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PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 8 partnership DPY8-21 - Yerelina Gladstone Mining Field sediment-hosted and structurally controlled hydrothermal/replacement style stratabound base metal prospects. Final report.
High-grade silver-lead-zinc mineralisation formed within the Neoproterozoic Tapley Hill Formation (THF) was historically mined 100 years ago at Yerelina in the northern Flinders Ranges. Despite the existence of numerous poorly documented small-scale...-
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Published: 08 Dec 2015
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Data release - as updated : Bulgunnia. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 8/10/2007 to 7/10/2022.
An area centred approximately 70 km north-northeast of Tarcoola has been explored for possible economic buried basement-hosted IOCG style or other (e.g. Menninnie Dam and/or Mount Gunson type) altered rock facies - hosted metallic mineralisation,...-
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Published: 27 Oct 2022
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Hanging Knoll (part of the Central Giles Nickel Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 18/3/2002 to 17/3/2007.
A licence area located at the south-eastern end of the Mann Ranges in South Australia's Far North-west Aboriginal Lands, approximately 90 km south-southwest of Ayers Rock (Uluru), is being explored by Rio Tinto Exploration (RTE) and Delta Gold, as...-
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Published: 12 Apr 2007
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Barossa Valley. Combined first annual/final report to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 19/11/2007 to 18/11/2008.
In a search for possible Adelaidean bedrock stratabound sources of gold which have weathered to generate the alluvial gold deposits worked at the historic Gomersal and Moppa Goldfields, the licensee undertook structural modelling of available...-
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Published: 11 Feb 2009
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Verran. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/11/2009 to 11/11/2013.
No field work - desktop technical studies only, plus negotiations with local stakeholders and with potential joint venturers, were carried out over the 4-year tenure period.-
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Published: 18 Nov 2013
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 6 partnership DPY6-61 - Maralinga Embayment area - Tertiary shoreline marine placer heavy mineral sands prospects. Drilling project final report.
Through the financial assistance of PIRSA's PACE Initiative, Iluka Resources has undertaken exploratory drilling activities on its Maralinga area ELs 4330, 4333, 4334, 4337 and 4338 in the eastern Eucla Basin, as approved Year 6 programme DPY6-61....-
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Published: 18 May 2011
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Anna Villa (part of the Alford Project). Annual report and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 20/6/2013 to 16/6/2016.
An area on northern Yorke Peninsula comprising five semicontiguous sub-blocks which are centred ~23 south-southeast of Moonta has been explored for possible buried economic IOCG type mineralisation which could have formed within Palaeoproterozoic or...-
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Published: 19 Aug 2016
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Puntabie, Maltee, Mount Cooper and Pureba South [the north-western Eyre Peninsula (eastern Eucla Basin) heavy mineral sands exploration Tenement Group 3]. Final report at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 28/4/2004 to 5/5/2016.
Iluka Resources has been exploring the four subject areas, located east of the townships of Streaky Bay and Ceduna, since April 2004, as part of a continuing regional search for possible economic, zircon-rich Tertiary marine placer mineral sands...-
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Published: 20 May 2016
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PACE 2020 Discovery Drilling 2012: Year 7 Drilling Partnership DPY7-39 - Beach Energy Limited - Murteree Shale, Coalbed Methane and Shale Gas Evaluation Project - new drill core for shale gas resource and deliverability analysis. Drilling final report.
Marsden 1 is located regionally on the eastern edge of the Battunga Trough, approximately 25 km south-west of the Toolachee Gasfield and 22 km east south-east of the Limestone Creek / Biala Oilfield. It was drilled as an exploration well to evaluate...-
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Published: 10 Jul 2013
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Houghton. Annual reports and partial relinquishment report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/10/2001 to 21/10/2006.
Three potentially economic gold and platinum / palladium - bearing, known primary uranium-mineralised targets in the Palaeoproterozoic Houghton basement inlier have been evaluated through the conduct of office-based geological and geophysical studies,...-
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Published: 26 Apr 2007
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Kanmantoo. Progress reports, annual reports and technical reports for the period 1/1/1998 to 2/11/2008.
Exploration Licence (EL) 2663 Kanmantoo is located on the eastern flank of the Adelaide Hills, and exists as two separate blocks forming a belt up to 10 km wide and approximately 75 km long that covers an area dominated by outcropping and subcropping...-
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Published: 16 Dec 2008
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Oratan [Rock]. Annual reports for the period 6/2/2006 to 1/5/2013.
A small licence area located ~50 km south-east of Yunta was taken up to explore basement for possible economic buried IOCG type and gold-only mineralisation, as well as for possible stratiform Broken Hill type lead-zinc-silver occurrences and for...-
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Published: 20 May 2013
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Mundowdna, Wilpoorinna, Dalarinna Hill and Calcutta (the Marree Project). Combined annual reports plus final reports to licences' respective expiry or surrender, for the period 21/6/2006 to 29/5/2014.
The Marree Project consists of four adjacent exploration licences, ELs 3574, 3577, 3578 and 3579, which together cover 3909 square km. Work performed on the project was governed by the Eromanga Basin joint venture agreement made between Eromanga...-
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Published: 30 May 2014
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Summary of a strategic review of sand, clay and shale resources for metropolitan Adelaide.
This review has been undertaken to meet the State Government's commitment to maintain a long-term, competitively priced supply of extractive minerals to the community, as mandated by Strategy 1.5H of the S.A. Government response to the Resources Task...-
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Published: 18 May 2002
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Lake Torrens. First annual report for the period 10/12/2009 to 9/12/2010.
An area located wholly within the Lake Torrens National Park, and centred 35 km west of Parachilna, was taken up to explore for possible economic Olympic Dam or Prominent Hill type IOCG style mineralisation that may exist within Proterozoic bedrock...-
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Published: 07 Feb 2011
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Oak Dam North-east, Lake Torrens, Glenside, Winjabbie and Trimmer Inlet; plus Shore Hill and Red Swamp (initially the UXA Stuart Shelf South JV Project; then OZ Minerals' Stuart Shelf Project). Joint annual reports for the period 1/11/2010 to 6/1/2017.
In continued exploration for possible economic buried Olympic Dam or Prominent Hill type IOCG style mineralisation that may exist within Proterozoic bedrock, joint venture operator Straits Resources undertook the following work on the project...-
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Published: 06 Mar 2018
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Chowilla Regional Reserve (part of the Mindarie Project). Data release at licence surrender : annual reports submitted until the start of project licence amalgamated reporting, for the period 17/7/2002 to 18/2/2005.
No work performed during the subject period - Native Title land access negotiations in progress.-
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Published: 08 Sep 2003
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Data release - as updated : Ooldea. Annual reports, fourth partial surrender report, and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/11/2003 to 1/4/2016.
A small licence area located 170 km north-northwest of Fowlers Bay in far western South Australia is being explored for possible large occurrences of high grade IOCG mineralisation that may be hosted by Proterozoic basement rocks, and for Tertiary...-
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Published: 21 May 2016
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bonython Hill. Annual reports for the period 16/9/2005 to 1/11/2013.
A small area located ~25 km east of Olary was taken up to explore mainly for possible buried economic uranium mineralisation, and to a lesser extent for gold and base metals, that may exist there in Palaeoproterozoic basement rocks. No field work...-
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Published: 04 Dec 2013
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The Mindarie Heavy Mineral Sands Project. Joint and combined annual reports, for the period 19/12/1997 to 31/12/2010.
An assessment of the Late Tertiary Murray Basin shallow marine clastic sedimentary sequence (Loxton and Parilla sands) for heavy mineral sand accumulations has discovered numerous occurrences of economic to sub-economic amounts of heavy minerals...-
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Published: 19 Apr 2011