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RB 82/00035 Preliminary investigation into the applicability of gamma ray spectrometry in regional geological mapping of the Gawler Craton.
Applicability of radiometrics and the portable gamma ray spectrometer was tested over parts of the southern Gawler Craton. Use of total count and separate counts for potassium, uranium and thorium helped to distinguish lithologies e.g. to locate...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1982
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Hope. Annual reports for the period 12/4/2002 to 14/3/2019.
Exploration of an area located on western Eyre Peninsula between Sheringa and Mount Hope is continuing, with the intent of discovering economic buried base and precious metal deposits of volcanogenic sediment-hosted massive sulphide (VHMS) style...-
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Buckleboo (part of the Buckleboo Project). Combined first annual/final report at licence full surrender, for the period 7/1/2014 to 20/2/2015.
A very small area located ~25 km north-west of Kimba has been explored for possible economic buried base and precious metal mineralisation that may have formed within Archaean metasedimentary bedrock and be related to younger igneous intrusions....-
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Menninnie Dam (part of the Fleurieu - Menninnie Dam Exploration Joint Venture Project). Combined annual report for the 5-year period 24/9/2005 to 26/10/2010, plus annual reports for the period 27/10/2010 to 26/10/2012.
During the 5-year period 2005-2010, intensified exploration undertaken at Menninnie Dam was focussed on the discovery and delineation of structurally controlled hydrothermal Pb-Zn-Ag mineralisation. Carbonate-rich Hutchison Group metasediments forming...-
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Wilcherry Hill. Drilling at the Weednanna Au-Fe deposit, an exploration model for gold deposits formed in the southern Gawler Craton. Collaborative drilling and research final report, Project ADI RD02-265 [Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2022].
Between 8 August and 6 October 2021, six inclined, rotary mud precollared diamond cored holes (21WDDH001 to 006) totalling 1560.6 m were drilled at the Weednanna gold and iron deposit located ~40 km north of Kimba on northern Eyre Peninsula, as part...-
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PACE Copper Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 9 partnership DPY9-11, Thurlga Ramp, northern edge of Cleve Domain, volcanic epithermal / hydrothermal replacement type precious metal prospects. Drilling final report.
A licence area, which lies adjacent on the west to Investigator Resources' Peterlumbo Hill EL 5368 containing the Paris silver deposit (where there is a currently inferred resource of 42 Moz @ 139 ppm Ag), is being explored under a joint venture with...-
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Tungketta Hill. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 7/3/2007 to 9/6/2015.
An area centred ~25km south-east of Elliston on south-western Eyre Peninsula and which abuts the coast of the Great Australian Bight has been explored for possible buried economic occurrences of Archaean igneous intrusive body - related nickel...-
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Pinkawillinie (part of the Buckleboo Project). Combined first annual/final report at licence full surrender, for the period 1/5/2014 to 20/2/2015.
A small area comprising two separate sub-blocks respectively located ~35 km and ~85 km west-northwest of Kimba has been explored for possible economic buried base and precious metal mineralisation that may have formed within Archaean metasedimentary...-
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RB 2004/00025 Beryl in South Australia
Gem-quality varieties of beryl occur rarely in South Australia and exist in insufficient quantities to be of current economic interest. Non-gem grade beryl, by contrast, is a widespread accessory mineral in many pegmatites of South Australia, but, at...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2004
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RB 2006/00004 Crustal evolution of the Gawler Craton, South Australia: Application of the TerraneChron technique to detrital zircon from modern stream sediments.
This report presents the results of a Terranechron [registered brand name for this proprietary technique] study of detrital zircons from modern stream sediments of the Gawler Craton. The Terranechron approach involves obtaining uranium - lead decay...-
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Published: 01 Feb 2006
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RB 2001/00006 Reconnaissance sampling of basement rocks of the Gawler Craton, South Australia, for dimension stone.
Eighty-five sites of crystalline basement rocks on the Gawler Craton were inspected to determine which lithological or stratigraphical units have potential for use as dimension stone. The Gawler Craton contains a variety of rock types including...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2000
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RB 2001/00007 Lincoln bedrock drilling program, southern Eyre Peninsula.
Detailed airborne magnetic survey data which have recently been acquired over the southern Eyre Peninsula reveal a sequence of north-south, magnetically contrasting tectonic domains, separated by major north-south to northeast-southwest aligned shear...-
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Published: 01 Jul 2001
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RB 2017/00046 Koongawa Grey dimension stone deposit geological investigations: evaluation of gneiss on ML 6426 for use as dimension stone.
The Resource Assessment and Advice (RAA) team of the Geological Survey of South Australia (GSSA) was approached by John Chesini of Chesini House Pty Ltd to provide feedback as to the suitability of stone within Mining Lease (ML) 6426 for the purpose...-
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Published: 01 Feb 2018
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RB 2016/00024 Mineral Systems Drilling Program Rock Shack - [a pictorial catalogue of the] outcrop sample collection for the MSDP southern Gawler Ranges margin.
Between July 2015 and April 2016, the Geological Survey of South Australia, in collaboration with the Deep Exploration Technologies Cooperative Research Centre (DET CRC), Minotaur Exploration Limited and Kingston Resources Limited, carried out a...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2016
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RB 2012/00017 Transpression and lower crustal extrusion: a transect across the Paleoproterozoic Kalinjala Shear System in the south-eastern Gawler Craton.
The Gawler Craton preserves a tectonic history spanning the interval c. 3200 – 1400 Ma, and its evolution is dominated by Neoarchean to Mesoproterozoic tectonic events. Prior to the Jurassic-Cretaceous breakup of Australia and Antarctica, the Gawler...-
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Published: 01 Nov 2012
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Moonabie Homestead. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/2/1980 to 19/2/1982.
Exploration in the Moonabie area, located 40 km south-west of Whyalla, was aimed at possible concealed epithermal or Alligator Rivers (NT) type stratabound uranium occurrences within the Lower Proterozoic metasedimentary/metavolcanic sequence....-
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RB 2013/00016 A user's guide to migmatites.
Migmatites are complex, high-grade crystalline rocks that have formed by partial melting. They have been recognised within the crustal rock record across most of geological time, are seen to be developed in various tectonic settings, and can affect a...-
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Published: 01 Nov 2013
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RB 2012/00015 SHRIMP U-Pb geochronology of Archaean to Palaeoproterozoic rocks from the southern Eyre Peninsula.
This report presents the results of SHRIMP U-Pb zircon geochronology from the southern Gawler Craton that has been acquired with the view to improving our understanding of some key stratigraphic units of this region. Eight samples taken from outcrops...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2012
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Baird Bay. Annual and final reports for the period 26/5/97 to April 1999.
Calcrete sampling of an area 40 km southeast of Streaky Bay was prevented by a thick sequence of Bridgewater Formation calcarenite; rock chip sampling of an outcrop of Gawler Range Volcanics yielded no significant values. A detailed aeromagnetic...-
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Elliston, western Eyre Peninsula. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 21/2/1996 to 23/12/1998.
Diamond, gold and platinum group element (PGE) exploration activities carried out within an area of known kimberlitic and lamproitic intrusive rocks east of Elliston comprised aircore drilling (23 holes, total 1188 metres), addressing 17 out of 36...-
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