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Moonta-Wallaroo region - South Australian Exploration Initiative. Prospectivity re-assessment and GIS data package (compiled 1994-1995).
To promote renewed regional exploration of the northern Yorke Peninsula using modern techniques and concepts, MESA as part of the SAEI programme has prepared a GIS-based data package, which incorporates a study of all available drillcore and a...-
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Jenner Hill, Pearson Hill and Sandy Point (the Stuart Shelf JV Project). Joint progress reports, plus later annual reports and final report to full surrender of remnant licence EL 1808, for the overall period 4/10/1989 to 24/10/1996.
Exploration for Olympic Dam-style mineralisation, undertaken over an area centred ~15 km south-east of Arcoona Homestead on the Stuart Shelf, which includes WMC's formerly partly tested Emmie Bluff prospect, has comprised the acquisition of ground...-
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Roopena Station. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 22/5/1978 to 26/6/1985.
Exploration of an area situated between Whyalla, Iron Knob and The Bluff overlooking Myall Creek, 20 km south-west of Port Augusta, aimed to test for Olympic Dam - type Cu-U-Au mineralisation associated with products of igneous activity located in and...-
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Published: 09 Aug 1985
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RB 88/00067 Drilling in the Torrens Hinge Zone - Spencer Shelf region between Bute and Port Germein, 1968-1983.
Contains summarised geological logs of 93 diamond drillholes and 4 percussion drillholes that were drilled by SADM/SADME and by exploration companies, including the logs of 2 early water bores drilled near Port Pirie. The holes penetrated Cambrian,...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1988
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RB 88/00057 Torrens Hinge Zone Project - Bute region. Second and final report.
The Torrens Hinge Zone Project aimed to demonstrate the existence of prospective metalliferous rocks beneath the Cainozoic cover, to stimulate exploration and to investigate the transition between the Adelaidean sequences of the well-exposed Adelaide...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1988
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Intercept Hill. Annual and final surrender reports for the period 23/1/2001 to 22/1/2003.
The Intercept Hill area, located between the mining centres of Olympic Dam and Mount Gunson, and geographically coincident with the trans-continental G2 gravity corridor, was considered to have potential for Olympic Dam style deposits in...-
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Published: 09 Sep 1903
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Wallaroo Bay area. Annual reports to licence expiry for the period 30/5/2002 to 29/5/2004.
Exploration for possible porphyry style Cu-Au-Mo mineralisation or Prominent Hill type copper-gold deposits, associated with the long-recognised North Wallaroo - Alford magnetic and altered red rock trend, has addressed the potential of a 20 km long...-
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Published: 27 Sep 1904
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Port Broughton. Progress reports, annual reports, technical reports, and final report to licence expiry/ surrender, for the period 15/7/1991 to 19/9/2001.
Exploration targetted Roxby Downs style and Ernest Henry style copper-gold mineralisation in an area of intensely magnetic, concealed Proterozoic metasedimentary and intrusive igneous basement terrain, characterised by complex regional geophysical...-
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Published: 12 Dec 1900
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Alford South (part of the Alford Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/1/2014 to 6/1/2016.
An area on northern Yorke Peninsula centred ~16 km south-west of Alford and 9 km north-northeast of Wallaroo has been explored for possible buried economic IOCG type mineralisation which could have formed within Palaeoproterozoic or younger basement...-
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Published: 14 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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The Hummocks. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 30/6/2009 to 17/8/2017.
EL 4278 was Southern Uranium's first mineral exploration foray into the northern Yorke Peninsula. The subject tenement was pegged in January 2009 in order to secure ground surrounding the northern reaches of the Pine Point Fault. This particular...-
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Published: 31 Aug 1917
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Alford. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 25/10/2007 to 4/11/2012.
Work performed at the Alford Project, until the latter half of 2007, had so far mainly concentrated on the Netherleigh Park prospect, with the density of drilling there now providing the main insights into prospectivity and controls on mineralisation....-
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Data release : Yeltacowie, Pernatty [Station] and Whittata (the Punt Hill IOCG Project). Joint annual reports, plus final report to expiry of EL 5774 Punt Hill, for the period 7/1/2012 to 6/1/2017.
During the eighth, 2012-2013 year of tenure of the Pernatty EL area, now being explored in concert with two other adjoining Punt Hill IOCG Project licences, Monax reviewed its past drillhole data, undertook further processing of the project's amassed...-
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Published: 29 Aug 1917
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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] : Mount Gunson (part of the Mount Gunson Project). Annual reports for the period 15/7/1994 to 17/10/2008 [ Index Part 4 of 4 ].
During licence Year 12, following encouraging results made by its continuing exploratory drilling, Gunson Resources was able to negotiate a joint venture over the Mount Gunson Project tenements with Falconbridge Limited through its subsidiary Noranda...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Gunson (part of the Mount Gunson Project). Annual reports for the period 15/7/1998 to 17/10/2008 [ Index Part 2 of 4 ].
Stuart Metals is primarily exploring EL 1946 for stratiform copper mineralisation of the various styles known to be present in the Mount Gunson district. In addition, the company regards the largely unknown Mesoproterozoic basement to have strong...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Yeltacowie (part of the Mount Gunson Project). Annual reports for the period 7/10/2013 to 6/10/2018.
An area located ~25 km north-east of Woomera is being explored for possible economic buried Cu-Co-Au mineralisation which may have formed in the Adelaidean metasedimentary cover rocks of the Stuart Shelf. Under Gunson Resource's prior tenure of EL...-
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Published: 07 Dec 1918
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PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 8 partnership DPY8-08 - northern Yorke Peninsula, Alford Copper Belt, structurally controlled IOCG mineral prospects. Drilling project final report.
As part of ongoing mineral exploration within the Moonta-Wallaroo region of South Australia, Peninsula Resources Limited via its parent company Adelaide Resources Ltd is exploring for economic buried copper-gold mineralisation within its EL 4961,...-
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Ardrossan. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 16/11/1981 to 15/11/1982.
Exploration of an area of covered Proterozoic basement extending northwards from Ardrossan was undertaken to search for possible Stuart Shelf - type stratiform base metal occurrences at unconformity surfaces developed near the base of the Adelaidean,...-
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Published: 27 Jan 1983
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Bute. Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/5/1983 to 26/5/1984.
Following the conduct of ground magnetic and gravity surveys over a discrete magnetic anomaly that was left untested in previous North Broken Hill exploration of an area surrounding Bute township, the current licensee's diamond drilling (to TD 426.6...-
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