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Cleve. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 27/2/1986 to 27/9/1994.
Diamond exploration undertaken near Cleve on eastern Eyre Peninsula comprised stream and loam mineralogical and geochemical sampling, the reprocessing of Pancontinental's 1979 aeromagnetic survey data, and the conduct of ground magnetic surveys and...-
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RB 45/00118 Final report on iron ore prospecting, Corunna area, Iron Knob district.
In an area of limited basement outcrop located between 2 and 5 miles north-northwest of Iron Knob township, the Department's surface traverse channel sampling (969'), percussion boring (643’) and diamond drilling (1270’) tested a low grade...-
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Published: 04 Dec 1957
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Botenella Range (now part of the Wilcherry Hill JV Project). Progress, annual and final reports to the commencement of the project licences' combined reporting status, for the period 14/2/1991 to 18/9/2002.
Exploration of an area lying west of Lake Gilles concentrated initially on assessing its potential for hosting syngenetic Palaeoproterozoic stratiform base metal deposits along perceived stratigraphic extensions of the beds containing the recently...-
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Published: 16 Oct 1903
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Data release - as updated : Lake Gilles (part of the East Eyre [Peninsula] Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/12/2005 to 28/11/2016.
Exploration aimed primarily for economic buried Menninnie Dam - style base and precious metals mineralisation hosted by Palaeoproterozoic metasedimentary basement has been conducted on a licence located in the Lake Gilles district. The subject area...-
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Published: 11 Jan 1917
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Mount Miccollo, Tin Hut Hill, Eurilla Dam, Wilcherry Hill, Uno, Peterlumbo and Mount Double (the Wilcherry Hill Project). Joint annual reports for the period 1/11/2002 to 31/10/2018.
During Year 6 of the project, Trafford Resources designed their drilling program to test the extent of the Pb/Zn/Ag/U mineralisation at the Telephone Dam Prospect, while JV partners Ironclad Mining’s drilling program was designed to define the Direct...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Lake Gilles. Annual reports submitted until the commencement of the Eurilla JV Project licences' joint reporting, for the period 30/1/2007 to 29/1/2010.
A sparsely drill-tested area centred about 10 km west of Lake Gilles is being explored for a variety of buried, possibly economic basement-hosted polymetallic mineralisation occurrences, including deposits of Menninnie Dam style Pb-Zn-Ag (Cu-Au),...-
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Published: 30 Mar 1910
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Cummins. Annual reports and final report to licence surrender, for the period 10/1/1997 to 16/3/1999.
Thick and often unconsolidated cover sequences of Bridgewater, Uley and Wanilla Formations prevented systematic regolith sampling of much of the area between Wanilla and Peachna, 40 km north-west of Port Lincoln, while no coherent base metal anomalies...-
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Lake Gilles (part of the East Eyre Peninsula Project). Second partial surrender report, for the period 22/12/2005 to 13/9/2016.
Approximately one-third of the southernmost sub-block 'D' of the subject EL 5109 has been relinquished to comply with expenditure commitments made for the East Eyre Peninsula Project. Activities within the now relinquished area have consisted of...-
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Published: 10 Oct 1916
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Hill - Tod River area. Annual reports [to the commencement of the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project licences' combined reporting status] for the period 13/3/2002 to 12/3/2005.
An area which has had little exploration for iron ore done previously was taken up by Centrex Metals Ltd to cover potentially magnetite-rich Early Proterozoic banded iron formation (BIF) strata outcrops and subcrop located within the Lincoln Uplands...-
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Menninnie Dam (part of the Fleurieu - Menninnie Dam Exploration Joint Venture Project). Combined annual report for the 5-year period 24/9/2005 to 26/10/2010, plus annual reports for the period 27/10/2010 to 26/10/2012.
During the 5-year period 2005-2010, intensified exploration undertaken at Menninnie Dam was focussed on the discovery and delineation of structurally controlled hydrothermal Pb-Zn-Ag mineralisation. Carbonate-rich Hutchison Group metasediments forming...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Karkarook. Combined annual and annual reports to licence expiry/renewal/full surrender, for the period 24/6/2004 to 1/9/2014.
A area centred ~ 25 km west of Cleve is being explored for possible buried economic sediment-hosted or basement unconformity - related uranium mineralisation. The tenement covers part of the Driver River and Driver River Pan which contains a...-
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Published: 26 Sep 1914
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Caralue and Kimba (the Ellemby Project, prior to inclusion as part of the East Eyre Peninsula Project). Joint annual reports for the period 6/11/2007 to 5/11/2010.
Two adjacent areas which are respectively centred near and to the south-west of Kimba are being explored for buried basement-hosted gold and nickel mineralisation, and, following establishment of a joint venture, for possible IOCG type deposits and...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Gum Flat. Annual reports submitted prior to the commencement of joint reporting on the Gum Flat Iron Ore Project, for the period 27/9/2005 to 26/9/2008.
An area lying immediately west of Port Lincoln and extending for ~10 km inland is being explored for buried occurrences of multiple metallic mineral commodities that may have been deposited within faulted, folded and metamorphosed Archaean basement...-
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Published: 20 Nov 1907
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mullaquana (part of the Mullaquana, later called Samphire, Uranium Project). Annual reports for the period 20/11/2009 to 19/11/2018.
During licence Year 4, UraniumSA undertook the following work on EL 3652: - pattern drilling of 232 rotary mud holes totalling 18,416 m, targeting the Blackbush and Plumbush prospects. - core drilling totalling 876 m in 8 holes, to characterise...-
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Published: 03 Dec 1918
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Cummins. Annual reports for the period 13/2/2007 to 12/2/2009.
A licence comprising three sub-blocks centred ~15 km north-east of Cummins and 70 km north-northwest of Port Lincoln is being explored for a wide range of metallic minerals that may exist as economic deposits in buried basement rocks. The ground has...-
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Published: 24 Mar 1909
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Pondooma / Ironstone Hut (part of the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 3/12/2002 to 24/9/2015.
An area originally granted as Exploration Licence 3048 Pondooma, which consisted of two separate sub-blocks centred ~60 km south-west of Whyalla, was applied for to cover a poorly exposed belt of banded iron formation (BIF) strata identified on...-
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Cockabidnie North (part of the Cockabidnie JV Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 23/8/2010 to 22/8/2015.
The subject very small licence area, located approximately 25 km north-west of Cleve, and which lies within the northern part of the NNE trending Kimban Campoona Syncline region located on central Eyre Peninsula, has been explored, in concert with...-
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Published: 06 Oct 1915
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Carappee Hill. Annual reports for the period 17/10/2003 to 19/2/2010.
Paleoproterozoic metasediments of the Hutchison Group, and Lincoln Complex granitoids, were the targets of exploration for gold, base metals, and granite dimension stone in an area 40 km south of Kimba. In reporting year 3 for EL 2858, no field work...-
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Published: 04 Mar 1910
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Nonning (latterly part of Terramin's Menninnie Zinc Project). Annual reports for the period 30/3/2006 to 30/11/2012.
An area centred ~70 km north of Kimba, which also lies about 7 km north of the Menninnie Dam lead-zinc-silver deposit, was taken up to explore for possible buried economic volcanic epithermal/hydrothermal Mesoproterozoic Fe-rich Cu-Au mineralisation...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Lipson Cove. Annual reports for the period 29/9/2009 to 28/9/2014.
An area in the Cowell Hills centred ~20 km north of Tumby Bay on eastern Eyre Peninsula was taken up primarily to explore and evaluate known talc and graphite occurrences, but the grant licensee's initial review of previous exploration data revealed...-
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Published: 12 Dec 1914
