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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Kanmantoo. Annual reports for the period 3/11/2009 to 16/12/2018.
No exploration was undertaken on EL 3277 during the 2008-2009 final year of its term. An application for licence renewal was submitted and a subsequent licence, EL 4401, was granted to Hillgrove Resources on 17/12/2009. During the first year of EL...-
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Published: 10 Feb 1918
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Strathalbyn (part of the Fleurieu Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 4/6/2007 to 10/4/2019.
Base metal exploration of buried Cambrian metasediments, undertaken over part of the Bremer River valley located east and south-east of Strathalbyn, has consisted of a review of historical exploration results, limited new geochemical sampling of...-
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EL 6176 - Wheal Ellen Mine area. Annual technical reports for period 28/06/2018 to expiry 27/06/2023.
Hillgrove Resources Ltd (Hillgrove) is exploring for base metals and associated gold mineralisation in the Cambro-Ordovician basement rocks of south-east South Australia. EL 6176 is one of 8 licences held by Hillgrove in this region. The licence is...-
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Published: 10 Jul 1923
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Data release - as updated : Sherlock. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 25/6/2012 to 24/6/2017.
An area centred ~50 km south-east of Tailem Bend has been explored for possible economic buried primary stratiform and epithermal deposits of base metals that may have formed within Cambrian bedrock, close to where the current licensees and previous...-
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Data release - as updated : Wheal Ellen prospect. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 26/8/2009 to 21/10/2017.
During the sixth licence year, on renewed EL 4354, no technical work was undertaken. Hillgrove Resources temporarily suspended exploration activities within EL 4354 – Wheal Ellen in 2010 to focus on the construction of the Kanmantoo copper mine....-
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Published: 08 Dec 1917
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Cassini area. Annual technical report for period ending 15/06/2018.
Exploration licence 5973 “Bonaventura Project” is in the Cassini area approximately 30 km west of Kingscote Kangaroo Island. The project lies on the southern margin of the Gawler Craton and covers a 40 km section of the Cygnet-Snelling Shear Zone....-
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Currency Creek and Langhorne Creek (formerly part of the Fleurieu JV Project, then part of the Adelaide Hills Project). Joint final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 4/6/1992 to 18/10/2016.
Two slightly separated areas located in the west-central Kanmantoo Trough geological region have been explored for possible economic buried metalliferous deposits by successive licence owners over an almost 25 year - long tenure. The subject report...-
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Kanmantoo. Final report on drill testing of a deep magnetotelluric (MT) conductive zone having inferred monzonite related Cu-Au mineral potential, Project ADI RD02-281 [part of Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2022].
Hillgrove Resources Limited (Hillgrove) was granted ADI Round 2 programme subsidy funds to allow it to undertake diamond drill testing of a combined MT - gravity - magnetic anomaly located near its Kanmantoo mine, which it has termed the Stella...-
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Published: 28 Feb 1922
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Langhorne Creek, Bremer, Hartley and Currency Creek (the Fleurieu Project). Joint annual reports for the period 1/10/2008 to 30/9/2013.
In the sixth year of the project, the principal activity was the drilling of two inclined diamond holes for 633.5 m during October 2008 to investigate a possible northern buried extension of the known Rankine Trend mineralisation on EL 3641 ground...-
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Pioneer Bend (part of the Kangaroo Island Project). Combined third annual / final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 6/8/2007 to 5/8/2010.
As part of a search for Mississippi Valley type base and precious metal mineralisation associated with a major regional fault structure, an area of Kangaroo Island located approximately 25 km west of Kingscote was taken up by Monax Mining to cover any...-
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Published: 29 Oct 1910
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bremer. Progress reports and annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 8/3/1991 to 7/3/1995. [ Index Part 1 of 3 ].
Exploration of an extensive area lying to the north of and surrounding Strathalbyn, 40 km south-east of Adelaide, is targeting possible economic stratiform base and precious metals mineralisation hosted within the Cambrian Kanmantoo Group...-
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Parndana, Middle River and Yerda (part of the Kangaroo Island Project). Joint annual reports, plus EL 4581 third partial surrender report, to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 19/10/2012 to 18/10/2015.
Monax Mining has being exploring since May 2005 along a 40 km stretch of the hinterland to the central-northern coast of Kangaroo Island, searching mainly for possible economic gold, silver and Mississippi Valley type base metal sulphide...-
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Published: 09 Mar 1916
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Sherlock. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 25/6/2007 to 24/6/2012.
An area centred ~50 km south-east of Tailem Bend is being explored for possible economic buried primary stratiform and epithermal deposits of base metals that may have formed within Cambrian bedrock, close to where previous explorers' drilling had...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bremer. Progress and annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 8/3/1991 to 7/3/1995. [ Index Part 3 of 3 ].
Ongoing resource definition drilling completed by Aberfoyle at its Angas prospect during Year 4 of EL 1706 identified sub-economic mineralisation in the form of a narrow tabular, steeply dipping body containing approximately 2 Mt of base metal...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Langhorne Creek, Bremer, Currency Creek and Strathalbyn (the Fleurieu Project). Joint annual reports, for the period 1/10/2003 to 30/9/2008.
The Fleurieu Project, incorporating EL's 2839 (Bremer), 3128 (Currency Creek) and 2677 (Langhorne Creek), is located approximately 60km southeast of the city of Adelaide, centred about the township of Strathalbyn. The Fleurieu Project began life in...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bremer. Progress and annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 8/3/1991 to 7/3/1995. [ Index Part 2 of 3 ].
In May 1992 six traverses of shallow RAB drilling were completed at the Angas prospect (222 holes for a total penetration of 1550 m). The objective was to test the Cambrian bedrock geochemistry beneath shallow Tertiary and Recent sediments that cover...-
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Western River Cove and Western River (part of the Kangaroo Island Project). Final report at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 22/5/2003 to 16/7/2014.
No work was undertaken on EL 4530 Western River Cove during the whole 4-year term of its tenure. EL 3088 Western River was purchased from Havilah Resources by Monax Mining in July 2005, and formed part of Monax’s package of tenements included in the...-
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Published: 17 Dec 1914
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Western River Cove - Parndana area (part of the Kangaroo Island Project). Data release: annual reports and first partial relinquishment report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 8/7/2005 to 18/10/2012.
An area in the vicinity of Parndana, located on north-central Kangaroo Island approximately 30 km west-southwest of Kingscote, is being explored mainly for possible economic gold and Mississippi Valley type base metal sulphide mineralisation...-
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Published: 26 Feb 1913
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Strathalbyn [not Hartley] (part of the Fleurieu Project). Second partial surrender report, for the period 4/6/2007 to 3/6/2014.
Two portions of an area extending east and south-east of Strathalbyn, together totalling 50 square km or ~40% of the former area of EL 5078, have been relinquished to satisfy the terms of the Fleurieu Project Amalgamated Expenditure Agreement signed...-
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RB 2000/00002 Soil and stream sediment sampling of the Dawesley-Bremer Catchment for potential environmental contaminants.
A program of soil and stream sediment sampling was conducted along the Dawesley - Bremer Catchment to determine the extent and magnitude of potential heavy metal contamination downstream from the Brukunga Pyrite Mine. Arsenic, cadmium, copper and zinc...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2000