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Pine Creek. Progress and final reports for the period 13/9/81 to 12/9/83.
Poor assay results returned from 7 percussion drillholes totalling 1536 m, put down just south-west of Cockburn to test UTEM III anomalies in a search for buried Broken Hill - type mineralisation, have downgraded the base metal potential of this area...-
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Cronje Dam. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/8/1979 to 29/11/1984.
Continuing exploration for possible hydrothermal or epithermal base metal and precious metal deposits, within an area centred 60 km south-west of Olary, at the outset targeted some previously identified geochemical anomalies, principally via shallow...-
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Toolaby. Combined first progress / final report to licence surrender for the period 24/2/1969 to 23/11/1969.
During September 1969 the licensee drilled and geophysically logged 11 open rotary holes totalling 1611 feet along two north-south traverses in a search for possible economic Mesozoic or Tertiary palaeochannel-hosted sedimentary uranium, within an...-
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Published: 06 Oct 1969
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Mutooroo. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 5/1/1990 to 9/12/1992.
TARGET: Lead-zinc-silver and copper-gold mineralisation in the Mutooroo area of the Willyama Inliers, 55 km east of Olary. EXPLORATION: Airborne EM surveying (~450 line km flown across strike, 75 Hz, at 300 m line spacing) with ground follow-up moving...-
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Published: 04 Jan 1993
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Teetulpa Goldfield. Progress report on the 1987 systematic bulk alluvial testing programme.
EXPLORATION: Systematic bulk testing of costean samples taken along exposed alluvial channels, by treatment in a wet jig plant. RESULTS: Economic to sub-economic gold values were confirmed as remaining in Brady's, Strawbridge and Deep Gully alluvial...-
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Crocker Well. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 1/7/1966 to 30/6/1968.
Renewed uranium exploration and prospect evaluation activities carried out in the Crocker Well - Mount Victoria region of the Olary Province has aimed to substantiate previous SA Department of Mines' derived uranium deposit data, and to evaluate the...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Kalkaroo (part of the Mundi Mundi Plains JV Project). Annual reports for the period 21/4/2010 to 1/6/2018.
During 2010-2011, the sixth year of the subject licence, as part of its continuing search for buried economic Tertiary sediment-hosted roll front style secondary uranium deposits, Marmota conducted the following work: • acquired a 58.6 line km moving...-
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Published: 17 Jul 1918
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Curnamona Project (uranium exploration spinoff). Joint annual reports for the period 1/1/2009 to 31/12/2011.
During the fifth year of the Curnamona - Uranium Project JV, during the 2009 calendar year, Curnamona Energy drilled a total of 124 holes for an aggregate depth of 11,777 m on EL 4262 (including RL 123). The drilling tested “blanket sands” at Oban...-
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Olary region. Progress and annual reports for the period 23/9/1976 to 22/9/1978.
Intensive exploration of granitoid environs in the Crocker Well area has outlined new areas of, and extended known areas of, primary uranium mineralization. A regional field evaluation was also made of the Glenorchy and Plumbago areas, leading to the...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Arkaroola, Moolawatana and Mount Hopeless (the Frome Basin Project). Joint annual report for the period 1/1/2016 to 31/12/2018.
Exploration Licence 5017 Arkaroola, Exploration Licence 5118 Mt Yerila and Exploration Licence 5261 Petermorra cover a combined area of approximately 1831 square km within the northern Flinders Ranges and the Frome Basin. The area is being targeted...-
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Published: 16 Jan 1919
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Benagerie. Progress reports and annual reports, plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 13/11/1979 to 9/3/1989.
TARGET: Sedimentary uranium in Tertiary sandstone, plus Olympic Dam type copper-gold mineralisation and Broken Hill or Mount Isa type stratiform base metal mineralisation in the underlying basement rocks. EXPLORATION: Stratigraphic drilling (162...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Victor. Annual reports for the period 30/7/2012 to 29/7/2018.
A large area of the south-eastern Flinders Ranges piedmont plains lying ~50 km north-west of Manna Hill, and centred on Mount Victor, is being explored for possible economic buried Neoproterozoic stratabound iron ore of low grade but probable high...-
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Lake Namba. Progress and final reports for the period 4/11/1975 to 26/10/1981.
TARGET: Sedimentary uranium deposits in the Lower Tertiary sediments overlying the Mesozoic Frome Embayment and Cambrian Moorowie Syncline stratigraphic succession, adjacent to and overlying the western flank of the Proterozoic Benagerie Ridge....-
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Trinity mine area. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender/re-issue over a much larger area, for the period 23/11/1976 to 22/8/1977.
Base metal exploration over an area situated south of the Barrier Highway, 25 km south-west of Cockburn, consisted of geological mapping, the searching out and sampling of gossans, ground magnetic surveying, and the drilling of 84 percussion holes...-
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Yarramba - Mulyungarie area. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 27/9/1973 to 26/9/1975.
Continuing exploration for possible sedimentary uranium deposits within buried Tertiary palaeochannels of the Yarramba and Mulyungarie areas, upstream from the Honeymoon deposit and in an area 50 km north-west of Cockburn, which was carried out...-
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Bimbowrie Hill. Progress reports to licence surrender for the period 22/10/1973 to 8/6/1976.
Exploration for possible economic stratiform, Broken Hill type base metal deposits hosted within Willyama Complex metasediments in the Bimbowrie Hill - Ameroo Hill area has consisted of a structural interpretation of aerial photos and ERTS imagery,...-
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Culberta Bore. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 26/1/1978 to 25/1/1980.
The potential for finding economic Olympic Dam style copper-uranium mineralisation beneath the Strzelecki Desert cover in an area located 30 km east of Lake Frome was investigated by a review of prospectivity factors, and by the acquisition of...-
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Published: 11 Apr 1980
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Trinity mine area. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 31/8/1977 to 30/8/1979.
Ongoing exploration for Broken Hill - type mineralisation, across an enlarged licence area extending south and south-west from Cockburn to the edge of the Murraylands, consisted of intensive shallow auger/RAB bedrock drilling of geochemical and...-
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Poverty Lake (part of the Benagerie JV Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 17/5/2002 to 11/7/2012.
Exploration for Olympic Dam type or Cloncurry style iron oxide - associated copper-gold deposits, and for Broken Hill / Cannington style stratabound silver-lead-zinc deposits, both possibly formed within buried Palaeoproterozoic basement in a small...-
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[East of] Lake Frome area (part of the Benagerie Ridge JV Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 10/10/2002 to 9/10/2012.
EL 3019 located in the Curnamona Province of South Australia covers a portion of the north-south trending buried palaeotopographic high known as the Benagerie Ridge. The north-south elongate licence area occupies part of Quinyambie Station, and is...-
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