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Processing [including prior thin section examination] of 135 rock samples from the Musgrave Block to determine their suitability for undergoing K-Ar and Rb-Sr radiometric dating, and a discussion of subsequent dating results.
Report presents the basic data and geochronological age interpretations for 89 K-Ar and 64 Rb-Sr isotopic analyses, made on metamorphic, granitic and volcanic rock samples derived from parts of the Musgrave Block visited by SADME geologists between...-
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Published: 13 Mar 1984
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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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Mount Chandler (Musgrave Ranges Project). Annual and final reports for the period 11/11/1996 to 10/11/1999.
Cu-Au-U prospects associated with shear zones and Kulgeran age granites have been identified in an area approximately 60 km north-west of Marla. Best assay results were obtained from the Indulkana Shear Zone, where rock chip sampling returned up to...-
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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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Tieyon. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/1/2018 to 11/1/2021.
A large area on the eastern end of the Musgrave Province, located close to the SA/NT state border, has been explored for possible buried epithermal and magmatic base and precious metal mineralisation which may have formed in Mesoproterozoic igneous...-
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Published: 24 Aug 1921
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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 Irwin (part of the Alcurra Project). First partial surrender report, for the period 25/6/2013 to 30/11/2017.
An area in Far North SA, centred near Mount Irwin on Tieyon Station, is being explored for possible buried economic magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE deposits associated with mafic-ultramafic intrusive rocks of the Proterozoic Giles Complex. Another newly recognised...-
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Published: 08 Mar 1918
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Data release: Sundown Outstation (part of the Alcurra Project). Annual reports to licence suspension, for the period 11/10/2012 to 10/10/2018.
An area straddling the Stuart Highway next to the SA/NT state border, ~40 km south of Kulgera, was taken up to explore for possible buried economic magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE deposits, epithermal gold and Broken Hill type copper-lead-zinc mineralisation that...-
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Published: 06 Jan 1919
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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...-
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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 2002/00020 16th Australian Geological Convention. Musgrave Block Excursion C2 : Proterozoic and Palaeozoic geology.
The 16th Australian Geological Convention (AGC) Musgrave Block Field Excursion, held during 6-16 July, came close to achieving unqualified success from the combined perspectives of technical geology, liaison between the traditional owners and the AGC...-
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Published: 01 Mar 2006
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RB 2006/00005 The Southern Australian Archaean-Proterozoic Synthesis: Developing tectonic frameworks to assist mineral exploration. Abstract volume.
Includes abstracts with the following titles: 1) How magnetotellurics (MT) works, and an overview of new central Australian MT results (Kate Selway) 2) Latest MT traverse results: western Gawler Craton (Stephan Thiel) 3) A constrained 3D...-
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Published: 01 Feb 2006
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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
