016: presentation abstracts and posters.
Discovery Day 2016 provides a new forum for the delivery of precompetitive geoscience data and information. It is designed to show the major themes of the geoscience activity within the Geological Survey of South Australia, the PACE Copper Initiative...-
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Published: 01 Nov 2016
