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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Denison. Second annual report for the period 13/3/2016 to 12/3/2017.
During licence Year 2, work comprised: • providing ongoing land access notifications to relevant landholders and the Native Titleholders; • acquisition over the entire tenement in April 2016 of the second phase of a ground gravity survey, consisting...-
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Published: 12 Mar 1917
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Denison. Annual report for the period 13/3/2015 to 12/3/2019.
A small area centred ~80 km south-east of Oodnadatta is being explored for possible buried economic iron-oxide associated copper-gold-uranium (IOCGU) style mineralisation, as typified by the Olympic Dam and Prominent Hill deposits. The tenement was...-
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Published: 12 Mar 1916
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Mount Denison. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 29/7/1985 to 28/7/1988.
TARGET: Base and precious metals in a Roxby Downs style deposit. EXPLORATION: Reprocessing of available data from company geophysical surveys, acquisition of an airborne magnetic and radiometric survey, flown by Geoterrex in May 1985, the conduct of...-
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Peake and Denison Ranges. Progress reports and technical reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 17/2/1969 to 4/5/1971.
An airborne magnetic/radiometric survey was flown over the licence in 1969. Three anomalies located near Peake Homestead Ruins and the Coppertop mine gave disappointing ground survey uranium responses from traverses made with a hand-held...-
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Data release : Mount Sarah, Alamilda Hill and Todmorden (the Mount Sarah Project). Annual reports and joint annual reports to the successive expiry/full surrender of ELs 6129 and 5634, for the overall period 23/6/2015 to 22/6/2020.
Three adjacent areas located in dissected hilly country 70-90 km to the north-west of Oodnadatta were successsively taken up under licence to cover a significant, 8 mGal regional gravity anomaly which could have potential for IOCG type basement-hosted...-
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Published: 24 Jun 1920
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West Lake Eyre. First progress report plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 25/1/1980 to 13/6/1980.
Dampier Mining's main objective in taking out this licence was to test a large magnetic complex, situated east of the Peake and Denison Ranges and west of Lake Eyre, for possible economic buried base and precious metal deposits. Grid-based ground...-
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Algebuckina. Progress, annual and final reports to licence surrender for the period 4/4/1979 to 3/10/1980.
Four photo-interpreted possible buried kimberlite structural targets that were indicated in the Algebuckina area were investigated by a field programme of drainage and soil geochemical sampling (39 samples) and scintillometric surveying. Three areas...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Edward Creek (part of the Edward Creek Joint Venture Project). Progress reports and annual reports for the period 7/12/1987 to 22/9/2008. [ Index Part 1 of 2 ].
Diamond exploration undertaken within the southern of two adjoining licence areas taken up along part of the western flank of the Peake and Denison Ranges, that is centred ~100 km south-east of Oodnadatta, was aimed at discovering the source(s) of...-
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Oolgelima Creek. First annual report plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 31/8/2012 to 30/8/2014.
Three separate small areas on the eastern edge of the Stuart Range, that are located 30 to 45 km north and north-east of Coober Pedy, have been explored both for possible buried Proterozoic basement-hosted IOCG-style mineralisation and for large...-
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Published: 10 Oct 1914
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Lake Cadibarrawirracanna. First annual report plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 31/8/2012 to 30/8/2014.
An area centred over Lake Cadibarrawirracanna, which is located ~70 km east-northeast of Coober Pedy, has been explored both for possible buried Proterozoic basement-hosted IOCG-style mineralisation and for large sedimentary evaporite occurrences of...-
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Published: 10 Oct 1914
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Mount Dutton. First partial surrender report, for the period 27/6/1997 to 26/12/1997.
Studies of open file drilling data and a detailed interpretation of available aeromagnetic data for thickly Mesozoic sediment-covered areas immediately east and south of Oodnadatta failed to provide encouragement for locating buried Olympic Dam,...-
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Anna Creek and Belt Bay. Joint first partial surrender report, for the period 3/7/1995 to 2/7/1996.
Base metal exploration undertaken 160 km east of Coober Pedy was initiated with an assessment of joint MIM/MESA SAEI airborne magnetics and existing MESA SA_GEODATA database drillhole information. The depth to economic mineralisation over the licence...-
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Piarooka. Progress, partial surrender and final reports for the period 30/7/1985 to 18/9/1986.
Exploration for Olympic Dam type mineralization in basement west of Lake Eyre sought to identify coincident magnetic/gravity anomalies. Work comprised an aeromagnetic survey and follow-up optically levelled gravity survey of three mapped magnetic...-
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Published: 20 Aug 1986
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Mount Arthur. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 5/9/1980 to 5/3/1983.
Exploration for possible kimberlite pipes in the Mount Arthur - Mount Toodla area, 30 km east-southeast of Oodnadatta, has included preliminary gravity and ground magnetic surveys, stream sediment sampling, and the drilling of a single diamond cored...-
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Published: 09 Jun 1983
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Allandale. First annual report to licence renewal, for the period 5/12/1994 to 31/5/1995.
Following recognition of the likely young age of the sources of the Abminga area magnetic anomalies, and the discovery of a number of diamond indicator minerals in sediments to the west of the Peake and Denison Ranges, the Allandale joint venture...-
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Umbum. First partial surrender report, for the period 30/7/1985 to 11/4/1986.
TARGET: Concealed Olympic Dam - type mineralisation west of Lake Eyre, in localities previously explored by BHP in 1979. EXPLORATION: An aeromagnetic survey and follow-up optically levelled gravity surveys of two magnetically responsive areas....-
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Douglas Creek. Combined first progress/final report to licence full surrender, for the period 28/4/1983 to 30/8/1983.
Over an area abutting the south-western shoreline of Lake Eyre North, detailed ground magnetic and gravity surveys were carried out over coincident regional gravity and magnetic highs in the search for Olympic Dam - type mineralisation. One rotary...-
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Published: 17 Oct 1983
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Woodmurra. Progress reports and and final report to licence surrender, for the period 30/7/1985 to 11/3/1986.
Exploration for Olympic Dam type IOCG style gold and base metal mineralisation in Proterozoic basement rocks north-west of Lake Eyre sought to identify coincident magnetic and gravity anomalies. During early May 1985, a 3235.5 line km fixed-wing...-
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Algebuckina Siding. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 28/9/1981 to 13/9/1982.
In gold and base metal exploration carried out in an area located approximately 50 km south-east of Oodnadatta, no significant gold or other trace metal values were obtained from surface geochemical sampling of the basal conglomerate unit of the...-
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Mount Charles (part of Peake and Denison JV Project). First partial surrender report for the period 1/6/1994 to 20/9/2006.
As part of a regional search for possible economic iron oxide - associated copper-gold deposits formed in Proterozoic basement rocks, regional gravity surveying at 1 km station spacings was performed across the joint venture's Peake and Denison area...-
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Published: 04 Dec 1906
