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RB 93/00004 Tarcoola - Tallaringa bedrock drilling 1991. Summary.
Archaean and 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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Published: 01 Feb 1993
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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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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Lake Gilles. Annual reports submitted until the commencement of the Eurilla JV Project licences' joint reporting, for the period 30/1/2007 to 29/1/2010.
A sparsely drill-tested area centred about 10 km west of Lake Gilles is being explored for a variety of buried, possibly economic basement-hosted polymetallic mineralisation occurrences, including deposits of Menninnie Dam style Pb-Zn-Ag (Cu-Au),...-
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Published: 30 Mar 1910
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Carappee Hill. Data release made in lieu of submitting a licence second partial surrender report : annual reports for the period 10/10/1995 to 16/10/2003.
Palaeoproterozoic metasediments of the Hutchison Group, and Lincoln Complex granitoids, were the targets of exploration for gold, base metals and granite dimension stone in an area 40 km south of Kimba. Initial calcrete sampling indicated that...-
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Koppio. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 6/1/1995 to 7/4/1997.
Geochemical sampling of ferruginous lag, stream sediments, BLEG soils, and rock chips, targeted possible Thompson Belt - type nickel-copper and precious metal mineralisation hosted by Lower Proterozoic Hutchison Group metasediments in an area 40 km...-
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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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Cummins. Annual reports and final report to licence surrender, for the period 10/1/1997 to 16/3/1999.
Thick and often unconsolidated cover sequences of Bridgewater, Uley and Wanilla Formations prevented systematic regolith sampling of much of the area between Wanilla and Peachna, 40 km north-west of Port Lincoln, while no coherent base metal anomalies...-
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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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Lake Gilles (latterly part of the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project). Annual reports until the commencement of project licences' joint reporting, plus the final report, for the respective periods 13/2/2007 to 31/5/2010 and 1/6/2014 to 31/5/2015.
A licence area originally comprising three separate sub-blocks located along the northern and southern sides of the Lake Gilles Conservation Park has been explored by grant licensee Lincoln Minerals Ltd (LML) and its joint venture partner IronClad...-
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Published: 19 Jun 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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Nyllow Hill. First partial surrender report for the period 2/9/1988 to 1/9/1989.
The licence was taken out to assess the untested potential for finding platinum group metal occurrences associated with two known ultramafic intrusive plugs outcropping in the Lincoln Uplands, 40 km north-northeast of Port Lincoln. Incidental...-
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Tumby Bay and Butler. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 15/7/91 to 30/5/93.
Exploration for gold in the banded iron formations of the Hutchison Group, conducted in the Tumby Bay area and west of Arno Bay on Eyre Peninsula, comprised a regional BLEG stream geochemical survey and follow-up stream, soil and rock chip sampling....-
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Corrobinnie Hill. First partial surrender report, for the period 1/2/1991 to 31/1/1993.
Base and precious metal exploration of the Palaeoproterozoic Hutchison Group in the Corrobinnie Hill area on central Eyre Peninsula has comprised ground magnetic, gravity, TEM and IP surveys, soil geochemistry, and RC drilling (12 holes, total 925 m)....-
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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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Data release - as updated : Caralue. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 6/11/2006 to 5/11/2013.
An area centred 40 km west of Kimba has been explored initially for basement gold and nickel mineralisation, and following a joint venture, for possible IOCG and palaeochannel uranium mineralisation. During the first year of tenure, reconnaissance...-
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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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RB 2007/00004 Director of Mines' Exploration Licence Application 383 (Sleaford Bay). Report of results.
This report presents the results of exploration on the Director of Mines E.L.A. 383 at Sleaford Bay during November, 2006. A number of samples of Carnot Gneiss, Hutchison Group and Donington Suite granitoids were collected from coastal exposures at...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2007
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Cockabidnie. Annual and final reports for the period 18/3/97 to 17/3/99.
Anomalous Ag peaking at 10800 ppb was recorded in several BCL soil and drainage samples obtained from approximately 20 km southeast of Darke Peak on central Eyre Peninsula. Weakly elevated Au, Cu, Pb and Zn were returned from BCL soil and rock chip...-
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Ironstone Hill. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 11/8/1997 to 10/8/2000.
An airborne magnetic/radiometric survey and surficial calcrete, soil and MMI sampling targeted Challenger/Tunkillia-type gold and Olympic Dam style copper-gold, associated respectively with a number of shear zones and with the Charleston Granite,...-
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Roopena. Second partial surrender report, for the period 31/7/2000 to 30/7/2005.
Two separate areas located respectively 20-45 km west-southwest and 70 km south-southwest of Whyalla have been selectively relinquished from EL 2741 in accordance with licence conditions. The ground has potential for Palaeoproterozoic to...-
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