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RB 89/00084 Geology of St Peter and Goat Islands (Nuyts Archipelago) and Cape Beaufort.
Outcrops of Proterozoic rocks consist of a complex suite of comagmatic intrusives which exhibit a variable degree of deformation and are correlated with the Early Proterozoic Lincoln Complex. On southern Saint Peter Island, felsic volcanics,...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1989
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Nuckulla Hill. Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 12/7/2004 to 11/7/2009.
As part of a search for possible Tunkillia type structurally-controlled buried gold deposits within an area located approximately 120 km north-east of Ceduna, licensee Southern Gold targeted geochemical and geophysical anomalies that had previously...-
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Published: 27 Oct 1909
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 2 partnership DPY2-21, Yarlbrinda Shear Zone, subsidiary fault plays, Tunkillia - style gold prospects. Project final report.
It has lately been recognised by explorers that subsidiary fault splays developed adjacent to the main Yarlbrinda Shear Zone may be more prospective for hydrothermal gold deposits than the main zone. In an approved PACE Initiative Year 2 drilling...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 2 partnership DPY2-45, Old Well and New Well shear-associated gold mineral prospects. Project final report.
The Yarlbrinda and Yerda Shear Zones of the central Gawler Craton, partly present within EL 3107 in the Tarcoola-Glenloth-Lake Harris region, were the target for a number of mineral exploratory drillholes put down there by by licence farminee Minotaur...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 3 partnership DPY3-57, Streaky Bay area gravity highs and lows - IOCG and sedimentary uranium mineral prospects. Project final report.
As part of the PACE Initiative Year 3 subsidised drilling programmes, Minotaur Exploration proposed exploring a large tenement package in the Streaky Bay area simultaneously for Prominent Hill style iron oxide copper gold (IOCG) and palaeochannel...-
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Streaky Bay (part of the Streaky Bay Project). Second partial surrender report for the period 31/1/2006 to 30/1/2009.
Exploration being carried out in two subareas located at and extending south-east from Streaky Bay township is addressing the potential for finding possible buried iron oxide - associated copper-gold(-uranium) mineral deposits hosted within inferred...-
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Published: 24 Sep 1909
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Flinders Island and Flinders Island Coast. Annual, joint annual and combined annual reports for the period 4/1/1999 to 3/1/2009.
A renewed effort to determine the diamond mineral potential of the 15.6 square km of land comprising Flinders Island was instigated during January 1999, under tenure of EL 2577, by Orogenic Exploration Pty Ltd, a company related to the previous...-
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Published: 06 Jun 1909
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Nuckulla Hill. Partial surrender report for the period 6/12/1994 to 5/12/1998.
Regional stream sediment, rock chip and calcrete sampling in the western and north-eastern parts of the Nuckulla Hill licence returned weakly anomalous values. The prospectivity of the surrendered ground for base and precious metals was considered to...-
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Poochera. Annual reports to licence full surrender, for the period 8/1/1996 to 15/1/2000.
As part of a search for structurally related Ernest Henry - style Cu-Au mineralisation and other possible polymetallic deposits, analysis of aeromagnetic data obtained from an area 60-100 km east to north-east of Streaky Bay indicated the presence of...-
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Yumbarra (part of Gawler Joint Venture Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 5/1/2000 to 4/1/2003.
A prominent (> 7000 nT), multi-featured, and also geomorphically expressed aeromagnetic anomaly of undoubted prime exploration potential was discovered within the Yumbarra Conservation Park as a result of detailed low level aeromagnetic surveys...-
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Streaky Bay Lakes. Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal on 18/2/1999: progress reports for the period 19/2/1993 to 18/2/1995.
At the subject licence's Year 6 expiry/renewal on 18/2/1999, a partial relinquishment of 190 square km or ~49.35% of the former area of EL 2489 was effected, in the form of two separate ground portions covering its northern and southern ends. To...-
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Published: 13 Mar 1900
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Smoky Bay. Progress and surrender reports for the period 1/5/1997 to 1/9/2000.
Exploration in an area centred on Smoky Bay, 40 km south-east of Ceduna, targeted shear - hosted mineralisation associated with granitoids of the Hiltaba and St Peter Suites. Several lineaments were identified from aeromagnetic data. Undertaking...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1900
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Ceduna. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 31/8/1996 to 17/7/2000.
Joint venture exploration over an area extending for 40, 35 and 50 km respectively west, north and east of Ceduna targeted Archaean and Proterozoic Yarlbrinda - style Au and Ernest Henry / Olympic Dam style Cu-Au associated with shear zones and...-
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Minnipa. Annual reports submitted until the commencement of joint reporting for the nine licences comprising the Adelaide Resources - Newmont Australia Eyre Peninsula JV Project, for the period 7/6/1996 to 20/9/2003.
During licence Year 4, to 6th June 2000, Adelaide Resource Limited acquired EL 2188 “Minnipa” from Newcrest Mining 18/1/2000. The attraction of the tenement was in the discovery of high-quality gold-in-calcrete anomaly discovered in earlier...-
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The Venus Bay Project. Respective joint annual and subsequent individual [for Venus Bay] annual reports to that remaining licence's expiry/full surrender, for the period 26/4/2002 to 16/9/2012.
Renewed diamond exploration has been conducted in a part of the western Eyre Peninsula where numerous kimberlite indicator mineral (KIM) anomalies occur in surficial sediments, and where the four adjoining licence areas involved lie in close proximity...-
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Published: 26 Nov 1912
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Ceduna (part of Eucla Basin tenement Group 2). Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 26/4/2006 to 17/4/2017.
The remnant portion of EL 4962, which is centred ~30 km north-east of Ceduna, has now been fully surrendered owing to a perceived lack of prospectivity for economic detrital zircon entrapped there within Tertiary Eucla Basin sediments. During the...-
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Published: 14 Jun 1917
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Whichelby. Annual reports for the period 18/9/2012 to 17/9/2015.
An area centred ~20 km east of Streaky Bay is being explored for bulk commodity industrial minerals deposits including gypsum and kaolin. The Carey’s Well kaolin deposit (Measured Resource 16.3 Mt of “bright white” kaolinised granite) is located ~8 km...-
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Published: 08 Feb 1916
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Penong B area and Yumbarra (part of the Eucla Basin Project tenement Group 2). Joint final report at licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/11/2012 to 15/11/2017.
Two adjoining areas located north of Koonibba were taken up to explore this part of the south-eastern Eucla Basin for possible buried economic marine placer deposits of heavy mineral sands (HM), because they were believed to contain shallow or exposed...-
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Published: 12 Sep 1917
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Whichelby (part of the Poochera Kaolin Project). Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/9/2012 to 17/9/2022.
The Great White Kaolin Project (previously the Poochera Kaolin Project), until recently, comprised four Exploration Licences operated by Andromeda Industrial Minerals Pty Ltd, namely, EL 6096 Whichelby, EL 6202 Mount Hall, EL 6426 Mount Cooper and EL...-
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Published: 03 Dec 1922
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Poochera Industrial Minerals Project. Annual reportS, for the period 1/9/2015 to 31/8/2018.
Exploration activity on Exploration Licences 5016 (Whichelby), 5308 (Mount Hall), 5398 (Sceales), 5787 (Yanerbie) and 5814 (Tootla) is focused on gypsum and kaolin deposits. The tenements are grouped in the Poochera Project Amalgamated Expenditure...-
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