The Wheal Ellen prospect situated at the centre of EL 3232 is named after the historical lead-zinc-silver mine which was worked there, primarily in the 1850s. Numerous other old shallow workings are also present along strike and in beds running...

A licence area originally comprising three separate sub-blocks located along the northern and southern sides of the Lake Gilles Conservation Park has been explored by grant licensee Lincoln Minerals Ltd (LML) and its joint venture partner IronClad...

An area centred approximately 30 km south-east of Kimba has been explored for possible economic buried base metal and/or gold and/or uranium mineralisation that may have formed in Archaean to Palaeoprotrozoic basement rocks in this part of the...

Neoproterozoic glacial sedimentary units in the intramontane basinal valley located east of Leigh Creek and Copley, which were considered likely to contain possible geologically suitable palaeo-depositional sites for secondary uranium mineralisation...

A small licence area composed of three separate sub-blocks, which is centred approximately 80 km south-west of Whyalla, has been explored for possible economic buried base metal and/or gold and/or uranium mineralisation that may have formed in...

Some large areas of vacant ground located in the south and west of Mulgathing Station that lie adjacent to the Bulgunnia Fault Zone were taken up by Monax Mining initially to explore primarily for Olympic Dam type IOCG-U mineralisation and also for...

A small licence composed of four separate sub-areas was taken up in the Moonta district to explore for possible economic IOCG or Cu-Ni-Co-REE mineralisation that might have formed in Proterozoic basement near the eastern margin of the Gawler Craton....

During licence Year 4, UraniumSA undertook the following work on EL 3652: - pattern drilling of 232 rotary mud holes totalling 18,416 m, targeting the Blackbush and Plumbush prospects. - core drilling totalling 876 m in 8 holes, to characterise...

In the vicinity of Weetulta on northern Yorke Peninsula, as part of Minotaur's recent exploration for possible economic buried Moonta or Cloncurry-style IOCG - related base metal massive sulphide mineralisation, 60 line km of airborne VTEM survey data...

The Nuckulla Hill Au-Ag Project, originally consisting of three exploration licences covering 640 square km, is located approximately 115 km north-east of Ceduna in South Australia, and covers approximately 60 km strike length of the mineralised...

Exploration Licence 2494 was granted in March 1998 to Paladin Energy Minerals NL and Brightstar Power Corporation Pty Ltd - the Paladin Brightstar Joint Venture (PBJV), with Paladin Resources NL as manager. The target commodity being explored for by...

A small licence area located ~30 km north of Cockburn has been being explored for possible economic shallowly buried sedimentary roll front style uranium mineralisation that may have formed within inferred Tertiary fluvial channel sands of the...

Aquila Resources took up ownership of the much previously-explored ground comprising the Wilcherry Hill Project with the intent of exploring for the first time the iron oxide - associated copper-gold & uranium (IOCG-U) mineralisation potential of...

A group of adjoining tenements covering ground situated between Ceduna and the Trans Australia Railway are being explored for possible economic buried Tertiary marine placer deposits of heavy mineral sands. During the 2007-2008 joint reporting year,...

Two adjoining areas located north of Koonibba were taken up to explore this part of the south-eastern Eucla Basin for possible buried economic marine placer deposits of heavy mineral sands (HM), because they were believed to contain shallow or exposed...

Since the first edition of this map was released in May 2007, the collection by the Department's Geological Survey of much new geoscientific data and interpretations arising from South Australian regional surveys and exploration activities has...

Exploration Licence 2704 covering 23 square km surrounding the historic abandoned Mutooroo copper mine, located ~55 km east of Olary, was granted to Havilah Resources NL so that the company could assess the economic potential of the remaining sulphide...

Archaean to Proterozoic ultramafic igneous intrusions and granite masses associated with the Yarlbrinda Shear Zone, which are interpreted as being potential hosts for gold, nickel, chromium and platinum group elements, were the targets of exploration...

Exploration for a range of mineral commodities over relinquished parts of a licence area situated 80 km north-east of Orroroo has mainly targeted the Cainozoic to Mesozoic cover rocks for possible sedimentary gold, uranium, mineral sands and...

An area lying immediately west of Port Lincoln and extending for ~10 km inland is being explored for buried occurrences of multiple metallic mineral commodities that may have been deposited within faulted, folded and metamorphosed Archaean basement...