An area bordering the central eastern side of Lake Torrens was taken up to cover a large amplitude, deeply sourced twin peak magnetic anomaly with poorly defined coincident elevated gravity features, which it was thought could have potential for...

The Thompson Nickel Belt of Canada was considered an analogue for the Fowler Suture Zone on the western margin of the Gawler Craton, 150 km north-west of Ceduna. Here, intensely magnetic zones consisting of cumulus gabbro-diorite and tonalite are...

309.6 square km or ~18.77% of the pre-existing area of EL 5564 Poondinga was partially relinquished on 19/2/2019 because in the licensee's view this south-eastern portion of the licence are does not appear to exhibit the geological features required...

An area located 35 km south-east of Tarcoola was targeted for gold because of interpreted aeromagnetic data, which suggested the presence of discrete Archaean iron formations and mafic rocks within the more widely distributed Kenella Gneiss, a rock...

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...

An area located ~12 km south-west of Warramboo on central Eyre Peninsula has been explored for possible buried economic Archaean stratabound iron ore, as well as for other, basement-hosted polymetallic mineral occurrences. During the first licence...

The Eukaby mining field area of the eastern Flinders Ranges was explored for Au-Ag-Pb-Zn mineralisation, while geophysical data modelling targetted Olympic Dam style metallogenic systems. Information gained from detailed structural mapping and rock...

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...

Exploratory drilling carried out by BHP Billiton (BHPB) during the 2009-10 project reporting year took place at six prospects thought to have good IOCG mineralisation potential, based in part on earlier drilling results and also on refined target...

After the granting by DSD of joint reporting status for the three licences comprising FMG's Fleurieu Peninsula IOCG exploration project, the licensee commenced formal Native Title negotiations with claimant group representatives of the Kaurna People...

The two Lake Gregory project licences were located between the Birdsville Track and Lake Gregory, approximately 100 km north-northeast of Marree, and to the north of uranium exploration tenements held by Adavale Minerals. Regalpoint selected these...

Exploration for possible economic concealed Beltana mine type stratabound lead-zinc-(silver) mineralisation, and for other diapiric and associated basic igneous intrusion - related base metal and/or gold occurrences, was carried out over a small area...

The laser ablation - inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICPMS) U-Pb zircon geochronology data reported herein derive from three rock samples sourced from the central - northern Gawler Craton, South Australia. These samples have been...

An area located 30 km south of Port Augusta and covering more than 792 square km east of the main highway between Port Augusta and Whyalla, which falls entirely within part of the Cultana Army Training Area held by the Australian Commonwealth...

This bulletin contains geochronological data and interpretations from the Gawler Craton of South Australia that have been completed by Mark Fanning of The Australian National University, by Geological Survey of South Australia personnel, and by...

This report details the field acquisition and data processing, inversion and interpretation stages of the Walparuta geophysical program conducted in December 2021. The work was focussed on the Walparuta Project area, located 20 km north of Manna Hill...

The South Australian Neoproterozoic sediment-hosted copper occurrence map displays a distinct category of the State’s copper occurrences. 662 occurrences have been identified as being hosted in Neoproterozic sediments and then were further classified...

This report summarises the regulatory activities of the Department and the regulatory performance of the South Australian mineral resources industry in 2016. It covers all assessment and compliance-related activities related to South Australia’s...

South Australia’s Olympic Cu-Au Province hosts some of the world’s great iron oxide copper gold (IOCG) deposits, such as Olympic Dam, Prominent Hill and Carrapateena. The same causative thermal event resulted in variants of this deposit class being...

No field work was performed on the three subject licences during the period 2008-2010 inclusive. During 2010, Dominion Gold Operations undertook a desktop evaluation of the possible iron ore potential of the licences. During 2011, the licensee...