Ground magnetic surveys were carried out 100 km west - northwest of Ceduna, over an area of masking Tertiary and Cainozoic cover underlain by a basement of Mulgathing Complex and syntectonic Lincoln Complex and Hiltaba Suite granitoids, to recover...

Exploration for Olympic Dam type Cu-Au in the Myall Creek area, located 15-50 km north of Whyalla, comprised surface geological mapping and orientation calcrete geochemical sampling, together with the re-logging, petrographic examination and...

Calcrete sampling done approximately 30 km north of Streaky Bay returned a number of weakly anomalous Au values, one of which (16 ppb) coincided with an 82 ppb value obtained previously by Carpentaria Exploration Co. from analyses of RC cuttings...

A review of existing geophysical data was carried out over an area west of and extending for 90 km south of Woomera. Further aerial magnetic surveys are seen as necessary to define areas of thin Pandurra Formation and younger cover, and to locate...

Groundwater sampling, aeromagnetic interpretation, shallow auger sampling and isotope studies were carried out over an area 30 km northeast of Elliston. Heavy mineral concentrates from composite auger samples contained zircon, galena and sphalerite,...

Exploration targets were gold and base metals in Adelaidean and basement rocks, 20 km southwest of Mount Gunson. Regional and infill calcrete sampling did not reveal any areas worthy of follow up, and geophysical interpretation indicated depths to...

The area lying immediately south of lakes Gairdner and Harris was considered prospective for concealed Olympic Dam style Cu-Au mineralisation hosted in Archaean to Mesoproterozoic basement rocks of the Gawler Craton. Acquisition of a regional 1 km x...

Calcrete geochemical sampling conducted on the eastern and western sides of Lake Harris, 30 km south-west of Kingoonya, returned a number of low order anomalies peaking at 9 ppb Au. Two of three RAB holes (total 100 m) that were drilled south of...

Exploration for possible Proterozoic intrusive-hosted Cu-Au deposits in an area 60 km north-west of Tarcoola included regolith landform mapping and regional calcrete sampling. No significant anomalies were identified within the relinquished area.

No new work - performed field reconnaissance only.

Evaluation of SAEI aeromagnetic data for an area south-east of Ceduna, and surface calcrete sampling on a 1 km regional grid for anomalous Au-Cu-Ni, in a search for buried Ernest Henry / Olympic Dam style Cu-Au mineralisation, identified an area of...

An aeromagnetic survey was followed by soil and calcrete sampling in the Poochera - Wirulla area, over possible southerly extensions to the Yarlbrinda Shear Zone. Only slightly elevated Au and Cu values were returned, and follow-up sampling in one...

Reconnaissance for commercially viable granite dimension stone, over an area located north-east of Minnipa, indicated that the outcrops had a marked variability in deleterious properties, particularly fracturing. Direct core sampling of the granite...

Gold and base metal mineralisation hosted by Archaean gneisses of the Mulgathing Complex and Proterozoic Hiltaba Suite granites was the target of exploration in an area 100 km west of Tarcoola. Regional calcrete sampling on a nominal 1 km grid...

Calcrete sampling over aeromagnetic targets within the Fowler Shear Zone was undertaken, to locate evidence of possible Cu-Au mineralisation developed during emplacement of Hiltaba Suite granites south and south-west of Wynbring. Weakly anomalous Au...

A significant combined thickness of Late Proterozoic Pandurra Formation, Jurassic Algebuckina Sandstone and Cainozoic sediments overlies prospective Middle Proterozoic basement 70 km north of Tarcoola. Several gold anomalies were returned from...

Work undertaken to delineate metasedimentary iron ore resources within an area roughly 40 km north-west of Cowell was reported in an earlier release of data made on partial surrender of the licence (see open file Env 9794). No further work has been...

Exploration for Olympic Dam style copper-gold mineralisation in the Toondulya Bluff area, 100 km north-east of Streaky Bay, comprised compilation and interpretation of existing calcrete data, assaying of samples from earlier aircore drilling, and...

An area located 30 km west of Pimba, and situated on the eastern margin of the Gawler Craton, was considered to have potential for Olympic Dam style Cu-Au mineralisation, and possibly for stratabound Cu sulphide mineralisation as occurs at Mount...

Calcrete and stream sediment sampling plus a TEISA programme infill aeromagnetic survey were carried out over an area extending for 10-40 km to the north-west and north of Cowell. Anomalous Cu in calcrete was recorded in the vicinity of the Charleston...