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Port Broughton, Redhill and Mount Remarkable - Port Augusta areas (part of the Moonta North Project ELs combined reporting group). Annual reports and joint final report at licences' surrender, for the period 19/4/2002 to 22/5/2006.
Economic deposits of iron-oxide associated copper-gold mineralisation of the Moonta-Wallaroo or Olympic Dam style, hosted in Palaeoproterozoic basement rocks of the Moonta Sub-domain, were targeted by exploration in three now surrendered licences,...-
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Southern Hummocks Range (part of Lochiel Project). Final report at licence surrender for the period 27/8/2007 to 7/3/2008.
Investigation of an anecdotal historic ?alluvial gold occurrence located adjacent to the Lochiel - Ninnes Road has consisted of a field reconnaissance and some surface geochemical sampling (31 soil, 2 weathered metasedimentary bedrock) along a 20 m...-
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Screech-Owl Creek (part of Lake Torrens Project). Final report at licence surrender for the period 14/6/2000 to 20/4/2006.
Possible economic Neoproterozoic stratiform / hydrothermal copper mineralisation hidden under Mesozoic and Recent sedimentary cover was targeted in an area located approximately 95 km north-east of Andamooka. Aeromagnetic data interpretation of some...-
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Lake Torrens South. Data release : combined second annual / final report at licence expiry/full surrender for the period 18/1/2006 to 1/7/2009.
A planned detailed ground gravity survey across the licence area on southern Lake Torrens (780 readings to be taken at 500 m x 500 m station spacing) did not eventuate due to delays in preparing and gaining stakeholder approval for a satisfactory...-
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Published: 29 Sep 1909
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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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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Lake Torrens area. Annual reports for the period 6/4/2009 to 17/8/2018.
During the 2009-2010 reporting period, work completed by Straits included: • participation in Native Title and Land Access activities and negotiations, which have constituted the majority of the work undertaken; and • Holding numerous meetings and...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : [south-western] Lake Torrens area. Annual reports for the period 13/10/2010 to 12/10/2012.
An area centred ~30 km north-east of Bookaloo, which is mostly located within the Lake Torrens National Park, is being explored primarily for possible buried economic IOCG style mineralisation of the type exemplified by major deposits occurring at...-
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Published: 05 Nov 1912
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Data release - as updated : Crystal Brook and Port Pirie (the Wandearah Project). Joint annual reports to licences' respective full surrenders, for the period 2/8/2008 to 26/4/2018.
Buried basement-hosted iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) mineralisation of either Moonta-Wallaroo or Olympic Dam style is the target of ongoing exploration on the two adjacent subject tenements. In addition, the current holder considers that...-
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Published: 29 May 1918
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The Hummocks. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 30/6/2009 to 17/8/2017.
EL 4278 was Southern Uranium's first mineral exploration foray into the northern Yorke Peninsula. The subject tenement was pegged in January 2009 in order to secure ground surrounding the northern reaches of the Pine Point Fault. This particular...-
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Published: 31 Aug 1917
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Curdimurka. Annual reports for the period 4/9/2014 to 3/9/2018.
An area centred near Lake Phibbs, ~70 km west of Marree, which also abuts the southern edge of Lake Eyre South, is being explored for possible economic buried Olympic Dam type IOCG-U mineralisation that might exist within covered basement in a poorly...-
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Published: 03 Sep 1918
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Ruby Hill Project : Douglas Creek prospect drilling program. Final report, Project ADI RD02-288 [part of Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2022].
Copper Search Australia Pty Ltd (a subsidiary of Copper Search Limited) was granted co-funding from the Department of Energy and Mining in July 2021 to a subsidy total of up to $228,000, to assist it with high risk exploration of remote parts of the...-
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[Structural geology and tectonics research]. Applying the modified stress / strain ellipsoid to the Adelaide Geosyncline / Nackara Arc.
This report describes a case study aiming to explain the structural styles of tectonic features present in the Adelaide Fold Belt and its marginal zones, through analysing the observable products of interactions via relative motions between identified...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Port Augusta Project. Joint annual reports for the period 8/5/2013 to 7/5/2018 and subsequent expiry/full surrender reports to 6/10/2023.
Two small adjacent areas located 25 km north of Port Augusta, on the south-eastern Stuart Shelf close to the Torrens Hinge Zone, are being explored for possible buried economic IOCG style mineralisation which could have formed within inferred deep and...-
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Published: 14 Jul 1918
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Kootaberra (part of the Port Augusta Project). First partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 3/8/2018 to 24/1/2022.
47 square km or ~13% of the former area of EL 6218 Kootaberra has been relinquished to comply with the Amalgamated Expenditure Arrangement mandatory area reduction conditions for FMG's Port Augusta Project. This licence lies outside of and to the...-
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Published: 11 Feb 1922
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William Creek (part of the Stuart Range Joint Venture Project). Progress report to the end of the Newmont JV agreement exploration phase, for the period 12/8/1979 to 9/5/1980.
The subject tenement forms part of an ongoing multi-licence programme of exploration for Roxby Downs / Olympic Dam style copper-gold-uranium [IOCG-U] mineralisation that might exist along the eastern margin of the Stuart Shelf. No new exploration...-
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Codna Hill (part of the Stuart Range Joint Venture Project). Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 3/5/1977 to 2/5/1979.
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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Kallioota. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 5/6/2006 to 4/6/2010.
A north-northwest trending basement high or horst-like structure mapped in the subsurface at Yadlamalka, located about 50 km north of Port Augusta, which was indicated by magnetic and gravity data to lie at a depth of about 200 m to 600 m close to the...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1910
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Lake Torrens and Lake Torrens South. Annual and final reports to licences' respective surrender, for the period 18/1/2006 to 30/11/2009.
Exploration for possible economic buried IOCG-U type mineral deposits within areas covering the southern third of Lake Torrens has consisted only of office-based prospectivity studies and the planning of a detailed ground gravity survey aimed at...-
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Published: 07 Jul 1910
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Merna Mora. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/10/2006 to 8/10/2013.
A small licence area located on the Flinders Ranges piedmont plain south-east of Lake Torrens was taken up by Jim Allender to investigate the IOCG potential of a discrete regional gravity anomaly which he had identified from data in the public domain,...-
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Published: 20 Nov 1913
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PACE 2020 Initiative : PACE Targeting, Year 1 partnership no. 5 - Wauraltee airborne electromagnetic (AEM) geophysical survey. Project PT1-05 final report.
EL 4177, made up of three disjoint parts, is located on the central-western side of Yorke Peninsula near the towns of Port Victoria, Maitland and Arthurton, and covers a total area of 243 square km. The underlying basement rocks there are part of the...-
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Published: 05 Aug 1912
