While it maybe true that Oxiana Ltd walked away with a good deal after buying the remaining 35 perent of the Prominent Hill project in South Australia, the company responsible for finding the deposit -- Minotaur Exploration Ltd -- also did pretty well from the transaction. Aside from putting 11.2 million dollars in Minotaur's coffers to pump into further field activities, it also gave the junior a doser-than-usual insight into what it was like to seal a 100 million dollars-plus deal. And why is that significant? Because Minotaur, which has perhaps been SA's most active explorer in the past five years, is planning to find another Prominent Hill -- that or another Broken Hill. Since relinquishing its share in the December 2001 discovery, the junior has wasted no time in setting up a number of exploration joint ventures across its home state of SA, New South Wales and Queensland.
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