Exploration for possible commercial grade celestite and for filler type carbonate material deposited in coastal lakes, undertaken in an area of the southern Coorong extending for 7-30 km north of Kingston, entailed the collection and analysis of...

The 2000 Mt Wintinna coal deposit is located approximately 700 km north-northwest of Port Augusta in South Australia. The area has opencut potential, and is proposed for development to supply a thermal power station. Meekatharra Minerals Ltd holds...

EL 4278 was Southern Uranium's first mineral exploration foray into the northern Yorke Peninsula. The subject tenement was pegged in January 2009 in order to secure ground surrounding the northern reaches of the Pine Point Fault. This particular...

An area of 185 square km was taken up by SAPEX to allow it to evaluate afresh known sub-bituminous coal measures in the Permian Mount Toondina Formation that constitute the East Wintinna coal deposit. This deposit had been discovered by Meekatharra...

Exploration for gypsum on the eastern Eyre Peninsula, 70 km west of Cowell, resulted in the establishment of mining operations at Terra Leen. Other potential gypsum sources were identified. No exploration for metals was undertaken.

During the sixth year of tenure of the Warramboo licence, now held by Adelaide Exploration Limited as renewed EL 2846 covering the same 1363 square km area as before, the only exploration-related activity which occurred was the acquisition during...

Within the eight licences comprising the subject joint venture ground, farminee Gold Fields Australasia (GFA) has identified Neoproterozoic rocks of the Delamerian fold and thrust belt sub-province, and in particular of the region of maximum flexure...

An area centred ~228 km south-southeast of Coober Pedy has been explored for possible buried IOCG type mineralisation, which could have formed in Mesoproterozoic basement rocks in a position which it was thought had not been properly tested by past...

EL 3438 Muckanippie is located in the northern Gawler Craton, on the western margin of the Gawler Range Volcanics Domain, and is centred approximately 60 km north-west of Tarcoola. Basement outcrop on the licence area is sparse, with a thin cover of...

Ten separate small portions of EL 5360 together covering 249 square km have recently been relinquished due to their perceived diminished prospectivity for IOCG mineralisation. The only work done on these sub-blocks has consisted of part of a ground...

An area surrounding the historic copper-mining town of Blinman in the central-northern Flinders Ranges has been explored for possible economic diapir-related copper mineralisation, similar to that encountered nearby at the formerly significant Blinman...

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Investigator Resources Limited (IVR) is continuing to explore its contiguous tenement package in the Southern Gawler Ranges for economic precious and base metals, following its discovery of the Paris silver deposit in 2011. A prospective region called...

Development of the Prominent Hill copper-gold deposit in the Mount Woods region will require an adequate source of water to support planned mining and ore processing operations, currently estimated to involve at least 6 million tonnes of ore per year....

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...

An area of the western Yorke Peninsula, comprising three separate sub-blocks, was taken up to explore for possible economic buried IOCG-U deposits similar to those at Hillside (located 25 km to the east of sub-block 'B'), Olympic Dam, Prominent Hill...

A small area centred ~20 km north-west of William Creek has been explored for possible economic buried IOCG mineralisation, which could have formed in Mesoproterozoic basement rocks that in the surrounding region exhibit several large coincident...

An area centred ~65 km north-east of Hawker in the Central Flinders Ranges, and located adjacent to the eastern side of the Oraparinna Diapir, has been explored for possible buried economic epigenetic copper, gold and uranium mineralisation. During...

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...

An area lying along the eastern side of Pernatty Lagoon is being explored primarily for possible buried economic IOCG style mineralisation of possible Olympic Dam type, that may be hosted by poorly known Proterozoic or older basement rocks which...