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High Bluff. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 9/1/1978 to 23/2/1985.
Exploration for possible Alligator Rivers (Northern Territory) style uranium deposits occurring in potential host rocks (carbonaceous pelites and carbonate rocks) within an Early Proterozoic metasedimentary sequence underlying a Middle Proterozoic...-
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Wilcherry Hill. Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial relinquishment report at licence expiry/renewal : progress reports and annual reports for the period 8/9/1980 to 15/4/2003.
[incomplete : to be continued when time permits] - The Wilcherry Hill licence area was originally taken up in September 1980 by the Shell Company as EL 719, forming part of a larger regional mineral exploration tenement package on northern and...-
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Published: 14 Dec 1905
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Botenella Range (now part of the Wilcherry Hill JV Project). Progress, annual and final reports to the commencement of the project licences' combined reporting status, for the period 14/2/1991 to 18/9/2002.
Exploration of an area lying west of Lake Gilles concentrated initially on assessing its potential for hosting syngenetic Palaeoproterozoic stratiform base metal deposits along perceived stratigraphic extensions of the beds containing the recently...-
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Published: 16 Oct 1903
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Lipson Cove - Tumby Bay area. Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 2/9/2004 to 1/9/2008.
Geological mapping of an historically worked lamellar talc occurrence in the Tumby Bay area showed that snow white, finely flaky talc is present over a 2 km strike length within two beds of isoclinally folded schistose dolomitic limestone, but is of...-
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Verran and Fair View (the Corunna Project). Joint annual reports and final report to licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 29/4/2005 to 28/4/2009.
A search for possible economic North/South Alligator Rivers or McArthur River (NT) style epicratonic, unconformity - related sedimentary uranium deposits was conducted across two licences taken up over areas located west and south of Cleve on central...-
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Mount Ive Gate. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/7/1993 to 22/9/2001.
The area of ELs 1841/2551 (formerly EL 1568), located approximately 70 km north-west of Kimba on the northern Eyre Peninsula, was considered to be prospective for Olympic Dam type Cu-Au and Menninnie Dam style Pb-Zn mineralisation. Earlier work by...-
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Published: 15 Nov 1900
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Mount Olinthus. Annual report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 6/3/1995 to 5/3/1996.
Base metal mineralisation, indicated by newly discovered shafts at the historic Atkinson Pb-Ag-Cu-Zn mine, was the impetus for exploration in the upland area 20 km north-west from Cowell. Grab samples collected from shafts, stockpiles and dumps varied...-
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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 [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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Cowell Jade Province: rock sample petrographic descriptions.
A collection of Amdel petrographic reports providing raw data for a petrogenetic study of Cowell area jade specimens and related host rocks carried out by SADME, aimed at determining geological controls on the distribution of high quality nephrite...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1990
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Triple Hill. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 10/7/1979 to 4/10/1982.
Exploration for possible buried occurrences of unconformity-related uranium mineralisation, undertaken within an area located approximately 26 km west-southwest of Cowell on eastern Eyre Peninsula, has included the acquistion during July 1979 of a 500...-
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Tumby Bay. Progress and annual reports to licence surrender, for the period 16/1/1980 to 28/12/1982.
TARGET: Epithermal and unconformity - type uranium in Archaean to Early Proterozoic rocks of the southern Gawler Craton. EXPLORATION: - an aerial magnetic and radioactivity survey flown at 800 m, 1600 m and 400m spacing by Austirex in November 1979;...-
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Published: 21 Feb 1983
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Stony Hill (part of the Northern Eyre Peninsula JV Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 2/12/2004 to 23/12/2016.
During the life of the subject licence, the focus of exploration was to determine the area's potential for DSO haematite iron ore, with a secondary consideration being magnetite and haematite BIF. After conducting geophysical surveys and exploratory...-
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Published: 17 Jan 1917
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Stony Hill. Combined annual/final report to licence full surrender, for the period 15/3/2016 to 14/3/2017.
No new work was carried out on the subject Stony Hill licence area during its past year. The South Australian Iron Ore Group Pty Ltd (SAIOG) has held this tenement (successively under ELs 3287/4451/5617) since 2/12/2004, but has now surrendered it in...-
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Published: 17 Jan 1917
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Mount Olinthus. Progress reports plus interim final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 12/7/1978 to 7/11/1987.
TARGET: Unconformity related, vein-like and vein-type uranium in the Cleve Metamorphics, Katunga Dolomite and Mangalo Schist; lead-zinc sulphides of Broken Hill or Balmat-Edwards type in the Hutchison Group. EXPLORATION: Uranium exploration...-
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The Northern Eyre Peninsula JV Project. Data release made in lieu of submitting a licence final report at the full surrender of EL 5170 Kimba Gap: Joint annual reports for the period 1/2/2013 to 9/2/2017.
During the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project (NEPP) 2013-2014 reporting year, exploration field work took place on two of the six project tenements. On EL 4884 Minbrie, a single 151 m deep vertical RC drillhole, BURC092, was completed in August 2013,...-
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Published: 25 Sep 1918
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ComRev 008 Iron Ore in South Australia 2000
The iron-rich rocks of South Australia have been classified into six deposit types - residual, chemical sedimentary iron formations, Fe-skarn and, of lesser significance, hydrothermal, clastic and magmatic. Production has been overwhelmingly from...-
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Nilginee Dam. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 15/3/1993 to 14/3/1998.
A low-lying small area situated 40 km west of Whyalla has been explored primarily for economic gypsum occurrences within Recent surficial sediments, while latterly, a search for metallic minerals has also commenced, via a geological survey of basement...-
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Green Patch. Annual reports for the period 3/12/2001 to 30/5/2006, plus the last six years of tenure' combined annual reports/final report ('no work' letter only) to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/2/2015 to 31/8/2021.
An area centred on the hamlet of Green Patch, located ~10 km north-west of Port Lincoln, was taken up to appraise the iron ore potential of known near surface BIF magnetite mineralisation occurring at the Greenpatch (sic) prospect that had been...-
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Published: 16 Oct 1921
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Peterlumbo, Botenella Range, Lake Gilles [West], Eurilla Dam, Wilcherry Hill, Uno, Mount Miccollo and Tin Hut Hill (the Wilcherry Hill Project). Joint annual reports for the period 6/6/2002 to 31/10/2008. [Index Part 2 of 2].
The Telephone Dam lead-zinc-silver prospect is located in the north-eastern part of the now renewed Wilcherry Hill EL 4162. During the 1980s and 1990s, diamond, RC and RAB drilling done on this prospect by Aberfoyle Resources had identified a...-
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Published: 31 Dec 1908
