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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Claude Hills. Annual reports to licence expiry/re-issue over same area, for the period 4/12/2000 to 3/12/2005.
EL 2777 Claude Hills covers 1370 square km and is located at Surveyor General’s Corner (the SA, WA, NT State borders' triple point) and consists of 3 blocks. Early SADME work (1966) delineated 4.6 Mt of 1.5% Ni at the nearby Claude Hills/Mount Davies...-
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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 : Boundary Dam. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/7/2007 to 29/7/2016.
A small area centred ~130 km north of Marla, and abutting the Northern Territory border along the northern side of Tieyon Station, has been explored for possible economic buried secondary uranium deposits, which Tianda Uranium (Tianda) thought could...-
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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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Mount Parlue (part of the Alcurra Project). Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 25/6/2013 to 31/8/2017.
An area in Far North SA, centred ~75 km east-southeast of Kulgera on the Stuart Highway, and abutting the SA-NT State border, has been explored for possible buried economic magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE deposits associated with mafic-ultramafic intrusive rocks...-
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Published: 31 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: Mount Howe (part of the Alcurra Project). Annual reports to licence suspension, for the period 11/10/2012 to 10/10/2018.
An area straddling the Tarcoola - Alice Springs Railway line next to the SA/NT state border, ~40 km south-southeast of Kulgera, was taken up to explore for possible buried economic magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE deposits, epithermal gold and Broken Hill type...-
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Published: 06 Jan 1919
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Mount Davies (part of the Central Giles / Wingellina Nickel Project). First partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 4/3/1999 to 23/9/2018.
The major part of the subject 134 square km total area of tenement ground relinquished from EL 5184 on 23/9/2017 contains the Michael Hills copper prospect (Area 11). A large portion of the remainder of the surrendered ground, in a separate block...-
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Published: 31 Oct 1917
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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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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 2003/00030 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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RB 2012/00008 Abminga bedrock drilling program 2001.
The Abminga bedrock drilling program was initiated in 1999 as part of the Targeted Exploration Initiative of South Australia (TEISA) strategy conceived by the SA Government and implemented through PIRSA's Mineral Resources Group. Drilling was proposed...-
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Published: 01 May 2012
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RB 2012/00012 PACE Geochronology: Results of collaborative geochronology projects, 2011-2012.
This report presents the results of geochronology from projects completed during 2011 and 2012, which addressed rock samples collected from a number of different geological provinces within South Australia. The Musgrave Province in northern South...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2012
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Alcurra, South Australia. Sheet 5545, International Index. 1:100 000 Geological Series digital map (first edition).
Alcurra is located near the eastern margin of the Proterozoic Musgrave Province. The region includes rocks from two distinct geological provinces, the eastern limit of exposure of the Musgrave Province, and the north-western margin of the Mesozoic...-
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Published: 04 May 2017
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RB 2013/00011 Geology of the Tieyon 1:100 000 map sheet (5645).
The Tieyon 1:100 000 mapsheet area is located on the South Australia – Northern Territory border in the central Far North of South Australia. It covers rock units of the Mesoproterozoic Musgrave Province, the Mesozoic Eromanga Basin and the Neogene...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2013
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Agnes Creek, South Australia. Sheet 5544, International Index. 1:100 000 [scale] Geological Map Series digital map.
Agnes Creek is located near the eastern outcrop margin of the Proterozoic Musgrave Province, which is composed predominantly of amphibolite to granulite facies meta-igneous and metasedimentary gneisses of the Birksgate Complex. Geochronological...-
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Published: 02 Jul 2018
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Alcurra, South Australia. Sheet 5545, International Index. 1:100 000 Geological Series digital map (second edition).
Alcurra is located near the eastern margin of the Proterozoic Musgrave Province. The region includes rocks from two distinct geological provinces, the eastern limit of exposure of the Musgrave Province, and the north-western margin of the Mesozoic...-
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Published: 01 Jul 2018
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RB 2013/00006 SHRIMP U-Pb geochronology of the Tieyon (5645) 1:100 000 mapsheet.
This report presents SHRIMP U-Pb zircon geochronology results for 21 samples from the Musgrave Province, South Australia, acquired over the period 2007-2012 as part of the Tieyon 1:100 000 mapsheet (5645) mapping program. Some of the work (done on all...-
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Published: 01 Jun 2013
