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Interpretation and evaluation of the Gunsight prospect.
Gunsight prospect was discovered in the late 1960s during the follow-up of anomalous copper detected by a stream sediment survey. In 1972-73 Dampier Mining Pty Ltd drilled eleven percussion holes (totalling 537 m) and eleven diamond holes (1764 m)...-
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Annual report on exploration activities, Mount Neill and Mount Fitton areas, EL 871, 1982.
A reassessment of Marathon Petroleum's 1979 regional stream sediment sampling programme led to the decision to resample a number of areas within EL 871. The Mt Neill and Mt Fitton areas were chosen, as a result of possible similarities with the...-
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Interpretation report on self potential surveys undertaken at the Gunsight area, South Australia.
SP data acquired over the Gunsight Cu-U-Co-REE prospect has accurately located the main mineralised zone between grid 900E and 1100E, with a maximum anomaly of approximately 200 mV on line 900E. The slight asymmetry of the SP profiles confirms the...-
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Yudnamutana Project, SML 704. Old Noll prospect. Report on drilling DDH NFK1.
Diamond drill-hole NFK1 was drilled to a total depth of 289.56 metres at the Old Noll prospect in November - December 1972, with the aim of intersecting the buried source of mineralization that has given rise to the boxwork structures outcropping...-
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Manguri (part of the Mount Woods Joint Venture Project). Annual reports and final report to licence surrender, for the period 13/12/1999 to 4/10/2006.
Possible craton margin magmatic nickel deposits or iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) type large base and precious metal deposits within buried Proterozoic basement were targeted in an area lying just to the north-west of Coober Pedy. Delays...-
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Published: 20 Nov 1906
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Kangaroo Dam (part of the Mount Woods JV Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 19/10/2000 to 6/11/2010. [ Index Part 1 of 2 ].
The large Kangaroo Dam exploration licence covers the mostly concealed western portion of the Palaeoproterozoic Mount Woods Inlier, a large block of variable magnetic intensity lying to the east and south-east of the Coober Pedy Ridge and the Mabel...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Kangaroo Dam (part of the Mount Woods JV Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 19/10/2005 to 6/11/2010. [ Index Part 2 of 2 ].
During the first year of renewed tenure under EL 3445, the work done consisted of performing diamond and RC drilling programmes which were partly funded by PIRSA's PACE Initiative as Theme 2, Year 2 and 3 approved Drilling Collaboration Projects. The...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : The Twins (part of the South Mount Woods Joint Venture). Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 7/3/2002 to 6/3/2007.
An area covering ground adjacent to the southern boundary of current EL 3056 (formerly EL 2483), on which licence the newly discovered (in November 2001) Prominent Hill IOCG deposit is situated, is being explored for similar style buried...-
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Published: 03 Apr 1907
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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. DPY1-13, Gemini mineral prospect. Project final report.
The Mount Woods South Joint Venture (Adelaide Resources Ltd and Perilya Ltd) successfully made application for a share of the SA Government's PACE Initiative funding in 2004 to test geophysical anomalies located on EL 2901 which were defined by...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Woods (part of the Mount Woods Joint Venture Project). Annual reports for the period 19/12/2000 to 30/1/2011. [Index Part 1 of 2 ].
An area centred approximately 50 km south-east of Coober Pedy has been taken up after it was surrendered early in 2000 by the BHP Minerals / Western Mining Corp. joint venture consortium (cf. Env 8434). The main mineral commodities now being sought by...-
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The Gawler Craton Project [Part]. Data release made in lieu of partial surrender/joint annual reports for the period 3/2/2010 to 1/2/2019, plus letters giving permission to release owed licence partial relinquishment and surrender reports.
As part of a regional search for possible major deposits of IOCG type mineralisation, Golden Cross Resources took up six exploration tenements in the northern Gawler Craton that lie to the north and north-east of Coober Pedy, and which are within or...-
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Published: 23 Jun 1915
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Anna Creek. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/4/2019 to 8/4/2021.
A large area centred ~10 km north of The Mulgas Outstation on Anna Creek Station, and lying ~80 km north-east of Prominent Hill, has been explored for inferred buried IOCG-U type volcanic breccia deposits which might exist in Proterozoic basement...-
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Published: 27 Apr 1921
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Coober Pedy south-east - Mount Brady Mafic Intrusive Complex exploratory drilling programme. Final report, Project ADI RD02-293 [part of Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2022].
In an area centred ~40 km south-east of Coober Pedy, following its processing of open file GCAS aeromagnetic data (Region 8A/8B) using Vector Residual Mag Intensity (VRMI) and high frequency residual gradients, the licensee had identified two untested...-
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Published: 30 Jun 1922
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Warrina North, Warrina South, Mount Brady, Yarrabolina Hill, Mount Woods and Kangaroo Dam (the Mount Woods JV Project). Joint annual reports [on JV partners' independent exploration programmes] for the period 1/5/2010 to 31/1/2017.
During the 2011-2012 project reporting period, exploration activities within the Mount Woods Project area which were conducted by OZL primarily targeted IOCG style mineralisation. Work included: · a continuation of office-based target generation and...-
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SADME/Amdel Project 1/1/209 : [petrographic] comparison of some Archaean and Proterozoic iron formations in SA. Progress reports 1 to 4, for the period December 1977 to July 1979.
A project to compare Gawler Craton iron formations of unknown age with those of known Archaean age (from geochronology) and with the Proterozoic, Lake Superior - type Middleback Range iron deposits has concentrated on characterising each formation by...-
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Published: 30 Jul 1979
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Danae Hill (part of the Stuart Range Joint Venture Project). Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 30/3/1977 to 31/7/1978.
Following the first public announcement on 18/11/1976 by Western Mining Corp. of its giant Olympic Dam copper, gold and uranium discovery on Roxby Downs Station, Newmont Pty Ltd began a detailed assessment of the Stuart Shelf region of South...-
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Warriner Creek. Second partial surrender report, for the period 20/12/1999 to 8/2/2009.
Exploration for possible economic buried iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposits in two areas located approximately 100 km south-east of Coober Pedy has sought to delineate and test a number of linear and elliptical geophysical anomalies...-
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Warriner Creek and Trumpeter (part of the Lake Eyre Joint Venture Project). Annual reports plus later combined annual reports to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 20/12/1999 to 22/9/2010.
Exploration for possible economic buried iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposits in two areas located approximately 100 km south-east of Coober Pedy has sought to delineate and test a number of linear and elliptical geophysical anomalies...-
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Published: 05 Aug 1910
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Mount Brady (part of the Mount Woods Project). Annual reports for the period 10/7/2007 to 9/7/2011.
A very small, ~90 square km licence area centred ~40 km south-east of Coober Pedy is being explored for possible economic IOCG or other types of metallic mineralisation that may have formed in concealed Proterozoic basement rocks. During the first...-
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Moolawatana. Quarterly and final reports for the period 26/8/75 to 25/8/76.
Ongoing copper/uranium exploration of basement and Willouran cover southwest of Moolawatana comprised ground magnetic, IP, EM and TEM surveys, airborne EM (Turair) and magnetic surveys, prospect-scale geochemical surveys and limited diamond drilling...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1977
