Successful applicants for round three of the Accelerated Discovery Initiative were announced by the Minister for Energy and Mining on 15 June 2022, allocating almost $3.26 million in funding to 17 companies to drive mineral exploration growth in South Australia.
Round three funded projects
| Company | Project name | Key commodity | Co-funding activity supported |
|---|---|---|---|
EnviroCopper Limited | Determining ISR amenability in non-traditional geological settings from surface geophysical measurements | Copper | Geophysical program |
Havilah Resources | Benagerie Dyke | Iron-sulfide copper gold (ISCG), platinum group elements and REE | Exploration drilling |
IGO Limited | Utilising seismic to map, validate and understand 3D basin architecture and vector potential locations of sediment-hosted copper mineralisation at the Copper Coast project | Sediment-hosted copper | Geophysical program |
Inception Consulting Engineers | In-situ recovery Exploration – Evaluating economic recovery of greenfields deposits | Uranium | Proof of concept |
Indiana Resources Limited | VMS potential of the Harris Greenstone Domain | Zinc and nickel | Geophysical program |
Lady Alice Mines | Central Gawler Gold Province prospect scale CSAMT and Loupe TEM survey method assessment | Gold | Geophysical program |
OneSteel Manufacturing | Unravelling the stratigraphy of the Middleback Ranges | Iron ore | Exploration drilling |
OZ Minerals | Real time seismic tomography as ML target validation | Iron oxide copper gold (IOCG) | Proof of concept |
Petratherm Limited | Deep EM surveying for large BHT and ISCG deposits | Broken Hill style and iron-sulfide copper gold (ISCG) | Geophysical program |
Petratherm Limited | Woomera - stratabound IOCG drilling program | Iron oxide copper gold (IOCG) | Exploration drilling |
Roma Resources SA Pty Ltd | Tarcoola corridor 2D seismic survey | Gold | Geophysical program |
Roma Resources SA Pty Ltd | Tarcoola corridor drill test validation of GPR trial output data | Gold | Exploration drilling |
Roma Resources SA Pty Ltd | Trialling of CSIRO DetectOre and Ultrafine+ analyses in Tunkillia regolith setting | Gold | Proof of concept |
Seesaw Resources Pty Ltd | Brownlow EL5744 (ELA 2020-00212) | Copper, gold, REE, lead and zinc | Exploration drilling |
Strikeline Resources Pty Ltd | Critical minerals in the Adelaide Fold Belt | Rare earth element (REE) | Exploration drilling |
Strikeline Resources Pty Ltd | Sediment-hosted copper in the Adelaide Fold Belt | Copper | Exploration drilling |
Woomera Mining Limited | Woomera Mining - Musgrave aircore drilling program | Nickel and copper | Exploration drilling |
