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Tarcoola - Tallaringa Bedrock Drilling Project.
Archaean, Early and Middle Proterozoic rocks of the north-western Gawler Craton have features which suggest good prospectivity for base metals, precious metals and other commodities. However, outcrop is poor and there has been relatively little...-
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Mount Christie. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 23/2/2000 to 6/8/2002.
Interest in an area near Mount Christie Siding was stimulated by the 1993 MESA Barton Bedrock Drilling Programme, which detected anomalous gold, chromium, base metals and platinoid metals in subsurface layered ultramafics. A number of targets...-
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Published: 20 Nov 1902
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Brownlow (part of the Padthaway and Black Hills Joint Venture Projects). Annual reports and first partial surrender report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 26/8/1998 to 25/8/2002.
The area of EL 2544, centred 90 km north-east from Adelaide, was considered to be prospective for porphyry/skarn type and iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) systems related to high level intrusive igneous plutons. Initial exploration...-
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Published: 27 Jan 1903
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Great Victoria Desert - Alinya area (part of the Nawa Domain Project). Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 25/6/2013 to 24/6/2016.
An area centred ~145 km west-northwest of Coober Pedy, and extending northwards for ~40 km from near the Anne Beadell Highway, has been explored for possible buried economic mineralisation that may occur in basement rocks of the Gawler Craton and the...-
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Published: 05 Oct 1916
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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 [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Black Hill. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 26/8/2003 to 25/8/2008.
Inco Resources ('Inco') has been exploring the outcropping portion of the Ordovician Black Hill Intrusive Complex for possible Voisey's Bay style nickel, copper and platinum group element (PGE) mineralisation. This work commenced on 30/9/2004, when it...-
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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] : Brimpton Lake. Annual reports for the period 9/2/2005 to 8/8/2018.
An area of the southern Gawler Craton, which is located on Eyre Peninsula east of Elliston, is continuing to be explored for possible economic buried Archaean to Proterozoic bedrock-hosted primary base and precious metal deposits of inferred...-
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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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Fig Tree Corner. Second partial surrender report, for the period 10/3/2005 to 4/4/2019.
Most of a sizeable licence area located on SA's Far West Coast, which formerly extended for 10 to 90 km inland from the vicinity of Bookabie, has now been partially relinquished owing to its perceived diminished prospectivity for Tertiary marine...-
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Published: 12 Apr 1919
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Claude Hills. First partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal for a fourth 5-year term, for the period 4/12/2000 to 19/6/2016.
A 529 square km major portion of the southern part of EL 4751 Claude Hills, which is located in the extreme north-west of South Australia in the Musgrave Ranges, has now been voluntarily relinquished by licensee Austral Nickel Pty Ltd. This...-
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Published: 21 Dec 1916
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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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Wynbring. Second partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 23/5/2014 to 22/5/2019.
488 square km of EL 5417, located ~95 km north-west of Ceduna within the Yellabinna Regional Reserve, and extending for between 5 km and 29 km towards the south-southwest from Mount Christie Siding on the Trans Australia Railway, have been...-
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Published: 12 Apr 1919
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Claude Hills. Second partial surrender report, for the period 4/12/2000 to 19/6/2018.
A 271 square km major portion of the eastern part of EL 5860 Claude Hills, which is located in the extreme north-west of South Australia in the Musgrave Ranges, has now been voluntarily relinquished by licensee Austral Nickel Pty Ltd. This portion of...-
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Published: 04 Aug 1918
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Tallaringa South-east - National Trig Point area (part of the Nawa Domain Project). First partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 29/11/2012 to 28/11/2017.
Portions of a tenement located within the Nawa Domain basement rocks subcrop region of the northern Gawler Craton have recently been relinquished by Woomera Exploration (WEX) in order to meet exploration expenditure compliance conditions of its...-
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Published: 08 Mar 1918
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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 1922
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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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