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RB 97/00009 South Australian Steel and Energy Project. Coober Pedy iron ore investigation. Peculiar Knob prospect.
As part of the South Australian Steel and Energy Project, MESA has targeted significant aeromagnetic anomalies in the search for a possible iron ore resource. At Peculiar Knob prospect, previous company exploratory drilling in 1985 of such a magnetic...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1997
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Codna Hill, Pumper Dam, Welcome Bore and Beresford Hill (part of Curdimurka Project). Data release at licences' joint surrender on 1/12/2008: combined first annual report for the period 20/8/2007 to 26/8/2008.
As part of a regional search for possible economic buried Olympic Dam type IOCG-U deposits emplaced along the north-eastern margin of the Gawler Craton, adjacent to the Peake and Denison Inliers, Barrick Gold has acquired infill helicopter-borne...-
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Published: 28 Jan 1909
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Mount Paisley, Mount Woods, Warrina North and Warrina South (all part of the Mount Woods Project). Respective third and second partial surrender reports for the overall period 9/8/2005 to 4/4/2008.
Exploration for possible buried IOCG type base and precious metal deposits within complex Proterozoic to Archaean basement rocks in the Mount Woods Domain has, for the relinquished peripheral areas of the four subject licences, consisted only of...-
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Published: 27 May 1908
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Manguri (part of the Mount Woods Joint Venture Project). Second partial surrender report for the period 13/12/1999 to 13/3/2006.
Within the relinquished licence area, no geophysical anomalies were recognised within deeply buried Proterozoic basement that might represent possible craton margin magmatic nickel or IOCG type exploration targets. A review of previous exploration...-
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Published: 04 Oct 1906
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Trumpeter (part of the Mount Woods Joint Venture Project). Annual and final reports to licence surrender for the period 19/12/2000 to 29/11/2007.
Ground covering a major east-west trending shear zone in the north-eastern portion of the Mount Woods Inlier was taken up by Goldstream Mining to allow an evaluation of its IOCG - style mineralisation potential, possibly for Fe-Cu-Au occurrences of a...-
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Manguri (part of the Mount Woods Joint Venture Project). Annual reports and final report to licence surrender, for the period 13/12/1999 to 4/10/2006.
Possible craton margin magmatic nickel deposits or iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) type large base and precious metal deposits within buried Proterozoic basement were targeted in an area lying just to the north-west of Coober Pedy. Delays...-
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Published: 20 Nov 1906
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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 3 partnership no. DPY3-28, Mount Woods IOCG Project mineral prospect. Project final report.
PACE Initiative Year 3 drilling project funds were secured by Goldstream Mining to explore for base metals and gold within two licence areas taken out over concealed Proterozoic basement of the Mt Woods Inlier, and which also cover parts of the Coober...-
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Published: 12 Dec 1906
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 5 partnership DPY5-19. White Hill igneous complex Proterozoic magmatic PGE-Ni-Cu mineral prospects. Project final report.
Following a review of historic exploration data for the Mount Woods Inlier, OZ Minerals decided that the White Hill igneous complex, located 6 km north-west of the Prominent Hill mining lease, is comprised of mafic and ultramafic cumulate rocks having...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Kangaroo Dam (part of the Mount Woods JV Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 19/10/2000 to 6/11/2010. [ Index Part 1 of 2 ].
The large Kangaroo Dam exploration licence covers the mostly concealed western portion of the Palaeoproterozoic Mount Woods Inlier, a large block of variable magnetic intensity lying to the east and south-east of the Coober Pedy Ridge and the Mabel...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Kangaroo Dam (part of the Mount Woods JV Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 19/10/2005 to 6/11/2010. [ Index Part 2 of 2 ].
During the first year of renewed tenure under EL 3445, the work done consisted of performing diamond and RC drilling programmes which were partly funded by PIRSA's PACE Initiative as Theme 2, Year 2 and 3 approved Drilling Collaboration Projects. The...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Hawks Nest. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 12/3/1999 to 11/3/2004.
An area comprising two separate sub-blocks centred ~115 km south-southeast of Coober Pedy and located to the west of the Stuart Highway is being explored for Archaean to Palaeoproterozoic banded iron formation iron ore mineralisation of economic...-
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Published: 05 Feb 1904
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : The Twins (part of the South Mount Woods Joint Venture). Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 7/3/2002 to 6/3/2007.
An area covering ground adjacent to the southern boundary of current EL 3056 (formerly EL 2483), on which licence the newly discovered (in November 2001) Prominent Hill IOCG deposit is situated, is being explored for similar style buried...-
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Published: 03 Apr 1907
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Balta Baltana Creek. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 11/8/2016 to 10/8/2021.
A small area centred ~95 km east-southeast of Coober Pedy has been explored for possible buried Olympic Dam style IOCG mineralisation, epigenetic and stratiform base metal deposits and structurally controlled Tennant Creek style orogenic lode gold...-
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Published: 22 Oct 1921
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Warrina North and Warrina South. Joint third partial relinquishment report, for the period 23/9/1996 to 22/9/2001.
Exploration for iron oxide-hosted gold and base metals over a wide area spreading NW-SE, north-east from Coober Pedy and near Lake Cadibarrawirracanna, was initially by review of historical data and interpretation of airborne geophysical data. A...-
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Mount Paisley. First partial relinquishment report for the period 23/3/2003 to 22/3/2004.
Proterozoic iron oxide copper-gold mineralisation of the Olympic Dam style was the target of exploration in the Mt Paisley area, 145 km south-east of Coober Pedy. Extensive re-interpretation and evaluation of available regional geophysical data...-
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Safari, Lake Woorong, Leonard Rise, Thunderstorm Creek and Brumby Creek areas (Coober Pedy Ridge Project). Quarterly and six-monthly progress, plus annual and final, joint activity reports for the period 22/4/1991 to 22/3/2000.
The Coober Pedy Ridge / Mount Woods Inlier project investigated a 170 km long east-west belt of medium to high grade Proterozoic metamophics and syn- and post tectonic granites, centred 25 km south of Coober Pedy, for Broken Hill type stratiform...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 1 partnership DPY1-47 - [prospecting for] water in Permian palaeochannels draining the Mount Woods Inlier. Project final report.
Development of the Prominent Hill copper-gold deposit in the Mount Woods region will require an adequate source of water to support planned mining and ore processing operations, currently estimated to involve at least 6 million tonnes of ore per year....-
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Published: 10 Jun 1905
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Woods (part of the Mount Woods Joint Venture Project). Annual reports for the period 19/12/2000 to 30/1/2011. [Index Part 1 of 2 ].
An area centred approximately 50 km south-east of Coober Pedy has been taken up after it was surrendered early in 2000 by the BHP Minerals / Western Mining Corp. joint venture consortium (cf. Env 8434). The main mineral commodities now being sought by...-
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The Gawler Craton Project [Part]. Data release made in lieu of partial surrender/joint annual reports for the period 3/2/2010 to 1/2/2019, plus letters giving permission to release owed licence partial relinquishment and surrender reports.
As part of a regional search for possible major deposits of IOCG type mineralisation, Golden Cross Resources took up six exploration tenements in the northern Gawler Craton that lie to the north and north-east of Coober Pedy, and which are within or...-
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Published: 23 Jun 1915
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Anna Creek. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/4/2019 to 8/4/2021.
A large area centred ~10 km north of The Mulgas Outstation on Anna Creek Station, and lying ~80 km north-east of Prominent Hill, has been explored for inferred buried IOCG-U type volcanic breccia deposits which might exist in Proterozoic basement...-
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Published: 27 Apr 1921
