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RB 2016/00003 South Australian mineral resource production statistics for the six month ended 30 June 2015.
This report presents detailed industry-derived statistics on the State's output and sales values of earth resource commodities realised during the six month period ended 30 June 2015, and compares the data with that returned for the previous six...-
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Published: 01 Mar 2016
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RB 2016/00033 South Australian mineral resource production statistics for the six month ended 30 June 2016.
This report presents detailed industry-derived statistics on the State's output and sales values of earth resource commodities realised during the six month period ended 30 June 2016, and compares the data with that returned for the previous six...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2016
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RB 2012/00010 Geochronology and geochemistry of a Kimban diorite, drillhole LED001, Lake Gilles, eastern Gawler Craton.
The geology of the Lake Gilles locale in the south-west of the PORT AUGUSTA 1:250k map sheet area is poorly understood. Outcrop of basement rocks there is sparse, and typically occurs along the margins of the salt lake, where it is highly weathered....-
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Published: 01 Apr 2012
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Poochera. Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 6/8/2007 to 5/8/2009.
Exploration of three small areas in the Poochera district, for possible economic buried Tertiary palaeocoastal marine placer deposits of zircon and other heavy minerals, has consisted only of a first-pass aircore drilling assessment of inferred...-
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Published: 22 Sep 2009
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Noorina - Area 1. First partial surrender report for the period 11/10/2012 to 10/10/2014.
A 25% north-western portion of EL 5045, which is centred appproximately 200 km north of Cook, has been relinquished due to perceived diminished prospectivity for Tertiary marginal marine heavy mineral sands. A review of available technical literature...-
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Published: 02 Oct 2014
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White Lagoon. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 17/10/2001 to 2/10/2004.
Exploration for possible marine placer heavy mineral sands deposits within Recent sediments laid down across a large part of east-central Kangaroo Island, due south of Kingscote, has comprised a literature survey, limited field geological...-
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Published: 17 Jun 2005
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Eucla Basin Area B (part of Eucla Basin Project tenement Group 4). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 19/10/2009 to 30/7/2015.
An area that was centred ~180 km north-northwest of Cook Siding on the Trans Australia Railway has been explored for economic buried Tertiary heavy mineral sands (HM) marine strandline or sandbar placer deposits by Iluka Resources. It covered cover...-
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Published: 28 May 2015
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Giddi Giddina Creek, Leonard Rise, Mabel Creek and Cotton Bush (the Coober Pedy IOCG Project). Joint annual reports and final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 01/5/2013 to 12/1/2017.
Two separate grouped licence areas located to the north and the south-southwest of Coober Pedy have been explored for possible large buried economic basement-hosted IOCG deposits that would be of interest to new SA mineral explorer Vale (the...-
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Published: 15 Dec 2016
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Kybunga (latterly a part of the Balaklava HMS Project - Iluka tenements Group 9). First annual report 3/5/2012 to 2/5/2013, plus a joint annual report and final report for Group 9 submitted at the five project licences' full surrender on 24/9/2015.
Ground within the northern onshore Saint Vincent Basin was taken up by Iluka Resources to re-appraise the heavy mineral sands (HMS) potential of buried Tertiary sediments there, after some unsuccessful exploration had previously been undertaken in the...-
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Published: 22 Sep 2015
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Pureba North (part of Eucla Basin Project tenement Group 2). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 22/3/2005 to 23/9/2013.
An area centred ~70 km north-east of Ceduna has been explored by Iluka Resources for possible economic buried Tertiary heavy mineral sands (HM) marine placer deposits. The only work performed on EL 4545 has been the conduct during 2008 of limited...-
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Published: 11 Oct 2013
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Bews and Parrakie. Joint first annual/final report at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 19/6/2012 to 9/4/2013.
Two adjoining areas centred ~ 75 km east of Tailem Bend have been explored for possible economic buried Tertiary marine placer heavy mineral sand (HMS) deposits that may have been formed within the Murray Basin sedimentary succession, as winnowed...-
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Published: 13 May 2013
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Oakbank, Oakvale, Canegrass, Koomooloo, Braemar and Sturt Vale (part of Iluka's SA Murray Basin Heavy Mineral Sands Project). Joint final report at licences' joint full surrender, for the overall period 29/8/2006 to 30/7/2015.
EL 4871, EL 4872, EL 5067, EL 5068 and EL 5182 (the Delamerian Group) were originally granted to Gold Fields Australasia Pty Ltd (Gold Fields) for sediment-hosted orogenic gold exploration. All of these tenements were preceded by an earlier tenement,...-
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Published: 09 Jun 2015
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Noorina - Areas 1 and 2. Joint first annual report, plus separate final reports to each licence's respective full surrender, for the overall period 12/10/2012 to 28/1/2015.
Exploration of two adjacent very remote desert areas located 200 to 220 km north of Cook has targeted possible buried heavy mineral sands marine placer accumulations that may have formed along an arcuate DEM feature interpreted as a Tertiary shoreline...-
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Published: 06 Nov 2014
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Mannum (part of Iluka's SA Murray Basin Heavy Mineral Sands Project). First annual report plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 7/6/2013 to 20/2/2015.
Tertiary Murray Basin cover sediments in an elongate area extending down the eastern side of the River Murray between Coolcha, Mannum and Murray Bridge have been explored for possible economic buried marine placer heavy mineral (HM) sands deposits. A...-
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Published: 03 Feb 2015
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Bordertown - Naracoorte and Pinnaroo areas. Joint first annual report plus joint final report to licences' expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/11/2001 to 29/11/2003.
Possible heavy mineral sand marine placer deposits occurring in the Pliocene Loxton-Parilla Sands of the Murray Basin were the targets of exploration in an area extending immediately north and south of Bordertown, and across to the SA/Vic. State...-
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Published: 30 Oct 2003
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : North-western Eyre Peninsula (eastern Eucla Basin) heavy mineral sands exploration tenement group [Group 3]. Joint annual reports for the period 1/7/2004 to 31/5/2010. [Index part 2 of 2].
Within the subject south-eastern Eucla Basin tenements, Iluka's ongoing exploration has targeted the Tertiary-aged beach sands deposited during the five marine incursions that occurred from the Middle Eocene to the Pliocene, with a focus on exploring...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2010
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Pernatty [Station] and Yeltacowie (the Punt Hill IOCG Project). Joint annual reports for the period 29/11/2009 to 6/1/2012.
Two adjoining licence areas located in the country east of Pernatty Lagoon that lies between 80 and 180 km north of Port Augusta are being explored by Monax Mining Limited (Monax) for economic Proterozoic basement-hosted Iron-Oxide associated...-
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Published: 21 Jun 2012
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Eucla Basin Areas C, G, I and Y (part of Iluka's Eucla Basin tenement Group 4). Joint annual reports for the period 19/10/2009 to 30/11/2011, plus licences' joint final report at their full surrender in September 2013.
Four exploration licences distributed along the northern and north-eastern edges of Iluka's Group 4 of jointly reported tenements have been fully surrendered, after work performed there recently suggested that their perceived prospectivity for...-
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Published: 10 Oct 2013
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Eucla Basin Area J (part of tenement reporting Group 4). First partial surrender report for the period 19/10/2012 to 12/11/2013.
A group of exploration licences located on the northern margin of the Eucla Basin, and situated north of the Trans Australian Railway, which cover ground extending into the Eocene to Miocene marginal marine depositional hinterland behind the Barton...-
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Published: 11 Dec 2013
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North-eastern Eucla Basin licence Areas S, T and U, and Penong (part of Iluka's Eucla Basin Heavy Mineral Sands Project tenement Group 4). Joint final report at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 19/10/2009 to 14/12/2017.
Four scattered Iluka heavy mineral sands (HM) exploration licences located on the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin north of Ceduna have now been fully surrendered. On the basis of exploration conducted on them until late in 2017, this work being...-
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Published: 30 Jan 2018