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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 2 partnership DPY2-21, Yarlbrinda Shear Zone, subsidiary fault plays, Tunkillia - style gold prospects. Project final report.
It has lately been recognised by explorers that subsidiary fault splays developed adjacent to the main Yarlbrinda Shear Zone may be more prospective for hydrothermal gold deposits than the main zone. In an approved PACE Initiative Year 2 drilling...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 2 partnership DPY2-45, Old Well and New Well shear-associated gold mineral prospects. Project final report.
The Yarlbrinda and Yerda Shear Zones of the central Gawler Craton, partly present within EL 3107 in the Tarcoola-Glenloth-Lake Harris region, were the target for a number of mineral exploratory drillholes put down there by by licence farminee Minotaur...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 3 partnership DPY3-57, Streaky Bay area gravity highs and lows - IOCG and sedimentary uranium mineral prospects. Project final report.
As part of the PACE Initiative Year 3 subsidised drilling programmes, Minotaur Exploration proposed exploring a large tenement package in the Streaky Bay area simultaneously for Prominent Hill style iron oxide copper gold (IOCG) and palaeochannel...-
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Nuckulla Hill. Partial surrender report for the period 6/12/1994 to 5/12/1998.
Regional stream sediment, rock chip and calcrete sampling in the western and north-eastern parts of the Nuckulla Hill licence returned weakly anomalous values. The prospectivity of the surrendered ground for base and precious metals was considered to...-
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Poochera. Annual reports to licence full surrender, for the period 8/1/1996 to 15/1/2000.
As part of a search for structurally related Ernest Henry - style Cu-Au mineralisation and other possible polymetallic deposits, analysis of aeromagnetic data obtained from an area 60-100 km east to north-east of Streaky Bay indicated the presence of...-
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Yumbarra (part of Gawler Joint Venture Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 5/1/2000 to 4/1/2003.
A prominent (> 7000 nT), multi-featured, and also geomorphically expressed aeromagnetic anomaly of undoubted prime exploration potential was discovered within the Yumbarra Conservation Park as a result of detailed low level aeromagnetic surveys...-
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Ceduna. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 31/8/1996 to 17/7/2000.
Joint venture exploration over an area extending for 40, 35 and 50 km respectively west, north and east of Ceduna targeted Archaean and Proterozoic Yarlbrinda - style Au and Ernest Henry / Olympic Dam style Cu-Au associated with shear zones and...-
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Minnipa. Annual reports submitted until the commencement of joint reporting for the nine licences comprising the Adelaide Resources - Newmont Australia Eyre Peninsula JV Project, for the period 7/6/1996 to 20/9/2003.
During licence Year 4, to 6th June 2000, Adelaide Resource Limited acquired EL 2188 “Minnipa” from Newcrest Mining 18/1/2000. The attraction of the tenement was in the discovery of high-quality gold-in-calcrete anomaly discovered in earlier...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Poochera Industrial Minerals Project. Annual reportS, for the period 1/9/2015 to 31/8/2018.
Exploration activity on Exploration Licences 5016 (Whichelby), 5308 (Mount Hall), 5398 (Sceales), 5787 (Yanerbie) and 5814 (Tootla) is focused on gypsum and kaolin deposits. The tenements are grouped in the Poochera Project Amalgamated Expenditure...-
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Streaky Bay - Karcultaby. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/4/1983 to 4/6/1985.
Exploration for possible epithermal/hydrothermal base metal deposits formed within Proterozoic basement, in an area centred ~40 km east of Streaky Bay township, has comprised the acquisition of ground gravity (161 and 210 stations respectively read...-
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Published: 08 Jan 1985
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Lake Everard. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 8/11/1999 to 24/8/2010.
During licence Year 6, on renewed EL 2697, AngloGold drilled a total of 177 vertical RAB holes (LER2508 – LER2679) for 9975 m plus 20 inclined RC holes (LRC360 – LRC379) for 2964 m. The drilling of 97 RAB holes at the Smith prospect revealed a 300 m x...-
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PACE Copper Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 9 partnership DPY9-25 - Pidinga and Fig Tree Corner, western Gawler Craton, orogenic gold prospects. Drilling project final report.
An area centred ~70 km north-east of Yalata and lying ~30 km to the east of the Jacinth and Ambrosia heavy mineral deposits is being explored by Doray Minerals Limited under a joint venture agreement it has made with grant licensee Iluka Resources...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Fowlers Bay (part of the Western Gawler JV Project). Annual report for the period 9/3/2015 to 8/3/2018.
During the 2015-2016 licence year, the Western Gawler JV Project exploration operator Western Areas Limited (WSA) conducted the first part of a regional reconnaissance bedrock drilling campaign targeting aeromagnetic anomalies which were interpreted...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Lake Everard. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 7/11/1994 to 6/11/1999.
An originally large licence area centred approximately 70 km south-east of Tarcoola, which lies on the north-western margin of the Gawler Ranges and includes the north-western part of Lake Everard, is being explored for possible buried gold deposits...-
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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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PACE 2020 Discovery Drilling 2012 : Year 7 Drilling Partnership no. DPY7-12 - Doray Minerals Limited Nuckulla Hill Project. Bimba prospect, EL 4302, drilling project final report.
The Nuckulla Hill gold-silver Project tenements, located to the north-east of Ceduna, cover approximately 60 km of strike length of the mineralised Yarlbrinda Shear Zone (YSZ). They lie approximately 35 km south of the Mungana Gold Mines (72%) and...-
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RB 2008/00007 Regolith Benchmark Atlas, Gawler Craton, South Australia.
Transported regolith and deeply weathered basement together conceal large tracts of prospective crystalline basement (cratonic and geosynclinal rocks) in South Australia, and such cover forms a major exploration impediment for much of the Gawler...-
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Published: 01 Jun 2008
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RB 2016/00025 Geology of the Peltabinna 1:75 000 Special Edition Map Sheet.
The Peltabinna 1:75 000 Map Sheet was produced as part of a mapping program integrated into the Mineral Systems Drilling Program (MSDP) along the southern margin of the Gawler Ranges. The objective of the mapping program was to provide a regional...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2017
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Poochera. Partial surrender report for the period 8/1/1996 to 7/1/1999.
An aeromagnetic survey was followed by soil and calcrete sampling in the Poochera - Wirulla area, over possible southerly extensions to the Yarlbrinda Shear Zone. Only slightly elevated Au and Cu values were returned, and follow-up sampling in one...-
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Insights into tectonic evolution of the western Gawler Craton - Childara bedrock drilling.
The understanding of the tectonic evolution of the western Gawler Craton has been greatly enhanced by recent drilling in an area of poor basement exposure. Fifty-eight air-core holes (totalling 2140.5 m) were completed near Ceduna on the CHILDARA...-
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