-
Strathalbyn (part of the Fleurieu Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 4/6/2007 to 10/4/2019.
Base metal exploration of buried Cambrian metasediments, undertaken over part of the Bremer River valley located east and south-east of Strathalbyn, has consisted of a review of historical exploration results, limited new geochemical sampling of...-
Document
-
Woolpunda (part of the Murray Basin Project). Fourth partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 16/11/2000 to 3/7/2017.
An area located immediately south of the Sturt Highway that connects between Swan Reach and Loxton, in the vicinity of the Woolpunda Irrigation Area, has been explored for possible buried accumulations of Tertiary heavy mineral sands which may have...-
Document
-
Dudley East areas 1 and 2 (the Dudley Project). Joint annual reports for the period 3/8/2018 to 2/8/2020, plus respective licence's final reports to 2/8/2020 and 27/10/2021 upon their successive full surrender.
Two very small areas bordering the coastline of the Dudley Peninsula on the eastern end of Kangaroo Island have been explored for possible economic, felsic igneous intrusive late-stage pegmatitic vein - hosted, lithium, tantalum, tin, REE and kaolin...-
Document
Published: 28 Jul 1921
-
EL 6176 - Wheal Ellen Mine area. Annual technical reports for period 28/06/2018 to expiry 27/06/2023.
Hillgrove Resources Ltd (Hillgrove) is exploring for base metals and associated gold mineralisation in the Cambro-Ordovician basement rocks of south-east South Australia. EL 6176 is one of 8 licences held by Hillgrove in this region. The licence is...-
Document
Published: 10 Jul 1923
-
Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mannum area. Annual technical reports for period ending 08/09/2018.
EL 5846 covers an area of 462 km2 and is located approximately 70km east of Adelaide. It is located within the Murray Basin, with a basement of poorly outcropping to deeply covered Neoproterozoic and Cambrian Kanmantoo Group sediments and...-
Document
-
Mantung (part of the Murray Basin Project). Fourth partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 14/10/1997 to 8/8/2017.
An area located in the northern SA Murray Mallee region, and centred ~ 35 km south-west of Loxton, has been explored for possible buried accumulations of Tertiary heavy mineral sands which may have formed in the sedimentary cover. In total, 513 square...-
Document
-
Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Cassini area. Annual technical report for period ending 15/06/2018.
Exploration licence 5973 “Bonaventura Project” is in the Cassini area approximately 30 km west of Kingscote Kangaroo Island. The project lies on the southern margin of the Gawler Craton and covers a 40 km section of the Cygnet-Snelling Shear Zone....-
Document
-
Currency Creek and Langhorne Creek (formerly part of the Fleurieu JV Project, then part of the Adelaide Hills Project). Joint final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 4/6/1992 to 18/10/2016.
Two slightly separated areas located in the west-central Kanmantoo Trough geological region have been explored for possible economic buried metalliferous deposits by successive licence owners over an almost 25 year - long tenure. The subject report...-
Document
-
Meningie. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 7/6/1978 to 6/6/1980.
Exploration for possible Cambrian stratabound base metal sulphide deposits over an area in the vicinity of Meningie has targeted a number of N-S strike-elongated intense aeromagnetic and gravity anomalies presumed to originate in Kanmantoo Group...-
Document
-
Data release at first partial surrender on 20/8/1989 : report on investigations into the platinoid potential of the Black Hill Norite, EL 1419, Sedan, SA.
TARGET: Possible primary magmatic platinoid and/or other precious metals deposited at or near the base of expected cumulate layered rock sequences within the Black Hill Norite. EXPLORATION: After making preliminary regional geophysical and drillhole...-
Document
-
Callawonga. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 6/8/1986 to 28/4/1988.
Possible economic epithermal/hydrothermal gold associated with the known Callawonga Creek tungsten deposit was the target of exploration carried out in an area of Cambrian sediments located 15 km south-southeast of Yankalilla on the Fleurieu...-
Document
-
Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Craigie Plains [not 'Eudunda']. Annual report from 22/2/2016 to full surrender 08/03/2023.
Exploration licence 5747 covers 955 square km located ~ 110 km north-east of Adelaide, on the eastern side of the Mount Lofty Ranges. It forms part of SeeSaw Resources “Bower Project” and forms a down-facing “horseshoe” shape that loops from Craigie...-
Document
Published: 08 May 1923
-
Blackford. Second partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 3/11/1978 to 19/12/1987.
Shallow Tertiary coal deposits were the target in the area north of Kingston SE lying between Tilleys Swamp and Coola Coola Swamp. Within this area, 44 rotary mud vertical open exploratory holes totalling 3658 m were drilled and geophysically logged....-
Document
-
Mount Pleasant, Birdwood (The Promenade) and Hartley (Strathalbyn). Joint progress and prospectivity appraisal reports to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 30/7/1985 to 29/11/1988.
Possible economic gold and stratiform / stratabound base metal sulphide deposits, that had been surmised to have formed within certain reactive metasedimentary units in folded and faulted Cambrian strata lying between Mount Pleasant and Strathalbyn in...-
Document
Published: 05 Feb 1988
-
Kanmantoo. Final report on drill testing of a deep magnetotelluric (MT) conductive zone having inferred monzonite related Cu-Au mineral potential, Project ADI RD02-281 [part of Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2022].
Hillgrove Resources Limited (Hillgrove) was granted ADI Round 2 programme subsidy funds to allow it to undertake diamond drill testing of a combined MT - gravity - magnetic anomaly located near its Kanmantoo mine, which it has termed the Stella...-
Document
Published: 28 Feb 1922
-
[North of] Mount Barker. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 21/5/1991 to 9/6/1992.
Exploration for possible stratabound gold within Cambrian metasediments in the Mount Lofty Ranges east of Adelaide, which may have developed inside the alteration aureoles of late orogenic to post-tectonic granite intrusions, has consisted of the...-
Document
-
Meningie. Progress reports to licence full surrender, for the period 27/8/1980 to 5/4/1984.
Ongoing evaluation of the stratiform base metal potential of the Cambrian metasedimentary bedrock sequence, in an area located just to the east and north-east of Meningie, addressed a regional north-south trending, sinuous zone containing a number of...-
Document
Published: 08 Feb 1984
-
Kangaroo Island. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/7/1991 to 21/7/1993.
Exploration for possible economic buried syngenetic / stratiform base metals mineralisation that may have formed in the Parndana area of Kangaroo Island consisted of the acquisition of an airborne EM/magnetic (GEOTEM) survey covering abandoned old...-
Document
Published: 02 Jul 1993
-
Cambrai. Combined first quarterly / final report to licence full surrender, for the period 1/8/1990 to 21/12/1990.
TARGET: Within a small area centred on Cambrai township, all metallic minerals, but primarily gold which might occur in the Black Hill Norite complex. EXPLORATION: Limited surface rock chip grab geochemical sampling (5) at the Black Hill council...-
Document
-
Tanunda. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/7/1989 to 26/7/1990.
Possible epithermal/hydrothermal and shear-related vein style gold, and Proterozoic and Cambrian metasedimentary-hosted industrial minerals, were the targets of reconnaissance exploration over a licence taken up in the Barossa region. 1:2000 scale...-
Document
