Exploration Licence 5939 the “Nullarbor Project” is centred on the western margin of the Gawler Craton. Geologically the project covers a portion of the Fowler Domain interpreted to be a mobile belt of igneous and metamorphic rocks. It hosts deep...

EL 5639, centred ~210 km north-west of Ceduna, was acquired by Iluka’s New Commodities team in 2015 as part of its strategy to explore for possible Voiseys Bay style magmatic nickel, copper and platinum group metallic mineralisation which might be...

488 square km of EL 5417, located ~95 km north-west of Ceduna within the Yellabinna Regional Reserve, and extending for between 5 km and 29 km towards the south-southwest from Mount Christie Siding on the Trans Australia Railway, have been...

A 271 square km major portion of the eastern part of EL 5860 Claude Hills, which is located in the extreme north-west of South Australia in the Musgrave Ranges, has now been voluntarily relinquished by licensee Austral Nickel Pty Ltd. This portion of...

EL 5846 covers an area of 462 km2 and is located approximately 70km east of Adelaide. It is located within the Murray Basin, with a basement of poorly outcropping to deeply covered Neoproterozoic and Cambrian Kanmantoo Group sediments and...

Portions of a tenement located within the Nawa Domain basement rocks subcrop region of the northern Gawler Craton have recently been relinquished by Woomera Exploration (WEX) in order to meet exploration expenditure compliance conditions of its...

This report summarises geophysical studies conducted by Western Areas between October 2021 and October 2022, under the ADI Agreement ADI: RD02/296-GP Magneto Telluric (MT), Passive Seismic and Magnetic Modelling Study. The discovery of magmatic Ni-Cu...

This report summarises exploration conducted by Western Areas between May 2021 and October 2021, under the ADI Agreement ADI: RD02/270-ED Sahara Prospect Model Test and Core Scanning. The discovery of magmatic Ni-Cu sulphide at Sahara in 2020,...

Exploration licence 5688 forms part of Western Areas’ Nullarbor Project, in conjunction with an adjacent area to the south being sought under licence application ELA 2014/252. It covers part of the Fowler Domain, which is interpreted as a Proterozoic...

TARGET: Possible primary magmatic platinoid and/or other precious metals deposited at or near the base of expected cumulate layered rock sequences within the Black Hill Norite. EXPLORATION: After making preliminary regional geophysical and drillhole...

“Benagerie Dyke definition study” This report details exploration carried out by Havilah Resources Limited (Havilah) for the Round 3 (2021/2022 - Stage 2) Accelerated Discovery Initiative (ADI). Work was undertaken over the Benagerie Dyke project in...

TARGET: Precious metals, specifically platinum group metals and gold, associated with ultrabasic intrusives and strongly faulted and altered metasediments in the Tumby Bay area. EXPLORATION: Geochemical sampling including rock chip, gravel and BCL...

The licence was taken out to assess the untested potential for finding platinum group metal occurrences associated with two known ultramafic intrusive plugs outcropping in the Lincoln Uplands, 40 km north-northeast of Port Lincoln. Incidental...

TARGET: Possible buried platinum group metals mineralisation, east of Black Hill. EXPLORATION: Geological reconnaissance, rock chip sampling (3), and three traverses of ground magnetic surveying totalling 18 line km. RESULTS: Magnetic anomaly...

TARGET: Within a small area centred on Cambrai township, all metallic minerals, but primarily gold which might occur in the Black Hill Norite complex. EXPLORATION: Limited surface rock chip grab geochemical sampling (5) at the Black Hill council...

On 19th May 2021 Sinosteel SA secured ADI funding to carry out the comprehensive Curnamona Geochemical Sampling Program utilising the skills of the in-house geologist together with academic research collaboration to perform rigorous geochemical...

The major part of the subject 134 square km total area of tenement ground relinquished from EL 5184 on 23/9/2017 contains the Michael Hills copper prospect (Area 11). A large portion of the remainder of the surrendered ground, in a separate block...

Three Exploration Licences spread across the central and eastern Musgrave Ranges are now being explored by NiCul Minerals Limited (a wholly owned subsidiary of PepinNini Minerals Limited) which currently owns 100% of each tenement. The ground held is...

A cluster of adjoining licence sub-blocks taken up in the Yalata region are being explored for possible buried Thompson Belt style magmatic copper-nickel mineralisation which could be associated with large strike-slip fault structures transecting the...

During the 2015-2016 licence year, the Western Gawler JV Project exploration operator Western Areas Limited (WSA) conducted the first part of a regional reconnaissance bedrock drilling campaign targeting aeromagnetic anomalies which were interpreted...