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Barney Bore. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 23/7/2013 to 8/3/2018.
An area located approximately 65 km south of Oodnadatta, on the Boorthanna Plain near Peake Creek, was taken up to explore for iron oxide copper gold (IOCG) or similar style mineralisation which might be hosted by basement Proterozoic rocks on the...-
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Published: 04 Apr 2018
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Data release: Mount Howe (part of the Alcurra Project). Annual reports to licence suspension, for the period 11/10/2012 to 10/10/2018.
An area straddling the Tarcoola - Alice Springs Railway line next to the SA/NT state border, ~40 km south-southeast of Kulgera, was taken up to explore for possible buried economic magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE deposits, epithermal gold and Broken Hill type...-
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Published: 06 Jan 2019
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Punt Hill. First partial surrender report, for the period 1/11/2017 to 31/10/2019.
An area centred ~70 km south-east of Woomera is being explored for possible economic buried IOCG type mineralisation which may have formed within Mesoproterozoic to Palaeoproterozoic basement. A farm-in joint venture was established between grant...-
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Published: 17 Mar 2020
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Riddoch. First annual report for the period 8/10/2012 to 7/10/2013.
An area centred ~40 km northeast of the Prominent Hill copper-gold mine is being explored for possible economic copper, gold, uranium and iron ore mineralisation that may have formed in buried Proterozoic volcanic and metamorphic basement rocks, some...-
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Published: 04 Dec 2013
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Western River Cove - Parndana area (part of the Kangaroo Island Project). Data release: annual reports and first partial relinquishment report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 8/7/2005 to 18/10/2012.
An area in the vicinity of Parndana, located on north-central Kangaroo Island approximately 30 km west-southwest of Kingscote, is being explored mainly for possible economic gold and Mississippi Valley type base metal sulphide mineralisation...-
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Published: 26 Feb 2013
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 4 partnership DPY4-13, Lake Frome area Holocene and Neogene calcrete - hosted uranium mineral prospects. Project interim and final reports.
Surficial sedimentary uranium deposits are estimated to comprise about 4% of world uranium resources. Calcrete deposits form approximately 5% of Australia's total uranium reserves and resources. Exploration for calcrete - hosted uranium of Neogene age...-
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Published: 11 Jun 2008
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Boundary Dam. First partial surrender report, for the period 20/7/2007 to 19/7/2010.
A small licence area taken up approximately 130 km north of Marla, near the SA/NT state border, is being explored for possible economic secondary uranium mineralisation formed in sandstone or calcrete. Prior to Tianda Resources deciding to apply for...-
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Published: 27 Sep 2010
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 4 partnership DPY4-05, west-central Musgrave Province: Giles Complex, Harcus intrusion and Purananja intrusion magmatic copper-nickel-PGE prospects. Project interim and final reports.
PepinNini Minerals has recently completed a small stratigraphic drilling programme within the Musgrave Province in South Australia, which was carried out as a collaborative drilling project (DPY4-05) undertaken between the company and the SA...-
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Published: 30 Nov 2007
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Port Broughton. Progress reports, annual reports, technical reports, and final report to licence expiry/ surrender, for the period 15/7/1991 to 19/9/2001.
Exploration targetted Roxby Downs style and Ernest Henry style copper-gold mineralisation in an area of intensely magnetic, concealed Proterozoic metasedimentary and intrusive igneous basement terrain, characterised by complex regional geophysical...-
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Published: 12 Dec 2000
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Mount Vivian. Combined first annual/final report to licence expiry/cancellation, for the period 31/3/2008 to 30/3/2009.
Two areas located 35-40 km north and north-west of Glendambo and 60 km west of the Olympic Dam mine were taken up to explore for possible epithermal / hydrothermal / metasomatic and haematite-rich Olympic Dam type deposits, or possible evidence of...-
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Published: 12 Nov 2009
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Fig Tree Corner, Ooldea South, Barton, Colona North, Ooldea Range and Pidinga (the Eucla Basin HMS Project tenement Group One). Joint annual reports for the period 1/3/2007 to 28/2/2011.
A group of adjoining tenements covering ground situated between Ceduna and the Trans Australia Railway are being explored for possible economic buried Tertiary marine placer deposits of heavy mineral sands. During the 2007-2008 joint reporting year,...-
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Published: 01 May 2011
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Hawks Nest. Annual reports for the period 8/4/2009 to 14/4/2019.
During the 2009-2010 reporting year, as part of the strategy to significantly advance the future development of the Hawks Nest Iron Ore Project, Western Plains Resources (WPG) successfully concluded a series of complex joint venture negotiations with...-
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Published: 01 Jun 2018
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Carpie Puntha and Peterlumbo (part of the Wilcherry Hill Joint Venture Project). Data release made at the third renewal / partial surrender of the latter licence: progress reports and annual reports for the period 14/2/1989 to 30/8/2003. [Index 1 of 2].
Two contiguous areas located south of the Gawler Ranges, between Buckleboo and Franklin Harbour, were taken up primarily to explore the Early Proterozoic metasedimentary sequence for possible Broken Hill type economic stratiform / hydrothermal base...-
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Published: 16 Oct 2003
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Tilcha 2 area. Progress report to licence surrender for the period 19/11/2007 to 18/11/2008.
An area underlain by possible Broken Hill district - style Palaeoproterozoic basement strata, situated on the northern margin of the Curnamona Province, was explored by conducting 50 line km of reconnaissance ground geophysical profiles comprising...-
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Published: 10 Jun 2008
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Delamere. First annual report (to the commencement of multi-licence joint reporting for the Fleurieu Peninsula Project), for the period 18/10/2012 to 17/10/2013.
All of the south-western tip and hinterland of the Fleurieu Peninsula was taken up to explore for inferred buried IOCG-style copper-gold-uranium mineralisation which, by analogy with properties of the known eastern Gawler Craton occurrences, was...-
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Published: 15 Dec 2013
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Fig Tree Corner. Second partial surrender report, for the period 10/3/2005 to 4/4/2019.
Most of a sizeable licence area located on SA's Far West Coast, which formerly extended for 10 to 90 km inland from the vicinity of Bookabie, has now been partially relinquished owing to its perceived diminished prospectivity for Tertiary marine...-
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Published: 12 Apr 2019
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Yankalilla. First annual report (to the commencement of multi-licence joint reporting for the Fleurieu Peninsula Project), for the period 18/10/2012 to 17/10/2013.
The Yankalilla coastal and river valley district of the west-central Fleurieu Peninsula was taken up to explore for inferred buried IOCG-style copper-gold-uranium mineralisation which, by analogy with properties of the known eastern Gawler Craton...-
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Published: 15 Dec 2013
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Nundroo. First annual and final report for the period 6/12/2001 to 5/12/2002.
The Thompson Nickel Belt of Canada was considered an analogue for the Fowler Suture Zone on the western margin of the Gawler Craton, 150 km north-west of Ceduna. Here, intensely magnetic zones consisting of cumulus gabbro-diorite and tonalite are...-
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Published: 12 Dec 2002
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Penong B area and Yumbarra (part of the Eucla Basin Project tenement Group 2). Joint final report at licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/11/2012 to 15/11/2017.
Two adjoining areas located north of Koonibba were taken up to explore this part of the south-eastern Eucla Basin for possible buried economic marine placer deposits of heavy mineral sands (HM), because they were believed to contain shallow or exposed...-
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Published: 12 Sep 2017
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Poondinga. Third partial surrender report, for the period 27/10/2004 to 4/4/2019.
309.6 square km or ~18.77% of the pre-existing area of EL 5564 Poondinga was partially relinquished on 19/2/2019 because in the licensee's view this south-eastern portion of the licence are does not appear to exhibit the geological features required...-
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Published: 12 Apr 2019