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RB 95/00041 Commodity review. Copper and gold in South Australia.
The giant Olympic Dam deposit has a total resource of about 2 200 million tonnes grading 1.4% Cu, 0.5 kg/t U3O8, 0.5 g/t Au and 3.1 g/t Ag. Development of Olympic Dam, with current annual production of 67 000 t of copper and further expansion...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1995
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Review of Mineral exploration activity, 2003 and 2004.
2003 activity: Expenditure by companies on mineral exploration licences in South Australia for calendar year 2003 was $37.0 million, a slight increase on the $35.7 million spent in 2002. Mineral exploration drilling metreage, a key indicator of...-
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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] : 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 - 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 : Hanging Knoll. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 24/9/2007 to 23/9/2016.
A remote and largely untested area within the central Musgrave Province is being explored for possible economic buried magmatic massive copper-nickel sulphide and platinoid group element (PGE) deposits that may have formed around 1080Ma in...-
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Granite Downs. Progress and final reports for the period 28/8/1969 to 22/10/1970.
Field reconnaissance and assessment of surface mineralisation, regional geological mapping and geochemical sampling, detailed ground magnetic and radiometric surveying, and shallow vertical percussion drilling (5 holes, total 491 feet) were carried...-
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Published: 22 Sep 1970
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Granite Downs. Final report for the period 29/10/1970 to 28/10/1971.
Exploration for multiple base and precious metal commodities, possibly associated with magnetic anomalies in the De Rose Hill and Indulkana Range areas, has there identified a substantial Precambrian volcanic and intrusive complex, with rock types...-
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RB 67/00041 Report on Moorilyanna copper prospect, North-West Province. Grid D.1.
Detailed mapping of the Moorilyanna copper prospect has indicated that the mineralisation is confined to a gabbro dyke which has intruded a folded lower Proterozoic metasedimentary sequence along a sheared synclinal fold axis. The mineralisation is...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1968
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RB 71/00183 Progress report on nickel exploration, Kenmore Park, Alberga 1-mile sheet.
Seven serpentinite bodies were located on Kenmore in the 1970 field season and a ground magnetic survey was carried out over the area that contained most of them. Induced polarization surveys were carried out over the South Bank and Eremophila...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1971
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RB 71/00014 Stream sediment sampling of Giles Complex intrusions in the Musgrave Ranges.
A total of 380 stream sediment samples and 40 heavy mineral samples were collected from Giles Complex norites in the Musgrave Ranges and the -80 mesh fraction tested for copper, lead, zinc, cobalt, nickel, chromium, vanadium, manganese, titanium,...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1973
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RB 73/00093 Drilling completion report, Eastern zone nickel prospects, Kenmore and Eateringinna Alberga.
After the discovery of serpentinite underlying jasper cappings near Kenmore in 1967, a regional mapping and prospecting program was initiated which located eleven additional areas of jasper capping. Three of these were drilled, but serpentinite was...-
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Published: 05 Apr 1973
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RB 73/00154 Report on drilling of the Kenmore 2 copper prospect, Kenmore Alberga.
Acid gneiss underlying soil displaying anomalous copper values was investigated by geological mapping, geochemistry, geophysics, rotary and diamond drilling. Subeconomic sulphide mineralization, thought to have originated as a stratabound deposit, was...-
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Published: 22 Jun 1973
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RB 73/00146 Geophysical surveys at Kenmore 1 and 2 and Wild Horse prospects, Eateringinna 1:100 000 sheet.
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Published: 01 Jan 1975
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RB 73/00300 Report on a geochemical soil sampling programme, Kenmore and Eateringinna, ALBERGA.
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 74/00110 Drilling completion report, Wild Horse prospect, Eateringinna Alberga.
A soil geochemical anomaly was investigated by geological mapping, induced polarization, geochemical sampling and diamond drilling. Finely disseminated sulphide, mainly pyrite, was located in basic granulite, but in subeconomic quantities.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1974
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Everard Park Homestead area (part of the Musgrave Project). Final report submitted at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/10/2007 to 18/10/2014.
An area located near the south-eastern margin of the Musgrave Province, in the eastern and northern Everard Ranges about 100 km west-northwest of Marla, wholly within the APY Lands, has been explored for possible economic nickel-copper-platinoid group...-
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RB 2010/00007 Mineral potential and prospectivity analysis, Musgrave Province, including APY Lands.
A preliminary prospectivity analysis has been undertaken for the Musgrave Province, including for the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunyatjara Aboriginal (APY) Lands. This analysis aimed to provide regional information for government bodies, mineral...-
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Published: 01 Feb 2010
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RB 2013/00019 Characteristics of porphyry Cu deposits and their potential as exploration targets in South Australia.
Porphyry Cu-(Au-Mo) deposits are typically large tonnage (>150 Mt) and low grade (<1% Cu) deposits which tend to occur in clusters, and the potential for discovering giant-sized such deposits makes them valuable exploration targets. Worldwide,...-
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Published: 01 Nov 2013
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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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