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Unlocking South Australia's Mineral and Energy Potential - A Plan for Accelerating Exploration. Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry) : Year 2 partnership no. DPY2-41, Coolybring magnetite prospect. Project final report.
EL 3089 licensee Stellar Resources Ltd was granted SA Government PACE Initiative Year 2 funding for a drillhole programme to test the source of the intense Coolybring magnetic anomaly situated 9 km north-east of Tarcoola, which is inferred to be a...-
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Published: 11 Nov 1905
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Truro talc prospect. Evaluation progress reports for the period December 1975 to November 1978.
Exhaustive beneficiation and quality testing of bulk samples of talc taken from the Truro prospect, which lies 1 mile north of Truro township, followed by widespread canvassing of potential customers both locally and abroad, failed to find buyers for...-
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Published: 14 Nov 1978
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Wheal Motley area. Progress reports to licence surrender for the period 16/7/1970 to 26/3/1971.
Exploration for possible economic stratabound/hydrothermal copper and other base metal deposits in an area located on the northern margin of the Murray Basin, south-west of Yunta, failed to find evidence of diapiric breccia and did not reveal any...-
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Published: 20 Jan 1971
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Oraparinna. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 22/7/1969 to 21/7/1970.
Exploration of the area around the margins of the Oraparinna Diapir for commercial barite deposits has consisted of aerial photographic studies, plus ground geological traverses of photo-interpreted fault structures, and geological mapping, trenching...-
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Weekeroo Hill. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 18/4/1974 to 21/12/1974.
In a search for possible economic epithermal / stratiform / metamorphic base metals and gold within the Weekeroo Inlier, detailed geological mapping, rock chip sampling and an office evaluation of previous exploration were carried out for the Weekeroo...-
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HandBk 006 - Living with Minerals - A South Australian perspective. Armstrong, A.T
This publication highlights how the availability of minerals is crucial to providing the basic requisites of life, or else, to fundamentally contributing for the manufacture of vital requisites such as food, clothing, heat, light and shelter, in order...-
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Nuckulla Hill. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/10/2002 to 28/11/2008.
Exploration for possible buried Ernest Henry or Olympic Dam style copper-gold mineralisation in the Nuckulla Hill area, 120 km north-east of Ceduna, did not progress during the first two years of tenure due to uncertainties in selecting a new remote...-
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Published: 22 May 1909
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Pinerow. Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 2/10/2004 to 9/11/2008.
To continue the assessment of the dimension stone and ornamental stone potential of granitic basement outcrops present on EL 2851, a 5-year Retention Lease, RL 116, was taken out on 7/2/2006 to cover 5.9 ha of the Middle Camp granite pluton. Several...-
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Published: 08 Jan 1909
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Lake Labyrinth (part of the Gawler and the Labyrinth Joint Venture Projects). Data release at second partial relinquishment : project licences' combined annual reports for the period 27/8/1999 to 28/9/2008.
In a continuation of exploration for economic deposits of gold and base metal mineralisation in the Lake Labyrith area, joint venture operator MIM Exploration carried out a proprietary 'MIMDAS' geophysical survey (utilising combined dipole-dipole IP...-
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Published: 18 Mar 1909
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......[Key SAMREF record for accessing referenced reports and data via DEM Content Manager - SPOT]...... Kartanya. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 6/3/1995 to 5/3/1999.
Previous drilling by WMC at the Kartanya prospect, 30 km west of Rudall in the central-southern Eyre Peninsula, yielded several high grade Fe intersections with up to 1% P and 140 ppm Zn. Reassaying of drillhole samples returned reduced levels of...-
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Mount Messenger. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/11/1992 to 26/11/1994.
Lead-zinc exploration undertaken in the vicinity of Mount Messenger, and which also covered an area extending from 5 km to 50 km south-eastwards of Kimba, comprised the acquisition during November 1993 of a 4386.5 line km airborne magnetic /...-
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Green Patch. Progress, annual and final reports to licence surrender for the period 8/7/1991 to 1/3/1996.
Following a review of previous company exploration and image interpretation of SAEI and BMR aeromagnetic data, a 3166 line km airborne magnetic/radiometric survey, with follow-up ground magnetics and air core drilling (282 holes, 4559 m), was carried...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 5 partnership DPY5-27 - Cleve area Proterozoic unconformity-style uranium mineral prospects. Project final report.
In May 2009 a total of 45 aircore blade or hammer holes (total penetration 1332 m) were drilled by Adelaide Resources along six northeast-southwest trending traverses laid out immediately south-west of Cleve, to test a conceptual unconformity - style...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 5 partnership DPY5-29, Wilcherry Hill Magnetite Project, Hercules Proterozoic stratabound iron ore mineral prospect. Project interim and final reports.
Iron ore mineralisation similar to that mined in the Middleback Range has been investigated at the Hercules prospect, located 90 km west-northwest of Whyalla, where a large, high intensity aeromagnetic anomaly and associated 12 km long outcrop of...-
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Watson Siding - Ooldea area. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 17/4/1980 to 16/4/1982.
Interpretation of available SADME/BMR airborne magnetic survey data, and subsequent ground magnetic and gravity surveys to define five targets, were conducted in the area between Watson Siding and Ooldea, prior to drilling two rotary percussion holes...-
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Published: 20 Jul 1982
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Macdonald Hill. Progress reports for the period 24/2/84 to 23/2/86.
Exploration was undertaken north north-east of Olary for possible near-surface gold associated with Early Proterozoic quartz - magnetite - pyrite lode horizons, and with Adelaidean fluvial tillites and siltstones of the Umberatana Group. It included...-
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Cleve Central. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 17/2/1977 to 16/2/1979.
In a search for possible economic Palaeoproterozoic syngenetic/stratiform base metals within an area located just north of Cleve on central Eyre Peninsula, geological mapping (1:20,000 scale) and rock chip sampling was carried out over poor exposures...-
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Published: 28 Mar 1979
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Cleve East. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 17/2/1977 to 16/2/1978.
As part of a regional programme evaluating the potential of the Eyre Peninsula for economic stratabound base metal deposits, an area of relatively good outcrop lying north-west and west of Cowell was explored by 1:20,000 scale geological mapping, rock...-
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Published: 11 Apr 1978
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Angepena. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 18/12/1969 to 17/12/1970.
In a continuation of the evaluation of the Mucatoona copper prospect, assaying of RAB drill cuttings samples returned no metal values of note. Mineragraphic studies of the primary copper mineralisation occurring in the Adelaidean black shale facies...-
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Report on diamond drilling programme at Dome Rock copper prospect, SA.
Exploratory diamond drilling (3 holes, total 2061 feet) of good geochemical/IP anomalies lying along strike under the old Dome Rock copper mine workings failed to encounter economic copper or other mineralisation, with narrow (2-3 feet wide) and...-
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