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RB 89/00091 Weakly deformed and metamorphosed Archean volcanics near Millers Creek, north-east of Kingoonya.
The dating of the volcanic rocks encountered in EL 600 mineral exploration diamond drillhole DP1 as Archaean (and by definition, also Mulgathing Complex) substantially changes the view of Archaean rocks in South Australia. Elsewhere, Archaean to...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1989
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 5 partnership DPY5-44, eastern Eyre Peninsula, Glensea & Franklin gravity targets representing inferred Proterozoic mesothermal/metamorphic basement uranium prospects. Final report.
PACE Initiative Year 5 funding for exploratory drilling was granted to Stellar Resources under its proposal DPY-5-44 for a project designed to test geophysical targets within EL 3978 which were interpreted / inferred to represent alaskite units...-
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Mabel Creek. Annual reports submitted until the commencement of joint licence reporting on the Mabel Creek JV Project tenements, for the period 20/12/1999 to 23/3/2006.
Exploration currently underway for possible economic buried iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) mineralisation within Proterozoic basement on the Mabel Creek High, in one of two joint venture group project licence areas located approximately 50...-
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Brimpton Lake. Data release made in lieu of submitting a second partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal : annual reports for the period 22/10/2001 to 21/10/2004.
Following the farm-in of Anglo American Exploration to this tenement in March 2003, new activity has focussed on the rapid definition of drilling targets in a search for possible Archaean basement volcanic or sediment-hosted base metal massive...-
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Published: 21 Oct 1904
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Margaret Creek (part of the G2 Lineament Project). First and second partial relinquishments' combined report, for the period 13/10/2000 to 12/10/2004.
Diamond exploration undertaken within the relinquished portions of EL 2759, which are located immediately south of William Creek and near the Oodnadatta Track, was focussed on the margin of the Gawler Craton where it is cut by the NNW-trending G2...-
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Verran and Fair View (the Corunna Project). Joint annual reports and final report to licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 29/4/2005 to 28/4/2009.
A search for possible economic North/South Alligator Rivers or McArthur River (NT) style epicratonic, unconformity - related sedimentary uranium deposits was conducted across two licences taken up over areas located west and south of Cleve on central...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bulgunnia (part of the Gawler JV Project). Annual reports for the period 19/11/1997 to 1/1/2013.
Within an area of the Wilgena and Christie Domains centred 40 km north of Tarcoola, exploration is continuing for Archaean to Proterozoic basement-hosted epithermal, hydrothermal and metamorphic type gold and base metal occurrences. Here an 841 square...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Aurora Tank. First annual report for the period 2/2/2010 to 1/2/2012, plus the next submitted licence-specific annual reports for the period 21/3/2013 to 1/2/2016.
No field work was done on the subject licence during its first year, while land access permissions were being organised with the required authorities. The licence area is located approximately 100 km south-west of Coober Pedy and lies within the...-
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PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 8 partnership DPY8-06 - Intercept Hill, Stuart Shelf, Mesoproterozoic IOCGU mineral prospects. Drilling project final report.
EL 5372 Intercept Hill is centrally located in the world class Olympic Dam Iron Oxide Cu-Au-U Province, at the centre of a cluster of iron oxide copper occurrences including Emmie Bluff, Oak Dam and Winjabbie. The Intercept Hill area has available...-
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Published: 19 Jan 1916
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Giddi Giddina Creek, Leonard Rise, Mabel Creek and Cotton Bush (the Coober Pedy IOCG Project). Joint annual reports and final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 01/5/2013 to 12/1/2017.
Two separate grouped licence areas located to the north and the south-southwest of Coober Pedy have been explored for possible large buried economic basement-hosted IOCG deposits that would be of interest to new SA mineral explorer Vale (the...-
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Published: 15 Dec 1916
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Geochronological synthesis of southern Australia - Part 1 The Curnamona Province, and Part 2 The Gawler Craton (SADME Data Package.).
The review reports in this data package present a synthesis of geochronological information for southern Australia, i.e. South Australia and geologically associated areas in New South Wales and Victoria. The data given represent the outcomes of much...-
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Published: 19 Sep 1997
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The Western Eyre Peninsula JV Project. Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial surrender report for EL 2662, and a final report at the surrender of EL 2711: joint annual reports for the period 26/8/1994 to 11/4/2002.
A high amplitude, linear N-S trending magnetic feature, dubbed the Coffin Bay Magnetic Anomaly, and the recognition of basement lithologies analogous to those of metallogenically prospective late Archaean terranes in Canada, were the impetus for...-
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Published: 17 Jun 1902
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PACE 2020 Discovery Drilling 2012 : Year 7 Drilling Partnership no. DPY7-18 - Phoenix Copper Limited Yorke Peninsula Project. Drilling project final report.
Phoenix Copper is exploring tenements which cover an area of approximately 802 square km on the west coast of the Yorke Peninsula, the company's prime objective being to discover an economic iron oxide - associated copper-gold-uranium (IOCGU) deposit...-
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Published: 13 Nov 1912
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Pernatty [Station] and Yeltacowie (the Punt Hill IOCG Project). Joint annual reports for the period 29/11/2009 to 6/1/2012.
Two adjoining licence areas located in the country east of Pernatty Lagoon that lies between 80 and 180 km north of Port Augusta are being explored by Monax Mining Limited (Monax) for economic Proterozoic basement-hosted Iron-Oxide associated...-
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Published: 21 Jun 1912
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Pondooma / Ironstone Hut (part of the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 3/12/2002 to 24/9/2015.
An area originally granted as Exploration Licence 3048 Pondooma, which consisted of two separate sub-blocks centred ~60 km south-west of Whyalla, was applied for to cover a poorly exposed belt of banded iron formation (BIF) strata identified on...-
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The Venus Bay Project. Respective joint annual and subsequent individual [for Venus Bay] annual reports to that remaining licence's expiry/full surrender, for the period 26/4/2002 to 16/9/2012.
Renewed diamond exploration has been conducted in a part of the western Eyre Peninsula where numerous kimberlite indicator mineral (KIM) anomalies occur in surficial sediments, and where the four adjoining licence areas involved lie in close proximity...-
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Published: 26 Nov 1912
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Data release - as updated : Tallaringa North and Tallaringa South (part of the Coober Pedy Project). Joint annual reports to licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 24/5/2012 to 23/5/2019.
Three areas centred ~120 km west south-west of Coober Pedy and lying in the northern part of the Gawler Craton, one located within the Mabel Creek Domain and the other two being adjacent and further to the south, within the Christie Domain next to a...-
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Published: 19 Jun 1919
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PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 8 partnership DPY8-34 - Coober Pedy district, Mabel Creek High, Cyclops geophysically anomalous Mesoproterozoic basement IOCG type Au & base metal prospect. Drilling final report
The Cyclops prospect is located approximately 145 km west-southwest of Coober Pedy and ~58 km north of the Challenger mine, along the common boundary between ELs 4891 and 4892, two exploration tenements held by Teck Australia Pty Ltd which were...-
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Published: 02 Oct 1915
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Gunson (part of the Mount Gunson Project). Annual reports for the period 15/7/1994 to 17/10/2008 [ Index Part 4 of 4 ].
During licence Year 12, following encouraging results made by its continuing exploratory drilling, Gunson Resources was able to negotiate a joint venture over the Mount Gunson Project tenements with Falconbridge Limited through its subsidiary Noranda...-
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EL 5837, EL 5838, EL 5839, EL 5840, EL 5841, EL 5842 and EL 5843 - Coompana Project. Joint annual technical report for the period 31/8/2016 to 30/8/2018.
Exploration licences 5837, 5838, 5839, 5840, 5841, 5842 and 5843 collectively known as the “Coompana Project” cover an area of 6572 square km south of the Trans Australian Railway on the western margin of the Gawler Craton, on the South Australia –...-
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Published: 07 Sep 1918