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Lake Gilles. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/6/1980 to 3/7/1996.
Aeromagnetic, ground magnetic and EM surveys, with follow-up rock chip, stream sediment and soil sampling, RAB drilling (688 holes, total 17,553 m) and RC drilling (12 holes, total 1149 m), have defined an extensive zone of anomalous base metal...-
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Published: 15 May 1996
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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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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Carappee Hill. Annual reports for the period 20/2/2010 to 19/2/2019.
The continuation during 2010 of exploration of the Palaeoproterozoic bedrock in a small area located 60 km west-northwest of Cowell has mainly consisted of the conduct of three shallow drilling campaigns and the examination and analysis of downhole...-
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Published: 25 Feb 1919
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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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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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Midgee. Fourth partial surrender report, for the period 26/11/2003 to 24/3/2017.
Portions of two of three separate sub-blocks formerly comprising EL 5426, totalling 34 square km in area or ~25% of the licence's former extent, have been relinquished because of their now perceived diminished prospectivity for finding significant...-
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Published: 15 Feb 1917
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Mount Miccollo (part of the Wilcherry Project). Second and third partial surrender report, for the period 10/6/2011 to 27/5/2021.
An area centred ~100 km west of Port Augusta is being explored for possible economic buried, basement-hosted occurrences of epithermal/hydrothermal/metamorphic gold, silver, iron, uranium, and base metals mineralisation. On the now relinquished...-
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Midgee. Fifth partial surrender report, for the period 26/11/2003 to 24/3/2019.
Portions of the western sub-block of EL 5426, totalling 27 square km in area or 27% of the licence's former extent, have been relinquished because of their now perceived diminished prospectivity for finding significant occurrences of uranium...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1919
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Sheoak Hill. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surreender, for the period 15/3/1983 to 14/3/1988.
TARGET: Stratiform lead-zinc-silver mineralisation of the Broken Hill or Aggeneys - Gamsberg type, associated with banded iron formations in Early Proterozoic metasediments. EXPLORATION: Data from the 1975 joint SADME / BMR Barna 1:100 000 scale...-
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Carpie Puntha and Peterlumbo. Joint second partial surrender report, for the period 14/2/1989 to 13/2/1992. Plus: Carpie Puntha and Waddikee. Joint final report to licences' expiry/renewal, for the period 14/2/1989 to 24/6/1992.
TARGET: Possible commercial Menninnie Dam type stratabound or stratiform base metal deposits in the Cowell - Kimba - Buckleboo region. EXPLORATION: Field reconnaissance and rock chip geochemical sampling of prospective areas identified from...-
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Cowell - Middleback Range and Sheoak Hill areas. Joint progress reports for the initial tenure period 15/3/1983 to 14/3/1984.
TARGET: Possible stratiform Pb-Zn-Ag mineralisation of the Broken Hill or Aggeneys-Gamsberg type associated with banded iron formations in Early Proterozoic metasediments. EXPLORATION: Regional ground magnetic surveys, geological mapping, 29 RAB...-
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Cockabidnie North. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/1/2006 to 17/1/2010.
A small (11 square km) area located approximately 40 km south of Kimba has been explored for possible economic uranium, gold or base metal deposits, including Menninnie Dam style lead-zinc-silver mineralisation, that may have formed in Archaean to...-
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Published: 12 Mar 1910
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Middlecamp Hills. Annual reports for the period 30/6/2009 to 29/6/2019.
Two small areas have been taken up in the Cleve Uplands district to explore structurally interesting portions of the Lower and Upper Middleback Jaspilite stratigraphic units for possible economic buried copper, gold, manganese and iron ore...-
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Published: 06 Aug 1918
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Harris Bluff. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/6/2006 to 18/10/2015.
An area located immediately north of Lake Gilles and centred on Harris Bluff in the Uno Range was taken up to explore for possible buried unconformity style uranium mineralisation which could have formed at the base of the Corunna Conglomerate, and...-
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Published: 29 Sep 1915
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Mount Hope, Moorlands and Brimpton Lake (the Mount Hope Project). Joint annual reports and joint final report to licences' respective expiry/full surrender, for the period 24/5/2005 to 4/6/2010.
Monax Mining has been exploring the subsurface geology of three licences in the Mount Hope region of south-western Eyre Peninsula, seeking possible economic komatiite - hosted nickel deposits and also any felsic volcanic sediment - hosted massive...-
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Published: 27 Oct 1910
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Wanilla (originally part of the Wanilla JV Project). Annual reports submitted until the commencement of licences' joint reporting for the Gum Flat Iron Ore Project, for the period 13/2/2007 to 12/2/2010.
A large north-south orientated area centred ~45 km north-west of Port Lincoln was taken up to explore for possible buried Archaean komatiite-hosted nickel, volcanic hosted massive sulphides (base metals), orogenic lode gold, BIF-hosted iron ores and...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1910
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Heartbreak Bore (part of Afmeco's Tarcoola Joint Venture Project). Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/1/1980 to 15/1/1982.
Portions of regional airborne radiometric and magnetic surveys, plus a small part of the HW-IV seismic refraction traverse, and 20 line km of gravity and ground magnetic surveys, were undertaken by joint venture operator Afmeco as part of its Project...-
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Mount Christie. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 24/2/1995 to 23/2/2000.
Interest in an area near Mount Christie Siding was stimulated by the 1993 MESA Barton Bedrock Drilling Programme, which detected anomalous gold, chromium, base metals and platinoid metals in layered ultramafics. Initially, tenement-wide calcrete...-
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Published: 10 Aug 1900
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Marion Bay. Annual reports and final report to licence surrender, for the period 18/3/1997 to 17/9/2000.
Calcrete was sampled over the entire foot of Yorke Peninsula, approximately 200 km by road from Adelaide, to follow up aeromagnetic structures and anomalous base metals in groundwater. Several samples returned slightly elevated base metals, from...-
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Published: 18 Dec 1900
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Roopena West. Annual reports to licence full surrender, for the period 1/10/1993 to 9/3/2000.
Infill aeromagnetic and ground gravity surveys undertaken approximately 50 km west of Port Augusta were followed by an IP survey and lag sampling. Anomalous Cu and Au values were returned, but only a minimal IP response was recorded. Regolith mapping...-
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