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Poondinga. Third partial surrender report, for the period 27/10/2004 to 4/4/2019.
309.6 square km or ~18.77% of the pre-existing area of EL 5564 Poondinga was partially relinquished on 19/2/2019 because in the licensee's view this south-eastern portion of the licence are does not appear to exhibit the geological features required...-
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Published: 12 Apr 1919
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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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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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Data release at first partial surrender on 20/8/1989 : report on investigations into the platinoid potential of the Black Hill Norite, EL 1419, Sedan, SA.
TARGET: Possible primary magmatic platinoid and/or other precious metals deposited at or near the base of expected cumulate layered rock sequences within the Black Hill Norite. EXPLORATION: After making preliminary regional geophysical and drillhole...-
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Nyllow Hill (near Tumby Bay). Progress and final reports for the period 2/9/88 to 1/9/90.
TARGET: Precious metals, specifically platinum group metals and gold, associated with ultrabasic intrusives and strongly faulted and altered metasediments in the Tumby Bay area. EXPLORATION: Geochemical sampling including rock chip, gravel and BCL...-
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Nyllow Hill. First partial surrender report for the period 2/9/1988 to 1/9/1989.
The licence was taken out to assess the untested potential for finding platinum group metal occurrences associated with two known ultramafic intrusive plugs outcropping in the Lincoln Uplands, 40 km north-northeast of Port Lincoln. Incidental...-
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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 1919
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Nullarbor, Yalata North and Yalata East (the Western Gawler Craton Project). Joint annual reports for the period 24/10/2012 to 2/4/2018.
A cluster of adjoining licence sub-blocks taken up in the Yalata region are being explored for possible buried Thompson Belt style magmatic copper-nickel mineralisation which could be associated with large strike-slip fault structures transecting the...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Fowlers Bay (part of the Western Gawler JV Project). Annual report for the period 9/3/2015 to 8/3/2018.
During the 2015-2016 licence year, the Western Gawler JV Project exploration operator Western Areas Limited (WSA) conducted the first part of a regional reconnaissance bedrock drilling campaign targeting aeromagnetic anomalies which were interpreted...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Hanging Knoll (part of the Central Giles Nickel Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 18/3/2002 to 17/3/2007.
A licence area located at the south-eastern end of the Mann Ranges in South Australia's Far North-west Aboriginal Lands, approximately 90 km south-southwest of Ayers Rock (Uluru), is being explored by Rio Tinto Exploration (RTE) and Delta Gold, as...-
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Published: 12 Apr 1907
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The Musgrave Project. Joint annual reports for the period 5/10/2007 to 31/1/2012 [as later updated, to include additional licences, to 31/1/2017], plus respective successive full surrender final reports for individual licences.
The multi-licence Mithril - Barrick JV Musgrave Project area is centred 600 km south-west of Alice Springs, within the APY Lands of north-western South Australia. It is considered to be prospective for buried economic Ni-Cu-PGE sulphide mineral...-
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Published: 09 Oct 1917
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Hardy (part of the Central Giles Nickel Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 18/3/2002 to 17/3/2007.
A licence area located at the eastern end of the Deering Hills in South Australia's Far North-west Aboriginal Lands, approximately 150 km south-west of Ayers Rock (Uluru), is being explored by Rio Tinto Exploration (RTE) and Delta Gold, as part of...-
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Published: 12 Apr 1907
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Ceduna. Licence-specific annual reports submitted until the commencement of project joint reporting, for the period 28/11/2001 to 18/4/2008.
EL 2870 Ceduna covers 1390 square km located adjacent to the coast near Ceduna on north-western Eyre Peninsula. Minotaur believed that the area, which lies relatively close to the continental Fowler Suture Zone, was prospective for Proterozoic...-
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Published: 12 Jun 1908
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Elliston, western Eyre Peninsula. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 21/2/1996 to 23/12/1998.
Diamond, gold and platinum group element (PGE) exploration activities carried out within an area of known kimberlitic and lamproitic intrusive rocks east of Elliston comprised aircore drilling (23 holes, total 1188 metres), addressing 17 out of 36...-
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Elliston. First partial surrender report, for the period 20/2/1996 to 19/2/1998.
Three of nine untested magnetic anomalies, identified by the reprocessing of company aeromagnetic data acquired over an area east of Elliston, were drilled as part of a regional search for buried diamondiferous kimberlites. The resulting three...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 2 partnership DPY2-35, Mount Woods Inlier, Kangaroo Dam platinoid metals mineral prospect. Project final report.
A programme of five diamond drillholes totalling 1740.6 m has recently been completed on EL 3445 at the Kangaroo Dam prospect, to follow up anomalous platinum and palladium metal values encountered within the Palaeoproterozoic metasedimentary basement...-
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Sundown [Outstation]. Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 25/6/2002 to 24/6/2006.
An area located approximately 100 km north-west of Marla was targeted for possible Ni/Cu/PGE magmatic massive sulphide mineralisation contained within buried outliers of the Giles Complex mafic intrusive complex, perhaps present in a setting similar...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Painted Hill, Birthday Hill, White Hill, Mount Hawker and The Twins (the Mount Woods Project). Joint annual reports for the period 1/1/2008 to 31/12/2010.
In an agreement with Oxiana, Toro Energy Limited has Uranium rights covering the Project area. In 2008, exploration activities within tenements comprising the Mount Woods Project targeted iron oxide copper gold (IOCG) style mineralisation. Drilling...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Painted Hill, Birthday Hill, White Hill, Mount Hawker and The Twins (the Mount Woods Project). Progress and combined annual reports for the period 27/11/1987 to 31/12/2007. [ Index Part 3 of 4 ].
During July 2000, the Minotaur Resources Ltd / Billiton Exploration Australia Pty Ltd mineral exploration alliance entity agreed to farm into the four Coober Pedy Project tenements held by Normandy Exploration (80%), Sons of Gwalia (13%) and Sabatica...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Painted Hill, Birthday Hill, White Hill, Mount Hawker and The Twins (the Mount Woods Project). Progress and combined annual reports for the period 27/11/1987 to 31/12/2007. [ Index Part 4 of 4 ].
In 2006, work completed on the Prominent Hill Project in the reporting period included drilling of 17 RC holes for 4,255 m and 46 mud/diamond holes at Prominent Hill prospect for 14,301.5 m. The drilling at Prominent Hill intersected wide zones of...-
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