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Review of Mineral exploration activity, 2003 and 2004.
2003 activity: Expenditure by companies on mineral exploration licences in South Australia for calendar year 2003 was $37.0 million, a slight increase on the $35.7 million spent in 2002. Mineral exploration drilling metreage, a key indicator of...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 2 partnership DPY2-42, Talia Hill area (Harris Greenstone Domain) copper-nickel and platinum group elements mineral prospects. Project final report.
In December 2005 Mithril Resources completed five RC percussion drillholes totalling 682 m on three 100 m - spaced traverses, as one of the approved PACE Initiative Year 2 subsidised drilling projects. This drilling was intended to test a surface TEM...-
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PACE 2020 Discovery Drilling 2012 : Year 7 Drilling Partnership no. DPY7-27 - Endeavour Copper Gold Pty Ltd, Tarcoola Project, Harris Greenstone Domain magmatic nickel - prospective ultramafic targets. Drilling project final report.
The principal mineral exploration target for Endeavour Copper Gold Pty Ltd ('Endeavour') on the three subject Tarcoola Project exploration licences is nickel sulphide mineralisation hosted by Archaean ultramafic intrusive rocks within the Harris...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Lake Harris. First annual report for the period 31/5/2010 to 30/5/2011.
An area extending for ~10 to ~60 km westwards from Kingoonya, comprising three separate sub-blocks, is being explored for buried Archaean greenstone belt - hosted primary metallic mineralisation. Work undertaken during the first year of tenure...-
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Glendambo (part of the Woomera Project). Information status at licence full surrender, for the period 23/8/2012 to 17/8/2017: no work performed.
No work performed.-
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Centre Hill (part of the Woomera Project). Information status at licence full surrender, for the period 23/8/2012 to 17/8/2017: no work performed.
No work performed.-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Deception Hill. First annual report for the period 1/6/2010 to 31/5/2011.
EL 4496 (Deception Hill) is centred approximately 15 km due south of Tarcoola, and extends from west to east for about 60 km. It is regarded by the licensee as being highly prospective for a range of commodities including gold and silver, nickel, iron...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : the Tarcoola and Theseus Projects. Joint annual reports for the period 31/5/2010 to 31/12/2014.
A large part of the Harris Greenstone Domain basement tectonostratigraphic block, extending from 10 km to 130 km west of Kingoonya, is being explored for possible buried economic gold, nickel and other base metal mineralisation which may be associated...-
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Glenloth (part of the Tarcoola Joint Venture Project). First partial surrender report, for the period 11/7/2003 to 2/11/2009.
When exploring for nickel sulphide mineralisation within buried ultramafic rocks of the Archaean Lake Harris Greenstone Belt, over TEMPEST aerial EM anomalies lying ~16 km north-west of Yerda Outstation, Mithril Resources carried out a ground EM...-
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Deception Hill. First partial surrender report, for the period 31/5/2010 to 30/5/2014.
245 square km or ~56.2% of the original area of EL 4496, in a single sub-block comprising its western part, has been relinquished because it lies within the Yellabinna Regional Reserve, a sensitive environmental conservation park located in sandy...-
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Malbooma. First partial surrender report, for the period 14/5/2012 to 13/5/2014.
The 23 square km southern sub-block portion of an area centred 30 km west of Tarcoola has been relinquished because it lies within the Yellabinna Regional Reserve, a sensitive environmental conservation park located in sandy desert wilderness country...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 1 partnership DPY1-10, Harris Greenstone Belt mineral prospects. Project interim and final reports.
In September and December 2004 Mithril Resources completed 53 vertical aircore and reverse circulation drillholes on Exploration Licence 2842 as part of the SA Government's PACE Initiative 'Theme 2' collaborative drilling programme involving PIRSA...-
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Talia Hill. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/9/2001 to 25/6/2009.
During the late 1990s, company exploratory drilling of the Harris Greenstone Belt in the central Gawler Craton, south of Tarcoola, revealed a package of previously unknown, shallowly buried komatiite lava beds with a strike length in excess of 350 km...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Deception Hill. Annual reports, for the period 12/8/2015 to 11/8/2018.
An area centred ~25 km south-southwest of Tarcoola is being explored for possible buried epithermal/hydrothermal copper-gold and magmatic copper-nickel-PGE mineralisation which could have formed within Archaean and Proterozoic basement rocks. During...-
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Published: 09 Oct 2018
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : the Tarcoola and Theseus Projects. Joint annual reports for the period 1/1/2015 to 31/12/2018.
During the fourth year of project licences' joint reporting, for the Theseus Project, Endeavour undertook further RC and diamond core drilling at the Minos prospect on EL 5280, and did detailed auger calcrete geochemical sampling over the Lake...-
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Published: 21 Feb 2019
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Tarcoola - Mount Finke area. Progress reports and annual reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 1/6/1992 to 10/8/2002.
Buried Archaean Mulgathing Complex rocks, comprising metamafics, ultramafics, granites, mafic gneisses and possible greenstones, were the target host for gold, copper and nickel mineralisation in the Mount Finke - Malbooma area, south-west from...-
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Published: 26 Mar 2003
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Big Tank Outstation. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 28/4/2004 to 27/4/2008.
Existing data reviewed only - no field activities. A mooted airborne EM survey to try to map possible uraniferous Tertiary palaeochannels was not performed because a joint venture partner could not be found to share the cost of this work.-
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Published: 10 Jan 2008
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Pinding. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 10/5/2004 to 24/8/2012.
An area centred approximately 30 km south-west of Tarcoola has been explored primarily for possible economic shear-hosted or epithermal/hydrothermal IOCG style Proterozoic gold, and for inferred Archaean magmatic nickel deposits associated with...-
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Published: 14 Sep 2012
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Data release - as updated : Lake Harris. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 15/2/2012 to 14/2/2019.
An area centred ~90 km south-east of Tarcoola and adjacent to the western shore of Lake Gairdner is being explored for possible economic buried Carrapateena or Prominent Hill style IOCG and polymetallic skarn style mineralisation which may be...-
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Published: 20 Mar 2019
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Mount Finke. Annual reports including 'no work' letters, for the period 12/8/2015 to 11/8/2018.
An area centred ~45 km south-west of Tarcoola is being explored for possible buried epithermal/hydrothermal copper-gold and magmatic copper-nickel-PGE mineralisation which could have formed within Archaean and Proterozoic basement rocks. During the...-
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Published: 09 Oct 2018
