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Moonta-Wallaroo region - South Australian Exploration Initiative. Prospectivity re-assessment and GIS data package (compiled 1994-1995).
To promote renewed regional exploration of the northern Yorke Peninsula using modern techniques and concepts, MESA as part of the SAEI programme has prepared a GIS-based data package, which incorporates a study of all available drillcore and a...-
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Jenner Hill, Pearson Hill and Sandy Point (the Stuart Shelf JV Project). Joint progress reports, plus later annual reports and final report to full surrender of remnant licence EL 1808, for the overall period 4/10/1989 to 24/10/1996.
Exploration for Olympic Dam-style mineralisation, undertaken over an area centred ~15 km south-east of Arcoona Homestead on the Stuart Shelf, which includes WMC's formerly partly tested Emmie Bluff prospect, has comprised the acquisition of ground...-
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Intercept Hill. Annual and final surrender reports for the period 23/1/2001 to 22/1/2003.
The Intercept Hill area, located between the mining centres of Olympic Dam and Mount Gunson, and geographically coincident with the trans-continental G2 gravity corridor, was considered to have potential for Olympic Dam style deposits in...-
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Published: 09 Sep 1903
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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 1900
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Data release - as updated : Crystal Brook and Port Pirie (the Wandearah Project). Joint annual reports to licences' respective full surrenders, for the period 2/8/2008 to 26/4/2018.
Buried basement-hosted iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) mineralisation of either Moonta-Wallaroo or Olympic Dam style is the target of ongoing exploration on the two adjacent subject tenements. In addition, the current holder considers that...-
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Published: 29 May 1918
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The Hummocks. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 30/6/2009 to 17/8/2017.
EL 4278 was Southern Uranium's first mineral exploration foray into the northern Yorke Peninsula. The subject tenement was pegged in January 2009 in order to secure ground surrounding the northern reaches of the Pine Point Fault. This particular...-
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Published: 31 Aug 1917
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Alford. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 25/10/2007 to 4/11/2012.
Work performed at the Alford Project, until the latter half of 2007, had so far mainly concentrated on the Netherleigh Park prospect, with the density of drilling there now providing the main insights into prospectivity and controls on mineralisation....-
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Data release : Yeltacowie, Pernatty [Station] and Whittata (the Punt Hill IOCG Project). Joint annual reports, plus final report to expiry of EL 5774 Punt Hill, for the period 7/1/2012 to 6/1/2017.
During the eighth, 2012-2013 year of tenure of the Pernatty EL area, now being explored in concert with two other adjoining Punt Hill IOCG Project licences, Monax reviewed its past drillhole data, undertook further processing of the project's amassed...-
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Published: 29 Aug 1917
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Port Hughes. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 29/11/2010 to 17/8/2017.
A licence consisting of three separate small sub-blocks that cover a large number of freehold broad-acre farms in the Bute - Agery - Moonta South district has been explored for possible buried economic IOCG mineralisation, which may have formed on or...-
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Published: 31 Aug 1917
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Gunson (part of the Mount Gunson Project). Annual reports for the period 15/7/1994 to 17/10/2008 [ Index Part 4 of 4 ].
During licence Year 12, following encouraging results made by its continuing exploratory drilling, Gunson Resources was able to negotiate a joint venture over the Mount Gunson Project tenements with Falconbridge Limited through its subsidiary Noranda...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Gunson (part of the Mount Gunson Project). Annual reports for the period 15/7/1998 to 17/10/2008 [ Index Part 2 of 4 ].
Stuart Metals is primarily exploring EL 1946 for stratiform copper mineralisation of the various styles known to be present in the Mount Gunson district. In addition, the company regards the largely unknown Mesoproterozoic basement to have strong...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Yeltacowie (part of the Mount Gunson Project). Annual reports for the period 7/10/2013 to 6/10/2018.
An area located ~25 km north-east of Woomera is being explored for possible economic buried Cu-Co-Au mineralisation which may have formed in the Adelaidean metasedimentary cover rocks of the Stuart Shelf. Under Gunson Resource's prior tenure of EL...-
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Published: 07 Dec 1918
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Bute. Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/5/1983 to 26/5/1984.
Following the conduct of ground magnetic and gravity surveys over a discrete magnetic anomaly that was left untested in previous North Broken Hill exploration of an area surrounding Bute township, the current licensee's diamond drilling (to TD 426.6...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Yeltacowie (part of the Mount Gunson Project). Annual reports for the period 7/10/2009 to 6/10/2013.
New work undertaken on EL 4187 during the 2009-2010 licence year has included: • Ongoing documentation and interpretation of MGD 55 & 56 • Drilling of MGD57 to 1243 m at Emmie Bluff prospect • Down hole EM and IP logging of MGD57 •...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Alford. Annual reports submitted to the commencement of project licences' joint reporting, and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 5/11/2012 to 4/11/2019.
During the 2012-2013 licence reporting year, work conducted in this the 21st year of tenure at Alford consisted of: - commissioning a consultant to undertake image processing and 3D inversion modelling of available gravity and magnetic datasets for...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Moonta - Wallaroo area (where licence is subject in part to the Moonta Porphyry Joint Venture). Annual reports for the period 24/12/1996 to 11/4/2008. [ Index Part 1 of 2 ].
A 106 square km area, comprising two blocks which cover the main historic copper and gold - producing districts centred around the towns of Moonta and Kadina, is being explored afresh in an attempt to identify ore resources of quantity sufficient to...-
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RB 96/00046 Metasomatites, magmatites, metasediments and metavolcanics : the Palaeo-Mesoproterozoic geology of the Moonta - Wallaroo Cu-Au district. Geological Society of Australia, SA Division. Field excursion, 30-31 March 1996.
Rock alteration to strata on the northern Yorke Peninsula, which appears to have been caused by an event which spanned the Palaeo-Mesoproterozoic boundary (~1600 Ma), was responsible for emplacing much of the mineralisation found in the...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1996
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Intercept Hill. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 8/5/2003 to 14/7/2013. [Index Part 1 of 2].
An area on the Stuart Shelf which is centred ~45 km north-northwest of Mount Gunson and 70 km south-east of Olympic Dam was taken up to explore primarily for possible economic buried Mesoproterozoic basement-hosted copper-gold deposits, perhaps of...-
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Published: 15 Nov 1913
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 6 partnership DPY6-39 - The Hummocks area - Ridgeback [North] IOCG mineral prospect. Drilling final report.
The greenfields Ridgeback prospect, located about 5 km east-southeast of Bute on the northern Yorke Peninsula, is being explored by EL 4278 sole licensee Investigator Resources for possible Hillside deposit look-alike, Proterozoic basement-hosted...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Alford. Progress and annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 22/4/1992 to 24/10/2007.
Exploration field activities operated by the parent company of the new licensee commenced during March-May 2003, when Argonaut Resources (Argonaut) undertook a rotary mud/diamond drilling programme to test targets located at Netherleigh Park, Alford...-
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