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Kootaberra (part of the Port Augusta Project). First partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 3/8/2018 to 24/1/2022.
47 square km or ~13% of the former area of EL 6218 Kootaberra has been relinquished to comply with the Amalgamated Expenditure Arrangement mandatory area reduction conditions for FMG's Port Augusta Project. This licence lies outside of and to the...-
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Published: 11 Feb 1922
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RB 2018/00018 The South Australian Atlas of Geoscience and Mineral Exploration data - Woomera Prohibited Area within the Gawler Craton. 2nd edition.
The Woomera Prohibited Area (WPA) is a military testing range covering 122,188 square km of the land surface of central South Australia. Underlying it are highly economic minerals - prospective rocks of the Gawler Craton, a major province of the...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2018
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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 1 partnership no. DPY1-02, Titan mineral prospect. Project interim and final reports.
Titan prospect is located within Exploration Licence 3209, and lies 30 km north of the Olympic Dam mine. The prospect was first drilled by Western Mining Corp. in 1976 with diamond drillhole BD 1, and in 1981 with a second hole, BD 2. Both holes hit...-
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Roxby Downs North (part of the Olympic Domain Project). Final report at licence surrender for the period 18/6/2007 to 17/6/2009.
During its 2-year tenure of EL 3810, which consisted of two parcels of ground situated 25 to 70 km north-west of the Olympic Dam mine, Copper Range undertook a review of existing geological and geophysical data and identified a ring structure and...-
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Published: 17 May 1909
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Yalymboo, Dingo Hill and Black Oak Hill (the Cariewerloo Project). Joint annual reports and separate final reports to licence's respective expiry/full surrender, for the period 5/6/2006 to 20/6/2009.
Possible Mesoproterozoic unconformity-related uranium deposits within the Cariewerloo Basin, involving an inferred structural preparation component whereby basic intrusive members of the Gairdner Dyke Swarm cut across this unconformity in a manner...-
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Published: 19 Nov 1909
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Orwell Well. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/4/2006 to 18/4/2010.
An area located approximately 30 km north of Glendambo was explored primarily for possible sedimentary uranium deposits formed in buried Tertiary palaeochannels, as well as for possible Proterozoic IOCG-U deposits of Olympic Dam type, and for...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1910
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White Cliff (part of the Olympic Domain Project). Combined second annual / final report at licence expiry/full surrender for the period 22/10/2007 to 21/10/2009.
In exploration directed primarily at finding possible economic IOCG type mineral deposits within buried Mesoproterozoic to Palaeoproterozoic basement in an area located 25 to 70 km north-west of Olympic Dam, the licensee targeted density anomalies...-
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Published: 08 Mar 1910
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Pandurra. First partial surrender report, for the period 24/2/2011 to 23/2/2013.
Preliminary investigations of the prospectivity for possible Mesoproterozoic sedimentary unconformity-related uranium mineralisation, undertaken within two now relinquished portions of the subject licence, have entailed the study of aerial photographs...-
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Published: 18 Nov 1913
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Centre Hill (the Kingoonya JV Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/3/2006 to 10/5/2012.
An area extending for approximately 80-115 km south-east of Tarcoola has been explored for possible economic mesothermal gold±copper mineralisation formed in Mesoproterozoic igneous basement, possible unconformity - related uranium mineralisation at...-
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Published: 12 Jul 1912
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South Tent Hill and North Tent Hill. Joint annual reports submitted until licences' expiry/renewal, for the period 20/10/2005 to 19/10/2010.
Two adjoining licence areas located immediately west and north-west of Port Augusta, which cover the southern end of the Cariewerloo Basin and extend north-westwards for 60 km, are being explored for possible economic unconformity-style uranium...-
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Published: 14 Dec 1910
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Lake Younghusband. Annual reports and partial surrender reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 5/12/2005 to 4/12/2009.
An area located approximately 30 km east of Glendambo was taken up to explore primarily for possible economic buried sedimentary uranium mineralisation within the Tertiary cover sequence, and secondarily for possible unconformity - related uranium...-
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Published: 14 May 1910
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Oak Dam (part of the Gawler Craton Joint Venture Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 17/7/2006 to 16/7/2011.
EL 3603, located on the Stuart Shelf approximately 50 km south of Olympic Dam, was taken under licence to explore for possible economic iron oxide - associated copper-gold-uranium (IOCG-U) deposits of Olympic Dam style that may have formed in...-
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Published: 28 Sep 1911
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Yeltacowie, Hesso, Charlinga, Bowen Hill and Kangaroo Bluff (the Stuart Shelf Project). Joint annual reports and final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 16/8/2005 to 14/2/2014.
Uranium One Australia (U1A) acquired the Stuart Shelf Project tenements in 2005 with the aim of exploring for uranium mineralisation that has unconformity - related genetic features broadly analogous to those of deposits of the Athabasca Basin in...-
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Published: 28 May 1914
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Pandurra. Annual reports to commencement of Pandurra JV Project licences' joint reporting, for the period 16/9/2005 to 23/2/2012.
An area comprising two separate sub-blocks centred approximately 40 km west of Port Augusta was taken up to explore for possible buried economic IOCG style epithermal/hydrothermal mineralisation that may have formed within Mesoproterozoic basement...-
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Published: 14 May 1912
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Lake Gairdner South (part of the West Roxby Project). Data release: annual reports for the period 30/7/2007 to 29/7/2012.
An area centred approximately 60 km south-west of Woomera was taken up to explore its IOCG mineralisation potential, as a large regional gravity anomaly lying just east of Lake Gairdner was of interest in this regard. Work on the subject licence did...-
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Wirramina (part of the West Roxby Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/transfer, for the period 7/3/2007 to 6/3/2012.
An area consisting of two separate sub-blocks, centred approximately 60 km west-northwest of Woomera, was taken up to explore the IOCG-U mineralisation potential of the concealed Mesoproterozoic metasedimentary cover and underlying Meso- to...-
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Published: 14 Apr 1912
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Intercept Hill. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 8/5/2003 to 14/7/2013. [Index Part 1 of 2].
An area on the Stuart Shelf which is centred ~45 km north-northwest of Mount Gunson and 70 km south-east of Olympic Dam was taken up to explore primarily for possible economic buried Mesoproterozoic basement-hosted copper-gold deposits, perhaps of...-
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Published: 15 Nov 1913
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Pernatty Lagoon [East]. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 27/6/1997 to 26/6/2002.
An area of the Stuart Shelf located between Pernatty Lagoon and the Beda Arm of Lake Torrens, with its western boundary lying 15 km east of the historic Mount Gunson copper mining field, is being explored for possible economic basement-hosted IOCG...-
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Koolcutta (part of the Pandurra Project). First partial surrender report, for the period 29/3/2011 to 28/3/2013.
107 square km or ~20% of the former area of EL 4708 have been relinquished because of their perceived diminished prospectivity for possible buried unconformity-related uranium mineralisation that may have formed within arenaceous sediments of the...-
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Published: 18 Nov 1913
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : (for 10 exploration licences comprising) the Lake Torrens JV Project. Joint annual reports for the period 1/1/2007 to 31/12/2011.
A group of ten, mainly adjoining licence areas occupying the plains surrounding the northern end of Lake Torrens, are now being jointly explored for possible economic buried Olympic Dam style IOCG related mineralisation that may have formed in the...-
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