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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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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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RB 00659 Regional geology and nickel exploration in the MANN 4-mile sheet and adjoining areas. Preliminary report. combined with RB 00659A - Nickel exploration on Special Mining Lease 33, Tomkinson Ranges.
This report reviews the available information on the region and presents a preliminary appraisal of the past nickel exploration data supplied by South Western Mining Co. Ltd. Current field and laboratory information has also been included. The study...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1900
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] due to licence expiry and pending approval of its subsequent re-grant : Pine Ridge (part of the Central Giles Nickel Project). Annual reports for the period 25/2/1999 to 29/3/2007.
A licence area located in South Australia's Far North-west Aboriginal Lands, approximately 140 km north-west of Marla, has been explored by Rio Tinto Exploration (RTE) as part of work planned for a larger set of project exploration licences currently...-
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Data release - as updated : Bryson Hill (part of the Musgrave Project). Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 25/2/2008 to 24/12/2015.
An area located within the APY Lands of north-western South Australia, near the SA/WA State Border and covering land south of the Tomkinson Range which is largely covered by in situ and transported alluvium and aeolian sands, was taken up to explore...-
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RB 2003/00020 MANN map sheet bedrock drilling program.
After two years of negotiation with traditional owners and the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Land Council, the Geological Survey Branch of PIRSA's Minerals, Petroleum and Energy Division (MPE) commenced stratigraphic drilling on the 15th May 2002, in the...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2003
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RB 2002/00031 Musgrave Block, central Australia. Regional geology from interpretation of airborne magnetic data.
A regional geological interpretation of newly-acquired magnetic data for the majority of the Musgrave Block (central Australia) has been compiled at 1:250 000 scale. This report outlines the methodology and results of interpretation. Highlights of...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2002
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Mount Howe, Mount Mead and Tieyon areas (East Musgrave Project). Annual and final report for the period 15/1/98 to 9/9/99.
As part of a search for possible concealed nickel-copper-cobalt sulphide mineralisation of Voisey Bay type buried within the Giles Complex at the eastern end of the Musgrave Ranges, Landsat and aeromagnetic interpretation of the mid-Proterozoic...-
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Coompana and Nullarbor. Joint annual reports to licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/2/2001 to 18/2/2003.
A strong, reversely remanent magnetised aeromagnetic anomaly located in the Coompana - Nullarbor area, and much evident in available geophysical data, was thought to be suggestive of one or more, probably causative mafic-ultramafic intrusive centres...-
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Musgrave Province, including APY Lands, Mineral Potential Modelling Data Package.
The purpose of this data package is to provide end-users with the GIS datasets and geophysical raster grids used for the 2010 modelling of mineral potential in the Musgrave Province region, which includes the APY (Anangu Pitjantjatjara -...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 5 partnership DPY5-16. Western Musgrave Ranges - Claude Hills North Proterozoic Giles Complex supergene nickel oxide & magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE massive sulphide mineral prospects. Final report.
In November 2007 an application was made by Austral Nickel Pty Ltd for funding assistance under PIRSA's PACE Initiative, Theme 2 - Drilling Collaboration with Industry, to explore for economic occurrences of magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE mineralisation on its EL...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Caroline, Mount Harcus and Pine Ridge (the Musgrave Project). Joint annual reports for the period 1/7/2011 to 31/12/2018.
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...-
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Published: 28 Feb 2019
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RB 2015/00003 PACE Geochronology: Results of collaborative geochronology projects, 2013–2015.
The PACE Geochronology program fosters collaboration on projects of geological and metallogenic significance with focus on dating rocks and minerals from samples suggested by companies through a competitive proposal-based selection process. Successful...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2017
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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 2003
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T2423 [A-D] gazetted areas, Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands, western Musgrave Ranges. Geological mapping project: data release - summary report for the period 12/12/2003 to 30/6/2006.
During 2004 MER Geological Survey Branch officers conducted detailed mapping within four small areas of the western Musgrave Ranges, as a follow-on to recently ceased prior company exploration, with the similar aim of evaluating the magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE...-
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Published: 29 Jan 2009
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 5 partnership DPY5-10 - Musgrave Province, Mount Alvey East Proterozoic magmatic nickel-copper-platinoid metals mineral prospect. Project interim and final reports.
The Alvey prospect is located in the East Deering Hills, within the north-western part of the Musgrave Ranges region of South Australia. The prospect lies on the eastern boundary of a reserved small exploration licence area previously held by the...-
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Published: 20 Nov 2008
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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 2003
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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 2017
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 6 partnership DPY6-30 - Hanging Knoll portion of Woodroffe Project area - Proterozoic basement-hosted base and precious metal mineral prospects. Drilling project final report.
Targeted stratigraphic and mineral exploratory drilling recently carried out by PepinNini Minerals within its EL 3931 Hanging Knoll was done as part of the sixth round of Theme 2 of the PACE Initiative (Primary Industries and Resources South...-
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Published: 15 Feb 2011
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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 2018
