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Lake Phillipson area. Progress and technical reports for the periods 23/11/1978 to 22/11/1980, and 12/2/1981 to 11/5/1982. [forms Part 2 of a SADME - compiled Lake Phillipson coal deposit data package released in December 1994].
The licensee's 1981 coal search programme at Lake Phillipson had the following objectives: - delineation of the total extent of the coal measures; - resolution of seam stratigraphy and correlation of seams between the Main and West Areas; -...-
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Millers Creek Homestead. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/3/1980 to 28/3/1986.
Following a review of existing regional geophysical and geological data for the north-western Stuart Shelf, grid-based gravity and ground magnetic surveys were run to further outline two broad gravity highs associated with discrete magnetic anomalies,...-
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Mabel Creek. Annual and final progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 3/12/1999 to 2/12/2003.
As part of an exploration project targeting possible large-scale opal occurrences hidden at depth beneath marine shale outcrops in the Stuart Range 'Breakaway' country, the subject licence was taken up to cover certain ground lying adjacent to the...-
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Published: 25 Jun 1903
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 3 partnership DPY3-15, Peake and Denison Inliers western flank Mesozoic sedimentary uranium mineral prospects. Project final report.
Approved PACE Initiative Year 3 drilling proposal DPY3-15 aimed to discover a roll-front style uranium deposit hosted in Mesozoic sandstones flanking the exposed radiogenic Peake and Denison Inliers, that is amenable to mining by in-situ leach...-
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Published: 13 Apr 1907
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Ely Hill and Ant Hill. Combined and separate annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 10/1/1997 to 17/12/2004.
The subject adjacent licence areas, located approximately 55 km north-northeast of Coober Pedy, were the first tenements taken out for regional opal exploration under the provisions of the newly proclaimed South Australian Opal Mining Act 1997. The...-
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Published: 17 Dec 1904
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 5 partnership DPY5-07 - northern Gawler Craton - Welbourn Hill and Nicholson Hill magnetic/gravity anomalies IOCG-U mineral prospects. Project final report.
As part of a search for possible high crustal level, Olympic Dam - type IOCG deposits hosted by Mesoproterozoic basement rocks, Eromanga Uranium undertook deep diamond drill testing of two large, semi-coincident magnetic/gravity anomalies recognised...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Paralana Creek (part of the Beverley Project). Annual reports for the period 29/9/2009 to 15/11/2015.
Work undertaken on EL 4378 during the 2009-2010 reporting year included the drilling of 478 vertical rotary mud holes totalling 132,960 m, and core drilling totalling 4117 m performed in 16 of these holes for stratigraphic unit / resource...-
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Published: 24 Dec 1915
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Dewatering investigations, Lake Phillipson area, South Australia.
An initial investigation programme aimed at obtaining hydraulic data from part of the Lake Phillipson Permian coal field been successfully completed. The initial area under consideration for mining is of approximately 130 hectares within the Western...-
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Abminga Diamond Project. Data release made at licence renewal [and project cessation]: progress reports and annual reports for the period 25/10/1993 to 17/3/2004.
The Abminga Diamond Project, undertaken by Caldera Resources NL, was granted exploration project status, including permission for EL joint reporting, in July 1996. This event followed up to two years of work by other operators on a number of...-
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Starvation Lake. Progress reports and final report on regional exploration programme at licence surrender, for the period 13/1/1972 to 31/7/1972.
In a search for possible economic roll-front, blanket style uranium deposits within Tertiary sediments in part of the eastern Frome Embayment, the licensee undertook 1:75,000 scale geological mapping and exploratory auger drilling of the Quaternary...-
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Report on preliminary feasibility study of use and mining of coal from deposits in an area near Lake Phillipson, South Australia.
Exploration drilling by Utah Development Co. during 1973 and 1974 in the area covered by EL 125 has outlined at least 2,000 million tonnes of medium quality steaming coal, of a quality considered to be comparable to that for coal from ETSA's Leigh...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 1 partnership DPY1-47 - [prospecting for] water in Permian palaeochannels draining the Mount Woods Inlier. Project final report.
Development of the Prominent Hill copper-gold deposit in the Mount Woods region will require an adequate source of water to support planned mining and ore processing operations, currently estimated to involve at least 6 million tonnes of ore per year....-
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Published: 10 Jun 1905
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[Results of in-house] Bench scale epsomite testwork.
Results of a programme of laboratory scale testwork conducted to investigate fresh water leaching of epsomite ore originating from Coober Pedy in South Australia are as follows: 1). The ore when leached readily producing brines of uniform...-
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Published: 16 Apr 1986
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Lake Frome Project. Individual licence annual reports, joint annual reports and final reports to various constituent licences' joint full surrenders, for the period 16/4/2009 to 5/6/2015.
An area centred ~36 km west of Quinyambie Homestead has been explored for possible buried economic sedimentary uranium mineralisation of palaeochannel hosted roll-front style that may have formed in relatively more distal Tertiary basinal sediments,...-
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Published: 30 Mar 1915
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Data release - as updated : England Hill, Arckaringa and Copper Hill (the Arckaringa Coal Project). Joint annual reports and joint final report to licences' expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/6/2005 to 6/6/2019.
Under a new strategic focus, three licence areas covering three Early Permian buried coal deposits located at Wintinna, Westfield and Murloocoppie in the northern part of the Arckaringa Basin, ~120 km north of Coober Pedy, have been evaluated both for...-
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Published: 29 Aug 1919
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Data release - as updated : Boundary Dam. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/7/2007 to 29/7/2016.
A small area centred ~130 km north of Marla, and abutting the Northern Territory border along the northern side of Tieyon Station, has been explored for possible economic buried secondary uranium deposits, which Tianda Uranium (Tianda) thought could...-
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Conference poster - [Phanerozoic] Geology of the Peake and Denison Ranges area.
This poster was exhibited to accompany a talk presented by the authors at the 1st Eromanga Basin Symposium, Adelaide, 9-11 November 1982 (the talk abstract is indexed separately).-
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Giddi Giddinna Creek. Progress reports and technical reports to licence expiry/lapse of tenure, for the period 16/6/1983 to 23/9/1987.
In early 1983, mineral prospector Peter Tayler discovered a near-surface secondary occurrence of magnesium and sodium sulphates in a creek-bank exposure of Mesozoic shales, deposited at the base of the Lower Cretaceous Bulldog Shale near the western...-
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Published: 23 Jun 1987
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Wuroopie 1. Test reports.
Contains results of the general maceral analysis and vitrinite reflectance studies performed on 15 composite drill cuttings samples taken from selected intervals between 3810 and 6540 feet depth.-
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Mount Denison. Progress and final surrender reports for the period 7/9/82 to 6/9/84.
In a search for possible diamondiferous Jurassic kimberlites in an area of the Lake Eyre Plains bordering the eastern side of the Peake and Denison Ranges, limited reconnaissance sampling of stream sediments revealed that kimberlitic indicator...-
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