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Hidden Swamp (part of the Gawler Craton Project). Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 2/1/2007 to 1/1/2008.
An area located ~60 km north-west of Andamooka was taken up to explore the IOCG - related Cu-Au-U-REE potential of buried but poorly known Proterozoic basement rocks that lie on the western side of a prominent gravity/magnetic complex of anomalies,...-
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Published: 18 Aug 1914
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Everard Park Homestead area (part of the Musgrave Project). Final report submitted at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/10/2007 to 18/10/2014.
An area located near the south-eastern margin of the Musgrave Province, in the eastern and northern Everard Ranges about 100 km west-northwest of Marla, wholly within the APY Lands, has been explored for possible economic nickel-copper-platinoid group...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Kottata Well, Eldale, Tootla and Broadacres (also part of the Yaninee Project). First annual report for EL 3135, plus subsequent joint annual reports, for the period 29/9/2003 to 5/6/2009.
An area located on central western Eyre Peninsula between Minnipa and Port Kenny was taken up to explore the Precambrian basement rocks, which are poorly exposed there, for possible economic buried iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposits....-
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Woomera. First partial surrender report, for the period 14/1/2013 to 13/1/2015.
An area located immediately south and east of Woomera township has been acquired to search for possible buried economic stratabound deposits of copper or other metals that may have formed in the Neoproterozoic and Mesoproterozoic cover sequence of the...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Yandina Hill (part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Annual reports submitted until the commencement of joint reporting for all six Project licences, for the period 10/1/2000 to 9/1/2002.
Exploration Licence 2687 ‘Yandina Hill’ is located 500 km north of Adelaide in the North Flinders Ranges. The area lies within the northern part of the Adelaide Geosyncline, a deformed sedimentary basin of Late Proterozoic to Middle Cambrian age,...-
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Diesel Dam. First annual report plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/11/2012 to 15/11/2014.
The Palaeoproterozoic Yarlbrinda Shear Zone is a broad and complex structure, which has both southwards and south-eastwards trending components that bifurcate near Tunkillia. The structure was a conduit for Mesoproterozoic hydrothermal fluids...-
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Published: 27 Jan 1915
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Myrtle Springs and Mount Parry (the Aroona JV Project). Joint annual reports for the period 2/4/2004 to 2/4/2018.
Two adjoining areas located west-northwest of Leigh Creek are being explored as part of a regional search for possible economic Beltana-style zinc silicate hydrothermal replacement mineralisation hosted by brecciated Cambrian or Neoproterozoic bedrock...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1918
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Burt Lagoon. Data release made at licence's later surrender : first annual report for the period 27/6/2011 to 26/6/2012.
An area centred ~35 km north of Port Augusta was taken up to explore the concealed Mesoproterozoic basement rocks that lie along this part of the eastern margin of the Gawler Craton for possible buried economic iron oxide - associated copper-gold...-
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Brodies Valley. First annual report plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 23/8/2012 to 22/8/2014.
An area centred ~80 km north-west of Roxby Downs, on the western side of the contemporary Stuart Creek catchment, has been explored for possible Tertiary palaeo-lacustrine strandline deposits of detrital heavy mineral sands (HM). The targeted...-
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Published: 22 Aug 1914
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Ooldea. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 1/9/2005 to 31/8/2010.
An area centred ~230 km north-west of Ceduna, in the far north-eastern corner of the Nullarbor Plain, and lying just south of the Ooldea railway siding on the Trans Australian Railway line, is being explored for possible economic buried deposits of...-
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EL 4005 - EL 4011, Lake Blanche Project. Combined annual technical reports for the period 16/12/2007 to 16/12/2011.
The Lake Blanche Project lies on the western edge of the Eromanga Basin in South Australia to the north Frome Embayment. The Eromanga Basin of central Australia is a major oil-producing, sedimentary basin of Mesozoic age. Sediments in this basin...-
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Toondulya Bluff. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/1/2004 to 14/7/2013.
A licence area centred about 100 km north-east of Streaky Bay township, on the south-western perimeter of the Gawler Ranges, was taken up to explore for possible economic buried IOCG mineralisation or Tunkillia stye fracture controlled lode gold...-
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Published: 06 Nov 1913
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West of Lake Eyre area. Annual reports and combined annual reports to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 13/11/2006 to 19/3/2013.
An area of Cretaceous and younger cover located close to the south-western margin of Lake Eyre North, where no previous drilling had occurred, was taken up to explore for possible buried IOCG deposits hosted by the underlying basement, and for...-
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Wyambana [Outstation] (originally part of the Siccus Joint Venture Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/12/2004 to 23/6/2014.
A area of piedmont outwash from the central eastern Flinders Ranges, which is centred ~24 km north-east of Reaphook Hill and ~25 km south-west of the Lake Frome shoreline, has been explored for buried sedimentary uranium mineralisation of roll-front...-
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Published: 23 Nov 1914
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Yednalue. Data release made in lieu of making a first partial surrender at licence expiry/renewal : annual reports for the period 24/9/2001 to 12/2/2012.
A small area centred approximately 70 km north of Orroroo is being explored for possible buried economic Neoproterozoic stratiform or stratabound epithermal/hydrothermal copper and gold deposits, and for placer gold or magnetite deposits, as well as...-
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Published: 07 Apr 1912
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Yankalilla. First annual report (to the commencement of multi-licence joint reporting for the Fleurieu Peninsula Project), for the period 18/10/2012 to 17/10/2013.
The Yankalilla coastal and river valley district of the west-central Fleurieu Peninsula was taken up to explore for inferred buried IOCG-style copper-gold-uranium mineralisation which, by analogy with properties of the known eastern Gawler Craton...-
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Published: 15 Dec 1913
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Delamere. First annual report (to the commencement of multi-licence joint reporting for the Fleurieu Peninsula Project), for the period 18/10/2012 to 17/10/2013.
All of the south-western tip and hinterland of the Fleurieu Peninsula was taken up to explore for inferred buried IOCG-style copper-gold-uranium mineralisation which, by analogy with properties of the known eastern Gawler Craton occurrences, was...-
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Published: 15 Dec 1913
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Devonborough Downs (part of the Olary Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 22/10/2007 to 21/10/2012.
An area centred ~30 km south-east of Olary township is being explored for possible buried economic porphyry copper-gold deposits, as well as for any other substantial either Carlin-type, skarn-hosted, Telfer-style, or mesothermal gold mineralisation....-
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Published: 16 Nov 1912
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RB 2004/00001 Palaeochannel studies related to the Harris Greenstone Belt, Gawler Craton, South Australia. Architecture and evolution of the Kingoonya Palaeochannel system.
Exploring the earth resources in the Harris Greenstone Belt (HGB) region is complicated by a regolith cover produced by a long and complex history of landscape evolution. The present surface of the HGB indicates little of the complex palaeochannel...-
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Published: 01 Jun 2004
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RB 2007/00011 Original full content version of] OOLDEA, South Australia, [geological map] sheet SH52-12. South Australia. Geological Survey. 1:250 000 Series - Explanatory Notes.
The OOLDEA 1:250 000 map area, in the far west of SA, includes portions of the Maralinga Tjarutja Aboriginal Lands, Maralinga Prohibited Area, and Nullarbor Regional Reserve. It is traversed by the Trans-Australian Railway. There is no significant...-
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Published: 01 Jun 2007