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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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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Mount Kintore to Mount Caroline area. Annual reports for the period 26/2/2008 to 25/2/2011.
The Mt Caroline exploration licence is in the eastern part of the Musgraves Province in northern South Australia, approximately 300 km southwest of Alice Springs within the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands. The tenement is comprised...-
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Tumby Bay. Information status at licence full surrender, for the period 11/8/2016 to 14/12/2017 : no work performed.
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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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EL 5939 - Yalata area. Annual technical reports for the period 6/04/2017 to surrender 20/06/2024.
Exploration Licence 5939 the “Nullarbor Project” is centred on the western margin of the Gawler Craton. Geologically the project covers a portion of the Fowler Domain interpreted to be a mobile belt of igneous and metamorphic rocks. It hosts deep...-
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Ooldea. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 2/7/2015 to 12/4/2019.
EL 5639, centred ~210 km north-west of Ceduna, was acquired by Iluka’s New Commodities team in 2015 as part of its strategy to explore for possible Voiseys Bay style magmatic nickel, copper and platinum group metallic mineralisation which might be...-
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Published: 29 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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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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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
