Diamond exploration undertaken in an area south of Terowie included acquisition of a low-level detailed helimag survey flown along irregular flight traverses centred on Hiles Lagoon that used a mean sensor elevation of 80 m above the ground surface,...

A final stage of gypsum exploration in the Lake Malata area, 70 km north-west of Port Lincoln, was carried out under mineral claims and retention leases which were cancelled in 1991. Drilling of 62 auger holes (total 258 m) proved a resource of 1.2 Mt...

Exploration for lacustrine evaporites and for detrital heavy minerals on and near the shores of Lake Alexandrina, south of Milang, had previously located minor deposits of garnet sands along a 700 m stretch of beach on the northern shore of Sturt...

Reconnaissance drilling undertaken between Bookabie and Coorabie on western Eyre Peninsula comprised 8 RAB holes totalling 259 m and 41 aircore holes totalling 2448 m. Many holes were abandoned before reaching basement due to running sands, water...

An area 60 km west of Iron Knob underlain by Hutchison Group metasediments and Gawler Range Volcanics has been tested by calcrete sampling. No significant assays were returned.

Adelaidean strata in the Mount Painter-Arkaroola area were investigated for stratiform copper, initially by North Flinders Mines and later in a joint venture with Western Mining Corp. Following a study of previous exploration data in the region, a...

Regional calcrete geochemical sampling was carried out in the Mutooroo - Anabama area in a search for precious and base metals. Initial surface calcrete sampling at several prospects was followed by auger drill sampling to depths up to 2 m on an...

Heavy minerals concentrated within the Ooldea Sand of the Eucla Basin, and possibly reworked and upgraded by later marine incursions into such deposits, which might have led to their redeposition elsewhere as translocated strandlines that are still...

A consultant's geological investigations in the vicinity of Lochiel and Snowtown have located significant resources of agricultural gypsum suitable for augmenting an existing local extractive industry. Five newly delineated deposits were pegged as...

An airborne magnetic survey acquired by the grant licensee over the Lameroo district during August 1997 generated a number of shallow-source anomalies which suggested that there was fair potential for discovering buried Tertiary palaeocoastal...

Exploration for possible buried Tertiary heavy mineral sands occurrences consisted of an interpretation of remote sensing data, followed by the conduct of two reverse circulation aircore drilling programmes (28 holes, total 892.5 m). The first...

The state of water resources in the Mount Lofty Ranges has been the subject of discussion for at least 10 years. As early as 1989, it was suggested that controls were necessary to restrict the development of specific activities where it could be...

Exploration for heavy-mineral sand in Tertiary sediments on the south-western flank of the Ooldea Range comprised geological reconnaissance and RC drilling (81 holes, total 1204 m). Up to 3% titaniferous heavy minerals were reported from drill samples.

Shallow basement along basin margins, and intersections of structural lineaments with Hiltaba Suite granitoids, were targeted over three separate areas: 40 km north-east of Elliston, and 10 and 30 km respectively south and east of Lock. No significant...

25 vertical open RC/aircore holes (total penetration 1077 m) were drilled during heavy mineral sands exploration of an area stretching from 10 km to 100 km north-northeast of Morgan. The target Pliocene Loxton-Parilla Sand was found to be barren of...

Groundwater sampling, aeromagnetic interpretation, shallow auger sampling and isotope studies were carried out over an area 30 km northeast of Elliston. Heavy mineral concentrates from composite auger samples contained zircon, galena and sphalerite,...

No new work - licence farmout attempted without success. Some brief background technical documentation was tendered.

Possible economic buried ilmenite-rutile-zircon heavy mineral sand deposits were targeted along buried Pliocene strandlines of Loxton-Parilla Sand in an area abutting 120 km of the SA-Victoria State Border between Naracoorte and Mount Shaugh....

A review of previous exploration indicated prospectivity for secondary Cu mineralisation near old workings in the Willouran Hill area, approximately 20 km south-west of Marree. A more systematic evaluation of anomalous Au was also considered to be...

23 vertical aircore open holes totalling 556 m were drilled south-west of Bordertown to investigate possible heavy mineral sand placer accumulations on the seaward-sloping sides of relict strandlines developed from the Pliocene Parilla Sand. Only one...