In late 1999, the South Australian Government approved the purchase of 1000 square km of land in, and adjacent to, the Gawler Ranges, for the creation of the Gawler Ranges National Park. This land has significant mineral potential, and has been...

While South Australia is well known as having within its borders major iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposits such as Olympic Dam, Prominent Hill, Carrapateena and Hillside, there has until now been a lack of publically accessible...

Portions of regional airborne radiometric and magnetic surveys, plus a small part of the HW-IV seismic refraction traverse, and 20 line km of gravity and ground magnetic surveys, were undertaken by joint venture operator Afmeco as part of its Project...

A possible southerly extension to the Iron Duke deposit was indicated by aeromagnetic and gravity data. However, one 150 m deep exploratory RC drillhole put down on the coinciding anomalies encountered quartz-magnetic BIF with no haematite enrichment.

Regional calcrete, lag, rockchip and bulk cyanide leach drainage geochemistry were carried out over an area immediately to the east of Cleve. Gold in calcrete was recorded in two areas, which also returned elevated gold values in chip samples of vein...

Regional and infill calcrete geochemical sampling methodologies and aeromagnetic structural interpretations were used to explore for gold and base metals in Palaeoproterozoic rocks (Hutchison Group metasediments) in the vicinity of Arno Bay. Detailed...

Gold and copper were the targets of exploration in the Peterlumbo Hill area, 40 km north of Kimba. 581 calcrete samples collected at 400 m centres outlined broad anomalous areas at > 5 ppb Au. Limited rock chip sampling, and 200 m infill calcrete...

An area 60 km west of Iron Knob underlain by Hutchison Group metasediments and Gawler Range Volcanics has been tested by calcrete sampling. No significant assays were returned.

Anomalous Ag peaking at 10800 ppb was recorded in several BCL soil and drainage samples obtained from approximately 20 km southeast of Darke Peak on central Eyre Peninsula. Weakly elevated Au, Cu, Pb and Zn were returned from BCL soil and rock chip...

Ground magnetics and RC drilling (13 holes, total 2436 m) were carried out on three buried Proterozoic ?ironstone-skarn targets that had been identified around the margins of interpreted Hiltaba Suite granites, 80 km west of Coober Pedy, and which...

Metasedimentary BIF-hosted mineralisation and Cu-Au associated with younger Palaeoproterozoic intrusive granites were targeted east of Cleve. Ground follow-up of linear magnetic highs and low gold and base metal anomalism in stream sediments failed...

Four styles of mineralisation formed the basis for exploration in the Paney-Buckleboo area, namely, stratiform sedex (Broken Hill style), shear-hosted epigenetic gold and base metals (Tunkillia style), skarn-related gold and base metals (Menninnie Dam...

Following the Prominent Hill discovery of Minotaur Resources Ltd, a re-appraisal of magnetic data and calcrete geochemistry in the area immediately north of Lake Gilles led to renewed interest in the potential there for Olympic Dam style iron-oxide...

Aircore drilling of gold and base metal targets (23 holes, total 1136 m) was undertaken following lag, rock chip and leach sampling and a review of previous aeromagnetic and drillhole data from three separate areas, 40 km west and 50 km north-west and...

Calcrete sampling over a previously sampled area 100 km north- northeast of Tarcoola delineated two low order anomalies peaking at 8 and 9 ppb Au.

Calcrete and rock chip sampling, the latter including outcrop follow-up of weakly anomalous Cu and As found in re-assayed drillcore, was carried out in the hinterland to Port Neill, 80 km north-east of Port Lincoln. Calcrete Au results peaked at only...

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...

Lag/laterite geochemical sampling carried out 20 km west of Port Lincoln identified certain areas that are anomalous in As. However, no anomalous drillcore assay results were returned from follow-up aircore drilling (5 holes, total 281 m) of a...

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...

An airborne magnetic/radiometric survey and surficial calcrete, soil and MMI sampling targeted Challenger/Tunkillia-type gold and Olympic Dam style copper-gold, associated respectively with a number of shear zones and with the Charleston Granite,...