Accelerated Discovery ProGram Funding

In reply to the Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS (West Torrens) (2 February 2021).

The Hon. D.C. VAN HOLST PELLEKAAN (Stuart—Minister for Energy and Mining): I have been advised:

DEM received $6.18 million of funding from the Economic Business and Growth Fund in 2019-20 as follows:

$3.3 million for the Accelerated Discovery Initiative

$1.25 million for the Hydrogen Export Prospectus and Modelling Tool project

$1.2 million for ExploreSA: the Gawler Challenge

$0.35 million for the CORE Innovation Hub

$0.05 million for the Enhancing Land Access project

There were 14 successful applicants for round one of the Accelerated Discovery Initiative allocating $2,977,600 to the following projects:

DGO Gold Limited—Testing the Zambian Copper Belt model on the Stuart Shelf

Havilah Resources Limited—Jupiter MT Anomaly Definition Study

Boss Resources—Utilising 3D Passive Seismic and Slalom High-Definition Seismic reflection

Argonaut Resources—Murdie IOCG Project

Petratherm Ltd—Eastern Mabel Creek Ridge (Deeps)

FQM Exploration—Geochemical Mapping of a copper mineral system

FMG Resources—Roopena Fault Zone Infill Ground Gravity

Minotaur Exploration Ltd—Using Innovation to enter a new Frontier—Taking new IOCG model to the Peake and Denison Inliers

Havilah Resources Ltd—Investigation of REE Mineralisation in the Benagerie Dome

Fleet Space Technologies—Large arrays of wireless sensors for remote mapping of heat flow

Marmota Ltd—Expressions of mineralisation in Surface Plant Biochemistry on the NW Gawler Craton

Ausmex Mining Group Ltd—Intrusive Related Mineral Systems, Delamerian Orogeny, Burra SA

Andromeda Metals Ltd—Andromeda metals Halloysite Quantification Project

Alligator Energy Ltd—Greenfield exploration for ISR uranium deposits in the Cooper Basin