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Peterlumbo, Botenella Range, Lake Gilles [West], Eurilla Dam, Wilcherry Hill, Uno, Mount Miccollo and Tin Hut Hill (the Wilcherry Hill Project). Joint annual reports for the period 6/6/2002 to 31/10/2008. [Index Part 1 of 2].
Aquila Resources took up ownership of the much previously-explored ground comprising the Wilcherry Hill Project with the intent of exploring for the first time the iron oxide - associated copper-gold & uranium (IOCG-U) mineralisation potential of...-
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Published: 31 Dec 1908
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Waddikee. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 24/5/2005 to 23/5/2010.
An area centred ~20 km south-southwest of Kimba is being explored for possible buried Tanami style orogenic lode gold and also for Mount Isa / Broken Hill style base metals mineralisation, which could occur within reactive chemical and pelitic...-
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Published: 10 Aug 1910
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Carpie Puntha and Peterlumbo (part of the Wilcherry Hill Joint Venture Project). Data release made at the third renewal / partial surrender of the latter licence: progress reports and annual reports for the period 14/2/1989 to 30/8/2003. [Index 1 of 2].
Two contiguous areas located south of the Gawler Ranges, between Buckleboo and Franklin Harbour, were taken up primarily to explore the Early Proterozoic metasedimentary sequence for possible Broken Hill type economic stratiform / hydrothermal base...-
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Published: 16 Oct 1903
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Mount Hope, Moorlands and Brimpton Lake (the Mount Hope Project). Joint annual reports and joint final report to licences' respective expiry/full surrender, for the period 24/5/2005 to 4/6/2010.
Monax Mining has been exploring the subsurface geology of three licences in the Mount Hope region of south-western Eyre Peninsula, seeking possible economic komatiite - hosted nickel deposits and also any felsic volcanic sediment - hosted massive...-
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Published: 27 Oct 1910
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Verran. Annual reports submitted until the commencement of joint venture project joint reporting, for the period 29/1/2010 to 28/1/2014.
An area located in the Cowell Hills is being explored for possible economic buried iron ore deposits. The desired commodity is DSO (Direct Shipping Ore) haematite mineralisation similar to that of the Middleback Range iron deposits, where pods of...-
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Published: 23 May 1914
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Data release - as updated : Moonabie (part of the East Eyre Peninsula Project). Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/5/2006 to 13/3/2017.
A licence consisting of three separate sub-blocks that are centred approximately 60 km WSW of Whyalla is being explored for possible economic primary uranium mineralisation plus precious and base metals, in a structurally complex epithermal and...-
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Published: 29 Apr 1917
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Data release - as updated : Campoona (part of the Cockabidnie JV Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 6/8/2007 to 5/8/2016.
The subject licence area, comprising two sub-blocks centred approximately 20 km north-west of Kimba, and which lies within the middle part of the NNE trending Campoona Syncline region located on central Eyre Peninsula, has been explored, in concert...-
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Mount Shannan. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/2/2012 to 20/2/2016.
A very small area centred ~7.5 km north-northwest of Cleve has been explored for possible economic buried graphite mineralisation that might have formed within highly metamorphosed bedrock sediments located adjacent to large crustal penetrating...-
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Published: 02 Feb 1916
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Morgans (part of the East Eyre Peninsula Project). First partial surrender report, for the period 17/1/2012 to 16/1/2016.
138 square km or ~58.5% of the former area of EL 4828 Morgans have been relinquished, this ground covering the southern extent of the licence located along the eastern shoreline of Lake Gilles. It has been explored mainly for possible structurally...-
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RB 2006/00004 Crustal evolution of the Gawler Craton, South Australia: Application of the TerraneChron technique to detrital zircon from modern stream sediments.
This report presents the results of a Terranechron [registered brand name for this proprietary technique] study of detrital zircons from modern stream sediments of the Gawler Craton. The Terranechron approach involves obtaining uranium - lead decay...-
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Published: 01 Feb 2006
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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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RB 2007/00004 Director of Mines' Exploration Licence Application 383 (Sleaford Bay). Report of results.
This report presents the results of exploration on the Director of Mines E.L.A. 383 at Sleaford Bay during November, 2006. A number of samples of Carnot Gneiss, Hutchison Group and Donington Suite granitoids were collected from coastal exposures at...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2007
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Aroha. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/5/1980 to 26/5/1982.
As part of Esso's continued exploration programme for buried Late Proterozoic stratiform uranium deposits in the Uno - Corunna area, detailed geochemical, petrological, thermoluminescence and lead isotope studies were performed on samples obtained by...-
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RB 2013/00014 IOCG-style mineralisation in the central eastern Gawler Craton, SA; characterisation of alteration, geochemical associations and exploration vectors.
While South Australia is well known as having within its borders major iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposits such as Olympic Dam, Prominent Hill, Carrapateena and Hillside, there has until now been a lack of publically accessible...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2013
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Mabel Creek. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/11/1995 to 20/11/1998.
Ground magnetics and RC drilling (13 holes, total 2436 m) were carried out on three buried Proterozoic ?ironstone-skarn targets that had been identified around the margins of interpreted Hiltaba Suite granites, 80 km west of Coober Pedy, and which...-
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Published: 09 Mar 1999
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Triple Hill. Final report to licence surrender for the period 1/5/97 to 30/4/98.
Metasedimentary BIF-hosted mineralisation and Cu-Au associated with younger Palaeoproterozoic intrusive granites were targeted east of Cleve. Ground follow-up of linear magnetic highs and low gold and base metal anomalism in stream sediments failed...-
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Published: 20 Apr 1998
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Black Eagle Rock. Annual reports and progress reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 10/1/1997 to April 2001.
Four styles of mineralisation formed the basis for exploration in the Paney-Buckleboo area, namely, stratiform sedex (Broken Hill style), shear-hosted epigenetic gold and base metals (Tunkillia style), skarn-related gold and base metals (Menninnie Dam...-
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Published: 30 Mar 1901
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Cowell, Sheoak Hill, North Munyaroo and Miltalie (the Cowell Project). Joint annual reports and final report to licences' joint surrender, for the period 26/5/1997 to 25/5/2000.
Calcrete and stream sediment sampling plus a TEISA programme infill aeromagnetic survey were carried out over an area extending for 10-40 km to the north-west and north of Cowell. Anomalous Cu in calcrete was recorded in the vicinity of the Charleston...-
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Ironstone Hill. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 11/8/1997 to 10/8/2000.
An airborne magnetic/radiometric survey and surficial calcrete, soil and MMI sampling targeted Challenger/Tunkillia-type gold and Olympic Dam style copper-gold, associated respectively with a number of shear zones and with the Charleston Granite,...-
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Rudall. Data release made in lieu of submitting a second partial surrender report : annual reports for the period 22/12/1995 to 22/1/2005; plus a (subsequently added) combined annual and final report to licence expiry/full surrender on 22/1/2006.
Exploration of three small licence subareas located near Cleve, Rudall and Verran has targeted possible Palaeoproterozoic stratiform or hydrothermal base and precious metal deposits hosted within Hutchison Group metasediments. Interpretation of 1979...-
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