-
RB 53/00010 Notes on the geology of the North West Province and adjoining areas.
Evidence is advanced for the existence of a major orogeny in Late Archaean time, in which an east to west geanticlinal belt was upthrust and the Giles Complex of basic rocks emplaced beneath a volcanic cover on the southern flank of the geanticline.-
Document
Published: 01 Jan 1961
-
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.-
Document
Published: 13 Dec 1977
-
RB 86/00037 Field Geology Club of South Australia Inc. Excursion notes, Musgrave Block, 25 August to 15 September 1984.
Summary of geological and tectonic evolution, geomorphology, soils, flora, fauna, history and description of 34 localities.-
Document
Published: 01 Jun 1986
-
RB 79/00103 Interpretation of magnetic and gravity data in the Musgrave Block in South Australia.
The Musgrave Block is a large area of Precambrian crystalline basement situated in the north-western corner of South Australia, and extending into Western Australia and the Northern Territory. Geological mapping has revealed large areas of granulite...-
Document
Published: 01 Jan 1979
-
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...-
Document
-
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...-
Document
-
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...-
Document
-
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...-
Document
-
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...-
Document
-
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...-
Document
-
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...-
Document
-
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...-
Document
-
Mount Moulden. Technical data submitted in support of a mineral exploration licence application.
Dataset comprises an information package which was supplied by the licence proponents to the Executive Board of Anangu Pitjantjatjara, as part of the formal process of seeking their permission to conduct mineral exploration activities within the...-
Document
-
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.-
Document
Published: 13 Mar 1984
-
ComRev 008 Iron Ore in South Australia 2000
The iron-rich rocks of South Australia have been classified into six deposit types - residual, chemical sedimentary iron formations, Fe-skarn and, of lesser significance, hydrothermal, clastic and magmatic. Production has been overwhelmingly from...-
Document
-
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...-
Document
Published: 01 Jul 1900
-
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...-
Document
Published: 17 Apr 1961
-
RB 00665 Report on a gravity investigation in the Mount Davies region of South Australia.
Gravity surveys were made in December 1960 over areas of ferruginous and siliceous laterite in the Mount Davies region, where a sill-like body of basic and ultrabasic igneous rocks, the Giles Complex, intrudes Archaean metasediments. Secondary nickel...-
Document
Published: 01 Mar 1900
-
RB 70/00024 Nickel prospect no. 1, Kenmore 1-mile sheet area. Final report. Northwest Province, Grid D1.
Secondary nickel mineralization was discovered in jasperoidal capping overlying an altered ultrabasic intrusion (metamorphosed serpentinite, peridotites, pyroxenites). 3 diamond drill holes (1 769 feet) were drilled, about 300 geochemical samples...-
Document
Published: 11 Feb 1970
-
RB 62/00053 Geophysical report no. 1 on gravity surveys, North West Province, MANN 4-mile sheet.
Gravity surveys in the North-West Province of the state, begun in 1960, were continued in 1965. Detailed gravity surveys were carried out over the Claude Hills jasper zone and adjacent alluvium covered areas, near Mount Davies, and east of Gosse’s...-
Document
Published: 01 Jan 1966
