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Data release - as updated : Campoona (part of the Cockabidnie JV Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 6/8/2007 to 5/8/2016.
The subject licence area, comprising two sub-blocks centred approximately 20 km north-west of Kimba, and which lies within the middle part of the NNE trending Campoona Syncline region located on central Eyre Peninsula, has been explored, in concert...-
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South of Burra area. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 1/6/1964 to 25/2/1966.
Exploration reconnaissance work has been carried out over many old copper mines and prospects situated within a 172 square mile area located south of the town of Burra [the impetus being that recently the South Australian Department of Mines had...-
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Published: 25 Feb 1966
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Kimberlites near Orroroo, South Australia.
A suite of Jurassic kimberlite dykes occur near Orroroo, South Australia. They range in thickness from a few millimetres to 30 metres. The intrusions are all extensively altered at surface, but a few of them are petrographically similar, and have...-
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Published: 31 Aug 1982
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River Wakefield - Blyth area. First and final report at licence surrender for the period 10/8/1977 to 9/3/1978.
In a search for possible economic, near-surface Zambian Copperbelt - style syngenetic, stratiform base metal deposits, geochemical samples were taken at 2 m intervals from 39 shallow auger boreholes drilled to an average depth of 14 m into Lower...-
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Mount Woods. Combined first progress/final report at licence full surrender, for the period 6/9/1979 to 5/12/1979.
Following an evaluation of existing subsurface data, 9 vertical percussion holes totalling 670 m were drilled to test discrete gravity anomalies in the Mount Woods area, in a search for Olympic Dam type mineralisation. The holes encountered...-
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Barossa - Kersbrook - Birdwood - Mount Pleasant, and Kuitpo - Hope Forest - Mount Monster - Yankalilla areas (Southern Adelaide Hills Project). Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 1/12/1962 to 1/5/1966.
A substantial part of the central and southern Adelaide Hills, in the vicinity of the margins of Archaean basement inliers, was taken up by a Tennant Creek (NT) - based gold mining company to explore for possible buried economic gold and base metal...-
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Published: 27 Sep 1967
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RB 2023/00044 Graphite: Critical mineral potential of South Australia.
Critical minerals are a collection of metal and non-metal commodities considered essential for economic and industrial development, and for which there are significant concerns around future supply due to resource scarcity or geopolitical factors. The...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2023
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Uley. Annual reports for the period 16/9/2005 to 12/10/2018.
A licence area located 20 km west-southwest of Port Lincoln, which covers the historically worked Uley graphite deposit and environs, was taken up to try to delineate sufficient mineral resources and, eventually, ore reserves of graphite in the Mining...-
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Published: 25 Mar 2019
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Tallaringa and Jindivic Bore. Joint annual reports to licences' combined expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/7/2007 to 12/8/2013.
A search for possible economic buried IOCG mineralisation which might exist within a widespread region of sparsely explored ?Archaean to Mesoproterozoic high grade metamorphic basement terrain, which underlies three licence sub-areas located 100-180...-
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Published: 30 Aug 2013
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Middlecamp Hills. Annual reports for the period 30/6/2009 to 29/6/2019.
Two small areas have been taken up in the Cleve Uplands district to explore structurally interesting portions of the Lower and Upper Middleback Jaspilite stratigraphic units for possible economic buried copper, gold, manganese and iron ore...-
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Published: 06 Aug 2018
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Woollinie. Progress reports and annual reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 20/12/1991 to 20/11/1995.
Exploration for Broken Hill / Menninnie Dam type Pb-Zn, and later for iron oxide - associated Cu-Au, that was undertaken over an area located north of Kimba within and adjacent to the Pinkawillinie Conservation Park, comprised the acquisition during...-
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Strawberry Hill. Progress and final relinquishment reports for the period 7/1/86 to 26/8/86.
Investigations of possible economic graphite mineralisation reported from an area of poorly outcropping basement 20 km NNW of Port Lincoln on Eyre Peninsula comprised an EM survey followed by geological mapping, costeaning and rock chip sampling....-
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Cockabidnie. First partial surrender report, for the period 25/5/2016 to 24/5/2018.
The central portion of EL 5791 covering 77 square km or half of the originally granted licence area has been relinquished due to its now perceived diminished prospectivity for economic graphite, cobalt or zinc mineralisation. No field work was done on...-
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Published: 19 Jul 2018
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Lake Gilles (latterly part of the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project). Annual reports until the commencement of project licences' joint reporting, plus the final report, for the respective periods 13/2/2007 to 31/5/2010 and 1/6/2014 to 31/5/2015.
A licence area originally comprising three separate sub-blocks located along the northern and southern sides of the Lake Gilles Conservation Park has been explored by grant licensee Lincoln Minerals Ltd (LML) and its joint venture partner IronClad...-
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Published: 19 Jun 2015
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Pearlah. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 10/1/2013 to 17/10/2013.
A small licence area consisting of three separate sub-blocks situated inland to the west from Boston Bay, in that vicinity and at Green Patch and at Wanilla, has been explored for possible economic near surface graphite mineralisation. A desktop...-
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Published: 11 Dec 2013
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Australia Plains. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/5/2010 to 2/5/2015.
An area centred ~15 km east of Eudunda, in the north-eastern Mount Lofty Ranges, has been explored initially for possible economic outcropping stratabound/replacement style phosphate mineralisation that may have formed within Adelaidean dolomitic...-
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Published: 25 Jun 2015
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Karkarook. Combined annual and annual reports to licence expiry/renewal/full surrender, for the period 24/6/2004 to 1/9/2014.
A area centred ~ 25 km west of Cleve is being explored for possible buried economic sediment-hosted or basement unconformity - related uranium mineralisation. The tenement covers part of the Driver River and Driver River Pan which contains a...-
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Published: 26 Sep 2014
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Mount Messenger (lately part of the Central Eyre Peninsula Graphite Project). Annual reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 27/3/2014 to 13/11/2018.
An area centred ~30 km north-west of Cowell has been explored for possible buried graphite mineralisation that might have formed within highly metamorphosed Archaean to Proterozoic bedrock sediments located adjacent to large crustal penetrating...-
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Published: 15 Nov 2018
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Rudall. First partial surrender report, for the period 24/5/2012 to 2/12/2016.
Most of a small licence area located ~19 km west-northwest of Cleve has been surrendered following the completion of a helicopter-borne EM survey over the entire tenement during July 2012, looking for signs of possible buried graphite mineralisation...-
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Published: 24 Oct 2016
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The Northern Eyre Peninsula JV Project. Data release made in lieu of submitting a licence final report at the full surrender of EL 5170 Kimba Gap: Joint annual reports for the period 1/2/2013 to 9/2/2017.
During the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project (NEPP) 2013-2014 reporting year, exploration field work took place on two of the six project tenements. On EL 4884 Minbrie, a single 151 m deep vertical RC drillhole, BURC092, was completed in August 2013,...-
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Published: 25 Sep 2018
