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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 2 partnership DPY2-21, Yarlbrinda Shear Zone, subsidiary fault plays, Tunkillia - style gold prospects. Project final report.
It has lately been recognised by explorers that subsidiary fault splays developed adjacent to the main Yarlbrinda Shear Zone may be more prospective for hydrothermal gold deposits than the main zone. In an approved PACE Initiative Year 2 drilling...-
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Verran and Fair View (the Corunna Project). Joint annual reports and final report to licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 29/4/2005 to 28/4/2009.
A search for possible economic North/South Alligator Rivers or McArthur River (NT) style epicratonic, unconformity - related sedimentary uranium deposits was conducted across two licences taken up over areas located west and south of Cleve on central...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Aurora Tank. First annual report for the period 2/2/2010 to 1/2/2012, plus the next submitted licence-specific annual reports for the period 21/3/2013 to 1/2/2016.
No field work was done on the subject licence during its first year, while land access permissions were being organised with the required authorities. The licence area is located approximately 100 km south-west of Coober Pedy and lies within the...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mullaquana (part of the Mullaquana, later called Samphire, Uranium Project). Annual reports for the period 20/11/2009 to 19/11/2018.
During licence Year 4, UraniumSA undertook the following work on EL 3652: - pattern drilling of 232 rotary mud holes totalling 18,416 m, targeting the Blackbush and Plumbush prospects. - core drilling totalling 876 m in 8 holes, to characterise...-
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Published: 03 Dec 1918
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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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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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PACE Copper Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 9 partnership DPY9-05 - Mount Sarah Project, Oodnadatta district, Proterozoic basement inferred epithermal/hydrothermal IOCG mineral prospect. Drilling final report.
A small licence area centred approximately 70 km north-northwest of Oodnadatta is being explored for possible economic buried IOCG type mineralisation that may have formed in the wholly concealed, almost unknown basement rocks there. Interest is...-
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Published: 28 Sep 1917
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Dunn Hill. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 19/2/1985 to 18/5/1988.
TARGET: Sedimentary uranium in the Tertiary Narlaby Palaeochannel, 30 km east of Ceduna; and regolith kaolinite formed from weathered Proterozoic basement granite. EXPLORATION: A thermoluminescence study of sediments in the most prospective portion...-
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Final drilling report - CRAE boreholes 83KD1 and 83KD1A.
The intersection of massive halite in the ?Lower Palaeozoic sequence in Occidental Petroleum's Mercury 1 wildcat oil exploration well drilled in the offshore Polda Basin generated interest in the Tuckey area onshore for potash associated with similar...-
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Thermoluminescence studies of a uraniferous Tertiary palaeochannel, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia. (Appendix 1 to progress report on EL 1214, Dunn Hill, for period ending 18/2/1986).
The research project's aims were : 1. to apply thermoluminescence (TL) methods to the uraniferous Narlaby Palaeochannel 2. to study the granite palaeochannel basement as a possible source of uranium. Artificial TL applied to 162 samples revealed...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Commonwealth Hill, Commonwealth Hill Station - Central and East, and Aurora Tank areas (the Commonwealth Hill Project). Joint annual reports for the period 1/7/2013 to 30/6/2018.
During the sixth year of the project, base metals exploration was focussed on the Mars-Aurora Tank, Wirrida and Bundi prospects using ground gravity and IP survey methods. Some trial magnetotelluric and audio-frequency magnetotelluric survey profiles...-
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Published: 05 Sep 1918
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PACE Copper Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 9 partnership DPY9-24 - Nankivel Hill area, Eyre Peninsula, skarn and/or porphyry type Mesoproterozoic epithermal Cu-Au and Ag-base metal prospects. Drilling final report.
Investigator Resources Limited (IVR) is continuing to explore its contiguous tenement package in the Southern Gawler Ranges for economic precious and base metals, following its discovery of the Paris silver deposit in 2011. A prospective region called...-
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Published: 20 Jun 1917
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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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Cummins. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 11/11/1971 to 10/11/1972.
In order to appraise a potentially economic discovery of very pure, high reflectivity kaolin clay located near Kapinnie on southern Eyre Peninsula, a drilling programme is planned by Endeavour Oil which aims to outline around 33 million tons of kaolin...-
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Published: 15 Nov 1972
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Mount James. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 3/9/2007 to 2/9/2010.
An area surrounding the historically worked Ediacara lead-zinc Mineral Field, overlying the inferred far eastern margin of the Gawler Craton, was explored for possible economic hydrothermal/stratabound base metals within the Adelaidean and Cambrian...-
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Published: 27 Oct 1910
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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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Peterlumbo, Botenella Range, Lake Gilles [West], Eurilla Dam, Wilcherry Hill, Uno, Mount Miccollo and Tin Hut Hill (the Wilcherry Hill Project). Joint annual reports for the period 6/6/2002 to 31/10/2008. [Index Part 1 of 2].
Aquila Resources took up ownership of the much previously-explored ground comprising the Wilcherry Hill Project with the intent of exploring for the first time the iron oxide - associated copper-gold & uranium (IOCG-U) mineralisation potential of...-
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Published: 31 Dec 1908
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Kottata Well, Eldale, Tootla and Broadacres (also part of the Yaninee Project). First annual report for EL 3135, plus subsequent joint annual reports, for the period 29/9/2003 to 5/6/2009.
An area located on central western Eyre Peninsula between Minnipa and Port Kenny was taken up to explore the Precambrian basement rocks, which are poorly exposed there, for possible economic buried iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposits....-
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Ironstone Hill (part of the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 17/9/2003 to 17/9/2015.
During the majority of its tenure term, very little field work was conducted on the subject ground. Initially, office studies of available geophysical and open file geological data were performed during 2005 to try to identify possible drilling...-
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RB 2019/00018 U-Pb geochronological data from the Fowler Domain, western Gawler Craton.
This report presents newly acquired Sensitive High Resolution Ion Microprobe (SHRIMP) U-Pb geochronological data produced by analysis of zircon crystals separated from six samples of rocks from the Fowler Domain, western Gawler Craton, that were...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2019
