During the late 1990s, company exploratory drilling of the Harris Greenstone Belt in the central Gawler Craton, south of Tarcoola, revealed a package of previously unknown, shallowly buried komatiite lava beds with a strike length in excess of 350 km...

Gold and base metal exploration carried out to the east and south-east of Streaky Bay comprised the acquisition during February 1994 of an airborne magnetic-radiometric survey flown at 300 m line spacing, and later on of regional and infill ground...

The Dominion-Mithril joint venture project area comprises five Exploration Licences presently held 100% by Dominion Mining. Mithril's share of exploration performed to date has focussed on ELs 3270 and 3044, which are considered by the company to be...

A high-resolution 100 m line spaced aeromagnetic/radiometric survey conducted in October 2006 by UTS Geophysics for InterMet Resources over its EL 3314, located immediately north of Coffin Bay, revealed prominent N-S trending linear magnetic features...

Adelaide Resources Limited made application early in 2005 for PACE Initiative Year 2 drilling project funding to test a highly regarded multi-element geochemical anomaly (the Empire prospect) located on its EL 2869, which had been defined by previous...

In November 2007 an application was made by Austral Nickel Pty Ltd for funding assistance under PIRSA's PACE Initiative, Theme 2 - Drilling Collaboration with Industry, to explore for economic occurrences of magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE mineralisation on its EL...

Exploration for nickel, chromium and precious metals, 60 km north-west of Fowlers Bay, comprised ground magnetic and Protem surveys, plus RC drilling (5 holes, total 637 m). No ultramafic intrusive rocks were encountered, and no anomalous downhole...

A 1600 square km portion of Dominion Mining's Gawler Project acreage, centred on ELs 3044 and 3270, has been explored for possible economic nickel sulphide mineralisation under a joint venture with Mithril Resources, which was in force during the...

Buried Archaean Mulgathing Complex rocks, comprising metamafics, ultramafics, granites, mafic gneisses and possible greenstones, were the target host for gold, copper and nickel mineralisation in the Mount Finke - Malbooma area, south-west from...

An area comprising three adjacent but separate sub-blocks in the Mount Davies district of the central Musgrave Ranges within South Australia was taken up afresh by the Metals X Group, through its wholly owned subsidiary Austral Nickel Pty Ltd, because...

A 529 square km major portion of the southern part of EL 4751 Claude Hills, which is located in the extreme north-west of South Australia in the Musgrave Ranges, has now been voluntarily relinquished by licensee Austral Nickel Pty Ltd. This...

The area of EL 2544, centred 90 km north-east from Adelaide, was considered to be prospective for porphyry/skarn type and iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) systems related to high level intrusive igneous plutons. Initial exploration...

EL 4278 was Southern Uranium's first mineral exploration foray into the northern Yorke Peninsula. The subject tenement was pegged in January 2009 in order to secure ground surrounding the northern reaches of the Pine Point Fault. This particular...

Existing data reviewed only - no field activities. A mooted airborne EM survey to try to map possible uraniferous Tertiary palaeochannels was not performed because a joint venture partner could not be found to share the cost of this work.

Exploration licences 5837, 5838, 5839, 5840, 5841, 5842 and 5843 collectively known as the “Coompana Project” cover an area of 6572 square km south of the Trans Australian Railway on the western margin of the Gawler Craton, on the South Australia –...

Field work performed on the subject tenement during licence Year 8 included the conduct of Aboriginal heritage clearance surveys by the APY Traditional Owners to grant access for geological mapping and the acquisition of a trial seismic survey, as...

A licence area located at the eastern end of the Deering Hills in South Australia's Far North-west Aboriginal Lands, approximately 150 km south-west of Ayers Rock (Uluru), is being explored by Rio Tinto Exploration (RTE) and Delta Gold, as part of...

As part of the PACE Year 2 collaboration between PIRSA and the minerals industry, PepinNini Minerals proposed and was granted part subsidy funding for an extensive drilling programme in the western APY Aboriginal Lands of South Australia, to examine...

During November-December 2011 a helicopter-borne VTEM survey was flown over the northern portions of Phoenix Copper Ltd’s (Phoenix) ELs 4031 and 4312 on western Yorke Peninsula to test for Cu-Au mineralisation in Hiltaba Suite rocks (host to the...

Areas on the western flank of the Gawler Craton, between Fowlers Bay and Barton Siding, were assessed for their potential to host Thompson Belt style magmatic nickel sulphide mineralisation. A review of previous exploration, the reprocessing of...