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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 4 partnership DPY4-22, Lake Gilles - Corunna North area (north-western margin of Spencer Domain) IOCG mineral prospects. Project final report.
Potential Carrapateena or Prominent Hill style IOCG targets represented by newly recognised gravity anomalies in the eastern Lake Gilles area were the reason for a PACE Initiative Year 4 drilling funds proposal submitted to PIRSA by InterMet...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 4 partnership DPY4-19, Murninnie mine area (north-eastern Spencer Domain) IOCG mineral prospects. Project final report.
The Murninnie Cu-Bi-Au deposit and mine environs, located approximately 40 km south-west of Whyalla, have not been seriously explored in more than 50 years due to quarantining of the deposit under Private Mine title. The lode-style deposit is exposed...-
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Iron Baron. First partial surrender report for the period 2/9/2004 to 12/5/2006.
Exploration for possible buried iron oxide-associated copper-gold deposits along the eastern side of the Middleback Range, in two now relinquished licence sub-areas in the vicinity of Iron Knob, has consisted of the acquisition and processing of part...-
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PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 8 partnership DPY8-28 - Cultana district, Eyre Peninsula, Extension Tank shear-hosted Mesoproterozoic IOCG-U or porphyry type Au and base metal prospect. Drilling final report.
An area centred approximately 50 km south-west of Port Augusta is being explored for buried economic occurrences of gold, base metals and uranium primary mineralisation which may be genetically associated with the past emplacement there of the Gawler...-
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Lincoln Gap (part of the Eastern Eyre Peninsula Project). First annual report and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/9/2009 to 29/9/2011.
An area located approximately 20 km south-west of Port Augusta has been explored for possible economic unconformity-hosted uranium at the base of the Pandurra Formation, for copper sulphides near the Beda Volcanics - Pandurra Formation contact, and...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Cowell (latterly part of the Cowell JV Project). Annual reports for the period 23/9/2002 to 6/11/2008.
A large licence area, comprising two separate blocks aligned along strike, which cover the northern Cowell Hills and the less elevated country stretching north-east of Lucky Bay, was taken up by Avoca Resources Ltd as part of a much wider search...-
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Pandurra. Combined first annual/final report to licence full surrender, for the period 26/6/2013 to 23/10/2014.
A small area centred ~50 km west of Port Augusta was taken up to explore for possible buried epigenetic and structurally controlled gold mineralisation in Archaean and Proterozoic basement rocks. The target was related to a 3.5 km long, >3 ppb Au...-
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Moonabie. Second partial surrender report, for the period 1/5/2006 to 13/3/2016.
The southern two sub-blocks of a tenement area bordering the south-eastern Gawler Ranges, which is considered prospective for finding buried hypogene IOCG mineralisation and possible stratiform and metamorphic base metals in a peri-volcanic basement...-
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RB 24/00251 Copper deposit - Hundred of Jenkins, County Manchester [Cultana area].
An inspection of some old abandoned copper mine workings purportedly dug in the period 1912-1920 and located 4 miles inland from Spencer Gulf near Point Lowly was hindered by the collapsed state of the mine shafts and the prevalent alluvial cover...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1949
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RB 2008/00011 Definition of the Cultana Subsuite, Gawler Craton: a high level felsic Hiltaba Suite age intrusive with hydrothermal alteration and brecciation.
This paper provides a formal definition of the Cultana Subsuite, outlining the igneous petrology of the intrusion, its geochemical characteristics, and the nature of hydrothermal alteration and brecciation affecting the rocks. The Cultana Subsuite is...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2008
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Roopena. Second partial surrender report, for the period 31/7/2000 to 30/7/2005.
Two separate areas located respectively 20-45 km west-southwest and 70 km south-southwest of Whyalla have been selectively relinquished from EL 2741 in accordance with licence conditions. The ground has potential for Palaeoproterozoic to...-
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Lincoln Uplands area. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 9/12/1971 to 8/12/1972.
Exploration conducted primarily for base metals, over an area extending for 5-50 km north of Port Lincoln, has consisted of soil sampling on a 1/4 mile grid spacing along a line 5000 feet west of the Butler Tanks magnetic trend, check geological...-
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Sir Joseph Banks [Island Group]. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 1/8/1965 to 31/7/1966.
As soon as the SA Government restored public access to the subject ground within Spencer Gulf that it had temporarily reserved from the provisions of the State's Mining Act, Kennecott Explorations (Kennecott) took up SML 85 there to evaluate an...-
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Published: 06 Sep 1966
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Spilsby Island. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 1/8/1966 to 28/6/1967.
South-westwards inclined diamond drillhole No. 11 was put in to 400 feet total hole depth by licensee Kennecott during the subject reporting period, to investigate the postulated buried inland extension of a continuously mineralised sheet-like body of...-
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Published: 31 Oct 1967
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Mount Whyalla. Annual reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 30/4/2014 to 7/9/2017.
The only work performed for exploration of an area centred ~35 km west of Port Augusta was a desktop geophysical data review aimed at identifying any base metal or gold targets which could represent buried mineralisation that had formed within IOCG or...-
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Published: 16 Dec 2017
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Data release - as updated : Moonabie (part of the East Eyre Peninsula Project). Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/5/2006 to 13/3/2017.
A licence consisting of three separate sub-blocks that are centred approximately 60 km WSW of Whyalla is being explored for possible economic primary uranium mineralisation plus precious and base metals, in a structurally complex epithermal and...-
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Published: 29 Apr 2017
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Roopena. Second partial surrender report, for the period 31/7/2000 to 26/10/2007.
Exploration of two now-relinquished licence sub-areas situated a short distance west of Port Augusta and Whyalla respectively, near the eastern edge of the Middleback Range, sought to find possible economic buried epithermal/hydrothermal gold deposits...-
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Published: 29 Oct 2008
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Cowell. Second partial surrender report, for the period 7/11/2007 to 6/11/2016.
Exploration undertaken within the original EL 3978/5307 Cowell area by Hiltaba Gold and joint venture partners 1) UraniumSA and 2) Renaissance Uranium / Renascor Resources has included geological interpretation, geochemical sampling, ground and...-
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Published: 06 Nov 2016
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Six Mile Hill and Corraberra (part of the Six Mile Hill Project). Annual and joint annual reports plus final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 17/5/2010 to 16/5/2017.
An area centred ~40 km west of Port Augusta has been explored for possible economic buried IOCG and other significant metallic mineralisation, which could have formed in the vicinity of the inferred subsurface continuation of the northern Roopena...-
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Published: 23 May 2017
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Lincoln Gap. Annual reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 30/4/2014 to 7/9/2017.
An area centred ~30 km west of Port Augusta and comprising two separate sub-blocks has been explored for possible buried economic gold and base metal mineralisation which could have formed within IOCG or shear zone settings. Primary targets were two...-
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Published: 16 Dec 2017
