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RB 77/00144 Chrysoprase and moss agate deposits Mount Davies area, North West Province. Report no. 2.
Report criticises the methods, presentation and conclusions of a non-professional chrysoprase mining feasibility study prepared for the Commonwealth Government Opposition by parliamentary advisor J.P. West.-
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Published: 13 Dec 1977
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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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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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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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SADM/Amdel Project 1/1/123 : The geochronology of the younger granites of the Musgrave Block. Progress reports 1 to 18 for the period 1/7/1969 to 30/6/1977, plus a later summary interpretation.
89 K-Ar and 64 Rb-Sr geochronological analyses of various selected samples of crystalline basement lithologies were made to date the major tectonic events of the Musgrave Block.-
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Published: 13 Mar 1984
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RB 00659 Regional geology and nickel exploration in the MANN 4-mile sheet and adjoining areas. Preliminary report. combined with RB 00659A - Nickel exploration on Special Mining Lease 33, Tomkinson Ranges.
This report reviews the available information on the region and presents a preliminary appraisal of the past nickel exploration data supplied by South Western Mining Co. Ltd. Current field and laboratory information has also been included. The study...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1900
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RB 00659A [Review of] Nickel exploration [potential] on Special Mining Lease 33, Tomkinson Ranges.
This report reviews the available information on the region, and presents a preliminary appraisal of the data supplied by South-western Mining Co. Ltd. Current field and laboratory information has also been included. New geological and geochemical...-
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Published: 17 Apr 1961
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RB 65/00080 Amdel 00556 Mount Davies nickel deposits.
Low grade, nickel bearing, weathered ultrabasic rocks that form a part of the Giles Complex in the North-West Province of South Australia were first discovered by a SA Mines Department field party in 1953. Since their discovery the weathered rocks,...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1967
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RB 71/00080 WOODROFFE, South Australia, Explanatory Notes 1:250 000 Geological Series.
The WOODROFFE 1:250,000 sheet area occupies part of the Musgrave Block in the North West Province of South Australia. It includes the western part of the Musgrave Ranges and the northern limits of the Great Victoria Desert. The oldest rocks are...-
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Published: 25 May 1971
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RB 71/00094 Report on chrysoprase deposit, North-West Aboriginal Reserve.
5 holes (27 metres) tested chrysoprase occurrence of thin small veinlets and disseminations associated with jasper and chalcedony. Most chrysoprase is low grade, rarely of good quality, and quantities are small. Further testing by shallow pits...-
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Published: 30 May 1971
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RB 62/00073 Report on nickel exploration, North-west Province, 1965.
An extensive detailed and regional exploration programme was carried out in the North-west Province in 1965. Geological mapping, geophysical (gravity and aeromagnetic) traversing, and test drilling were undertaken to test known occurrences and...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1966
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RB 63/00119 Nickel exploration, Claude Hills (deposit) extension, Northern Territory.
Geological mapping and gravity traversing were carried out in the Northern Territory to test possible extensions to the Claude Hills nickeliferous ochre occurrence. Two gravity lows were detected, Zone C commencing in South Australia, and Zone D...-
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Published: 21 Nov 1966
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Australian Mineral Development Laboratories' investigation of the Mount Davies nickel deposits. Progress reports nos 1 to 4 for the period June-December 1966, and subsequent activity reports for the period January-December 1967.
Reports deal with the start of a complex laboratory investigation to trace the petrological development of possibly economic supergene nickel deposits discovered in the Mount Davies area, and to study the unusual mineralogy of the ferruginous ochres...-
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Published: 04 Dec 1967
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SADM / Amdel Project - The petrology of the WOODROFFE four-mile sheet. Progress reports 1 to 18 for the period 14/7/65 to 31/7/67.
231 samples of basement and cover lithologies outcropping on the WOODROFFE 4-mile sheet area currently being mapped by the SA Department of Mines have been petrographically described and classified. For some samples a petrogenetic interpretation of...-
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Published: 05 Sep 1967
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Mount Howe, Mount Mead and Tieyon areas (East Musgrave Project). Annual and final report for the period 15/1/98 to 9/9/99.
As part of a search for possible concealed nickel-copper-cobalt sulphide mineralisation of Voisey Bay type buried within the Giles Complex at the eastern end of the Musgrave Ranges, Landsat and aeromagnetic interpretation of the mid-Proterozoic...-
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Holywater. Annual and final reports to licence expiry for the period 20/8/2001 to 19/8/2005.
Three small areas of outlying shallowly covered basement at the eastern end of the Musgrave Ranges in South Australia, located approximately 130 km north-west of Marla, were taken up by a subsidiary company of Minotaur to explore for possible buried...-
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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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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 5 partnership DPY5-16. Western Musgrave Ranges - Claude Hills North Proterozoic Giles Complex supergene nickel oxide & magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE massive sulphide mineral prospects. Final report.
In November 2007 an application was made by Austral Nickel Pty Ltd for funding assistance under PIRSA's PACE Initiative, Theme 2 - Drilling Collaboration with Industry, to explore for economic occurrences of magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE mineralisation on its EL...-
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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 2019
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Data release - as updated : Mount Irwin (part of the Alcurra Project). Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 25/6/2013 to 24/6/2021.
An area in the eastern Mugrave Ranges centred ~75 km south-east of Kulgera is being explored for possible buried economic magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE mineralisation hosted by inferred Proterozoic Giles Complex layered ultramafic intrusions, and also for...-
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Published: 22 Jul 2021
