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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Warriner Hill. First annual report for the period 8/10/2012 to 7/10/2013.
An area consisting of two main and three lesser sub-blocks which together are centred ~64 km southwest of William Creek is being explored for possible economic metallic mineralisation that may have formed in buried Proterozoic volcanic and metamorphic...-
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Published: 04 Dec 2013
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Data release - as updated : Phar Lap Outstation. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/8/2007 to 26/8/2017.
An area centred ~85 km south-southeast of Coober Pedy, at the southern margin of the Lake Phillipson Trough, a long active tectonic feature now occupied by deep sedimentary fill, was taken up by a wholly-owned subsidiary to Monax Mining Ltd primarily...-
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Published: 24 May 2017
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Lake Labyrinth (part of the Tarcoola Joint Venture Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 31/10/2001 to 8/2/2012.
Exploration for possible buried epithermal or hydrothermal gold deposits within the large variety of Archaean, Palaeoproterozoic and Mesoproterozoic basement rocks present in an area located from 20-30 km east of Tarcoola has targeted the potential of...-
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Published: 05 Apr 2012
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PACE 2020 Initiative : PACE Targeting, Year 1 partnership no. 1 - Coober Pedy Project area, Coober Pedy [Eastern, Central and Western subareas] ground gravity survey. Project PT1-01 final report.
Teck Australia has been the successful recipient of a grant of subsidy funds under Year 1 of the SA Government's PACE 2020 Targeting initiative, to conduct strategic geophysical exploration in the northern part of the Gawler Craton near the southern...-
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Published: 15 May 2012
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Morgans (part of the East Eyre Peninsula Project). Annual reports for the period 17/1/2012 to 16/1/2019.
An area of mainly covered bedrock consisting of two separate sub-blocks bordering the south-eastern Gawler Ranges, which is considered prospective for finding buried hypogene IOCG mineralisation and possible stratiform and metamorphic base metals in a...-
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Published: 21 Mar 2018
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Barney Bore. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 23/7/2013 to 8/3/2018.
An area located approximately 65 km south of Oodnadatta, on the Boorthanna Plain near Peake Creek, was taken up to explore for iron oxide copper gold (IOCG) or similar style mineralisation which might be hosted by basement Proterozoic rocks on the...-
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Published: 04 Apr 2018
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Punt Hill. First partial surrender report, for the period 1/11/2017 to 31/10/2019.
An area centred ~70 km south-east of Woomera is being explored for possible economic buried IOCG type mineralisation which may have formed within Mesoproterozoic to Palaeoproterozoic basement. A farm-in joint venture was established between grant...-
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Published: 17 Mar 2020
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Riddoch. First annual report for the period 8/10/2012 to 7/10/2013.
An area centred ~40 km northeast of the Prominent Hill copper-gold mine is being explored for possible economic copper, gold, uranium and iron ore mineralisation that may have formed in buried Proterozoic volcanic and metamorphic basement rocks, some...-
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Published: 04 Dec 2013
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Kanyaka. First annual report plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/6/2018 to 6/6/2020.
A large area centred ~40 km north-east of Quorn has been explored for possible economic near-surface cobalt mineralisation, after historic records of geochemical sampling that returned elevated cobalt values were found during searches of SARIG open...-
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Published: 02 Aug 2020
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 4 partnership DPY4-05, west-central Musgrave Province: Giles Complex, Harcus intrusion and Purananja intrusion magmatic copper-nickel-PGE prospects. Project interim and final reports.
PepinNini Minerals has recently completed a small stratigraphic drilling programme within the Musgrave Province in South Australia, which was carried out as a collaborative drilling project (DPY4-05) undertaken between the company and the SA...-
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Published: 30 Nov 2007
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Delamere. First annual report (to the commencement of multi-licence joint reporting for the Fleurieu Peninsula Project), for the period 18/10/2012 to 17/10/2013.
All of the south-western tip and hinterland of the Fleurieu Peninsula was taken up to explore for inferred buried IOCG-style copper-gold-uranium mineralisation which, by analogy with properties of the known eastern Gawler Craton occurrences, was...-
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Published: 15 Dec 2013
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Myponga. First annual report (to the commencement of multi-licence joint reporting for the Fleurieu Peninsula Project), for the period 18/10/2012 to 17/10/2013.
Part of the north-western side of the Fleurieu Peninsula was taken up to explore for inferred buried IOCG-style copper-gold-uranium mineralisation which, by analogy with properties of the known eastern Gawler Craton occurrences, was postulated by...-
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Published: 15 Dec 2013
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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 2022
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Yankalilla. First annual report (to the commencement of multi-licence joint reporting for the Fleurieu Peninsula Project), for the period 18/10/2012 to 17/10/2013.
The Yankalilla coastal and river valley district of the west-central Fleurieu Peninsula was taken up to explore for inferred buried IOCG-style copper-gold-uranium mineralisation which, by analogy with properties of the known eastern Gawler Craton...-
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Published: 15 Dec 2013
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Lake Torrens East - Nilpena Creek area. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 4/11/2009 to 3/11/2014.
An area bordering the central eastern side of Lake Torrens was taken up to cover a large amplitude, deeply sourced twin peak magnetic anomaly with poorly defined coincident elevated gravity features, which it was thought could have potential for...-
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Published: 30 Jan 2015
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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 2017
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Island Dam, Stuart Shelf and Andamooka Ranges (the Stuart Shelf Project). Joint annual reports for the period 11/10/2009 to 30/6/2018.
Exploratory drilling carried out by BHP Billiton (BHPB) during the 2009-10 project reporting year took place at six prospects thought to have good IOCG mineralisation potential, based in part on earlier drilling results and also on refined target...-
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Published: 30 Aug 2018
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Myponga, Yankalilla and Delamere (the Fleurieu Peninsula Project). Joint second annual report, plus final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 18/10/2013 to 24/9/2015.
After the granting by DSD of joint reporting status for the three licences comprising FMG's Fleurieu Peninsula IOCG exploration project, the licensee commenced formal Native Title negotiations with claimant group representatives of the Kaurna People...-
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Published: 13 Nov 2015
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Playford South-East. Annual reports for the period 18/12/2006 to 17/12/2010.
A previously undrilled area of the Stuart Shelf centred about 80 km west-northwest of Andamooka and 50 km north-east of the Olympic Dam mine is being explored for possible economic buried IOCGU mineralisation that may be hosted by Mesoproterozoic...-
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Published: 08 Feb 2011
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Billa Kalina (remnant part of the Billa Kalina Project). Final report to licence's full surrender [and therefore also the end of project], for the period 1/1/2016 to 12/4/2017.
No work was carried out on the subject renewed tenement during its final year.-
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Published: 16 Feb 2017