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(South-eastern) Lake Torrens area. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/7/1994 to 13/10/2000.
Features interpreted from detailed low-level infill airborne coverage to a 1995 SAEI aeromagnetic survey, flown over a large area of disturbed, mainly Adelaidean sedimentary diapiric terrain located between Hawker and the south-eastern shore of Lake...-
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Published: 25 Oct 1900
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Mount Misery. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/11/1981 to 29/11/1985.
Stratabound, chemically precipitated Telfer - type replacement style vein gold was the target of exploration undertaken over an area 25 km north-west of Yunta, which contains good exposures of Neoproterozoic Umberatana Group clastic metasediments that...-
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RB 88/00057 Torrens Hinge Zone Project - Bute region. Second and final report.
The Torrens Hinge Zone Project aimed to demonstrate the existence of prospective metalliferous rocks beneath the Cainozoic cover, to stimulate exploration and to investigate the transition between the Adelaidean sequences of the well-exposed Adelaide...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1988
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Lilydale. First annual report and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 10/3/2004 to 6/7/2005.
Exploration for possible concealed porphyry style Cu-Au deposits of a kind similar to the nearby Blue Rose prospect surface skarn occurrence was undertaken over an area of the eastern Nackara Arc, 50 km south-east of Yunta. Work comprised inspection...-
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Published: 06 Jul 1905
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Milang [Homestead]. First partial surrender report for the period 25/8/2005 to 24/8/2006.
Exploration for a range of mineral commodities over relinquished parts of a licence area situated 80 km north-east of Orroroo has mainly targeted the Cainozoic to Mesozoic cover rocks for possible sedimentary gold, uranium, mineral sands and...-
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Published: 14 Sep 1906
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Giles Nob. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 8/7/1983 to 7/7/1988.
Exploration for possible economic gold deposits in an area located approximately 25 km south of Olary addressed three principal objectives: . hydrothermally-sourced gold within quartz-albite-dolomite vein stockworks formed in phyllitic siltstones of...-
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Data release - as updated : Statton Hill (part of the Baratta Project). Annual reports, first partial surrender report and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 8/10/2007 to 14/1/2016.
Copper and gold exploration has been conducted within an area centred about 80 km east of Hawker, which it was thought had potential for epigenetic vein style mineralisation within buried Adelaidean sandstone and shale strata, formed in a stratabound...-
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Published: 19 Jan 1916
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Yeltacowie (part of the Mount Gunson Project). Annual reports for the period 30/7/2003 to 6/10/2009.
The subject EL 3112 ground represents the continuation of tenure by Gunson Resources, over the same area, from its former EL 2516 Yeltacowie (for which see the relevant licence reports previously released in Envs 9530 and 9715). This replacement...-
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Deep Well (part of Mount Grainger JV Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 16/6/1999 to 15/6/2004.
Exploration of a small area within the Nackara Arc region, lying 15-20 km north-west of the Mount Grainger Goldfield, has sought economic Telfer-type stratabound gold deposits hosted within folded domal structures in Adelaidean strata, which have been...-
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Data release - as updated : One Tree Hill (part of the Manna Hill Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 5/11/2007 to 4/11/2017.
Exploration for possible economic vein-style and structurally controlled gold with Adelaidean bedrock sediments in an area located between the towns of Yunta and Manna Hill was conducted using low cost remote sensing, geochemical and geophysical...-
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Published: 15 Dec 1917
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Iron Peak. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 12/11/2003 to 11/11/2008.
The banded iron formations associated with various Neoproterozoic tillites in South Australia have for some time been recognised as being potential sources for iron ore, however, the low grade nature of the iron mineralisation within these bands has...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2009
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : The North-western Murray Basin Project. Joint annual reports for the period 29/8/2006 to 28/8/2012.
Twelve licence areas owned and operated by Gold Fields Australasia (GFA), comprising two subareas respectively located approximately 50 km east of Burra and 15 km south-east of the Benda Range, on the eastern edge of the Adelaide Fold Belt, are being...-
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Published: 29 Sep 1912
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Data release - as updated : Kapunda North / Bagot Well North (part of the Eudunda Project). Licence-specific annual reports and final report submitted to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 15/11/2005 to 12/12/2015.
Exploration for copper mineralisation within an area centred immediately north-northeast of Kapunda has as its initial objective to find shallow deposits of oxide and carbonate ores similar to those mined historically at Burra and Kapunda, focussing...-
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Manunda, Tiverton Outstation, Iron Peak and Pualco Range (the Razorback Ridge Iron Ore Project, later the Mawson Iron Project). Joint annual reports for the period 10/12/2009 to 9/12/2016.
Three adjoining licence areas in the Baratta Trough within the northern Nackara Arc have been taken up to explore for possible economic buried Neoproterozoic metasedimentary semi-stratabound iron ore. Central EL 4267 covers ~3 km strike length of the...-
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Data release - as updated : Pound Creek. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 1/12/2010 to 16/11/2017.
South Australia Ludi Mining Pty Ltd (“SALM”) acquired Exploration Licence 4619 in the vicinity of Coward Springs to explore it for large Mesoproterozoic copper/gold/uranium deposits analogous to Olympic Dam, which is located approximately 120 km to...-
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Published: 21 Nov 1917
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Mount Craig, Mount Caernarvon, Mount Havelock, Red Range and Mount Plantagenet (the Torrens Project). Joint annual reports plus a final report submitted at the full surrender of the last remaining project licences, for the period 16/9/2012 to 22/11/2019.
A group of five contiguous licences originally covering a total area of 756 square km in the south-central Flinders Ranges region, situated east-northeast of Hawker and east of the Elder Range, have been explored for possible economic buried...-
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Published: 26 Nov 1919
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Lake Torrens South, Beda Arm and Carrapateena Arm (latterly the Lake Torrens Joint Venture Project). Annual reports (singular and combined) to licences' respective expiry/renewal, for the period 21/2/1996 to 7/1/2008.
Economic Olympic Dam style iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) mineralisation has been the target of exploration carried out in three adjoining areas which together extend for about 55 to 170 km north of Port Augusta, covering southern Lake...-
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Manna Hill. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 8/7/1983 to 27/11/1984.
Exploration undertaken to search for Telfer - style Proterozoic stratabound gold, within a large area extending to the north and north-west of Manna Hill township, included an aerial photographic survey of known occurrences, and helicopter-assisted...-
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Cronje Dam. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/8/1979 to 29/11/1984.
Continuing exploration for possible hydrothermal or epithermal base metal and precious metal deposits, within an area centred 60 km south-west of Olary, at the outset targeted some previously identified geochemical anomalies, principally via shallow...-
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Mount Victor. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 30/11/1981 to 29/11/1986.
Evaluation of the potential of the Nillinghoo Goldfield district to hold Telfer - type low grade, shallowly dipping stratabound gold deposits suitable for open pit extraction has included aerial photograph, Landsat and regional magnetic data...-
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