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RB 77/00144 Chrysoprase and moss agate deposits Mount Davies area, North West Province. Report no. 2.
Report criticises the methods, presentation and conclusions of a non-professional chrysoprase mining feasibility study prepared for the Commonwealth Government Opposition by parliamentary advisor J.P. West.-
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Published: 13 Dec 1977
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RB 89/00082 Pitjantjatjara Lands - 1988 drilling.
Twenty eight wells were drilled. Five of 12 wells put down for the Amata cattle project were successful, 3 being completed in weathered rock aquifers and 2 in fractured fresh rock aquifers. Drilling on narrow photo-linears gave poor results, whereas...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1989
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RB 91/00039 Pitjantjatjara - Ngaanyatjara lands, 1990 drilling.
Eight wells were drilled in the Pitjantjatjara Lands in SA, 10 in adjacent aboriginal lands in WA and 1 in the NT. In the Musgrave Block the best yields were obtained by drilling deep weathered zones on sizeable fault lines such as the Mann Fault....-
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Published: 01 Mar 1991
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Mount Darling. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/8/2004 to 2/8/2008.
An area located 3 km south of the South Australia/Northern Territory border and 50 km east of the Stuart Highway, on the eastern margin of the Musgrave Block, was considered prospective for nickel and platinoid metal mineralisation hosted by layered...-
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Published: 20 Dec 1908
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 2 partnership DPY2-17, Mount Moulden and Mount Harcus mineral prospects. Project final report.
As part of the PACE Year 2 collaboration between PIRSA and the minerals industry, PepinNini Minerals proposed and was granted part subsidy funding for an extensive drilling programme in the western APY Aboriginal Lands of South Australia, to examine...-
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Published: 16 Jun 1906
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 5 partnership DPY5-18. Western Musgrave Province - Mount Caroline area magmatic nickel-copper-PGE and stratiform or epithermal / hydrothermal base metal mineral prospects. Final report.
In late 2008 PepinNini Minerals completed a stratigraphic drilling programme in the western Musgrave Province as an approved PACE Initiative Year 5 collaborative project with PIRSA. The programme was designed to investigate the Mount Caroline...-
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Published: 20 Jan 1909
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PACE 2020 Discovery Drilling 2012: Year 7 Drilling Partnership DPY7-15 - NiCul Minerals Limited, Central Musgrave Project, Woodroffe and Cooperinna areas Proterozoic basement magmatic Ni-Cu-Co-PGE sulphide mineralisation targets. Drilling final report.
Early in 2012, explorer NiCul Minerals Limited (NiCul) sought PACE Initiative funding from the South Australian Government to help it undertake a programme of stratigraphic and targeted mineral exploration drilling within EL 3931 Woodroffe and EL 4587...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Claude Hills. Annual reports to licence expiry/re-issue over same area, for the period 4/12/2000 to 3/12/2005.
EL 2777 Claude Hills covers 1370 square km and is located at Surveyor General’s Corner (the SA, WA, NT State borders' triple point) and consists of 3 blocks. Early SADME work (1966) delineated 4.6 Mt of 1.5% Ni at the nearby Claude Hills/Mount Davies...-
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Pine Ridge (part of the Central Giles Nickel Project). Annual reports and final report to licence surrender, for the period 30/3/2007 to 9/6/2015.
A licence area located in South Australia's Far North-west Aboriginal Lands, approximately 140 km north-west of Marla, has been explored primarily for massive magmatic nickel sulphide deposits possibly associated with the Proterozoic Giles Complex...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Davies (part of the Central Giles Nickel Project). Annual reports for the period 4/3/1999 to 23/9/2009.
A licence area located in South Australia's Far North-west Aboriginal Lands, and centred approximately 20 km to the south-east of the Surveyor Generals Corner at the borders of Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory, has been...-
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Hanging Knoll. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/10/1995 to 6/9/2003.
Mafic and ultramafic rocks of the Proterozoic Giles Complex, which have intruded highly metamorphosed basement units of the Musgrave Block in an area 300 km WNW of Marla, were considered to have potential to host massive Ni sulphide mineralisation,...-
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Published: 02 Apr 1903
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East Deering Hills. Annual reports to licence surrender for the period 27/4/1994 to 25/9/2003.
Mafic and ultramafic rocks of the Proterozoic Giles Complex, which have intruded highly metamorphosed basement units of the Musgrave Block in an area 360 km WNW of Marla, were considered to have potential to host massive Ni sulphide mineralisation,...-
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Published: 02 Apr 1903
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West Mount Caroline. Annual reports to licence surrender for the period 26/9/2001 to 25/9/2003.
Mafic and ultramafic rocks of the Proterozoic Giles Complex, which have intruded into highly metamorphosed basement units of the Musgrave Block in an area 310 km WNW of Marla, were considered to have potential to host massive Ni sulphide...-
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Published: 02 Apr 1903
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Mount Harcus. Annual reports for period 27/6/2005 to 26/6/2010.
Mt Harcus EL3368 is located within the Palaeoproterozoic Musgrave Province. The region is recognised by PepinNini Minerals Ltd as prospective for magmatic Ni-Cu Sulphide mineralisation, platinum group metals, base metals, diamonds, and precious...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Davies (part of the Central Giles / Wingellina Nickel Project). Annual reports for the period 24/9/2009 to 23/9/2018.
Field work performed on the subject tenement during licence Year 8 included the conduct of Aboriginal heritage clearance surveys by the APY Traditional Owners to grant access for geological mapping and the acquisition of a trial seismic survey, as...-
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Published: 23 Nov 1918
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Claude Hills. Annual reports for the period 31/5/2006 to 19/6/2017.
An area comprising three adjacent but separate sub-blocks in the Mount Davies district of the central Musgrave Ranges within South Australia was taken up afresh by the Metals X Group, through its wholly owned subsidiary Austral Nickel Pty Ltd, because...-
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Published: 15 Aug 1917
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Data release - as updated : Mount Woodroffe. Licence-specific early annual reports, plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 5/3/2001 to 29/10/2015.
Mt Woodroffe is an irregularly shaped tenement block covering the central portion of the Musgrave Ranges in the northern part of South Australia. The Ranges lie between the Anangu communities Pukatja and Amata, approximately 550 kilometres by road...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Mount Kintore to Mount Caroline area. Annual reports for the period 26/2/2008 to 25/2/2011.
The Mt Caroline exploration licence is in the eastern part of the Musgraves Province in northern South Australia, approximately 300 km southwest of Alice Springs within the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands. The tenement is comprised...-
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Mount Parlue (part of the Alcurra Project). Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 25/6/2013 to 31/8/2017.
An area in Far North SA, centred ~75 km east-southeast of Kulgera on the Stuart Highway, and abutting the SA-NT State border, has been explored for possible buried economic magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE deposits associated with mafic-ultramafic intrusive rocks...-
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Published: 31 Aug 1917
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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
