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RB 98/00019 Spencer Regions strategic water management study.
The availability of adequate water supplies is crucial to future development, particularly in the arid areas of the State. Primary Industries and Resources South Australia (PIRSA), as part of the Spencer Regions Strategic Water Management Study, has...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1998
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Barton, Barton Range North and Paling Range, plus Wells and north-eastern Eucla Basin licence Areas A through Y (Iluka's Eucla Basin Heavy Mineral Sands Project tenement Group 4). Joint annual reports for the period 19/10/2009 to 31/12/2015.
During the 2009-2010 project reporting year, Iluka completed exploration work costing $5,200,532 across its combined thirty-one Group 4 tenements, to assess the north-eastern Eucla Basin's sediment stratigraphy and heavy mineral sand (HM) potential...-
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Cootanoorina Hill. Data release made in lieu of submitting a partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal : annual reports for the period 6/4/2010 to 5/4/2015.
No work took place on the subject licence area, located ~ 60 km south of Oodnadatta on the western side of the Peake and Denison Ranges, during its first four years of tenure. It had been taken up originally to explore for possible undercover roll...-
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Proposal for future exploration for hydrocarbons in [the] Eucla Basin, South Australia.
This report about the petroleum prospectivity of the Eucla Basin region summarises the state of knowledge that has been reached after 5 years of modern-era exploration by private companies and the State and Commonwealth governments. In particular,...-
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EPP 16 permit year 1. Quarterly and annual reports for the period 30/6/80 to 29/6/81.
During permit Year 1 BP carried out an in-depth review of existing Bight area exploration data, besides reprocessing 1309 line km of older seismic data (originally generated by Shell Development (Australia) Pty Ltd between 1966 and 1976), and also...-
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RB 00843 Geology of the Maralinga area, South Australia.
Maralinga is located on the crest of the Ooldea Range, an ancient (Tertiary) coastal dune which is bounded to the south by the Nullarbor Plain and to the north by Tietkens Plain. The dune field of the Great Victoria Desert covers much of the region...-
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RB 70/00133 Mineral resources of the Eyre planning area.
A comprehensive review of mineral deposits and their geological setting is presented to guide planning decisions relating to the mineral industry. The report also provides basic geological, data and literature references useful to mineral exploration...-
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Published: 04 Sep 1970
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Pidinga. First annual report plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/2/2011 to 20/2/2013.
An area centred ~215 km north-west of Ceduna was taken up by Southern Coal Holdings (SCH), together with another tenement located immediately adjacent to the west, to assess the development potential of locally extensive, previously known Tertiary...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Fowlers Bay. Annual reports for the period 11/10/2004 to 8/3/2015.
An area centred about 40 km north-west of Fowlers Bay is being explored for possible buried economic nickel-copper mineralisation that may be hosted in a craton boundary setting by ultrabasic intrusive igneous bodies, in a manner similar to that of...-
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RB 2017/00021 Microgravity surveys to identify potential hidden cavities on [part of] the Nullarbor [Plain].
A series of microgravity surveys were conducted during February-March and April-May 2017, within the COOMPANA 1:250k map sheet area on the Nullarbor Plain in South Australia, prior to the commencement of the Geological Survey of South Australia...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2017
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Kingoonya and Rocky Hill. Joint first progress report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 3/6/1996 to 9/4/1999.
Calcrete sampling on 1 km and 200 m grid spacings was carried out during 1996 (266 samples) and 1997 (2050 samples) over areas underlain by rocks of the Mulgathing Complex, Hiltaba Suite, Gairdner Dyke Swarm and Gawler Range Volcanics, that surround...-
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Mount Finke. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 2/12/2004 to 22/9/2010.
Exploration for possible economic buried sedimentary uranium deposits has been carried out in an area located 60-70 km south-west of Tarcoola, entirely blanketed by Quaternary aeolian sands, which holds sections of the preserved remnants of the...-
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Published: 15 Feb 2010
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Data release - as updated : Boondina (part of the Eucla Basin Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 28/5/2007 to 27/5/2015.
A small licence area located 30 km north of Fowlers Bay in far western South Australia has been explored for possible economic Tertiary mineral sands deposits, but specific activities on it were repeatedly postponed by the licensee not committing the...-
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Published: 26 Jun 2015
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Eucla Basin Areas 2, 3 and 4. Joint annual reports and joint first partial surrender report, plus respective licence's final reports to full surrender, for the overall period 29/8/2006 to 28/8/2013.
Three adjoining licence areas that were centred approximately 480 km north-west of Ceduna together occupied the northern section of the Ooldea Range over a stepped NW-SE trending outline having an average width of 25 km and a combined total length of...-
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Published: 21 Nov 2013
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Cooladding. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 5/3/2002 to 11/6/2012.
A small area centred about 10 km north of Tarcoola has been explored for possible economic buried IOCG mineralisation of Olympic Dam or Prominent Hill type, or any related gold-bearing magnetite skarns that may exist locally in the Proterozoic...-
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Published: 20 Jul 2012
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Charra. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 25/2/2008 to 24/2/2015.
A small area centred ~30 km west-northwest of Ceduna has been explored for possible economic Tertiary heavy mineral sands deposits. During the first licence year, Bemax performed a literature review and examined available geological data for this...-
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Published: 16 Apr 2015
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Barton West and Barton East (initially part of the Gawler Joint Venture Project). Data release made in lieu of submitting a third partial surrender report for the latter licence : joint annual reports for the period 14/3/2001 to 11/1/2011.
The trigger event causing this data release to be made is that three portions of licence ground that together cover ~289 square km or 19.5% of the former area of EL 4217 Barton East have now been relinquished, as of 11/1/2011. No corresponding partial...-
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Published: 09 Mar 2011
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Merghiny. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/5/2007 to 2/5/2011.
The heavy mineral sand potential of an area located immediately south-east of Ceduna has been assessed by planning traverses of shallow (20-50 m deep) aircore drillholes across fossil Tertiary marine marginal strandlines likely to contain reworked...-
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Published: 16 May 2011
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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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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
