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Lake Cadibarrawirracanna. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 3/6/1980 to 2/12/1980.
Thirty-two shallow auger holes up to 2.76 m deep were drilled into the floor of Lake Cadibarrawirracanna, situated 70 km west of William Creek, in a search for possible potash-rich brines trapped by the lake sediments. The lacustrine sediments were...-
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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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Haggard Hill, Whymlet Well, Bon Bon Outstation, McDouall Peak and Phar Lap Outstation (the Kingoonya Project). Joint annual reports and final report to licences' surrender, for the period 21/6/2006 to 9/4/2010.
Exploration of a 4600 square km project area comprising five licences in two contiguous groups within the Kingoonya region has targeted two distinct styles of uranium mineralisation. The primary focus was on possible sandstone - hosted deposits within...-
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Published: 16 Apr 1910
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Mundowdna, Wilpoorinna and Dalarinna Hill (part of the Marree Project). Combined final report at licences' joint surrender, for the period 21/6/2006 to 20/3/2009.
Three areas located along the southern margin of the Eromanga Basin, east and south-east of Marree and adjacent to the Strzelecki Track, have been explored for possible economic sedimentary uranium accumulations in porous Mesozoic sandstones, as it...-
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Peake Creek. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/9/2005 to 15/9/2009.
An area located immediately west of the Denison Inlier of the Proterozoic Peake and Denison Ranges, approximately 70 km south-east of Oodnadatta, was explored for possible roll-front style sedimentary uranium deposits that may have formed within...-
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Published: 20 Oct 1909
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Edward Creek. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/9/2005 to 15/9/2009.
An area located immediately west of the Denison Inlier of the Proterozoic Peake and Denison Ranges, approximately 90 km south-east of Oodnadatta, was explored for possible roll-front style sedimentary uranium deposits that may have formed within...-
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Published: 20 Oct 1909
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ELs 4678 - 4689 (the Oodnadatta Project). Joint annual reports, plus final reports at licences' individual or joint full surrenders, for the period 22/2/2011 to 9/9/2014.
The Oodnadatta Project consisted originally of twelve exploration licenses covering 7125 square km in far northern South Australia, this mainly being ground situated to the south and south-east of Oodnadatta. Uranium Equities Limited (UEQ) believed...-
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Published: 28 Oct 1914
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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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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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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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PACE Copper Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 9 partnership DPY9-10 - northern Curnamona Province, Woolatchi magnetic anomaly Proterozoic basement IOCG mineral prospect. Drilling project final report.
The PACE Initiative Year 9 collaborative drilling project DPY9-10, which was undertaken between the Callabonna joint venture partners and DSD, aimed to discover a new copper-gold mineralised Iron Oxide Copper-Gold (IOCG) magmatic centre, similar in...-
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Published: 30 May 1917
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1981 seismic survey, Rainbow Plains, final report.
AIM:The 1981 Rainbow Plains Seismic Survey semi-detailed programme was designed by the PELs 5 and 6 Birdsville Track Ridge Block partners to further define the Haddon Downs structural feature, which in 1979 had been identified on regional line 79-QAM...-
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1980 seismic survey, Woolkanie, final report.
AIM:The 1980 Woolkanie Seismic Survey was primarily aimed at detailed gridding over areas of known commercial hydrocarbon accumulation, and more specifically was directed toward locating drilling exploration/appraisal sites on or near existing fields,...-
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Rawlinson Hill, Mount Sabine, Snow Hill and Billa Kalina Homestead (Stuart Shelf / Arckaringa Basin). Joint progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/2/1981 to 28/4/1987.
Over the report period Agip Australia completed the drilling and geophysical logging of 39 open rotary holes totalling 3845 m to investigate if economic coal seams occur within Permian sediments of the southern Arckaringa Basin. Although the Permian...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Paralana Creek (part of the Beverley Project). Annual reports and technical reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 29/8/1992 to 28/9/2009.
In the reporting period to 30th June 1995 for Exploration Licence 1944, Heathgate Pty Ltd completed no fieldwork, however geological evaluation work was undertaken. This work consisted of laboratory testing of drill core from a 1991 drilling program...-
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Published: 18 Jun 1910
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1980 seismic survey, Koomarinna, final report.
AIM:To define a variety of structures indicated by earlier regional seismic work (the 1976 Pillan Hill and 1979 Peera Peera Seismic Surveys), and establish three possible drilling locations.METHODS: Survey dates: 25/6/80 - 8/11/81. Energy source:...-
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1982 seismic survey, Christmas Creek, final report.
AIM:The 1982 Christmas Creek Seismic Survey was designed to cover a wide area of the sparsely explored western farmout blocks of PELs 5 and 6, where Eromanga Basin sediments thin and overly sub-basins of variously aged prospective sediments. Primary...-
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1979 seismic survey, Peera Peera, final report.
AIM:To extend the regional seismic grid to areas not previously covered by the Lake Thomas, Beal Hill and Pillan Hill surveys, to find leads for subsequent seismic detailing, and to investigate the regional structural configuration to allow further...-
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Petroleum exploration review, PEL 55, Eromanga Basin, South Australia.
This report examines the prospectivity of PEL 55 in considerable detail, in order to construct a dataset suitable for attracting new farminees so that outstanding drilling work on the licence may be progressed. The favourable setting of the licence...-
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