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Glenloth Well. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/3/1973 to 29/3/1974.
Two inclined percussion holes were drilled at the Mount Mitchell tin prospect for a total penetration of 504 feet. The aim was to test a discrepancy between subsurface sample negative tin assay results obtained by the Department of Mines, and good...-
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Published: 21 Feb 1974
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Harris Bluff (Uno Station). Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 7/9/1982 to July 1986.
Exploration undertaken over an area located 60 km west of Port Augusta targeted possible Broken Hill or Aggeneys - Gamsberg type massive Pb-Zn deposits within Early Proterozoic Hutchison Group banded iron formation metasediments, and also any Early...-
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Cooyerdoo Station. Progress reports to licence expiry/re-issue as part of another licence, for the period 14/9/1981 to 13/3/1983.
Following the signing of an eighteen month exploration joint venture agreement with Stockdale, farminee Mobil Energy Minerals undertook continuation of the uranium search over the anomalous ground lying east and south-east of Lake Gilles, besides...-
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Published: 12 Apr 1983
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 4 partnership DPY4-22, Lake Gilles - Corunna North area (north-western margin of Spencer Domain) IOCG mineral prospects. Project final report.
Potential Carrapateena or Prominent Hill style IOCG targets represented by newly recognised gravity anomalies in the eastern Lake Gilles area were the reason for a PACE Initiative Year 4 drilling funds proposal submitted to PIRSA by InterMet...-
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Koolcutta. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/4/1997 to 29/4/2002.
Rock chip and calcrete sampling were the main methods of exploration for iron oxide - associated copper-gold mineralisation in an area 60 km west of Port Augusta. Initial rock chip sampling returned no anomalous Au values, but gave best results of...-
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Cooyerdoo Station. Progress reports to licence expiry for the period 30/3/79 to 29/3/81.
Stream and loam samples were collected for kimberlitic indicator mineral analysis, and detailed geological mapping was carried out, as part of a wider diamond search in the Lake Gilles district. No evidence of any kimberlite was seen in the Cooyerdoo...-
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Published: 29 Mar 1981
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Gilles Downs. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal (as part of a larger area), for the period 12/3/1979 to 11/3/1981.
Ongoing diamond exploration by Stockdale over the PORT AUGUSTA 1:250,000 mapsheet area has concentrated on country to the east and south-east of Lake Gilles, where some microdiamonds and kimberlitic indicator minerals were discovered during the period...-
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Published: 18 Mar 1981
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Gilles Downs. Annual reports to licence full surrender, for the period 15/2/2012 to 3/5/2016.
An area centred ~90 km south-west of Port Augusta has been explored for possible buried economic epithermal silver mineralisation and porphyry style Cu-Au mineralisation similar to that found recently by Investigator Resources at the Paris deposit...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1916
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Corunna. Progress and final reports for the period 22/7/91 to 21/7/92.
TARGET: Broken Hill or Aggeneys - Gamsberg type stratiform base metal deposits within the metamorphosed Palaeoproterozoic Hutchison Group chemical sediments in the Corunna area, possibly hosted by geochemically anomalous carbonate and silicate facies...-
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Lake Gilles. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 1/12/2005 to 7/10/2010.
EL3466, located approximately 10 km west-southwest of Iron Knob, was taken up primarily to search the Proterozoic basement for possible buried Olympic Dam style Cu-Au-U mineralisation. Secondary exploration targets included orogenic lode gold...-
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Published: 02 Jun 1911
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RB 2007/00006 The geology and mineral potential of the PORT AUGUSTA [mapsheet] area, eastern Gawler Craton.
The PORT AUGUSTA 1:250,000 mapsheet area covers the north-eastern part of the Eyre Peninsula, the northern Spencer Gulf and the south-western Flinders Ranges, and extends from latitude 32°00'S to 33°00'S and longitude 136°30'S to 138°00'S. The main...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2007
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Uno (synonym Aroha). Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 6/3/1978 to 5/3/1980.
Exploration for uranium in the vicinity of Lake Gilles targeted the Lower Proterozoic Cleve Metamorphics and the unconformably overlying sandstone, conglomerate and rhyolite units of Carpentarian age, searching initially for analogues to the deposits...-
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Warrior. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 26/9/1977 to 25/9/1978.
Following the recent discovery by Nissho-Iwai Co. in its ELs 48 and 195 of a buried Tertiary palaeochannel system containing uranium-bearing carbonaceous sediments, two further ELs 268 and 360 were taken out on the same area 40-60 km north-west of...-
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RB 2014/00009 Epithermal-style textures, brecciation, veining and alteration, southern Gawler Ranges margin, South Australia.
Along the southern margin of the Mesoproterozoic (~1590 Ma) Gawler Range Volcanics lava flows, on northern Eyre Peninsula, numerous occurrences of silver, lead, zinc and copper mineralisation have been recorded at or near the base of the volcanic...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2014
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Tarcoola West. Progress report to licence expiry/renewal for the period 12/8/1971 to 11/2/1972.
Field geological mapping of an 800 square mile area located immediately north-west of the Tarcoola Goldfield was carried out at a scale of approximately 1:84,480 (3/4 inch = 1 mile). A continuation of the regional geology from previously mapped areas...-
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Published: 10 Feb 1972
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Geology of the Roopena and Uno 1:100 000 sheet areas, eastern Gawler Craton.
This report describes the results of a MESA consultant's second generation regional geological mapping and drillhole data interpretation work for the Roopena and Uno 1:100 000 sheets on PORT AUGUSTA, performed during 1993 and 1994 as part of the SAEI...-
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Mount Miccollo. Annual reports to licence expiry for the period 9/8/93 to 8/8/95.
Rock chip sampling of Proterozoic hydrothermally much altered ?volcanic basement outcrop in the vicinity of Mt Miccollo, 50 km west-northwest of Iron Knob, returned anomalous Cu, Pb, Zn and As values. A pronounced circular aeromagnetic anomaly,...-
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Published: 02 Nov 1995
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Warrior [South]. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/11/1976 to 1/11/1978.
As part of an evaluation of sedimentary uranium occurrences in the Tertiary age Warrior Palaeochannel, 27 open rotary holes totalling 875.5 m, including a 9 m core cut in 1 hole, were drilled and radiometrically logged. The HQ drill core and 40...-
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Margoon Dam. Combined first progress / final report to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 23/10/1969 to 22/5/1970.
The possible untested economic base metal potential of a 10 mile long zone of airphoto-interpreted intense hydrothermal alteration of the Gawler Range Volcanics, which follows the Uno Fault near Margoon Dam, was investigated on the ground by sampling...-
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Published: 08 May 1970
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Iron Knob. Progress report to licence surrender for the period 20/4/1972 to 23/7/1972.
Uranium exploration in a known uraniferous area located immediately north of Iron Knob comprised numerous ground radiometric survey traverses made across outcropping Mesoproterozoic rocks, mainly the Corunna Conglomerate. A thin phosphatic basal bed...-
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Published: 18 Jul 1972
