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South Vivian [Homestead]. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/6/2007 to 11/6/2009.
An area located on the northern Stuart Shelf between Olympic Dam and Prominent Hill, approx. 50 km south-southwest of the latter, has been explored for possible Olympic Dam type iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposits and for Canadian...-
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Published: 17 Oct 1909
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Port Broughton, Redhill and Mount Remarkable - Port Augusta areas (part of the Moonta North Project ELs combined reporting group). Annual reports and joint final report at licences' surrender, for the period 19/4/2002 to 22/5/2006.
Economic deposits of iron-oxide associated copper-gold mineralisation of the Moonta-Wallaroo or Olympic Dam style, hosted in Palaeoproterozoic basement rocks of the Moonta Sub-domain, were targeted by exploration in three now surrendered licences,...-
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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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Mount Paisley (part of the Mount Woods Project). Fourth partial surrender report for the period 23/3/2000 to 8/8/2009.
Exploration Licence 3387 (Mt Paisley) is located about 110 km north-west of Woomera, 110 km west-northwest of Olympic Dam, and 45 km south-east of Prominent Hill. The EL lies within the Woomera Prohibited Area (WPA), and most of the tenement covers...-
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Mount Arden (part of the Six Mile Hill Project). First annual report, plus second annual/final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/10/2014 to 12/10/2016.
An irregular area covering pastoral land ~15 km to the immediate west and north-west of Port Augusta has been explored for possible economic buried IOCG and other significant metallic mineralisation, which could have formed in the vicinity of the...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 1 partnership DPY1-36, Roopena area copper/gold mineral prospects. Project interim and final reports.
Three previously untested, significant gravity anomalies were the targets for 4 exploratory vertical RC drillholes totalling 750 m, put down in areas west and north-west of Whyalla by Minotaur Exploration with funding assistance from PIRSA through its...-
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Maitland. First partial surrender report, for the period 25/8/2008 to 24/8/2015.
58 square km of the Area C southernmost sub-block of EL 5320 have been relinquished to compensate for a shortfall in exploration spending against commitments. During the past seven years, the only work performed on the relinquished ground was the...-
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Published: 20 Mar 1916
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Data release - as updated : Crystal Brook and Port Pirie (the Wandearah Project). Joint annual reports to licences' respective full surrenders, for the period 2/8/2008 to 26/4/2018.
Buried basement-hosted iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) mineralisation of either Moonta-Wallaroo or Olympic Dam style is the target of ongoing exploration on the two adjacent subject tenements. In addition, the current holder considers that...-
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Published: 29 May 1918
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Data release - as updated : Maitland (the Yorke Peninsula Copper Project). Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 25/8/2008 to 24/8/2017.
An area of the western Yorke Peninsula, comprising three separate sub-blocks, was taken up to explore for possible economic buried IOCG-U deposits similar to those at Hillside (located 25 km to the east of sub-block 'B'), Olympic Dam, Prominent Hill...-
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Published: 18 Oct 1917
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PACE 2020 Discovery Drilling 2012 : Year 7 Drilling Partnership no. DPY7-18 - Phoenix Copper Limited Yorke Peninsula Project. Drilling project final report.
Phoenix Copper is exploring tenements which cover an area of approximately 802 square km on the west coast of the Yorke Peninsula, the company's prime objective being to discover an economic iron oxide - associated copper-gold-uranium (IOCGU) deposit...-
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Published: 13 Nov 1912
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mullaquana (part of the Mullaquana, later called Samphire, Uranium Project). Annual reports for the period 20/11/2009 to 19/11/2018.
During licence Year 4, UraniumSA undertook the following work on EL 3652: - pattern drilling of 232 rotary mud holes totalling 18,416 m, targeting the Blackbush and Plumbush prospects. - core drilling totalling 876 m in 8 holes, to characterise...-
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Published: 03 Dec 1918
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The Gawler Craton Project [Part]. Data release made in lieu of partial surrender/joint annual reports for the period 3/2/2010 to 1/2/2019, plus letters giving permission to release owed licence partial relinquishment and surrender reports.
As part of a regional search for possible major deposits of IOCG type mineralisation, Golden Cross Resources took up six exploration tenements in the northern Gawler Craton that lie to the north and north-east of Coober Pedy, and which are within or...-
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Published: 23 Jun 1915
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Port Hughes. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 29/11/2010 to 17/8/2017.
A licence consisting of three separate small sub-blocks that cover a large number of freehold broad-acre farms in the Bute - Agery - Moonta South district has been explored for possible buried economic IOCG mineralisation, which may have formed on or...-
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Published: 31 Aug 1917
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Parakylia. First annual report for the period 8/10/2012 to 7/10/2013.
An area centred ~20 km west-northwest of the Olympic Dam copper-gold-uranium mine is being explored for possible economic, similar IOCG type mineralisation that may have formed in buried Mesoproterozoic basement, but underlying much thicker cover than...-
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Published: 04 Dec 1913
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Mount Eba. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/6/2012 to 17/6/2017.
No new work - licensee only made reviews of existing data. Westernx’s primary exploration target was IOCG-U mineralisation hosted in haematite-magnetite breccia complexes. EL 4915 was selected due to its location on the boundary of the Olympic...-
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Published: 31 Aug 1917
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Playford South-East. Annual reports for the period 25/7/2014 to 24/7/2016.
An area centred ~130 km north of Woomera, and which lies ~45 km north-west of the Olympic Dam mine, is being explored for possible economic buried IOCG-U type mineralisation. No field work was conducted during the first licence year. Instead,...-
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Published: 08 Sep 1916
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Port Hughes, Minlaton and Ardrossan (part of the Pine Point Project). Combined progress report at the full surrender of the first-named licence, and the partial surrenders of the other two, for the period 19/4/2002 to 31/5/2021.
No work by Rex Minerals on the now surrendered ground has occurred since that described in the most recent Sunset Clause data release made in December 2021; all previous work on the project for the period 2004 to 2008, then reported by Avoca Minerals,...-
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RB 2021/00001 Precise zircon U-Pb geochronology of Hiltaba Suite granites, Point Riley, Yorke Peninsula.
This report provides a summary of high precision chemical abrasion - isotope dilution thermal ionisation mass spectrometry (CA-IDTIMS) U-Pb geochronology which has been performed on zircons from three samples taken from the eastern Gawler Craton. The...-
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Published: 01 May 2021
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RB 2020/00015 Reconnaissance zircon U-Pb geochronology of the southeastern Olympic Cu-Au Province, South Australia.
The eastern Gawler Craton is the location of the Olympic Cu-Au Province, a world-class metallogenic province known for iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposits such as Olympic Dam, Prominent Hill and Carrapateena (Skirrow et al., 2007;...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2020
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RB 96/00046 Metasomatites, magmatites, metasediments and metavolcanics : the Palaeo-Mesoproterozoic geology of the Moonta - Wallaroo Cu-Au district. Geological Society of Australia, SA Division. Field excursion, 30-31 March 1996.
Rock alteration to strata on the northern Yorke Peninsula, which appears to have been caused by an event which spanned the Palaeo-Mesoproterozoic boundary (~1600 Ma), was responsible for emplacing much of the mineralisation found in the...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1996
