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PACE 2020 Initiative : PACE Targeting, Year 1 partnership no. 19 - Musgrave Project area, SkyTEM helicopter-borne electromagnetic survey. Project PT1-19 final report.
To assist with exploration for possible buried magmatic massive copper-nickel sulphide deposits in Proterozoic Giles Complex ultramafic intrusions within the central Musgrave Province, and to simultaneously provide useful geophysical data for mapping...-
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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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Marla (part of the Nawa Domain Project). Annual report and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 25/6/2013 to 24/6/2015.
No work - reports only contain comments about the Project area's perceived prospectivity.-
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Published: 07 Sep 1915
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Aston Hill (part of the Nawa Domain Project). Annual report and final report to licence surrender, for the period 25/6/2013 to 4/6/2015.
No work - reports only contain comments about the Project area's perceived prospectivity.-
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Published: 07 Sep 1915
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] due to licence expiry and pending approval of its subsequent re-grant : Pine Ridge (part of the Central Giles Nickel Project). Annual reports for the period 25/2/1999 to 29/3/2007.
A licence area located in South Australia's Far North-west Aboriginal Lands, approximately 140 km north-west of Marla, has been explored by Rio Tinto Exploration (RTE) as part of work planned for a larger set of project exploration licences currently...-
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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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Data release - as updated : Bryson Hill (part of the Musgrave Project). Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 25/2/2008 to 24/12/2015.
An area located within the APY Lands of north-western South Australia, near the SA/WA State Border and covering land south of the Tomkinson Range which is largely covered by in situ and transported alluvium and aeolian sands, was taken up to explore...-
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Tallaringa North - Manya Bore area (part of the Nawa Domain Project). Annual report and final report to licence surrender, for the period 25/6/2013 to 4/6/2015.
No work - reports only contain comments about the Project area's perceived prospectivity.-
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Published: 07 Sep 1915
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RB 2002/00031 Musgrave Block, central Australia. Regional geology from interpretation of airborne magnetic data.
A regional geological interpretation of newly-acquired magnetic data for the majority of the Musgrave Block (central Australia) has been compiled at 1:250 000 scale. This report outlines the methodology and results of interpretation. Highlights of...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2002
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Mount Christie. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 24/2/1995 to 23/2/2000.
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 layered ultramafics. Initially, tenement-wide calcrete...-
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Published: 10 Aug 1900
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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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Poochera. Partial surrender report for the period 8/1/1996 to 7/1/1999.
An aeromagnetic survey was followed by soil and calcrete sampling in the Poochera - Wirulla area, over possible southerly extensions to the Yarlbrinda Shear Zone. Only slightly elevated Au and Cu values were returned, and follow-up sampling in one...-
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Mount Howe. Annual and final reports for the period 26/9/1994 to 25/9/1998.
An aeromagnetic/radiometric survey and an aircore drilling program (41 holes, total 247 metres) were carried out near the SA/NT border to the north, north-east and west of De Rose Hill, to test three positive aeromagnetic features which potentially...-
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Teal Flat (part of the Black Hill Norite Project). Combined first annual/final report to licence full surrender, for the period 20/8/2001 to 1/2/2002.
The targets of exploration undertaken in an area centred 40 km north-east of Murray Bridge were Voiseys Bay style platinum group elements, copper and nickel mineralisation hosted within mafic-ultramafic intrusive rocks of the Black Hill Complex. The...-
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Coompana and Nullarbor. Joint annual reports to licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/2/2001 to 18/2/2003.
A strong, reversely remanent magnetised aeromagnetic anomaly located in the Coompana - Nullarbor area, and much evident in available geophysical data, was thought to be suggestive of one or more, probably causative mafic-ultramafic intrusive centres...-
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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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Nagel Hill. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 4/7/2003 to 3/7/2005.
Possible Ni/Cu/PGE sulphides associated with buried, sulphur - saturated mafic magmatic phases within untested parts of the Black Hill Intrusive Complex, which subcrops the western edge of the Murray Basin in an area north-east of Mannum, were...-
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