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RB 55/00006;Amdel 00126 Accessory minerals of South Australian granites.
The purpose of the work described was to compare and contrast the petrography, accessory minerals, and absolute ages of 25 granitic and allied rock samples collected from widely scattered localities in South Australia. The processes that are...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1961
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 3 partnership DPY3-04, Churchill Dam area iron oxide - associated copper-gold and uranium mineral prospect. Project interim and final reports.
EL 3511 licensee Debnal and its joint venture partner Venture Minerals are exploring an area of the eastern Gawler Craton having a predicted high potential for the discovery of Olympic Dam type iron oxide - associated copper-gold-uranium (IOCG-U)...-
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Unlocking South Australia's Mineral and Energy Potential - A Plan for Accelerating Exploration. Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry) : Year 4 partnership no. DPY4-65, Chianti mineral prospect. Project completion dataset.
The subject set of reports describes the results of PACE Initiative Year 4 partly-subsidised drilling work conducted in the vicinity of the Chianti prospect, which lies approx. 20 km north of the old Mount Gunson mining camp. The aim of this work,...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Yeltacowie (part of the Mount Gunson Project). Annual reports for the period 30/7/2003 to 6/10/2009.
The subject EL 3112 ground represents the continuation of tenure by Gunson Resources, over the same area, from its former EL 2516 Yeltacowie (for which see the relevant licence reports previously released in Envs 9530 and 9715). This replacement...-
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Wipipippee Hill. First partial surrender report, for the period 3/5/2012 to 2/5/2016.
Two separate blocks of ground in the centre and the east of EL 4865, together comprising ~43% of the original area of the licence, have now been relinquished. To date, exploration work undertaken generally on the licence has focused on data...-
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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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Tarcoola - Tallaringa Bedrock Drilling Project.
Archaean, Early and Middle Proterozoic rocks of the north-western Gawler Craton have features which suggest good prospectivity for base metals, precious metals and other commodities. However, outcrop is poor and there has been relatively little...-
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Unalla Hill, Moonaree and South Lake Gairdner (Lake Gairdner Project). Annual and final reports for the period 25/10/96 to 24/10/99.
Exploration targeted Olympic Dam style mineralisation associated with Hiltaba Suite intrusives and Gawler Range Volcanics at the southern end of Lake Gairdner, between Mount Ive and Moonaree. Sampling of poorly developed calcrete together with rock...-
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Published: 02 Dec 1998
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Roopena and Iron Knob. Joint progress reports, joint annual reports and final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 22/4/1992 to 23/2/2000.
Exploration for Mount Isa style, Fe-oxide associated Cu-Au mineralisation has targeted Whyalla Group metasediments and associated Hiltaba Suite granitic intrusions within a 110 km long x 15 km wide, north - south aligned corridor situated west of...-
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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] : Oak Dam North-east. Annual reports for the period 18/1/2006 to 17/1/2011.
A relatively large but little-explored area of the central-eastern Stuart Shelf, which is almost wholly covered by scrubby sand dunes and swampy salt lakes, thereby making surface access very difficult despite it being located only ~30 km to 50 km km...-
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Published: 16 Mar 1911
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Gilles Downs. Annual reports to licence full surrender, for the period 15/2/2012 to 3/5/2016.
An area centred ~90 km south-west of Port Augusta has been explored for possible buried economic epithermal silver mineralisation and porphyry style Cu-Au mineralisation similar to that found recently by Investigator Resources at the Paris deposit...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1916
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Menninnie Dam (part of the Fleurieu - Menninnie Dam Exploration Joint Venture Project). Annual reports for the period 24/9/2001 to 23/9/2005.
The buried Menninnie Dam zinc-lead(-silver-copper) deposit, located approximately 55 km north of Kimba on northern Eyre Peninsula, and sitting adjacent to the south-eastern margin of the Gawler Ranges, is being evaluated for its future commercial...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Acropolis South and North Roxby. Joint annual reports for the period 26/4/2003 to 3/5/2009.
Exploration for possible economic deposits of buried, Mesoproterozoic basement-hosted IOCG-U style mineralisation is being conducted over two separate multiple-block licence areas in the Olympic Dam district, EL 2931 (Acropolis South) and EL 2932...-
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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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Uno Range (part of the East Eyre Peninsula Project). First partial surrender report, for the period 1/8/2011 to 31/7/2018.
A licence consisting of two separate sub-blocks located ~30 km west-northwest of Iron Knob is being explored for possible economic buried Paris type epithermal/hydrothermal gold and silver mineralisation, as well as for Menninnie Dam type...-
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Published: 05 Oct 1918
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Mount Kolendo [not "Taringa"] (part of the Menninnie Zinc Project). Annual reports for the period 21/2/2011 to 20/2/2013.
An area located adjacent to the southern margin of the Gawler Ranges, that includes some exposures of Mesoproterozoic Gawler Range Volcanics (GRV), and which at its southern boundary lies approximately 15 km north-east of the Menninnie Dam Pb-Zn-Ag...-
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Data release (in part made in lieu of submitting a second partial surrender report) : Uno Range (part of the East Eyre Peninsula Project). Annual reports for the period 1/8/2011 to 31/7/2020.
A licence consisting of two separate sub-blocks located ~30 km west-northwest of Iron Knob is being explored for possible economic buried Paris type epithermal/hydrothermal gold and silver mineralisation, as well as for Menninnie Dam type...-
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Published: 18 Dec 1920
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Data release - as updated : Western Lake Gairdner. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/2/2011 to 21/2/2018.
An area centred ~100 km south-east of Tarcoola is being explored for possible economic buried Carrapateena or Prominent Hill style IOCG and polymetallic skarn style mineralisation which may be associated with zones of elevated relief seen in existing...-
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Published: 29 May 1918
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Data release - as updated : Lake Harris. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 15/2/2012 to 14/2/2019.
An area centred ~90 km south-east of Tarcoola and adjacent to the western shore of Lake Gairdner is being explored for possible economic buried Carrapateena or Prominent Hill style IOCG and polymetallic skarn style mineralisation which may be...-
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Published: 20 Mar 1919