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Emmie Bluff. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 28/10/1978 to 11/2/1983.
Ongoing exploration for Olympic Dam-style Cu-Au-U mineralisation, over an area centred ~15 km south-east of Arcoona Homestead, during this period comprised 3D geophysical modelling of possible source geometries for, and RC drilling (10 holes, total...-
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Landsat thematic mapper study of the Yardea Dacite, Gawler Range Volcanics, YARDEA 1:250 000 scale map sheet.
The South Australian Department of Mines and Energy (SADME) commissioned the South Australian Centre for Remote Sensing (SACRS) to undertake a digital analysis of Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) data in an attempt to locate prospective areas for...-
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Nilginee Dam. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 2/7/1998 to 1/7/2001.
An area located 45 km west of Whyalla, which is underlain by Palaeoproterozoic and Archaean sediments, metasediments and intrusives, was inferred to have potential to host gold and base metal mineralisation. Interpretation of Landsat images and...-
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Unalla Hill, Moonaree and South Lake Gairdner (Lake Gairdner Project). Annual and final reports for the period 25/10/96 to 24/10/99.
Exploration targeted Olympic Dam style mineralisation associated with Hiltaba Suite intrusives and Gawler Range Volcanics at the southern end of Lake Gairdner, between Mount Ive and Moonaree. Sampling of poorly developed calcrete together with rock...-
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Published: 02 Dec 1998
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Yardea. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/6/1996 to 6/6/1998.
Regional calcrete geochemical sampling carried out approximately 140 km north-east of Streaky Bay has outlined a northeasterly-trending 5 km x 1.5 km area containing weakly anomalous gold values of 3-9 ppb Au (Toondulya prospect), which appear to be...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Kokatha (part of the Nuckulla Hill Project). First annual report for the period 1/8/2014 to 31/7/2015.
An area centred ~90 km south-east of Tarcoola, that runs along the boundary of Lake Gairdner National Park and is located within the northern part of the Central Gawler Gold Province, is being explored for possible economic buried epithermal style...-
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Morgans (part of the East Eyre Peninsula Project). Second partial surrender report, for the period 17/1/2012 to 16/1/2019.
37 square km or ~38% of the formerly once-reduced area of EL 4828/5933 Morgans have lately been relinquished, this block of ground covering a section of the licence located along the north-western shoreline of Lake Gilles. It has been explored mainly...-
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Pernatty Ridge. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/12/1989 to 12/12/1991.
Possible stratabound, Kupferschiefer - style copper sulphide within the basal sediments of the early Neoproterozoic Tapley Hill Formation was the target of exploration in the Pernatty Ridge area. Aberfoyle's work has comprised a review of existing...-
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Lake Labyrinth (part of the Tarcoola Joint Venture Project). Second and third partial surrender reports, for the period 31/10/2001 to 8/2/2009.
Exploration for possible buried epithermal or hydrothermal gold deposits within the large variety of Archaean, Palaeoproterozoic and Mesoproterozoic basement rocks present in an area located from 20-30 km east of Tarcoola has targeted the potential of...-
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RB 2000/00033 Mineral potential of the proposed Gawler Ranges National Park.
In late 1999, the South Australian Government approved the purchase of 1000 square km of land in, and adjacent to, the Gawler Ranges, for the creation of the Gawler Ranges National Park. This land has significant mineral potential, and has been...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2000
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Kangaroo Bluff. Progress reports to licence full surrender, for the period 27/8/1980 to 16/12/1982.
Following the acquisition and interpretation of a semi-detailed aerial magnetic survey, with ground gravity and magnetic surveys follow-up, 4 aircore/diamond drillholes, totalling 508.5 m, and 78 shallow RAB drill holes, totalling 974 m, were drilled...-
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Published: 27 Jan 1983
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Regolith map of the greater Tarcoola area of the central Gawler [Craton] region.
With the dawning of renewed interest in one of South Australia’s historic gold provinces, driven by the newly acquired data from the Department’s highly successful Gawler Craton Airborne Survey (GCAS), the Geological Survey of South Australia has...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2020
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Regolith map of the southern Gawler Ranges margin (300 dpi & 600 dpi pdf formats).
This inaugural regolith map of the southern Gawler Ranges margin provides a valuable regional overview of the main regolith types and their associated landforms, plus a general outline of the major areas of bedrock or regolith-dominated terrain, as...-
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Published: 14 Jul 2016
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Toondulya Bluff. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/1/2004 to 14/7/2013.
A licence area centred about 100 km north-east of Streaky Bay township, on the south-western perimeter of the Gawler Ranges, was taken up to explore for possible economic buried IOCG mineralisation or Tunkillia stye fracture controlled lode gold...-
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Published: 06 Nov 2013
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Botenella Range (part of Wilcherry Hill Project). Second partial relinquishment report for the period 14/2/91 to 18/9/2004.
Exploration for economic near-surface deposits of gold and base metals, in an area of possibly hydrothermally-altered Hiltaba Suite Mesoproterozoic basement located 20 km north-east of Kimba, comprised an assessment of previously acquired soil and...-
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Published: 19 Nov 2004
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Harris Bluff. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/6/2006 to 18/10/2015.
An area located immediately north of Lake Gilles and centred on Harris Bluff in the Uno Range was taken up to explore for possible buried unconformity style uranium mineralisation which could have formed at the base of the Corunna Conglomerate, and...-
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Published: 29 Sep 2015
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Glyde Hill. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 10/6/2003 to 28/1/2009.
Exploration for possible buried economic iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) mineral deposit targets within a large area of the central Gawler Ranges utilised existing and newly acquired regional gravity data to identify anomalous basement...-
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Published: 18 Jun 2009
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Lake Gilles (part of the Wilcherry Hill Project). First and second partial relinquishment reports, for the period 10/10/2002 to 9/10/2004.
Exploration for economic near-surface deposits of gold and base metals, in an area of possibly hydrothermally-altered Hiltaba Suite Mesoproterozoic basement located approximately 20 km north of Kimba, has comprised an assessment of previous...-
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Published: 15 Nov 2004
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Yandoolka Well. First annual report plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/11/2012 to 15/11/2014.
A large area on Lake Everard Station, extending for ~44 km north-south through the Gawler Ranges immediately south of Lake Gairdner, has been explored for possible buried epithermal gold which may occur along the south-eastwards trending arm of the...-
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Published: 27 Jan 2015
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Peterlumbo, Botenella Range, Lake Gilles [West], Eurilla Dam, Wilcherry Hill, Uno, Mount Miccollo and Tin Hut Hill (the Wilcherry Hill Project). Joint annual reports for the period 6/6/2002 to 31/10/2008. [Index Part 1 of 2].
Aquila Resources took up ownership of the much previously-explored ground comprising the Wilcherry Hill Project with the intent of exploring for the first time the iron oxide - associated copper-gold & uranium (IOCG-U) mineralisation potential of...-
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Published: 31 Dec 2008
