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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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Granite Downs. Progress and final reports for the period 28/8/1969 to 22/10/1970.
Field reconnaissance and assessment of surface mineralisation, regional geological mapping and geochemical sampling, detailed ground magnetic and radiometric surveying, and shallow vertical percussion drilling (5 holes, total 491 feet) were carried...-
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Published: 22 Sep 1970
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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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Granite Downs. Final report for the period 29/10/1970 to 28/10/1971.
Exploration for multiple base and precious metal commodities, possibly associated with magnetic anomalies in the De Rose Hill and Indulkana Range areas, has there identified a substantial Precambrian volcanic and intrusive complex, with rock types...-
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RB 67/00041 Report on Moorilyanna copper prospect, North-West Province. Grid D.1.
Detailed mapping of the Moorilyanna copper prospect has indicated that the mineralisation is confined to a gabbro dyke which has intruded a folded lower Proterozoic metasedimentary sequence along a sheared synclinal fold axis. The mineralisation is...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1968
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RB 71/00014 Stream sediment sampling of Giles Complex intrusions in the Musgrave Ranges.
A total of 380 stream sediment samples and 40 heavy mineral samples were collected from Giles Complex norites in the Musgrave Ranges and the -80 mesh fraction tested for copper, lead, zinc, cobalt, nickel, chromium, vanadium, manganese, titanium,...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1973
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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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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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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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Artoonanna Hill. Final report for the period 7/5/1970 to 6/11/1970.
Soil geochemical sampling, trenching, auger drilling and ground magnetometry were performed over the basic/ultrabasic dyke complexes at Wanka Wanka Hill, Moorilyanna and Ronalds Well. Small areas of mineralization were located, with further detailed...-
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Musgrave Province, including APY Lands, Mineral Potential Modelling Data Package.
The purpose of this data package is to provide end-users with the GIS datasets and geophysical raster grids used for the 2010 modelling of mineral potential in the Musgrave Province region, which includes the APY (Anangu Pitjantjatjara -...-
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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
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Everard Ranges and Granite Downs. Final report for the period 27/11/1969 to 26/8/1970.
Regional geological mapping over an area of interpreted major structural weakness within the ?Lower Proterozoic crystalline basement of the Musgrave Block identified two associated styles of mineralisation. Minor Cu mineralisation is localised in a...-
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Mount Davies. Data release made in lieu of submitting a partial surrender report : progress reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 2/6/1955 to 2/6/1959.
TARGET: The initial targets sought by INCO were nickel and base metal sulphides possibly formed in ultramafic igneous rocks of the Mid-Proterozoic Giles Complex. In the later stages of investigation, secondary nickel occurrences in lateritic ochres...-
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Published: 18 May 1959
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Everard Ranges examination: SML 510, Artoonanna Hill area. Progress reports for the period 19/11/1970 to 19/8/1971.
Results of previously conducted ground magnetometry, auger drilling, and costeaning, plus those of a current programme of diamond drilling (3 holes, total 1919 feet) have demonstrated that the mafic/ultramafic Wanka Wanka Dyke is a laterally...-
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