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RB 60/00054 Geological report no. 1 on the Oolanta anomaly, Hd Stokes, southern Eyre Peninsula (Cummins and Tumby 1-mile sheets).
10 miles north-west of Tumby Bay, a syncline of jaspilite, with a shallow southerly plunge, could contain 8-13 million tons of magnetic iron ore per vertical 100 feet. Unweathered jaspilite with magnetite occurs. Assessment of the potential of the...-
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Published: 16 Mar 1965
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RB 45/00118 Final report on iron ore prospecting, Corunna area, Iron Knob district.
In an area of limited basement outcrop located between 2 and 5 miles north-northwest of Iron Knob township, the Department's surface traverse channel sampling (969'), percussion boring (643’) and diamond drilling (1270’) tested a low grade...-
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Published: 04 Dec 1957
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 5 partnership DPY5-40 - western Middleback Range region - Stony Hill area Archaean to Proterozoic stratabound iron ore mineral prospects. Project final report.
Banded iron formation (BIF) rock outcrops and an associated 15 km long aeromagnetic anomaly located about 20 km west of Iron Baron were chosen by Centrex Metals as high quality targets deserving of exploration for economic iron mineralisation...-
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Published: 28 Nov 1908
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Kartanya iron ore prospect, EL 2066, South Australia.
The Kartanya iron ore prospect is located in the central Eyre Peninsula region, approximately 100 km west of Cowell and about the same distance north of Port Lincoln. Haematite mineralisation was discovered in the area by Western Mining Corp. while...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Hill - Tod River area. Annual reports [to the commencement of the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project licences' combined reporting status] for the period 13/3/2002 to 12/3/2005.
An area which has had little exploration for iron ore done previously was taken up by Centrex Metals Ltd to cover potentially magnetite-rich Early Proterozoic banded iron formation (BIF) strata outcrops and subcrop located within the Lincoln Uplands...-
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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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Pondooma / Ironstone Hut (part of the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 3/12/2002 to 24/9/2015.
An area originally granted as Exploration Licence 3048 Pondooma, which consisted of two separate sub-blocks centred ~60 km south-west of Whyalla, was applied for to cover a poorly exposed belt of banded iron formation (BIF) strata identified on...-
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Moseley Nobs (part of the Wilcherry Project). First partial surrender report, for the period 23/3/2017 to 22/3/2019.
The easternmost and westernmost thirds (portions totalling ~52%) of the former area of EL 5931, located approximately 30 km north of Kimba, have been relinquished due to their perceived diminished prospectivity for economic buried occurrences of...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Gum Flat, Cummins, Strawberry Hill and Tarlinga (the Gum Flat Iron Ore Project). Joint annual reports for the period 1/7/2008 to 30/6/2010.
An area of southern Eyre Peninsula consisting of two separate tenement subgroups located in the Port Lincoln west and Cummins districts respectively is being explored for possible economic shallowly buried stratabound occurrences of haematite and...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1910
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Moseley Nobs and Uno [West] (part of the Wilcherry Project). Second partial surrenders' respectively combined report, for the overall period 1/11/2014 to 7/4/2021.
14 square km or 35% of the former area of EL 5931, and 3 square km or ~5.2% of the former area of EL 6379, have recently been relinquished due to their now perceived diminished prospectivity for buried base and precious metal mineralisation. Work...-
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Published: 17 May 1921
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Pinkawillinie (part of the Wilcherry Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 1/11/2012 to 10/4/2019.
An area originally consisting of three separate licence sub-blocks that are centred ~30 km north-west of Kimba has been explored for possible economic buried occurrences of basement-hosted epithermal/hydrothermal/metamorphic gold, silver, iron,...-
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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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Uno (part of the Wilcherry Project). First partial surrender report, for the period 29/7/2009 to 24/1/2020.
An area centred ~105 km west-southwest 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...-
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Data release - as updated : Gum Flat, Wanilla, Cummins, Tarlinga and Yeelanna (the Gum Flat Iron Ore Project). Joint annual reports submitted until the joint full surrender of remaining project licences, for the period 1/7/2010 to 18/01/2022.
During 2010-2011, the third year of the Gum Flat Iron Ore Project, owner Lincoln Minerals' exploration activities included: - Planning, site preparation and supervision of an RC and aircore drilling program; - Surveying and vegetation clearing for...-
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Published: 09 Jan 1920
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Uno [West] and Eurilla Dam (part of the Wilcherry Hill Project). Third and first partial surrenders' respectively combined report, for the overall period 10/10/2002 to 7/4/2022.
17 square km or ~65% of the former area of EL 5931, and 14 square km or ~12% of the former area of EL 6072, have recently been relinquished due to their now perceived diminished prospectivity for buried base and precious metal mineralisation. Work...-
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PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 8 partnership DPY8-25 - Wilcherry Hill area, Eyre Peninsula, Zealous prospect Mesoproterozoic epithermal calc-silicate skarn Sn-U-Pb-Cu-Ag mineral occurrence. Final report.
Arising out of exploratory drilling carried out by Ironclad Mining in 2012, which aimed to test the shallow subsurface haematite ore potential of an ironstone outcrop located in the central north of the Wilcherry Hill licence area, an unexpected...-
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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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RB 2018/00003 Summary and final report on pyrite, magnetite and hematite mineral geochemistry, South Australia (including samples from the Mineral Systems Drilling Program and the Emmie Bluff IOCG prospect).
Sulfide and oxide trace element geochemical analyses have been conducted on more than 290 core chip samples collected from stored drill cores of 39 drillholes located across South Australia, as part of a collaborative project being conducted between...-
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Published: 01 Feb 2018
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Kimba Gap [South] (part of the Middleback Range Iron Ore Joint Venture Project). Annual reports [to the commencement of the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project licences' combined reporting status] for the period 17/9/2003 to 16/9/2006.
A small exploration licence area centred approximately 50 km west-northwest of Whyalla, which is mainly covered by Quaternary sediments, has been taken up by the South Australian Iron Ore Group (SAIOG) to explore for possible concealed economic...-
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Gilles Downs (part of the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project). First annual report (prior to start of joint reporting status) for the period 8/7/2005 to 7/7/2006: and final report submitted at licence full surrender, for the succeeding period to 30/7/2015.
A licence area consisting of two separate sub-blocks located on the plains extending to the west of the Middleback Range on north-eastern Eyre Peninsula was taken up to explore for possible economic buried deposits of stratabound magnetite iron ore...-
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