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RB 57/00014 Report on visit to Western Australian iron and manganese deposits in May 1963.
A comparison of known iron deposits in Western Australia and South Australia suggests that large, high grade iron orebodies occur in flatly dipping favourable horizons which have a leached and oxidised appearance: siliceous, steeply dipping iron...-
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Published: 18 Jul 1963
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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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RB 83/00006 Ferruginous concretions at Maslin Beach.
Large ferruginous concretions in the South Maslin Sand contain attractive botryoidal masses of iron oxides. They are prized as mineral specimens. Genesis of the concretions probably resulted from dissolution and subsequent precipitation of iron...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1983
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RB 96/00039 Report on a test TEM survey over a haematite orebody at Hawks Nest, SA.
A newly-discovered, small, non-outcropping haematite orebody has been outlined at Hawks Nest on the Stuart Shelf by MESA scout drilling. As a trial procedure a Transient Electromagnetic (TEM) survey was conducted over the known subcrop limits, the...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1996
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Commonwealth Hill, Perfection Well, Wirrida North, Nelson Bore and Ingomar (the Commonwealth Hill Joint Venture Project). Joint annual reports and final report to licences' respective expiry/renewal, for the period 6/10/1995 to 6/12/1998.
Exploration for Challenger - type primary gold deposits that may possibly have formed within buried Archaean basement rocks in the Commonwealth Hill area, which is the purpose of one of two joint venture agreements currently in force between Minotaur...-
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Published: 06 Jan 1999
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Wirrida (part of Minotaur's Commonwealth Hill joint venture project). Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 29/9/1997 to 16/10/2006.[Index entry Part 1 of 2 - a very long abstract is split between these two parts].
Exploration of a long-held tenement package in the northern Gawler Craton was directed primarily at gold and also at platinum group metals, in specific work programmes executed under separate early joint venture arrangements made with Gawler Gold and...-
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Published: 10 Jan 1907
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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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Wirrida (part of Minotaur's Commonwealth Hill joint venture project). Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 29/9/1997 to 16/10/2006.[Index entry Part 2 of 2 - a very long abstract is split between these two parts].
Abstract (Continued from Part 1): Because of the presence of the highest gold concentration at the eastern end of the Target 14 aircore drill traverse, potential remains for delineating further mineralisation at this locality. In addition, the...-
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Published: 10 Jan 1907
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Hope. Annual reports for the period 12/4/2002 to 14/3/2019.
Exploration of an area located on western Eyre Peninsula between Sheringa and Mount Hope is continuing, with the intent of discovering economic buried base and precious metal deposits of volcanogenic sediment-hosted massive sulphide (VHMS) style...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Johns Outstation / Giffen Well. Annual reports for the period 8/10/2007 to 7/10/2018.
To date, land access restrictions imposed by the Commonwealth Department of Defence have prevented any field work from occurring on the subject tenement, taken up to cover the Giffen Well magnetite iron ore deposit and adjacent inferred prospective...-
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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 2 of 2 ].
During the 2006 reporting period for renewed Mount Woods EL 3518 (i.e. for licence Year 6), Goldstream conducted ongoing exploration that included campaigns of diamond, RC, RAB and AC drilling, plus, in relation to the possible iron ore / copper-gold...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Tarcoola. Annual reports for the period 2/6/2008 to 29/7/2018.
During the first year of renewed EL 4167, in October and November 2008, Stellar Resources Ltd ("Stellar") completed a 5 hole, 1286.9 m RC and 2 hole, 157.1 m diamond cored inclined drilling programme at the Coolybring prospect which is located...-
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Published: 11 Sep 1918
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bulgunnia (part of the Gawler JV Project). Annual reports for the period 19/11/1997 to 1/1/2013.
Within an area of the Wilgena and Christie Domains centred 40 km north of Tarcoola, exploration is continuing for Archaean to Proterozoic basement-hosted epithermal, hydrothermal and metamorphic type gold and base metal occurrences. Here an 841 square...-
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Lake Gilles. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/5/1969 to 18/5/1970.
Exploration for possible economic hypogene base metal sulphide deposits associated with poorly exposed iron-rich linear outcrops, overlying faulted Archaean to Palaeoproterozoic basement which is obscured by extensive Cainozoic sedimentary cover rocks...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1970
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Bindyi South. Annual reports to licence forfeiture/cancellation, for the period 30/4/2015 to 24/11/2017.
An area located immediately south of Bindyi Homestead on Koonamore Station was taken up to explore for possible economic stratabound iron ore (magnetite) hosted by metamorphosed Adelaidean glacial sedimentary strata of the Yudnamutana Subgroup....-
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Published: 24 Nov 1917
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Wildingi [Claypan] and Galaxy [Outstation]. Licence-specific annual reports, plus joint final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 22/11/1995 to 13/4/1999.
21 gold exploration targets with anomalous regolith Au > 10 ppb were generated by extensive regional and infill calcrete sampling of an area 80 km south-west of Coober Pedy. Aircore, RAB and RC drilling at four of these prospects (269 holes, total...-
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Woomera Project. Joint annual reports for the period 29/9/2008 to 15/6/2017. Includes information status for EL 6085 at licence expiry, for period 16/06/2017 to 01/01/2023: no work performed.
No field work was performed on the three subject licences during the period 2008-2010 inclusive. During 2010, Dominion Gold Operations undertook a desktop evaluation of the possible iron ore potential of the licences. During 2011, the licensee...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1923
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Great Victoria Desert - Alinya area (part of the Nawa Domain Project). Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 25/6/2013 to 24/6/2016.
An area centred ~145 km west-northwest of Coober Pedy, and extending northwards for ~40 km from near the Anne Beadell Highway, has been explored for possible buried economic mineralisation that may occur in basement rocks of the Gawler Craton and the...-
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Published: 05 Oct 1916
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Oak Dam North-east. Annual reports for the period 18/1/2006 to 17/1/2011.
A relatively large but little-explored area of the central-eastern Stuart Shelf, which is almost wholly covered by scrubby sand dunes and swampy salt lakes, thereby making surface access very difficult despite it being located only ~30 km to 50 km km...-
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Published: 16 Mar 1911
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Olary (part of the Braemar Iron Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/cancellation, for the period 20/9/2010 to 19/9/2015.
A licence area in the Olary district comprising three separate sub-blocks has been explored for possible economic stratabound iron ore occurrences within partly concealed Neoproterozoic bedrock. The subject ground was taken up by Wentworth Metals...-
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