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RB 91/00081 Eyre Peninsula. A brief review of mining and mineral potential.
Several commodities are currently mined on Eyre Peninsula including iron ore, dolomite, graphite, lime sand, gypsum, silica, granite, nephrite jade, talc and salt. Historically, copper, lead, silver and gold have also been mined and there are known...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1991
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 3 partnership DPY3-01, Central Eyre Peninsula (Karkarook area) Mesoproterozoic unconformity - style sedimentary uranium mineral prospects. Project interim and final reports.
Investigation of the potential of a known surface radiometrically-anomalous area 20 km west-southwest of Cleve to contain unconformity - style uranium mineralisation, inferred to occur at and just above the subsurface stratigraphic contact of...-
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Published: 31 Mar 1907
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Colton. Combined third annual / final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 26/4/2002 to 25/4/2005.
Exploration for possible diamondiferous kimberlite in the Colton area of western Eyre Peninsula, located approximately 95 km south-east of Streaky Bay and 35 km north-east of Flinders Island, has formed part of a regional search by Orogenic...-
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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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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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Cockabidnie North. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/1/2006 to 17/1/2010.
A small (11 square km) area located approximately 40 km south of Kimba has been explored for possible economic uranium, gold or base metal deposits, including Menninnie Dam style lead-zinc-silver mineralisation, that may have formed in Archaean to...-
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Published: 12 Mar 1910
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PACE 2020 Initiative : PACE Targeting, Year 1 partnership no. 16 - Cockabidnie Project airborne 25Hz TEMPEST electromagnetic geophysical survey. Project PT1-16 final report.
To help with exploration of the ~ 5 km long, NNE trending Kimban Campoona Syncline region located on central Eyre Peninsula, to look for a large range of potentially economic basement-hosted polymetallic and other mineral occurrences including iron...-
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Published: 15 Oct 1912
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Alsbra Park. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/11/2009 to 11/11/2013.
No field work - desktop technical studies only, plus negotiations with local stakeholders and with potential joint venturers, were carried out over the 4-year tenure period.-
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Published: 18 Nov 1913
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Campoona (part of the Cockabidnie Project). Third partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 6/8/2007 to 5/8/2012.
The subject relinquished licence portion, located about 25 km west-northwest of Cleve, was originally applied for by Lincoln Minerals because it might be prospective for a large range of polymetallic mineral occurrences including iron ore, Menninnie...-
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Published: 21 Nov 1912
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Data release - as updated : Cockabidnie. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 31/5/2001 to 13/8/2015.
Early in 2001, Helix Resources Ltd entered into a joint venture agreement with Centrex Resources Limited to allow it to explore for precious and base metals on some of the tenements held by Centrex on the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia, including...-
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Verran. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/11/2009 to 11/11/2013.
No field work - desktop technical studies only, plus negotiations with local stakeholders and with potential joint venturers, were carried out over the 4-year tenure period.-
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Published: 18 Nov 1913
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Kielpa (part of the Cowell Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 5/12/2005 to 20/3/2014.
An area centred about 25 km west of Cleve has been explored for possible buried Athabasca Basin type unconformity - style uranium mineralisation, which it was thought might have formed in a fairly deep (> 200 m) geological setting where...-
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Published: 18 Jun 1914
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Elliston. Annual reports and final report to licence surrender, for the period 31/1/2006 to 24/9/2012.
The coastal area to the north of Elliston on Eyre Peninsula was taken under licence by Afmeco Mining and Exploration (AFMEX) to explore for possible economic buried Athabasca Basin style unconformity-type uranium mineralisation that might have formed...-
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Published: 13 Dec 1912
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RB 2002/00007 The Palaeo-Mesoproterozoic geology of northern Yorke Peninsula, South Australia. Hiltaba Suite - related alteration and mineralisation of the Moonta - Wallaroo Cu-Au district (Resources '96 Convention, Adelaide, geological field excursion
Returns from copper and gold won from the Moonta-Wallaroo district supported the South Australian economy from 1860-1920. During those 60 years some 355,000 t of copper and 2 t of gold were extracted from the twin mining fields of Wallaroo and Moonta:...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1996
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Polda. Final report to licence surrender for the period 26/4/2002 to 28/11/2004.
Exploration for possible diamondiferous kimberlite in an area located north of the previously discovered Mount Hope kimberlite field has consisted of a review of earlier indicator mineral sampling results, and limited drainage sampling at Mount Wedge...-
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RB 2008/00003 The Corunna Conglomerate, Gawler Craton: a review of the sedimentology and new U-Pb zircon geochronology.
The Corunna Conglomerate is a sequence of unmetamorphosed fluvial to shallow marine sediments, comprising conglomerates, sandstones and siltstones, which were deposited in active fault grabens in the eastern Gawler Craton. It is found on the...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2008
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ExpNotes LINCOLN: Explanatory Notes LINCOLN
The LINCOLN 1:250,000 scale regional geological map area covers southern Eyre Peninsula and includes numerous islands lying off its eastern, southern and western coasts. The region encompasses a complex geological history and contains a variety of...-
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