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Kadlongaroo Hill. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 11/8/1981 to 10/8/1982.
Drilling of a 196 m deep vertical diamond hole to further investigate the oil shale potential of Permian strata in the axis of the Boorthanna Trough, north of Billa Kalina Homestead, intersected only Lower Permian glacial sediments below 30 m thick...-
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Published: 02 Jun 1982
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Millers Creek Homestead. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/3/1980 to 28/3/1986.
Following a review of existing regional geophysical and geological data for the north-western Stuart Shelf, grid-based gravity and ground magnetic surveys were run to further outline two broad gravity highs associated with discrete magnetic anomalies,...-
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RB 93/00010 Explanatory Notes for the WARRINA 1:250 000 geological map.
The oldest rocks on WARRINA outcrop in the Peake and Denison Inliers, which comprise the Davenport and Denison Ranges and small inliers to the east. Basement in this area consists of Palaeoproterozoic metamorphic rocks which were intruded by...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1994
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Williams Bore [Weedina coal deposit]. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 31/10/1990 to 29/9/1998.
An area of 261 square km covering the Weedina coal deposit within the Arckaringa Basin has been retained by Cyprus Australia to protect the core of a very large buried Permian age sub-bituminous rank coal resource (~ 1200 Mt measured and indicated + ~...-
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Weedina coal deposit, Arckaringa Basin. Mining proponent's submission to FEAC, including supporting geological data.
In June 1986 Cyprus Australia Coal Co., a wholly-owned subsidiary of a large American coal producer and marketer then holding exploration licences over the Weedina coal deposit in the far north of South Australia, submitted to the South Australian...-
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Williams Bore (Weedinna Coalfield). Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 13/4/2005 to 3/6/2014.
An area of 304 square km was taken up by SAPEX to allow it to evaluate afresh known sub-bituminous coal measures in the Permian Mount Toondina Formation that constitute the Weedina coal deposit. This deposit, located ~90 km north-east of Coober Pedy,...-
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Published: 11 Jul 1914
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ELs 4678 - 4689 (the Oodnadatta Project). Joint annual reports, plus final reports at licences' individual or joint full surrenders, for the period 22/2/2011 to 9/9/2014.
The Oodnadatta Project consisted originally of twelve exploration licenses covering 7125 square km in far northern South Australia, this mainly being ground situated to the south and south-east of Oodnadatta. Uranium Equities Limited (UEQ) believed...-
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Published: 28 Oct 1914
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Boorthanna 001 Well completion report.
Boorthanna 1 was drilled as a combined mineral/petroleum exploration hole and stratigraphic test in the southern section of the Boorthanna Trough, 29 km west of William Creek township, to: (1) penetrate the Devonian section in the search of potash...-
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Davenport Range (part of Edward Creek Project). Annual and final report to expiry for the period 17/5/2002 to 16/5/2003.
An area located 100 km south-east of Oodnadatta, encompassing Adelaidean sediments and associated intrusives of the Peake and Denison Inliers, was considered prospective for copper and gold mineralisation, while potential for diamonds was inferred...-
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Wintinna. Annual report for the period 8/8/97 to 7/8/98.
Reinterpretation of existing aeromagnetic and gravity data from an area 70 km northwest of Oodnadatta indicated moderate potential for basement mineralisation and kimberlitic intrusions.-
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Published: 10 Aug 1998
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Krystal and Davenport Range (part of Edward Creek Project). First annual and final technical reports for the period 9/10/2000 to 12/10/2001.
Two contiguous exploration licences were obtained over an area near William Creek considered to be prospective for diamonds and base metals. Due to a concentration of exploration effort in other areas, little work was done on the William Creek...-
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Published: 18 Jan 1902
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GEL 257 Annual and Technical reports.
GEL 257 was one of 6 geothermal licences granted to Proactive Energy Developments Ltd (PED) covering areas of the central and northern Gawler Craton during 2006/2007. In early 2007 PED changed their name to Granite Power Ltd. GEL 257 was granted 22nd...-
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Arckaringa [North-east]. Annual reports to licence full surrender, for the period 13/4/2005 to 3/6/2014.
An area of 185 square km was taken up by SAPEX to allow it to evaluate afresh known sub-bituminous coal measures in the Permian Mount Toondina Formation that constitute the East Wintinna coal deposit. This deposit had been discovered by Meekatharra...-
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Published: 11 Jul 1914
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EL 6401 - Billa Kalina area. Annual technical reports from 11/09/2019 to full surrender 27/03/2023.
Exploration Licence 6401 lies in northern South Australia around 600km NNW of Adelaide. The town of William Creek lies around 80km north of the tenement. The tenement sits to the east of the Mt Woods Inlier where a large amount of exploration has...-
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Published: 27 Mar 1923
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Arckaringa Creek. Annual reports for the period 27/4/2015 to 11/5/2022.
Two separate areas in the Arckaringa Basin, designated as EL 5598 Areas 'A' and 'B', have been taken up to allow for a fresh assessment of the development potential of the large East Wintinna and Weedina coal deposits, respectively. During the first...-
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Published: 09 May 1918
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Gidyea Creek. Annual reports for the period 19/1/2016 to 18/1/2018.
Exploration licence 5699 was taken up to evaluate the development potential of the East Wintinna Early Permian sub-bituminous coal deposit, which is the largest known coal deposit in the Arckaringa Basin and is regarded as having the best future...-
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Published: 28 Mar 1918
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Painted Hill. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/7/1982 to 11/7/1987.
Stockdale's diamond exploration work included reconnaissance stream sampling, and photogeology and Landsat interpretation. Ground magnetic surveys were run over aeromagnetic anomalies interpreted from the previous nickel exploration (Mount Purvis)...-
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Mount Morgan and Tent Hill (Stuart Creek Project). Progress and final reports from 8/1/82 to 7/1/84.
Negative heavy mineral sampling results and a lack of magnetic anomalies suggest that two areas located south-west of Lake Eyre South have little potential for diamonds and / or kimberlites.-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Arckaringa [Hills]. Annual reports for the period 13/5/2016 to 12/5/2018.
Exploration licence 5781 was taken up to evaluate the development potential of the East Wintinna Early Permian sub-bituminous coal deposit, which is the largest known coal deposit in the Arckaringa Basin and is regarded as having the best future...-
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Published: 05 Jun 1918
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Mount Kingston. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 10/10/1979 to 26/4/1984.
Diamond exploration undertaken over an area situated 70 km south-east of Oodnadatta included photogeological studies, the acquisition of a 2400 line km low level aerial magnetic and radiometric survey, and geochemical analyses of 452 reconnaissance...-
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