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Data release - as updated : Sherlock. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 25/6/2012 to 24/6/2017.
An area centred ~50 km south-east of Tailem Bend has been explored for possible economic buried primary stratiform and epithermal deposits of base metals that may have formed within Cambrian bedrock, close to where the current licensees and previous...-
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Pinkawillinie (part of the Wilcherry Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 1/11/2012 to 10/4/2019.
An area originally consisting of three separate licence sub-blocks that are centred ~30 km north-west of Kimba has been explored for possible economic buried occurrences of basement-hosted epithermal/hydrothermal/metamorphic gold, silver, iron,...-
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Cootanoorina Hill. Data release made in lieu of submitting a partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal : annual reports for the period 6/4/2010 to 5/4/2015.
No work took place on the subject licence area, located ~ 60 km south of Oodnadatta on the western side of the Peake and Denison Ranges, during its first four years of tenure. It had been taken up originally to explore for possible undercover roll...-
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Mount Miccollo (part of the Wilcherry Project). Second and third partial surrender report, for the period 10/6/2011 to 27/5/2021.
An area centred ~100 km west of Port Augusta is being explored for possible economic buried, basement-hosted occurrences of epithermal/hydrothermal/metamorphic gold, silver, iron, uranium, and base metals mineralisation. On the now relinquished...-
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PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 9 partnership DPY8-30 - Eucla Basin Eocene and Pleistocene low-stand beach ridge marine heavy mineral placer prospects. Drilling project final report.
The Nundroo Range and Bookabie Range are prominent south-west facing, yet effectively previously undrilled, preserved palaeogeomorphic beach ridge /coastal dune features which are located ~200 km west of Ceduna and ~100 km south of the...-
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Uno (part of the Wilcherry Project). First partial surrender report, for the period 29/7/2009 to 24/1/2020.
An area centred ~105 km west-southwest of Port Augusta is being explored for possible economic buried, basement-hosted occurrences of epithermal/hydrothermal/metamorphic gold, silver, iron, uranium, and base metals mineralisation. On the now...-
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Breaden Hill. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/11/1967 to 12/11/1969.
Evaluation of possible commercial, buried stratiform copper deposits in the Willouran Ranges south of Marree was the objective of geological mapping, geochemical sampling and shallow drilling undertaken by Noranda. Their interest in the region was...-
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Mount Neville. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 17/3/1969 to 16/3/1970.
Inspection of an area showing diapiric and fault disturbance within upper Adelaidean and Lower Cambrian metasediments in the vicinity of Mount Neville sought to find barite deposits of sufficiently high grade and quantity to resemble those of the...-
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Painted Hill. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/7/1982 to 11/7/1987.
Stockdale's diamond exploration work included reconnaissance stream sampling, and photogeology and Landsat interpretation. Ground magnetic surveys were run over aeromagnetic anomalies interpreted from the previous nickel exploration (Mount Purvis)...-
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Wirrealpa. Progress, partial surrender and final reports to licence surrender for the period 13/11/1978 to 26/2/1988.
Economic deposits of Mississippi Valley type stratabound lead-zinc mineralisation within in Cambrian limestones were the targets of exploration undertaken on and near the Wirrealpa Diapir. A preliminary field reconnaissance had shown that surface...-
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Mongolata. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 29/7/1986 to 6/3/1989.
Exploration of an historic gold mining field and surrounding area located approximately 20 km north-east of Burra and situated due west of the Delamerian Bendigo Granite batholith has targeted possible unexploited fine-grained gold, thought to exist...-
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Published: 22 Feb 1989
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Glenorchy. Progress reports for the period 3/10/85 to 2/4/87.
An assessment of the uranium and base metal potential of an area located 75 km north of Yunta included the inspection of historic uranium prospects, geological mapping at 1:25,000 scale, rock chip and groundwater sampling, reprocessing of aerial...-
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Black Camp Hill. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 29/4/1987 to 28/10/1987.
Interpretation of image processed digital magnetic data from the 1978 SADME Kokatha Aerial Magnetic Survey, plus contouring of data from this survey and from the BMR's reprocessed TARCOOLA Aerial Magnetic Survey, had defined two possible ring...-
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Pandurra. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 18/9/1979 to 17/9/1981.
Continued exploration for stratabound base metals across an area of the southern Stuart Shelf, extending west and north-west of Port Augusta, has included an evaluation of the results of previous stratigraphic drilling on the prior-held EL 332, plus...-
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Published: 16 Nov 1981
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Hope Bank. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 6/1/1987 to 6/9/1988.
TARGET: Telfer-style gold in the Wabricoola area, NW of Yunta. EXPLORATION: Image processing of BMR airborne magnetic survey data, and detailed stream sediment (452) and soil (110) geochemical sampling. RESULTS: Anomalous low order gold values that...-
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Published: 25 Aug 1988
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Jumbuck (Gawler Project Central Tenement Block). Data release made in lieu of submitting a second partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal: annual reports for the period 1/8/1994 to 26/10/2004. [Index 1 of 3].
The abstract for this Envelope is contained (in 3 parts) as separately indexed records, due to SAMREF database system individual record data size limits presently applicable. Exploration for possible buried epithermal/hydrothermal gold deposits...-
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Lake Torrens South, Beda Arm and Carrapateena Arm (latterly the Lake Torrens Joint Venture Project). Annual reports (singular and combined) to licences' respective expiry/renewal, for the period 21/2/1996 to 7/1/2008.
Economic Olympic Dam style iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) mineralisation has been the target of exploration carried out in three adjoining areas which together extend for about 55 to 170 km north of Port Augusta, covering southern Lake...-
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Uno [West] and Eurilla Dam (part of the Wilcherry Hill Project). Third and first partial surrenders' respectively combined report, for the overall period 10/10/2002 to 7/4/2022.
17 square km or ~65% of the former area of EL 5931, and 14 square km or ~12% of the former area of EL 6072, have recently been relinquished due to their now perceived diminished prospectivity for buried base and precious metal mineralisation. Work...-
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Mount Aleck - Arkaba Station areas. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 22/9/1980 to 18/9/1986.
Possible Cambrian carbonate-hosted Mississippi Valley style Pb-Zn deposits were the targets of exploration in the Chace and Druid Ranges, located north of Hawker, and also nearby at Mount Aleck. Following geological reconnaissance mapping at 1:20,000...-
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Manna Hill. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 8/7/1983 to 27/11/1984.
Exploration undertaken to search for Telfer - style Proterozoic stratabound gold, within a large area extending to the north and north-west of Manna Hill township, included an aerial photographic survey of known occurrences, and helicopter-assisted...-
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