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Data release - as updated : Lake Harris. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 15/2/2012 to 14/2/2019.
An area centred ~90 km south-east of Tarcoola and adjacent to the western shore of Lake Gairdner is being explored for possible economic buried Carrapateena or Prominent Hill style IOCG and polymetallic skarn style mineralisation which may be...-
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Published: 20 Mar 1919
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Claude Hills. Second partial surrender report, for the period 4/12/2000 to 19/6/2018.
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...-
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Published: 04 Aug 1918
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mannum area. Annual technical reports for period ending 08/09/2018.
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...-
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Penong B area and Yumbarra (part of the Eucla Basin Project tenement Group 2). Joint final report at licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/11/2012 to 15/11/2017.
Two adjoining areas located north of Koonibba were taken up to explore this part of the south-eastern Eucla Basin for possible buried economic marine placer deposits of heavy mineral sands (HM), because they were believed to contain shallow or exposed...-
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Published: 12 Sep 1917
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EL 5837, EL 5838, EL 5839, EL 5840, EL 5841, EL 5842 and EL 5843 - Coompana Project. Joint annual technical report for the period 31/8/2016 to 30/8/2018.
Exploration licences 5837, 5838, 5839, 5840, 5841, 5842 and 5843 collectively known as the “Coompana Project” cover an area of 6572 square km south of the Trans Australian Railway on the western margin of the Gawler Craton, on the South Australia –...-
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Published: 07 Sep 1918
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Data release: Mount Howe (part of the Alcurra Project). Annual reports to licence suspension, for the period 11/10/2012 to 10/10/2018.
An area straddling the Tarcoola - Alice Springs Railway line next to the SA/NT state border, ~40 km south-southeast of Kulgera, was taken up to explore for possible buried economic magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE deposits, epithermal gold and Broken Hill type...-
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Published: 06 Jan 1919
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Mount Irwin (part of the Alcurra Project). First partial surrender report, for the period 25/6/2013 to 30/11/2017.
An area in Far North SA, centred near Mount Irwin on Tieyon Station, is being explored for possible buried economic magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE deposits associated with mafic-ultramafic intrusive rocks of the Proterozoic Giles Complex. Another newly recognised...-
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Published: 08 Mar 1918
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Mount Finke. Annual reports including 'no work' letters, for the period 12/8/2015 to 11/8/2018.
An area centred ~45 km south-west of Tarcoola is being explored for possible buried epithermal/hydrothermal copper-gold and magmatic copper-nickel-PGE mineralisation which could have formed within Archaean and Proterozoic basement rocks. During the...-
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Published: 09 Oct 1918
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Data release - as updated : Muckanippie Outstation. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/1/2013 to 13/1/2020.
An area centred ~70 km north-west of Tarcoola is being explored for possible buried economic iron ore (particularly haematite DSO) and for buried copper-gold or copper-nickel-chromium massive sulphide mineralisation that may have formed within...-
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Published: 17 Feb 1920
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Data release - as updated : Lake Woorong. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 8/6/2012 to 7/6/2019.
A large area centred ~80 km south-west of Coober Pedy has been explored for possible buried economic iron ore, including inferred DSO haematite mineralisation, and for base metal massive sulphide deposits that may have formed in Proterozoic basement...-
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Published: 30 Jul 1919
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Data release: Sundown Outstation (part of the Alcurra Project). Annual reports to licence suspension, for the period 11/10/2012 to 10/10/2018.
An area straddling the Stuart Highway next to the SA/NT state border, ~40 km south of Kulgera, was taken up to explore for possible buried economic magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE deposits, epithermal gold and Broken Hill type copper-lead-zinc mineralisation that...-
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Published: 06 Jan 1919
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Mount Moulden. Technical data submitted in support of a mineral exploration licence application.
Dataset comprises an information package which was supplied by the licence proponents to the Executive Board of Anangu Pitjantjatjara, as part of the formal process of seeking their permission to conduct mineral exploration activities within the...-
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Murray Basin. Final report, Project ADI RD02-289 [Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2022].
Hillgrove Resources Ltd (HGO) has identified a large number of geophysical targets through the south-east Cambro-Ordovician basement of South Australia prospective for Cu-Au mineralisation and covered by the Tertiary-Quaternary Murray Basin sediments....-
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Published: 12 Sep 1922
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Lake Barry, Lepa and Mount Christie. Joint progress reports and final report to licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/11/1981 to 15/11/1983.
Intensive surface sampling of mineralogical anomalies associated with possible buried intrusive plugs in the Mount Christie region has recovered one only small diamond, now interpreted as a false source indicator and probably due to laboratory...-
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Published: 05 Dec 1983
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Western Gawler Project. Final report, Magneto Telluric, Passive Seismic and Magnetic Modelling Study. Project ADI RD02-296 [Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2022].
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...-
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Published: 06 May 1923
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Sahara Prospect. Final report, Model Test and Core Scanning. Project ADI RD02-270 [Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2022].
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,...-
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Published: 31 Oct 1922
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Kalanbi. Progress report to licence surrender for the period 13/5/87 to 8/10/87.
Exploration for platinum group metals in possible chromite-rich layers within a shallowly buried layered mafic/ultramafic igneous intrusive at Kalanbi, 20 km north of Ceduna, has consisted of RAB drilling in a single fence across the associated...-
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EL 6617 (previous EL 5688) - Nullarbor area. Annual technical reports from 6/11/2015 to surrender 20/06/2024.
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...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Deception Hill. Annual reports, for the period 12/8/2015 to 11/8/2018.
An area centred ~25 km south-southwest of Tarcoola is being explored for possible buried epithermal/hydrothermal copper-gold and magmatic copper-nickel-PGE mineralisation which could have formed within Archaean and Proterozoic basement rocks. During...-
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Published: 09 Oct 1918
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Coober Pedy south-east - Mount Brady Mafic Intrusive Complex exploratory drilling programme. Final report, Project ADI RD02-293 [part of Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2022].
In an area centred ~40 km south-east of Coober Pedy, following its processing of open file GCAS aeromagnetic data (Region 8A/8B) using Vector Residual Mag Intensity (VRMI) and high frequency residual gradients, the licensee had identified two untested...-
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Published: 30 Jun 1922