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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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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] : 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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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 : 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 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 1919
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RB 71/00183 Progress report on nickel exploration, Kenmore Park, Alberga 1-mile sheet.
Seven serpentinite bodies were located on Kenmore in the 1970 field season and a ground magnetic survey was carried out over the area that contained most of them. Induced polarization surveys were carried out over the South Bank and Eremophila...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1971
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RB 73/00073 Frazer's copper prospect drilling completion report.
A band of basic granulite occupying the nose of a syncline in a folded sequence of predominantly acid gneisses was examined by detailed mapping, geochemical sampling, induced polarization and both rotary-percussion and diamond drilling. Primary...-
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Published: 09 Mar 1973
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RB 73/00154 Report on drilling of the Kenmore 2 copper prospect, Kenmore Alberga.
Acid gneiss underlying soil displaying anomalous copper values was investigated by geological mapping, geochemistry, geophysics, rotary and diamond drilling. Subeconomic sulphide mineralization, thought to have originated as a stratabound deposit, was...-
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Published: 22 Jun 1973
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RB 73/00300 Report on a geochemical soil sampling programme, Kenmore and Eateringinna, ALBERGA.
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 74/00110 Drilling completion report, Wild Horse prospect, Eateringinna Alberga.
A soil geochemical anomaly was investigated by geological mapping, induced polarization, geochemical sampling and diamond drilling. Finely disseminated sulphide, mainly pyrite, was located in basic granulite, but in subeconomic quantities.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1974
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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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Everard Park Homestead area (part of the Musgrave Project). Final report submitted at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/10/2007 to 18/10/2014.
An area located near the south-eastern margin of the Musgrave Province, in the eastern and northern Everard Ranges about 100 km west-northwest of Marla, wholly within the APY Lands, has been explored for possible economic nickel-copper-platinoid group...-
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RB 2003/00020 MANN map sheet bedrock drilling program.
After two years of negotiation with traditional owners and the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Land Council, the Geological Survey Branch of PIRSA's Minerals, Petroleum and Energy Division (MPE) commenced stratigraphic drilling on the 15th May 2002, in the...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2003
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RB 2003/00021 Musgrave Province - Geological summary and exploration history.
The Musgrave Province is largely incorporated within the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Lands and includes cratonic crystalline middle Proterozoic basement rocks of the Musgrave Province proper, as well as mantling younger sedimentary rock successions...-
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Published: 01 Nov 2003
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RB 2003/00030 Hydrogeochemical assessment of the Musgrave Block.
The results of a 1982 State-wide hydrogeochemical survey showed the Musgrave Block to be anomalous and potentially mineralised. In 1997 a groundwater quality survey was undertaken for the remote communities in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Lands. Water...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2003
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T2423 [A-D] gazetted areas, Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands, western Musgrave Ranges. Geological mapping project: data release - summary report for the period 12/12/2003 to 30/6/2006.
During 2004 MER Geological Survey Branch officers conducted detailed mapping within four small areas of the western Musgrave Ranges, as a follow-on to recently ceased prior company exploration, with the similar aim of evaluating the magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE...-
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Published: 29 Jan 1909