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Peachna. Progress reports, annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 22/9/1988 to 8/9/1994.
Possible economic Broken Hill - type stratiform Pb and Zn, and Middleback Range style iron ore, were targeted near Lock on central Eyre Peninsula by Western Mining Corp., who farmed-in to Stockdale's EL 1516 on March 1st, 1990 as part of a regional...-
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RB 45/00118 Final report on iron ore prospecting, Corunna area, Iron Knob district.
In an area of limited basement outcrop located between 2 and 5 miles north-northwest of Iron Knob township, the Department's surface traverse channel sampling (969'), percussion boring (643’) and diamond drilling (1270’) tested a low grade...-
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Published: 04 Dec 1957
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Hill - Tod River area. Annual reports [to the commencement of the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project licences' combined reporting status] for the period 13/3/2002 to 12/3/2005.
An area which has had little exploration for iron ore done previously was taken up by Centrex Metals Ltd to cover potentially magnetite-rich Early Proterozoic banded iron formation (BIF) strata outcrops and subcrop located within the Lincoln Uplands...-
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Pondooma / Ironstone Hut (part of the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 3/12/2002 to 24/9/2015.
An area originally granted as Exploration Licence 3048 Pondooma, which consisted of two separate sub-blocks centred ~60 km south-west of Whyalla, was applied for to cover a poorly exposed belt of banded iron formation (BIF) strata identified on...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Nonning (latterly part of Terramin's Menninnie Zinc Project). Annual reports for the period 30/3/2006 to 30/11/2012.
An area centred ~70 km north of Kimba, which also lies about 7 km north of the Menninnie Dam lead-zinc-silver deposit, was taken up to explore for possible buried economic volcanic epithermal/hydrothermal Mesoproterozoic Fe-rich Cu-Au mineralisation...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Mount Kolendo [not "Taringa"] (part of the Menninnie Zinc Project). Annual reports for the period 21/2/2011 to 20/2/2013.
An area located adjacent to the southern margin of the Gawler Ranges, that includes some exposures of Mesoproterozoic Gawler Range Volcanics (GRV), and which at its southern boundary lies approximately 15 km north-east of the Menninnie Dam Pb-Zn-Ag...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Kolendo, Taringa, Nonning, Wipipippee and Menninnie Dam (the Menninnie Project). Joint annual reports for the period 1/1/2013 to 31/12/2016.
The Menninnie JV Project area consists of five contiguous exploration licences, and is considered prospective for Pb-Zn-Ag-Cu-Au-Mo-U deposits associated with past epithermal, porphyry, IOCG and skarn - forming geological environments. It lies in a...-
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Eastern Eyre Peninsula. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 25/10/1976 to 24/10/1978.
Stratabound, metasedimentary iron ore was the principal target of exploration undertaken by BHP over a large area surrounding the Moonabie Range that extends along strike and borders the north-western side of Spencer Gulf. Base and precious metals...-
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Cowell. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 19/5/1978 to 22/4/1980.
The exploration targets in an area extending along the Spencer Gulf coastal plain between Cowell and Whyalla were sandstone type roll-front uranium deposits, developed in possible Eocene palaeochannels that may have drained the Cleve Uplands and...-
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Published: 18 Mar 1980
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Kimba Gap [South] (part of the Middleback Range Iron Ore Joint Venture Project). Annual reports [to the commencement of the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project licences' combined reporting status] for the period 17/9/2003 to 16/9/2006.
A small exploration licence area centred approximately 50 km west-northwest of Whyalla, which is mainly covered by Quaternary sediments, has been taken up by the South Australian Iron Ore Group (SAIOG) to explore for possible concealed economic...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Kimba Gap [North] (part of the Middleback Range Iron Ore Joint Venture Project). Annual reports for the period 10/10/2002 to 9/10/2006.
A small exploration licence area centred approximately 60 km west-northwest of Whyalla, which is mainly covered by Quaternary sediments, has been taken up by the South Australian Iron Ore Group Pty Ltd(SAIOG), a subsidiary of WA-based Portman Iron Ore...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Pondooma. Annual and combined annual reports for the period 3/12/2002 to 2/12/2005.
Exploration Licence 3048 Pondooma, consisting of two separate sub-blocks that are centred ~60 km south-west of Whyalla, is located immediately west of the Middleback Range and 5 km west of Onesteel’s Iron Duke mine. This licence was granted to SA...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : [Coastal Magnetite Project] Iron ore prospects, eastern Eyre Peninsula. Project operator's report re. the prospects' 2002-2003 evaluation programme.
The key advantages of location and simple metallurgy of coastal Eyre Peninsula magnetite ores presented Portman Mining Ltd with an opportunity to enter a major under-explored and under-developed iron ore province and develop a new export business....-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Middleback Range. Progress reports and annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 6/6/1990 to 5/6/1995.
A licence area consisting of two separate sub-blocks that cover ~460 square km of Palaeoproterozoic BIF ironstone outcrops in the northern and southern parts of the Middleback Range on north-eastern Eyre Peninsula was taken up by The Broken Hill Pty...-
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Ironstone Hill. Combined first annual / final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/3/1996 to 21/3/1997.
A possible southerly extension to the Iron Duke deposit was indicated by aeromagnetic and gravity data. However, one 150 m deep exploratory RC drillhole put down on the coinciding anomalies encountered quartz-magnetic BIF with no haematite enrichment.-
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Mount Ive Gate. Annual and final surrender reports for the period 21/2/2002 to June 2003.
Regional scale interpretation of available data highlighted the presence of a gravity anomaly at the intersection of magnetic lineaments in the Mt Ive Gate area, 60 km north of Kimba, in a region considered to be prospective for iron oxide related...-
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Woollinie. Progress reports and annual reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 20/12/1991 to 20/11/1995.
Exploration for Broken Hill / Menninnie Dam type Pb-Zn, and later for iron oxide - associated Cu-Au, that was undertaken over an area located north of Kimba within and adjacent to the Pinkawillinie Conservation Park, comprised the acquisition during...-
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Mount Bosanquet. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 12/9/86 to 23/9/94.
Exploration for possible intrusive igneous sources of diamonds and for possible Broken Hill type economic stratabound Early Proterozoic base metal deposits in the Mount Bosanquet area, 30 km south of Kimba, has comprised digital image processing and...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 5 partnership DPY5-29, Wilcherry Hill Magnetite Project, Hercules Proterozoic stratabound iron ore mineral prospect. Project interim and final reports.
Iron ore mineralisation similar to that mined in the Middleback Range has been investigated at the Hercules prospect, located 90 km west-northwest of Whyalla, where a large, high intensity aeromagnetic anomaly and associated 12 km long outcrop of...-
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Telunga. Annual and final reports to licence surrender for the period 19/10/92 to 23/9/94.
Exploration for possible Broken Hill style Early Proterozoic stratiform base metal mineralisation and for kimberlitic diamonds within an area 15 km north-west of Tumby Bay comprised a gravity survey and loam and stream sediment sampling. Cu-Zn values...-
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