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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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Kartanya iron ore prospect, EL 2066, South Australia.
The Kartanya iron ore prospect is located in the central Eyre Peninsula region, approximately 100 km west of Cowell and about the same distance north of Port Lincoln. Haematite mineralisation was discovered in the area by Western Mining Corp. while...-
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Lake Gilles area. Data release made in lieu of submitting a partial surrender report upon licence renewal : progress reports for the period 26/10/1989 to 10/2/2001.
Menninnie Dam - style Pb-Zn mineralisation in areas north and east of Lake Gilles was the initial target of exploration. A ground magnetic survey conducted along five lines was followed by shallow auger drilling (302 holes, total 1099 m) plus lag,...-
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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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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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Kooralla. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 4/1/1983 to 3/1/1984.
A single diamond drillhole (TD 362 m) put in to test the Kooralla Magnetic Ridge encountered granite and an augen gneiss/amphibolite schist sequence that is possibly part of the Lincoln Complex. Minor pyrite, chalcopyrite and pyrrhotite were present...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1984
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Sheoak Hill. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surreender, for the period 15/3/1983 to 14/3/1988.
TARGET: Stratiform lead-zinc-silver mineralisation of the Broken Hill or Aggeneys - Gamsberg type, associated with banded iron formations in Early Proterozoic metasediments. EXPLORATION: Data from the 1975 joint SADME / BMR Barna 1:100 000 scale...-
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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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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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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Wanilla. Annual reports submitted until the commencement of the multi-licence Southern Eyre Peninsula JV Project, for the period 28/10/2004 to 27/10/2006.
A narrow north-south aligned area centred approximately 25 km west-northwest of Port Lincoln, which is mainly covered by Quaternary ferricrete, has been taken up by Centrex Metals Ltd to explore for possible concealed economic deposits of iron ores...-
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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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Kooralla. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/1/2002 to 17/1/2005.
EL 2888 was applied for to cover prospective magnetic anomalies thought to be underlain by magnetite-rich banded iron formations (BIF), that exist close to Cowell on the eastern Eyre Peninsula. One geological interpretation of the magnetic anomalism...-
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Eastern Eyre Peninsula. First partial surrender report, for the period 25/10/1976 to 24/10/1977.
A total of 3074 square km or ~86.25% of the originally granted area of EL 266 which borders the north-western side of Spencer Gulf has recently been relinquished by BHP after one year of work, due to its now perceived diminished prospectivity for...-
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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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Cowell - Middleback Range area. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 15/3/1983 to 11/7/1985.
Exploration for possible buried stratiform Pb-Zn-Ag deposits of the Aggeneys / Gamsberg and Broken Hill type, associated with magnetitic and haematitic quartzites within the Early Proterozoic Hutchison Group, has included acquiring ground magnetic...-
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Published: 12 Nov 1985
