During 2010-2011, the third year of the Gum Flat Iron Ore Project, owner Lincoln Minerals' exploration activities included: - Planning, site preparation and supervision of an RC and aircore drilling program; - Surveying and vegetation clearing for...

The Adelaide Hills Project consists of 3419 square km of land covered by eight contiguous exploration licences, ELs 3057, 3064, 3141, 3215, 3239, 3277, 3425 and 3534, which are owned by or joint ventured to Flinders Diamonds Limited (FDL). By an...

Brownfields exploration for possible buried economic Mesoproterozoic basement-hosted IOCG type mineralisation, so far undertaken by BHP Billiton ('BHPB') within six semi-contiguous licences together covering an area extending from 40 km south to 68 km...

IGO Ltd’s (IGO) Copper Coast Project is located along the eastern margin of the Gawler Craton in South Australia, and covers Proterozoic rocks of the Stuart Shelf, Torrens Hinge Zone and Adelaide Rift Complex, which form part of the Adelaide...

Exploration for possible economic deposits of epithermal/hydrothermal gold, plus precious metals and base metals, which might have formed in poorly outcropping Archaean and Proterozoic basement, commenced with a detailed interpretation of SAEI imaged...

Renewed diamond exploration has been conducted in a part of the western Eyre Peninsula where numerous kimberlite indicator mineral (KIM) anomalies occur in surficial sediments, and where the four adjoining licence areas involved lie in close proximity...

The 2000 Mt Wintinna coal deposit is located approximately 700 km north-northwest of Port Augusta in South Australia. The area has opencut potential, and is proposed for development to supply a thermal power station. Meekatharra Minerals Ltd holds...

An area of the northern Cowell Hills was taken up to explore for possible economic basement-hosted copper-gold mineralisation of epigenetic style, analogous to that found at the Ernest Henry deposit, which may be associated with magnetic anomalies and...

A cluster of adjoining licence sub-blocks taken up in the Yalata region are being explored for possible buried Thompson Belt style magmatic copper-nickel mineralisation which could be associated with large strike-slip fault structures transecting the...

TARGET: Permian coal in the Mount Toondina Formation. EXPLORATION: Sirotem and Mini-Sosie reflection seismic surveys, plus regional and detailed exploratory rotary mud drilling of 56 holes totalling 11,007 m, with 6 partly cored holes (511 m cored)....

During 2009-2010, the first year of the subject licences' joint annual reporting, 27 vertical open exploratory rotary mud holes were drilled to basement on EL 3905 Goulds Dam for a total penetration of 3564 m, to search for redox fronts that may exist...

During the sixth year of tenure of the Warramboo licence, now held by Adelaide Exploration Limited as renewed EL 2846 covering the same 1363 square km area as before, the only exploration-related activity which occurred was the acquisition during...

An area centred ~50 km north-west of Olary is continuing to be explored for possible buried economic Prominent Hill or Olympic Dam type iron oxide associated copper-gold (IOCG) breccia style mineralisation. The area is considered highly prospective...

The continuation during 2010 of exploration of the Palaeoproterozoic bedrock in a small area located 60 km west-northwest of Cowell has mainly consisted of the conduct of three shallow drilling campaigns and the examination and analysis of downhole...

During licence Year 4, UraniumSA undertook the following work on EL 3652: - pattern drilling of 232 rotary mud holes totalling 18,416 m, targeting the Blackbush and Plumbush prospects. - core drilling totalling 876 m in 8 holes, to characterise...

Adelaide Brighton Cement took up tenure of the Moorlands lignite deposit during September 1976 in order to conduct confirmatory drilling of the published coal resource, to prepare a mining study for Lobe 'E', and overall, to assess the coal's...

TARGET: Ongoing evaluation of the Honeymoon deposit. EXPLORATION: Pilot wellfield drilling (48 holes) on a 60 m by 30 m grid over the eastern half of the deposit, hydrological investigations, metallurgical testing, and in-situ push-pull leaching...

During licence Year 12, a portion of EL 4935 Yednalue totalling 20 square km or ~26.7% of its former area has been relinquished due to the chance of discovery there of gold and base metals by a small, self-funded explorer becoming seen as...

Areva's Denison Range Project is targeting possible economic sandstone-hosted uranium mineralisation that may have formed within the Mesozoic sandstones located to the east of exposed uranium-rich basement rock sequences of the Palaeo- to...

A partly defined magnesite resource thought to be of the order of 579 million tonnes in size, consisting of a series of semi-continuously outcropping magnesite beds ranging in thickness from 0.5 m to 9.0 m, is situated within the northern Flinders...