Nilpinna (part of the Edward Creek Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/5/2016 to 12/5/2018.
Created: 12 Nov 2024 Revised: 12 Nov 2024

In continuing exploration for possible buried economic kimberlite diamond deposits that may have been intruded into Mesozoic and older basement and later become weathered out into cover sediments located along the western faulted margin of the...

In continuing exploration for possible buried economic kimberlite diamond deposits that may have been intruded into Mesozoic and older basement and later become weathered out into cover sediments located along the western faulted margin of the Peake and Denison Ranges, a small area was taken up to investigate selected airborne magnetic anomalies. The licensee believed that abundant detrital kimberlitic picroilmenite and spinel, plus numerous pyrope garnet and a chrome diopside grain recovered from the nearby basinal region to the west provided evidence that kimberlite exists in close proximity. During the first licence year, the licensee conducted a ground magnetic survey over target zones to obtain detailed magnetic data that could be used to model the anomalies' sources and determine if they could plausibly represent kimberlite intrusions. A total of ~110 line km of magnetometer readings were taken along north-south traverses spaced either 50 m or 100 m apart in August 2016, but interpretation of the magnetic data did not confirm the anomalies profiled. Further work on the subject licence was delayed until the outcome was known of exploratory diamond drilling conducted on the adjacent EL 5580, which was scheduled to occur during July 2017. No work was done on EL 5780 during its second year, and tenure was allowed to lapse thereafter.

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Record No mesac27962
Topic Geoscientific Information
Type of Resource Document
Category Type
Document Type Mineral Company Report - Mineral Exploration
Contributor ModernMagnetic
Sponsor DiamondCo Limited
Tenement EL 5780
Tenement Holder DiamondCo Limited
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Notes
Notes: The subject area was being explored in concert with Reedy Lagoon Corp.'s adjoining larger and long-held EL 5580 Edward Creek, where work has been ongoing since December 1987.
Geographic Locality: Nilpinna Station;Peake and Denison...

Notes: The subject area was being explored in concert with Reedy Lagoon Corp.'s adjoining larger and long-held EL 5580 Edward Creek, where work has been ongoing since December 1987. Geographic Locality: Nilpinna Station;Peake and Denison Ranges;Davenport Range Doc No: Env 13028

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Language English
Metadata Standard ISO 19115-3

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License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Persistent identifier https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/mesac27962
Citation Fethers, G.H.;Caughey, A.R.;Ward, J. Nilpinna (part of the Edward Creek Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/5/2016 to 12/5/2018. Mineral Company Report - Mineral Exploration
https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/mesac27962

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Geographic Reference GDA2020 (EPSG:7844)
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