An area located on central western Eyre Peninsula between Minnipa and Port Kenny was taken up to explore the Precambrian basement rocks, which are poorly exposed there, for possible economic buried iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposits....

An area centred ~150 km west of Coober Pedy has been explored for possible buried economic sandstone-hosted secondary uranium deposits which might have formed within eastwards-draining tributaries of the Tertiary Garford Palaeochannel. This...

The precise geometric definition of palaeochannels on the north-western Gawler Craton, South Australia, is important in the exploration for placers (e.g. gold and heavy minerals), secondary geochemical deposits (e.g. uranium) and even for lignite and...

The Peltabinna 1:75 000 Map Sheet was produced as part of a mapping program integrated into the Mineral Systems Drilling Program (MSDP) along the southern margin of the Gawler Ranges. The objective of the mapping program was to provide a regional...

An airborne magnetic survey conducted over an area centred 90 km south-west of Coober Pedy highlighted probable northwesterly-trending mafic dykes offset by north-eastern extensions of the shear zone on which the Challenger and Golf Bore gold deposits...

Diamond and gold exploration undertaken on the two relinquished ground portions located north-west and east of Venus Bay on Eyre Peninsula, which total 530 square km in area, have comprised heavy mineral sampling, heavy mineral grain microprobing,...

Tertiary palaeochannels of the northwestern Gawler Craton have become the focus of recent exploration due to the probable association between placer gold, heavy minerals, coal, uranium and groundwater resources, and channel sediments. The...

With the dawning of renewed interest in one of South Australia’s historic gold provinces, driven by the newly acquired data from the Department’s highly successful Gawler Craton Airborne Survey (GCAS), the Geological Survey of South Australia has...

This inaugural regolith map of the southern Gawler Ranges margin provides a valuable regional overview of the main regolith types and their associated landforms, plus a general outline of the major areas of bedrock or regolith-dominated terrain, as...

As part of a regional search for possible economic deposits of sedimentary uranium in the central Eyre Peninsula region, a reconnaissance open hole rotary drilling programme (8 holes for 1715 feet) was undertaken in November 1970 along the eastern...

Exploration for possible economic buried sedimentary uranium deposits has been carried out in an area located 60-70 km south-west of Tarcoola, entirely blanketed by Quaternary aeolian sands, which holds sections of the preserved remnants of the...

An area centred ~50 km west-northwest of Tarcoola is being explored for possible economic palaeochannel - hosted secondary uranium deposits, as well as for possible hydrothermal gold mineralisation which may have been emplaced within siliciclastic...

Diamonds and base and precious metal exploration undertaken north-east of Port Kenny on western Eyre Peninsula comprised loam sampling for kimberlite indicator minerals, RC drilling (7 vertical holes, total 470 m), plus bedrock petrological, heavy...

An area located 140 km north-west of Tarcoola was taken up to explore for possible economic high grade occurrences of palygorskite clays formed in Tertiary palaeochannels and associated playa lakes. This was a response to a discovery of palygorskite...

A small area centred about 10 km north of Tarcoola has been explored for possible economic buried IOCG mineralisation of Olympic Dam or Prominent Hill type, or any related gold-bearing magnetite skarns that may exist locally in the Proterozoic...

An area centred ~150 km WSW of Coober Pedy has been explored for possible buried economic sandstone-hosted secondary uranium deposits which might have formed within northeastwards-draining tributaries of the Tertiary Tallaringa Palaeochannel. Another,...

An area extending for approximately 80-115 km south-east of Tarcoola has been explored for possible economic mesothermal gold±copper mineralisation formed in Mesoproterozoic igneous basement, possible unconformity - related uranium mineralisation at...

As part of a continuing search for possible economic, zircon-rich Tertiary marine placer mineral sands deposits within its tenement holdings in the eastern Eucla Basin, licensee Iluka Resources carried out scout drilling on ELs 3163, 3201 and 3203...

A renewed effort to determine the diamond mineral potential of the 15.6 square km of land comprising Flinders Island was instigated during January 1999, under tenure of EL 2577, by Orogenic Exploration Pty Ltd, a company related to the previous...

The total area of a multi-part tenement, EL 4882 centred on Kingoonya township, has recently been significantly reduced via voluntary relinquishment made by licensee Hiltaba Gold. The relinquishment comprises parts of Blocks A and E, and the whole of...