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Mount Paisley (part of the Mount Woods Project). Fourth partial surrender report for the period 23/3/2000 to 8/8/2009.
Exploration Licence 3387 (Mt Paisley) is located about 110 km north-west of Woomera, 110 km west-northwest of Olympic Dam, and 45 km south-east of Prominent Hill. The EL lies within the Woomera Prohibited Area (WPA), and most of the tenement covers...-
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Gosse and Kingoonya (part of the Mentor Project, and later the Kingoonya Project). Data release made at joint partial relinquishment upon licences' expiry/renewal: annual reports for the period 3/12/1997 to 28/9/2008. [Index Part 2 of 2].
In continuing exploration carried out by Mount Isa Mines Exploration (MIM) during 1998 on EL 1792 / 2467 Gosse and EL 1798 / 2466 Kingoonya, additional calcrete sampling and RC drilling (25 holes for 1590 m total penetration) took place at four...-
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Kottata Well and Broadacres (part of the Yaninee Project). Final report at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 29/9/2003 to 5/6/2008.
Mineral exploration in the Streaky Bay district has addressed the potential for finding Prominent Hill - style Proterozoic IOCG deposits, Phanerozoic iron-depleted gold mineralisation, and Tertiary palaeochannel - hosted sedimentary uranium...-
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Bulgunnia, Gosse and Kingoonya (the Mentor Project). Data release made at the surrender of subsequent licences : annual reports for the period 27/10/1992 to 15/11/1997. [Index entry Part 1 of 2 - a very long abstract is split between these two parts].
The Gawler Joint Venture partners (Dominion Mining and Resolute Resources) have been exploring three near-contiguous areas located in the north of the Tarcoola - Kingoonya district, seeking possible economic concealed epithermal/mesothermal...-
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Andamooka Creek, Willaroo Dam, Island Dam and Stuart Shelf / Andamooka Ranges (the Stuart Shelf Project). Joint annual reports on activities undertaken by the Joint Venture consortium, for the period 11/10/1996 to 10/10/2009 [ Index Part 2 of 2 ].
As a result of the BHP Billiton takeover of the Stuart Range Project, the mineral exploration strategy was changed. Formerly, WMC had been looking for economical targets of >500 Mt size containing on average more than 2.4% copper equivalent....-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bulgunnia (part of the Gawler JV Project). Annual reports for the period 19/11/1997 to 1/1/2013.
Within an area of the Wilgena and Christie Domains centred 40 km north of Tarcoola, exploration is continuing for Archaean to Proterozoic basement-hosted epithermal, hydrothermal and metamorphic type gold and base metal occurrences. Here an 841 square...-
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Mount Arden (part of the Six Mile Hill Project). First annual report, plus second annual/final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/10/2014 to 12/10/2016.
An irregular area covering pastoral land ~15 km to the immediate west and north-west of Port Augusta has been explored for possible economic buried IOCG and other significant metallic mineralisation, which could have formed in the vicinity of the...-
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Lyons. Information status at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 15/3/2010 to 14/3/2017: no work performed.
There is no abstract created for this record-
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Kimba. Third partial surrender report submitted at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 6/11/2006 to 5/11/2016.
63 square km or 23% of the former area of EL 4938, in two separate blocks, has recently been relinquished due to a lack of encouraging results, and difficulty with land access onto certain private properties located therein due to some farmers’...-
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PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 8 partnership DPY8-28 - Cultana district, Eyre Peninsula, Extension Tank shear-hosted Mesoproterozoic IOCG-U or porphyry type Au and base metal prospect. Drilling final report.
An area centred approximately 50 km south-west of Port Augusta is being explored for buried economic occurrences of gold, base metals and uranium primary mineralisation which may be genetically associated with the past emplacement there of the Gawler...-
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South-west Ooldea, Nullarbor, South Maralinga and Ifould Lake areas. [Joint] Surrender reports for the period 11/10/2002 to 28/8/2003.
Mineralisation analogous to that occurring at the giant Canadian Voisey's Bay Ni-Cu deposit, and Olympic Dam style Cu-Au mineralisation, were the conceptual targets of exploration in the Maralinga area, 40 to 80 km south and south-west from Ooldea....-
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Rounsevell Hill. First partial relinquishment report, for the period 25/10/2002 to 24/10/2003.
Exploration undertaken in an area situated 40 km north-west of Tarcoola, targeting possible economic iron oxide - associated copper-gold mineralisation that may have formed within altered near-surface Hiltaba Suite granitic intrusions, has comprised...-
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Rounsevell Hill. Information status at licence second partial relinquishment, for the period 25/10/2002 to 24/10/2004 : no work performed.
There is no abstract created for this record-
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Lake Gairdner. Annual report for the period ending 10/8/98.
Reprocessing and reinterpretation of existing aeromagnetic and gravity data characterising the bedrock under the southern half of Lake Gairdner National Park has revealed several promising broad geophysical features worthy of continuing investigation.-
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Published: 10 Aug 1998
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Heartbreak Hill. First partial surrender report, for the period 27/9/1996 to May 1999.
Regional and infill calcrete sampling over two now relinquished licence sub-areas lying respectively 10 km north and 25 km south-east of Tarcoola identified minor, slightly elevated Au and Cu values in both areas. Follow-up rock chip sampling and...-
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Nuckulla Hill. Partial surrender report for the period 6/12/1994 to 5/12/1998.
Regional stream sediment, rock chip and calcrete sampling in the western and north-eastern parts of the Nuckulla Hill licence returned weakly anomalous values. The prospectivity of the surrendered ground for base and precious metals was considered to...-
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Poochera. Annual reports to licence full surrender, for the period 8/1/1996 to 15/1/2000.
As part of a search for structurally related Ernest Henry - style Cu-Au mineralisation and other possible polymetallic deposits, analysis of aeromagnetic data obtained from an area 60-100 km east to north-east of Streaky Bay indicated the presence of...-
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Wudinna Hill. Annual and final report for the period 3/11/97 to 2/11/98.
Three weak gold anomalies (max. 5 ppb) and patchy, weakly elevated copper values were detected in calcrete sampled over an area extending for 20 km immediately north-east of Wudinna.-
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Gibraltar Rocks (Crawford Project). Surrender report for the period 2/7/98 to 27/4/99.
No new work took place to target previously reported low order gold-in-calcrete anomalism.-
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Published: 05 Aug 1999
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Heartbreak Hill. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/9/1996 to 26/9/1997.
Mulgathing Complex and Hiltaba Suite rocks were interpreted from aeromagnetic data obtained in areas located 10 km north of, 70 km south-east of, and 35 km south of Tarcoola. Calcrete sampling was followed by RAB drilling (178 holes, total 5047 m)...-
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