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The MIM-Peko Stuart Shelf Joint Venture Project. Progress reports to licences' joint full surrender and their re-issue as a single replacement tenement, for the period 15/2/1983 to 20/10/1989.
Exploration for Olympic Dam-style Cu-Au-U mineralisation, undertaken over areas to the south-east of Arcoona Homestead and in the vicinity of Woomera township, has comprised numerous reconnaissance and then detailed gravity, ground magnetic and CSAMT...-
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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. DPY1-03, Marathon South mineral prospect. Project interim and final reports.
During exploration of Exploration Licence 3209 situated on the northern Stuart Shelf, gravity and magnetic modelling performed in early 2004 highlighted several anomaly source bodies, which immediately became of much interest as potential iron-oxide...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 2 partnership DPY2-13, evaluation of the Marathon South mineral occurrence. Project interim and final reports.
Following further detailed ground gravity surveying and data processing carried out to better understand the gravity response of relatively dense and weakly magnetic basement rocks at the Marathon South prospect, located within EL 3209 and lying...-
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Published: 10 May 1906
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 3 partnership DPY3-14, Pernatty Lagoon area (eastern Gawler Craton) IOCG mineral prospects. Project final report.
PACE proposal DPY3-14 aimed to discover a new iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) mineralised magmatic centre, similar to the Olympic Dam setting, within the eastern margin of the Gawler Craton. The Pernatty Lagoon project is located less than...-
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Published: 20 Sep 1906
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 4 partnership DPY4-59, Billa Kalina Project area Proterozoic basement-hosted IOCG mineral prospects. Project final report.
Maximus Resources' Billa Kalina Project area lies within the Olympic Dam Province of the Gawler Craton, where the basement rocks host Olympic Dam, one of the largest iron oxide-associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposits in the world. IOCG deposits are...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bosworth (part of the Lake Torrens Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 13/7/1998 to 5/4/2009.
An area covering parts of west-central Lake Torrens and Andamooka Island was taken up by Pima Mining because it was considered a strategic acreage acquisition, since it adjoins the southern boundary of the company's EL 2528 Andamooka already issued to...-
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Published: 06 May 1909
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The Lake Torrens Project; plus the Olympic Domain Project. Joint annual reports for the period 1/1/2006 to 31/12/2010.
Licensee Copper Range originally took up a group of three tenements located in central South Australia covering areas within and west of Lake Torrens, with the intent, much reinforced following the Carrapateena deposit discovery made in 2005, of...-
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Published: 04 Mar 1911
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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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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 15/7/1994 to 17/10/2008 [ Index Part 3 of 4 ].
During the eighth year of tenure, work done on EL 2639 included: - the conduct of infill ground gravity and CSAMT surveys; - geophysical modelling and interpretation of the new survey data; - geological interpretation and refinement of drilling...-
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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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RB 00814 Display of drillcore from Olympic Dam.
Thirty core trays containing confidential diamond drillcore that is representative of company exploration drillhole RD 16 located at Olympic Dam [hole total depth 1318.9 m] were provided by EL 536 licensee Western Mining Corp. Ltd and placed on public...-
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Roxby Downs North (part of the Olympic Domain Project). Final report at licence surrender for the period 18/6/2007 to 17/6/2009.
During its 2-year tenure of EL 3810, which consisted of two parcels of ground situated 25 to 70 km north-west of the Olympic Dam mine, Copper Range undertook a review of existing geological and geophysical data and identified a ring structure and...-
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Published: 17 May 1909
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[Lake] Windabout. Annual reports to licence full surrender, for the period 21/6/2006 to 22/9/2010.
Exploration has been undertaken over two small areas in the Mount Gunson district, located approximately 20 km south-east of Pimba, for possible economic buried epithermal IOCG-U type mineralisation of Olympic Dam or Carrapateena style, and for...-
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Published: 30 Aug 1910
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Lincoln Gap (part of the Eastern Eyre Peninsula Project). First annual report and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/9/2009 to 29/9/2011.
An area located approximately 20 km south-west of Port Augusta has been explored for possible economic unconformity-hosted uranium at the base of the Pandurra Formation, for copper sulphides near the Beda Volcanics - Pandurra Formation contact, and...-
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Lake Gairdner South (part of the West Roxby Project). Data release: annual reports for the period 30/7/2007 to 29/7/2012.
An area centred approximately 60 km south-west of Woomera was taken up to explore its IOCG mineralisation potential, as a large regional gravity anomaly lying just east of Lake Gairdner was of interest in this regard. Work on the subject licence did...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Andamooka (part of the Stuart Shelf Project). Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 2/5/1975 to 1/5/1977. [ Index Part 2 of 2 ].
(Abstract continued) During the fifth quarter of WMC's tenure of EL 190, a programme of stepout appraisal diamond drilling was continued, to assess the size of the copper-uranium occurrence discovered by hole RD1 (previously called RDD1 by WMC)....-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Pernatty Lagoon [East]. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 27/6/1997 to 26/6/2002.
An area of the Stuart Shelf located between Pernatty Lagoon and the Beda Arm of Lake Torrens, with its western boundary lying 15 km east of the historic Mount Gunson copper mining field, is being explored for possible economic basement-hosted IOCG...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : (for 10 exploration licences comprising) the Lake Torrens JV Project. Joint annual reports for the period 1/1/2007 to 31/12/2011.
A group of ten, mainly adjoining licence areas occupying the plains surrounding the northern end of Lake Torrens, are now being jointly explored for possible economic buried Olympic Dam style IOCG related mineralisation that may have formed in the...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Eucolo Creek (also called the Churchill Dam Project). Annual reports for the period 31/1/2006 to 14/11/2018.
EL 3511 Eucolo Creek, of 528 square km, is situated near the eastern margin of the Gawler Craton within the Olympic Dam Domain, approximately 90 km south-west of the Olympic Dam IOCG-U deposit (3.98 billion tonnes at 1.1% Cu, 0.4 kg/t U3O8 and 0.5 g/t...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1918
