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Data release - as updated : Whey Whey Creek (latterly part of the Walparuta Project). Annual reports plus final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/7/2013 to 17/7/2020.
A very small (35 square km) area located ~35 km west-northwest of Olary and covering part of the Weekeroo Inlier is being explored for possible buried epigenetic stratiform Broken Hill type Pb-Zn-Ag and VHMS (volcanic hosted massive sulphide) style...-
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Mount Davies (part of the Central Giles / Wingellina Nickel Project). First partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 4/3/1999 to 23/9/2018.
The major part of the subject 134 square km total area of tenement ground relinquished from EL 5184 on 23/9/2017 contains the Michael Hills copper prospect (Area 11). A large portion of the remainder of the surrendered ground, in a separate block...-
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Published: 31 Oct 2017
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Lake Phillipson. Annual report for the period 24/3/1995 to 8/8/2018.
During the twenty-first licence year, now under tenure as EL 5719 covering the same area as former EL 4534, no new work was done. During the twenty-second licence year SA Coal commenced field work on their IOCG style mineralisation exploration...-
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Published: 29 Aug 2018
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EL 6710, EL 6711, EL 6720, EL 6735, EL 6738 - Innamincka area. Final technical reports for the period 01/04/2022 to surrender 08/06/2023.
A group of 5 exploration licences EL’s 6710, 6711, 6720, 6735 and 6738, situated in the north-eastern corner of South Australia within the Cooper Basin, covering a cumulative area of 4434 square km were being explored for their potential for lithium...-
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Published: 03 Aug 2023
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Mabel Creek [South-west]. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/8/2014 to 31/7/2020.
A large area of ground surrounding the Paragon bore regional aeromagnetic anomaly complex was taken up to explore for possible buried economic occurrences of magnetite which could be hosted by Proterozoic BIF metasediments, as well as for possible...-
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Published: 18 Sep 2020
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Dalarinna Hill (part of the Sawmill Project). First annual report plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 4/2/2013 to 18/11/2014.
An area centred ~45 km east-southeast of Marree on the north-western side of the Mount Painter Inlier was taken up to explore for possible buried economic palaeochannel hosted secondary uranium mineralisation which could have formed in Phanerozoic...-
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Published: 01 Nov 2014
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Eastern Eyre Peninsula and Northern Curnamona. Final report, Regional Gravity Survey. Project ADI RD02-263 [Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2023].
FMG Resources Pty Ltd (Fortescue), was successful in securing Round 2 Accelerated Discovery Initiative funding of $120,000, for its proposed Eastern Eyre Peninsula and Northern Curnamona Gravity Survey geophysical program. The regional gravity...-
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Published: 30 Jun 2023
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Moseley Nobs (part of the Eastern Eyre Peninsula Project). Second partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 5/7/2006 to 4/7/2011.
An area located approximately 40 km north-northwest of Kimba is being explored primarily for possible buried basement-hosted Olympic Dam style iron oxide - associated copper-gold(-uranium) deposits, as well as for fault-related vein style uranium...-
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Published: 09 Sep 2011
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Mount Craig Copper Project. Final report for June to December 2021 geophysical and drilling program, Project ADI RD02-268 [part of Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2021].
An area centred ~28 km east of Hawker is being explored for possible buried epigenetic/hydrothermal, skarn style and sediment-hosted stratabound base and precious metals mineralisation that may have formed within prepared Adelaidean metasedimentary...-
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Published: 02 Nov 2021
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Little Mount Finke. First annual report plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 21/2/2011 to 10/10/2012.
An area centred about 40 km south-west of Tarcoola has been explored for possible economic copper-gold mineralisation in Archaean to Proterozoic basement rocks, which may be associated with a series of intense magnetic features evident in 200 m line...-
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Published: 26 Sep 2012
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Yudnapinna [West]. Combined first annual/final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/9/2020 to 21/9/2021.
Two contiguous exploration licences, ELs 6522 and 6523, were secured in the Yudnapinna district to apply new concepts and techniques aimed at revitalising the rate of copper-gold mineral deposit discovery in South Australia. The licences’ area lay...-
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Published: 03 Nov 2021
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Yudnapinna [East]. Combined first annual/final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/9/2020 to 21/9/2021.
Two contiguous exploration licences, ELs 6522 and 6523, were secured in the Yudnapinna district to apply new concepts and techniques aimed at revitalising the rate of copper-gold mineral deposit discovery in South Australia. The licences’ area lay...-
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Published: 03 Nov 2021
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Novel technologies for [use in] mining and [earth resource] exploration: remote smart sensor deployment for in situ geophysical analysis. Final report, Project ADI RD01-123 [part of Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 1, 2022].
Nine compact seismic motion recorders and nine co-located ground probe thermocouples have been deployed at various sites near the Carrapateena mine, to test the efficacy of making continuous remote data collection and the reliability of their...-
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Published: 27 Oct 2022
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Tarcoola (part of the North-west Olympic Domain Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 8/10/2012 to 1/2/2022.
An area centred ~ 90 km north-northeast of Tarcoola has been fully surrendered due to its now perceived low prospectivity for buried basement-hosted IOCG mineralisation. During the 2012-2014 reporting period, Fortescue conducted an initial desktop...-
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Published: 01 Feb 2022
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Moonta - Wallaroo area (the Moonta Project). Annual reports for the period 12/4/2008 to 11/4/2018.
During the 2008-2009 project reporting year (Year 13), Adelaide Resources Limited continued to review all of the past exploration in the Moonta region. This disclosed 190 surface gold anomalies that the company thought warranted further consideration,...-
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Published: 10 Jun 2018
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Data release - as updated : Gum Flat, Wanilla, Cummins, Tarlinga and Yeelanna (the Gum Flat Iron Ore Project). Joint annual reports submitted until the joint full surrender of remaining project licences, for the period 1/7/2010 to 18/01/2022.
During 2010-2011, the third year of the Gum Flat Iron Ore Project, owner Lincoln Minerals' exploration activities included: - Planning, site preparation and supervision of an RC and aircore drilling program; - Surveying and vegetation clearing for...-
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Published: 09 Jan 2020
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Three Creeks area (part of the Hawker Project). Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 5/6/2006 to 4/6/2010.
The Three Creeks EL 3567 covers, for the most part, the north-westerly plunging Yednalue Syncline. Lying to the south-east of the Worumba Anticline (a diapiric structure cored by disrupted Callanna Group), the syncline comprises Umberatana Group...-
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Published: 17 Sep 2010
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Dingo Hill and Dingo Hill West. Joint annual reports, and separate final reports at licences' respective full surrenders, for the period 15/8/2006 to 14/8/2010.
The Dingo Hill tenements were applied for by Monax Mining to explore for iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) style mineralisation and epithermal style gold mineralisation associated with the Gawler Range Volcanics (GRV). The most prominent...-
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Published: 13 Dec 2010
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Chinaman Hat Hill. First annual report plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 20/6/2013 to 18/12/2014.
No work performed. A desktop assessment of indicated IOCG prospectivity concluded that the tenement, located ~ 16 km north of Tasman Resources' Titan prospect, had high risk due to a muted basement geophysical response and the poorly constrained but...-
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Published: 21 Jan 2015
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Chinamans Hat Hill. Annual reports for the period 21/2/2011 to 20/2/2019.
An area of the Adelaide Fold Belt centred ~20 km east of Whyte Yarcowie is being explored for possible buried economic primary orogenic gold, as the cover sediments there are gold-bearing. Ground was taken up to cover a region of broad westwards (i.e...-
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Published: 27 Feb 2019