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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Lake Torrens (part of the Stuart Shelf Project). Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 30/1/1976 to 29/1/1978.
Exploration undertaken by Western Mining Corp. in a search for possible economic Mount Gunson - type stratiform copper mineralisation that could have formed within a sequence of buried Adelaidean metasediments of the eastern Stuart Shelf which in part...-
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Lake Torrens and Lake Torrens South. Annual and final reports to licences' respective surrender, for the period 18/1/2006 to 30/11/2009.
Exploration for possible economic buried IOCG-U type mineral deposits within areas covering the southern third of Lake Torrens has consisted only of office-based prospectivity studies and the planning of a detailed ground gravity survey aimed at...-
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Published: 07 Jul 1910
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Merna Mora. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/10/2006 to 8/10/2013.
A small licence area located on the Flinders Ranges piedmont plain south-east of Lake Torrens was taken up by Jim Allender to investigate the IOCG potential of a discrete regional gravity anomaly which he had identified from data in the public domain,...-
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Published: 20 Nov 1913
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PACE 2020 Initiative : PACE Targeting, Year 1 partnership no. 5 - Wauraltee airborne electromagnetic (AEM) geophysical survey. Project PT1-05 final report.
EL 4177, made up of three disjoint parts, is located on the central-western side of Yorke Peninsula near the towns of Port Victoria, Maitland and Arthurton, and covers a total area of 243 square km. The underlying basement rocks there are part of the...-
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Published: 05 Aug 1912
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South Tent Hill and North Tent Hill. Joint annual reports submitted until licences' expiry/renewal, for the period 20/10/2005 to 19/10/2010.
Two adjoining licence areas located immediately west and north-west of Port Augusta, which cover the southern end of the Cariewerloo Basin and extend north-westwards for 60 km, are being explored for possible economic unconformity-style uranium...-
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Published: 14 Dec 1910
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Crystal Brook, Port Broughton, Port Pirie, Mundoora and Winninnowie (the Moonta North Project). Annual reports and combined annual reports for the period 19/10/2000 to 1/8/2008.
Buried basement-hosted iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) mineralisation of either Moonta-Wallaroo or Olympic Dam style is the target of exploration across a number of scattered Exploration Licences trending from Port Broughton in the south to...-
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Published: 18 Sep 1908
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Murdie Island (part of the Stuart Shelf Project). Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 23/3/1977 to 22/3/1979.
Exploration undertaken by Western Mining Corp. in a search for possible economic Mount Gunson - type stratiform copper mineralisation that could have formed within a sequence of buried Adelaidean metasediments of the eastern Stuart Shelf which in part...-
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Bute. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 6/7/1973 to 5/7/1975.
No field work. Ongoing activity comprised office studies of previous company geophysical data, and the interpretation of Schlumberger vertical resistivity sounding profiles acquired for the SADM Geological Survey Branch during December 1972 and...-
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Port Augusta. Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 18/1/2006 to 17/1/2010.
A small area located immediately north of Port Augusta, with no outcropping bedrock or recorded history of drilled pre-Adelaidean basement, has been explored for possible economic buried IOCG deposits in Proterozoic Stuart Shelf basement, and for vein...-
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Pinda. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 10/11/2008 to 9/11/2012.
An area centred approximately 40 km east of Port Augusta was taken up to explore for possible fault-related epithermal/hydrothermal gold and copper mineralisation associated with inferred buried mafic intrusions, in a geological setting thought to be...-
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Published: 21 Aug 1912
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Port Broughton (part of the Pirie Basin Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 31/5/2010 to 30/5/2014.
Eocene fluvial sediments underlying the coastal plain immediately north of Port Broughton have been explored for possible economic buried occurrences of palaeochannel-hosted sedimentary uranium, as part of a regional programme being conducted by Areva...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Stuart Shelf and Andamooka Opalfields (the Stuart Shelf Joint Venture Project) . Progress reports to licences' expiry/renewal, for the period 16/1/1981 to 16/6/1986. [ Index Part 3 of 3 ].
(Abstract continued): During the first quarter of 1985, diamond drillhole OFD3 was completed at TD 498 m at a site 2 km west of hole OFD2, to further investigate the magnetic high south of the Opal Field. This hole reached basement at 359 m depth,...-
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Lake Torrens Station and Hawker West (the Torrens Project). Joint annual reports, plus separate final reports to licences' respective full surrender, for the period 30/4/2003 to 1/6/2010.
Olympic Dam style copper-gold mineralisation was the target of exploration in two adjoining areas which lie about 100 km north-northeast of Port Augusta and 55 km west of Hawker, on alluvial plains adjacent to south-eastern Lake Torrens. All of the...-
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Published: 30 Nov 1910
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Kallioota. Data release made at licence's later surrender : first annual report for the period 27/6/2011 to 26/6/2012.
An area centred ~55 km north-northeast of Port Augusta was taken up to explore the concealed Mesoproterozoic basement rocks that lie along this part of the eastern margin of the Gawler Craton for possible buried economic iron oxide - associated...-
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Burt Lagoon, Kallioota, Emu Lookout, Mount Norwest and Hookina (the BHPB Lake Torrens Project). Joint annual reports and joint final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 27/6/2012 to 10/3/2015.
After BHP Billiton (BHPB) gained ownership of two of the subject exploration licences, and later was granted another three in its own right, the licence group as a whole (now called the Lake Torrens Project) continued to be explored primarily for...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1915
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Burt Lagoon. Data release made at licence's later surrender : first annual report for the period 27/6/2011 to 26/6/2012.
An area centred ~35 km north of Port Augusta was taken up to explore the concealed Mesoproterozoic basement rocks that lie along this part of the eastern margin of the Gawler Craton for possible buried economic iron oxide - associated copper-gold...-
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Andamooka North (later part of the Lake Torrens Project). Sole annual report submitted until the commencement of joint reporting for the six Lake Torrens Project licences, for the period 3/5/1999 to 25/5/2000.
Within a large area lying a short distance to the north and north-west of Andamooka, licensee Tasman Resources is targeting hydrothermal precious metal mineralisation that may have formed within the Neoproterozoic Wilpena Group, because the company's...-
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Published: 07 May 1900
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RB 2007/00006 The geology and mineral potential of the PORT AUGUSTA [mapsheet] area, eastern Gawler Craton.
The PORT AUGUSTA 1:250,000 mapsheet area covers the north-eastern part of the Eyre Peninsula, the northern Spencer Gulf and the south-western Flinders Ranges, and extends from latitude 32°00'S to 33°00'S and longitude 136°30'S to 138°00'S. The main...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2007
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EL 519, Port Pirie, South Australia. Preliminary interpretation of gravity and aeromagnetic data.
As part of earning a 40% JV interest in the NBH Port Pirie licence area, Aquitaine (Australia) Minerals Pty Ltd has been using gravity and magnetics to try to define new drilling targets. During the period July to September 1980,...-
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Port Pirie. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 21/8/1979 to 30/6/1982.
Continuing exploration for possible buried Mount Gunson and Olympic Dam type copper deposits, or other stratabound base metal occurrences within shelfal facies of Adelaidean sediments or in the pre-Adelaidean Wandearah Formation Carpentarian age...-
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