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Commonwealth Hill, Perfection Well and Wirrida. Six-monthly progress, plus combined annual and final reports, to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/12/1993 to 18/7/2006.
Exploration for possible economic deposits of epithermal/hydrothermal gold, plus precious metals and base metals, which might have formed in poorly outcropping Archaean and Proterozoic basement, commenced with a detailed interpretation of SAEI imaged...-
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Published: 10 Sep 1906
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Wirrida (part of Minotaur's Commonwealth Hill joint venture project). Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 29/9/1997 to 16/10/2006.[Index entry Part 1 of 2 - a very long abstract is split between these two parts].
Exploration of a long-held tenement package in the northern Gawler Craton was directed primarily at gold and also at platinum group metals, in specific work programmes executed under separate early joint venture arrangements made with Gawler Gold and...-
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Published: 10 Jan 1907
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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 1 partnership DPY1-32, Ki Ki intrusion mafic/ultramafic - hosted mineral prospects. Project final report.
To further investigate the Cu-Ni-PGE mineral sulphide potential of a known buried mafic / ultramafic layered igneous intrusive complex situated near Ki Ki in the upper South-East, the licensee of EL 3295 sought PACE Initiative funding to complete two...-
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Black Hill Intrusive Complex (northern [Bower - Florieton] and southern [Cambrai] areas). Joint annual report plus final report to licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 17/2/2005 to 16/2/2007.
Inco Resources has been exploring the outcropping portion of the Ordovician Black Hill Intrusive Complex for possible Voisey's Bay style nickel, copper and platinum group element (PGE) mineralisation since 2004, when it signed a joint venture...-
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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 Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 5 partnership DPY5-19. White Hill igneous complex Proterozoic magmatic PGE-Ni-Cu mineral prospects. Project final report.
Following a review of historic exploration data for the Mount Woods Inlier, OZ Minerals decided that the White Hill igneous complex, located 6 km north-west of the Prominent Hill mining lease, is comprised of mafic and ultramafic cumulate rocks having...-
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Wirrida (part of Minotaur's Commonwealth Hill joint venture project). Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 29/9/1997 to 16/10/2006.[Index entry Part 2 of 2 - a very long abstract is split between these two parts].
Abstract (Continued from Part 1): Because of the presence of the highest gold concentration at the eastern end of the Target 14 aircore drill traverse, potential remains for delineating further mineralisation at this locality. In addition, the...-
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Published: 10 Jan 1907
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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] : Kangaroo Dam (part of the Mount Woods JV Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 19/10/2000 to 6/11/2010. [ Index Part 1 of 2 ].
The large Kangaroo Dam exploration licence covers the mostly concealed western portion of the Palaeoproterozoic Mount Woods Inlier, a large block of variable magnetic intensity lying to the east and south-east of the Coober Pedy Ridge and the Mabel...-
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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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Koppio. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 6/1/1995 to 7/4/1997.
Geochemical sampling of ferruginous lag, stream sediments, BLEG soils, and rock chips, targeted possible Thompson Belt - type nickel-copper and precious metal mineralisation hosted by Lower Proterozoic Hutchison Group metasediments in an area 40 km...-
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Tarcoola - Tallaringa Bedrock Drilling Project.
Archaean, Early and Middle Proterozoic rocks of the north-western Gawler Craton have features which suggest good prospectivity for base metals, precious metals and other commodities. However, outcrop is poor and there has been relatively little...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Black Hill. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 26/8/2003 to 25/8/2008.
Inco Resources ('Inco') has been exploring the outcropping portion of the Ordovician Black Hill Intrusive Complex for possible Voisey's Bay style nickel, copper and platinum group element (PGE) mineralisation. This work commenced on 30/9/2004, when it...-
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Data release - as updated : Mount Woodroffe. Licence-specific early annual reports, plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 5/3/2001 to 29/10/2015.
Mt Woodroffe is an irregularly shaped tenement block covering the central portion of the Musgrave Ranges in the northern part of South Australia. The Ranges lie between the Anangu communities Pukatja and Amata, approximately 550 kilometres by road...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Brimpton Lake. Annual reports for the period 9/2/2005 to 8/8/2018.
An area of the southern Gawler Craton, which is located on Eyre Peninsula east of Elliston, is continuing to be explored for possible economic buried Archaean to Proterozoic bedrock-hosted primary base and precious metal deposits of inferred...-
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Poondinga. Third partial surrender report, for the period 27/10/2004 to 4/4/2019.
309.6 square km or ~18.77% of the pre-existing area of EL 5564 Poondinga was partially relinquished on 19/2/2019 because in the licensee's view this south-eastern portion of the licence are does not appear to exhibit the geological features required...-
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Published: 12 Apr 1919
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Tallaringa South-east - National Trig Point area (part of the Nawa Domain Project). First partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 29/11/2012 to 28/11/2017.
Portions of a tenement located within the Nawa Domain basement rocks subcrop region of the northern Gawler Craton have recently been relinquished by Woomera Exploration (WEX) in order to meet exploration expenditure compliance conditions of its...-
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Published: 08 Mar 1918
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Western Gawler Project. Final report, Magneto Telluric, Passive Seismic and Magnetic Modelling Study. Project ADI RD02-296 [Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2022].
This report summarises geophysical studies conducted by Western Areas between October 2021 and October 2022, under the ADI Agreement ADI: RD02/296-GP Magneto Telluric (MT), Passive Seismic and Magnetic Modelling Study. The discovery of magmatic Ni-Cu...-
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Published: 06 May 1923
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Sahara Prospect. Final report, Model Test and Core Scanning. Project ADI RD02-270 [Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2022].
This report summarises exploration conducted by Western Areas between May 2021 and October 2021, under the ADI Agreement ADI: RD02/270-ED Sahara Prospect Model Test and Core Scanning. The discovery of magmatic Ni-Cu sulphide at Sahara in 2020,...-
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Published: 31 Oct 1922
