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RB 96/00001 Mineral exploration and development in South Australia.
This mineral promotional brochure reviews significant historical developments in South Australia's mineral industry and canvasses the currently recognised mineral potential within the State, for the benefit of local and overseas interested companies...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1996
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Abminga Diamond Project. Data release made at licence renewal [and project cessation]: progress reports and annual reports for the period 25/10/1993 to 17/3/2004.
The Abminga Diamond Project, undertaken by Caldera Resources NL, was granted exploration project status, including permission for EL joint reporting, in July 1996. This event followed up to two years of work by other operators on a number of...-
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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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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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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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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 2018/00004 Optically stimulated luminescence dating revealing new insights into the age of major regolith units of the eastern Musgrave Province, South Australia.
Today's landscape in the eastern Musgrave Province, South Australia, comprises vast alluvial and sand plains, aeolian dunes and dunefields. These features formed as a result of episodes of variable alluvial and aeolian activity following the onset of...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2018
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ExpNotes WINTINNA: Explanatory Notes WINTINNA
A new generation, first edition WINTINNA 1:250 000 scale geological map and explanatory notes have been published. These documents represent the conclusion of the Geological Survey of South Australia's geological mapping program undertaken in the...-
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RB 05/00011 Preliminary report on the exploration to the Musgrave and Everard Ranges.
An expedition carried out to scientifically inspect the Musgrave Ranges and Everard Range region indicates poor prospects for discovering minerals, but, with care in accessing and maintaining underground water supplies, the country appears to hold...-
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Published: 19 Nov 1914
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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 72/00184 Utah Bore dolerite deposit.
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Published: 01 Jan 1975
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 6 partnership DPY6-30 - Hanging Knoll portion of Woodroffe Project area - Proterozoic basement-hosted base and precious metal mineral prospects. Drilling project final report.
Targeted stratigraphic and mineral exploratory drilling recently carried out by PepinNini Minerals within its EL 3931 Hanging Knoll was done as part of the sixth round of Theme 2 of the PACE Initiative (Primary Industries and Resources South...-
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Published: 15 Feb 1911
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] due to licence expiry and pending approval of its subsequent re-grant : Pine Ridge (part of the Central Giles Nickel Project). Annual reports for the period 25/2/1999 to 29/3/2007.
A licence area located in South Australia's Far North-west Aboriginal Lands, approximately 140 km north-west of Marla, has been explored by Rio Tinto Exploration (RTE) as part of work planned for a larger set of project exploration licences currently...-
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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 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 2014/00005 WINTINNA, South Australia, [geological map] sheet SG53-14. South Australia. Geological Survey. 1:250 000 Series - Explanatory Notes.
The WINTINNA 1:250 000 mapsheet area lies between latitudes 27° to 28° South and longitudes 133°30’ to 135°00’ East. This ~16 400 square km area includes the Marla and Cadney Park settlements, and is crossed by the Stuart Highway and Adelaide to...-
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Published: 01 Mar 2015
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Mount Howe. First partial surrender report, for the period 26/9/1994 to 15/4/1997.
Exploration over the eastern flank of the Musgrave Block to the north of De Rose Hill, for potential buried Giles Complex layered intrusive bodies, comprised SAEI data interpretation, airborne magnetic, radiometric and electromagnetic surveys, ground...-
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Mount Howe. Annual and final reports for the period 26/9/1994 to 25/9/1998.
An aeromagnetic/radiometric survey and an aircore drilling program (41 holes, total 247 metres) were carried out near the SA/NT border to the north, north-east and west of De Rose Hill, to test three positive aeromagnetic features which potentially...-
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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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