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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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Mount Carulina and Trapeze Hill (the Oodnadatta Project). Joint annual reports plus succeeding single licence annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 6/3/1995 to 12/10/2009. [ Index Part 2 of 2 ].
[ Note - here is Part 2 of the abstract relating to 2 separately indexed parts ]. A new joint venture with Barrick Gold, pertaining to the renewed (as EL 3424) tenement, was signed on 8/2/2007, after which that company as operator undertook a 749...-
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Published: 09 Feb 1910
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Mount Darling. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/8/2004 to 2/8/2008.
An area located 3 km south of the South Australia/Northern Territory border and 50 km east of the Stuart Highway, on the eastern margin of the Musgrave Block, was considered prospective for nickel and platinoid metal mineralisation hosted by layered...-
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Published: 20 Dec 1908
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 2 partnership DPY2-17, Mount Moulden and Mount Harcus mineral prospects. Project final report.
As part of the PACE Year 2 collaboration between PIRSA and the minerals industry, PepinNini Minerals proposed and was granted part subsidy funding for an extensive drilling programme in the western APY Aboriginal Lands of South Australia, to examine...-
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Published: 16 Jun 1906
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Marla, Alberga River and Mount Weir areas (part of the Abminga Project). Combined final report at licences' joint surrender, for the period 21/6/2006 to 2/4/2009.
A basinal region located in the vicinity of Marla and extending for approximately 75 km to the north north-east, that borders the Musgrave Province, has been explored by farminee Eromanga Uranium under a joint venture agreement with licensee Maximus...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 5 partnership DPY5-18. Western Musgrave Province - Mount Caroline area magmatic nickel-copper-PGE and stratiform or epithermal / hydrothermal base metal mineral prospects. Final report.
In late 2008 PepinNini Minerals completed a stratigraphic drilling programme in the western Musgrave Province as an approved PACE Initiative Year 5 collaborative project with PIRSA. The programme was designed to investigate the Mount Caroline...-
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Published: 20 Jan 1909
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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] : Claude Hills. Annual reports to licence expiry/re-issue over same area, for the period 4/12/2000 to 3/12/2005.
EL 2777 Claude Hills covers 1370 square km and is located at Surveyor General’s Corner (the SA, WA, NT State borders' triple point) and consists of 3 blocks. Early SADME work (1966) delineated 4.6 Mt of 1.5% Ni at the nearby Claude Hills/Mount Davies...-
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Pine Ridge (part of the Central Giles Nickel Project). Annual reports and final report to licence surrender, for the period 30/3/2007 to 9/6/2015.
A licence area located in South Australia's Far North-west Aboriginal Lands, approximately 140 km north-west of Marla, has been explored primarily for massive magmatic nickel sulphide deposits possibly associated with the Proterozoic Giles Complex...-
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Hamilton Creek. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 17/5/2010 to 16/5/2015.
A large area located in the far north of South Australia, abutting the Northern Territory border ~120 km north of Marla, and centred ~30 km east of the Stuart Highway wholly on Tieyon Station, has been explored for possible economic buried secondary...-
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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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Pussy Cat Bore (part of Ungalootanna Hill Project). First and final annual report to licence expiry for the period 19/4/2002 to 18/4/2003.
Initial exploration efforts in the Ungalootanna Hill area, 80 km north of Marla, focussed on nickel-copper mineralisation hosted by Proterozoic ultramafic rocks. Following the acquisition of the licence by Mithril Resources, an assessment of the...-
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Abminga Diamond Project. Data release made at licence renewal [and project cessation]: progress reports and annual reports for the period 25/10/1993 to 17/3/2004.
The Abminga Diamond Project, undertaken by Caldera Resources NL, was granted exploration project status, including permission for EL joint reporting, in July 1996. This event followed up to two years of work by other operators on a number of...-
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East Deering Hills. Annual reports to licence surrender for the period 27/4/1994 to 25/9/2003.
Mafic and ultramafic rocks of the Proterozoic Giles Complex, which have intruded highly metamorphosed basement units of the Musgrave Block in an area 360 km WNW of Marla, were considered to have potential to host massive Ni sulphide mineralisation,...-
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Published: 02 Apr 1903
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Hamilton Creek. First partial surrender report, for the period 17/5/2010 to 16/5/2014.
EL 4493 lies in the far north of South Australia, abutting the Northern Territory border, and is centred about 30 km east of the Stuart Highway. It falls entirely within the confines of Tieyon Station. Recently, a portion of the licence totalling 218...-
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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 - as updated : Boundary Dam. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/7/2007 to 29/7/2016.
A small area centred ~130 km north of Marla, and abutting the Northern Territory border along the northern side of Tieyon Station, has been explored for possible economic buried secondary uranium deposits, which Tianda Uranium (Tianda) thought could...-
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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 : 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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