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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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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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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 [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 : 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 1921
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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 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 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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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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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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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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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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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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