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RB 58/00031 Geological investigation of a quartzite deposit, section 147, Hundred of Lincoln.
200,000 tonnes of ballast are required by the BHP Co. to construct a proposed tramway that will connect the calcareous sand deposits of Coffin Bay with its bulk loading installation being constructed at Proper Bay, 3 miles south-west of Port Lincoln....-
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Published: 10 Feb 1964
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RB 79/00047 Port Lincoln planning study, engineering geology investigation.
The area surrounding Port Lincoln can be divided into three main physiographic regions, the aeolianite plain, the coastal plain, and the highlands. Soil types range from shallow, well-drained terra rossa overlying the aeolianite, to imperfectly...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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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 1 partnership no. DPY1-12, Chianti mineral prospect. Project final report.
The subject report describes the results of drilling two fully cored rotary holes totalling 1161.10 m at the Chianti prospect, an unusually-shaped residual gravity anomaly located in Gunson Resources' EL 3264, 20 km north-east of the Mount Gunson...-
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Lake Gilles. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/5/1969 to 18/5/1970.
Exploration for possible economic hypogene base metal sulphide deposits associated with poorly exposed iron-rich linear outcrops, overlying faulted Archaean to Palaeoproterozoic basement which is obscured by extensive Cainozoic sedimentary cover rocks...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1970
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Streaky Bay Lakes. Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal on 18/2/1999: progress reports for the period 19/2/1993 to 18/2/1995.
At the subject licence's Year 6 expiry/renewal on 18/2/1999, a partial relinquishment of 190 square km or ~49.35% of the former area of EL 2489 was effected, in the form of two separate ground portions covering its northern and southern ends. To...-
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Published: 13 Mar 1900
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Gum Flat. Annual reports submitted prior to the commencement of joint reporting on the Gum Flat Iron Ore Project, for the period 27/9/2005 to 26/9/2008.
An area lying immediately west of Port Lincoln and extending for ~10 km inland is being explored for buried occurrences of multiple metallic mineral commodities that may have been deposited within faulted, folded and metamorphosed Archaean basement...-
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Published: 20 Nov 1907
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Cockabidnie North (part of the Cockabidnie JV Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 23/8/2010 to 22/8/2015.
The subject very small licence area, located approximately 25 km north-west of Cleve, and which lies within the northern part of the NNE trending Kimban Campoona Syncline region located on central Eyre Peninsula, has been explored, in concert with...-
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Published: 06 Oct 1915
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Brimpton Lake. Annual reports for the period 9/2/2005 to 8/8/2018.
An area of the southern Gawler Craton, which is located on Eyre Peninsula east of Elliston, is continuing to be explored for possible economic buried Archaean to Proterozoic bedrock-hosted primary base and precious metal deposits of inferred...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Malbrom. First annual report submitted until the commencement of joint venture project joint reporting, for the period 5/4/2013 to 4/4/2014.
A licence composed of four separate small sub-blocks which generally lie ~90 to 120 km north-northeast of Port Lincoln is being explored primarily for extensions to known graphite-bearing horizons which may exist to the north and south of the...-
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Published: 29 May 1914
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Verran and Malbrom (the Verran Project, then the Arno Graphite Project). Joint annual reports plus annual report, for the period 29/1/2014 to 28/1/2019.
Two licence areas together covering the hinterland to Arno Bay and Port Gibbon on eastern Eyre Peninsula, and extending as far north-westwards as Rudall, are being explored for economic buried graphite deposits that may have formed in deformed high...-
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SADM / Amdel Project 1/1/122 : Geochronology of the younger granites of the Gawler Block and its north-western margin. Progress reports 1-32 for the period 10/7/1969 to 2/3/1982.
A SADM project to attempt to determine the ages of the youngest granites of the Gawler Block, of its north-western margin, and of known subsurface granites in the Officer and Eucla Basins, was initiated with Amdel in July 1969. The project aims to...-
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Port Lincoln - Kimba area. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/11/1967 to 31/10/1969.
The possible areal extent and potential in-ground resources of secondary kaolin developed from deep lateritic weathering of Early Proterozoic basement rocks on central-eastern Eyre Peninsula were investigated by the licensee, with a view to obtaining...-
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Yalanda Hill. Second partial surrender report for the period 5/12/2005 to 4/12/2008.
Exploration for possible economic deposits of primary uranium mineralisation, undertaken within the now relinquished portions of the subject licence which is centred approximately 65 km north of Cowell, has consisted of field reconnaissance and...-
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Yalanda Hill. First partial surrender report for the period 5/12/2005 to 4/12/2007.
Exploration for possible economic deposits of primary uranium mineralisation, undertaken within the now relinquished portion of the subject licence which is centred approximately 55 km north-northwest of Cowell, has consisted of field reconnaissance...-
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Data release - as updated : Cockabidnie. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 31/5/2001 to 13/8/2015.
Early in 2001, Helix Resources Ltd entered into a joint venture agreement with Centrex Resources Limited to allow it to explore for precious and base metals on some of the tenements held by Centrex on the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia, including...-
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RB 2000/00033 Mineral potential of the proposed Gawler Ranges National Park.
In late 1999, the South Australian Government approved the purchase of 1000 square km of land in, and adjacent to, the Gawler Ranges, for the creation of the Gawler Ranges National Park. This land has significant mineral potential, and has been...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2000
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Cowell nephrite deposit. Consultant's geological appraisal reports (including a progress report about detailed mapping of nephrite pods on Schiller's leases), compiled over the period June to November 1970.
A mining consultant was engaged by mineral claim option holder Murumba Minerals to assess the commercial potential of a rare (for Australia) grouping of lens style nephrite deposits located about 20 km north of Cowell, which had only been mined on a...-
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Published: 11 Nov 1970
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RB 2002/00017 Interpretation of the middle Palaeoproterozoic granites and gneisses (Lincoln Complex), southern Yorke Peninsula, South Australia.
The middle Palaeoproterozoic rocks (2000-1800 Ma) on southern Yorke Peninsula are part of the Cleve Subdomain in the eastern Gawler Craton, which is separated from the younger Moonta Subdomain by the Warooka Fault Zone. The rocks contain a group of...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2002
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Pinerow. Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 2/10/2004 to 9/11/2008.
To continue the assessment of the dimension stone and ornamental stone potential of granitic basement outcrops present on EL 2851, a 5-year Retention Lease, RL 116, was taken out on 7/2/2006 to cover 5.9 ha of the Middle Camp granite pluton. Several...-
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Published: 08 Jan 1909
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Pinerow. Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial surrender report : annual reports for the period 23/5/1996 to 2/10/2004.
As part of a regional search for hydrothermal / epithermal gold and base metals, EL 2167 joint venturer Goldstream Mining over the period October 1996 - March 1999 undertook three phases of regional and detailed geochemical sampling in the poorly...-
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Published: 10 Mar 1905