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Mount Darling. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/8/2004 to 2/8/2008.
An area located 3 km south of the South Australia/Northern Territory border and 50 km east of the Stuart Highway, on the eastern margin of the Musgrave Block, was considered prospective for nickel and platinoid metal mineralisation hosted by layered...-
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Published: 20 Dec 1908
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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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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 [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Mount Harcus. Annual reports for period 27/6/2005 to 26/6/2010.
Mt Harcus EL3368 is located within the Palaeoproterozoic Musgrave Province. The region is recognised by PepinNini Minerals Ltd as prospective for magmatic Ni-Cu Sulphide mineralisation, platinum group metals, base metals, diamonds, and precious...-
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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 [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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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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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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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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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 70/00024 Nickel prospect no. 1, Kenmore 1-mile sheet area. Final report. Northwest Province, Grid D1.
Secondary nickel mineralization was discovered in jasperoidal capping overlying an altered ultrabasic intrusion (metamorphosed serpentinite, peridotites, pyroxenites). 3 diamond drill holes (1 769 feet) were drilled, about 300 geochemical samples...-
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Published: 11 Feb 1970
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RB 65/00092 Kenmore Park nickel prospect, Northwest Province.
Nickel occurs as an unidentified secondary mineral with chrysoprase in a zone of siliceous jasper overlying calcareous meta-sediments of marble and amphibolite. Several assays of the chrysoprase are in excess of one per cent nickel. The composition...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1969
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RB 65/00080 Amdel 00556 Mount Davies nickel deposits.
Low grade, nickel bearing, weathered ultrabasic rocks that form a part of the Giles Complex in the North-West Province of South Australia were first discovered by a SA Mines Department field party in 1953. Since their discovery the weathered rocks,...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1967
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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 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 73/00154 Report on drilling of the Kenmore 2 copper prospect, Kenmore Alberga.
Acid gneiss underlying soil displaying anomalous copper values was investigated by geological mapping, geochemistry, geophysics, rotary and diamond drilling. Subeconomic sulphide mineralization, thought to have originated as a stratabound deposit, was...-
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Published: 22 Jun 1973
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RB 62/00073 Report on nickel exploration, North-west Province, 1965.
An extensive detailed and regional exploration programme was carried out in the North-west Province in 1965. Geological mapping, geophysical (gravity and aeromagnetic) traversing, and test drilling were undertaken to test known occurrences and...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1966
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RB 63/00119 Nickel exploration, Claude Hills (deposit) extension, Northern Territory.
Geological mapping and gravity traversing were carried out in the Northern Territory to test possible extensions to the Claude Hills nickeliferous ochre occurrence. Two gravity lows were detected, Zone C commencing in South Australia, and Zone D...-
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Published: 21 Nov 1966
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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
