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North Fowlers Bay - Chundaria. Annual reports and progress reports for the periods 15/9/1993 to 14/9/1998, and 28/10/1998 to 12/3/1999.
North Ltd's Barton Project commenced in 1990 across a number of licences progressively taken out over the western Gawler Craton, which eventually came to include EL 1865. Initial exploration for heavy mineral sand in the Barton-Ooldea area, 100-200...-
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Published: 06 May 1999
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Archaean Metabasic Diamond Drilling Project.
The Archaean Metabasic Diamond Drilling Project was undertaken by SADME Regional Geology Branch (part of the Geological Survey of South Australia) in two locations within the north-western Gawler Craton. Metasediments in this region include banded...-
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RB 87/00048 Ooldea 2. Well completion report.
Ooldea 2, located 19 km south of Ooldea Railway Siding, was spudded on 25/9/85. It was sited next to Amoco drillhole ORP1, which had intersected 90 metres of basement gneiss with a composition including hypersthene + sillimanite + quartz, with...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1987
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RB 87/00094 Ooldea 3. Well completion report and tectonic modelling.
Ooldea 3 diamond drillhole is located on the western margin of the Gawler Craton where thin Tertiary (ca. 16 metres) and Palaeozoic (ca. 75 metres) sediments, of the Eucla and Officer Basins respectively, overlie Archaean to Early Proterozoic basement...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1987
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RB 98/00010 Regolith studies related to the Challenger gold deposit, Gawler Craton, South Australia. Geochemistry and stratigraphy of the Challenger gold deposit - Volume 1: text, and Volume 2: appendices.
The Challenger gold deposit lies in the northern Gawler Craton, South Australia, 750 km NW of Adelaide, and 140 km NW of Tarcoola. A 1.5 km traverse (the regolith line) was chosen for the study of geochemical dispersion and regolith stratigraphy...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1998
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RB 93/00004 Tarcoola - Tallaringa bedrock drilling 1991. Summary.
Archaean and Early and Middle Proterozoic rocks of the north-western Gawler Craton have features which suggest good prospectivity for base metals, precious metals and other commodities. However, outcrop is poor and there has been relatively little...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1993
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RB 97/00002 South Australian Steel and Energy Project. Coober Pedy iron ore investigation. Sequoia, Gina and Wirrida prospects.
As part of the South Australian Steel and Energy Project, MESA has explored several significant aeromagnetic anomalies to try to find a possible iron ore resource. The Sequoia, Wirrida and Gina magnetic anomalies were chosen as indicating...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1997
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RB 89/00091 Weakly deformed and metamorphosed Archean volcanics near Millers Creek, north-east of Kingoonya.
The dating of the volcanic rocks encountered in EL 600 mineral exploration diamond drillhole DP1 as Archaean (and by definition, also Mulgathing Complex) substantially changes the view of Archaean rocks in South Australia. Elsewhere, Archaean to...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1989
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Gina Outstation (part of the Central Gawler Project). Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/5/2004 to 19/5/2009.
Exploration for diamonds undertaken by Flinders Mines Ltd (as part of the JV agreement made with Tasman Resources) on the subject EL, located about 30-45 km east of Commonwealth Hill, commenced with a re-assessment of open file airborne magnetic data...-
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Commonwealth Hill, Perfection Well, Wirrida North, Nelson Bore and Ingomar (the Commonwealth Hill Joint Venture Project). Joint annual reports and final report to licences' respective expiry/renewal, for the period 6/10/1995 to 6/12/1998.
Exploration for Challenger - type primary gold deposits that may possibly have formed within buried Archaean basement rocks in the Commonwealth Hill area, which is the purpose of one of two joint venture agreements currently in force between Minotaur...-
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Published: 06 Jan 1999
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Carnding. Data release made in lieu of submitting a second partial relinquishment report at licence expiry/renewal : progress reports and annual reports for the period 29/9/1994 to 16/1/2005.
Renewed brownfields gold exploration in an area situated 20-40 km north and west of the Tarcoola Goldfield, previously held in part by the licensee as EL 1848, was prompted by the May 1995 success of the Samantha/Resolute/Dominion corporate joint...-
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Published: 28 Jul 1905
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Unlocking South Australia's Mineral and Energy Potential - A Plan for Accelerating Exploration. Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry) : Year 2 partnership no. DPY2-40, Soyuz gold / copper-gold mineral prospect. Project final report.
Previous exploratory work by Grenfell Resources and Gravity Capital at the Soyuz prospect in the Carnding area, located approximately 25 km west-northwest of Tarcoola, has included ground magnetic, gravity and soil sampling programmes that defined a...-
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Published: 15 Jun 1906
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Unlocking South Australia's Mineral and Energy Potential - A Plan for Accelerating Exploration. Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry) : Year 2 partnership no. DPY2-52, Notrab mineral prospect, Barton West area. Project final report.
Dominion Gold Operations applied to PIRSA for PACE Initiative Year 2 funding in 2005 to assist with the drilling evaluation of the geology and mineral potential of a 6 km x 2 km, peak 86 ppb gold-in-calcrete geochemical anomaly at the Notrab prospect,...-
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Sandstone Outstation area (part of the Central Gawler Project). Second partial surrender report, for the period 20/5/2005 to 19/5/2009.
Exploration for diamonds undertaken by Flinders Mines Ltd (as part of the JV agreement made with Tasman Resources) for the subject 39 square km of relinquished portions of EL 3343, located about 70 km south-west of Coober Pedy, commenced with a...-
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A petrographic study of regolith samples from the Challenger Project, Gawler Craton, South Australia.
60 weathered rock samples collected from the overburden to the Challenger gold deposit in South Australia have been studied using petrographic and carbonate staining methods. Most of the samples represent near-surface regolith materials taken from...-
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Published: 26 Feb 1998
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Tarcoola - Tallaringa Bedrock Drilling Project.
Archaean, Early and Middle Proterozoic rocks of the north-western Gawler Craton have features which suggest good prospectivity for base metals, precious metals and other commodities. However, outcrop is poor and there has been relatively little...-
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Mount Christie. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 23/2/2000 to 6/8/2002.
Interest in an area near Mount Christie Siding was stimulated by the 1993 MESA Barton Bedrock Drilling Programme, which detected anomalous gold, chromium, base metals and platinoid metals in subsurface layered ultramafics. A number of targets...-
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Published: 20 Nov 1902
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Tarcoola - Mount Finke area. Progress reports and annual reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 1/6/1992 to 10/8/2002.
Buried Archaean Mulgathing Complex rocks, comprising metamafics, ultramafics, granites, mafic gneisses and possible greenstones, were the target host for gold, copper and nickel mineralisation in the Mount Finke - Malbooma area, south-west from...-
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Published: 26 Mar 1903
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Lake Barry and Warrior (Mulgathing area). Joint annual reports to licences' expiry/renewal, for the period 19/10/1992 to 18/12/1998.
An area centred 60 km north-west of Tarcoola was selected for its association of Archaean Mulgathing Gneiss Complex rocks, Proterozoic Kimban age and Hiltaba Suite intrusives, Gawler Range Volcanics, and structural and geochemical signatures....-
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Unlocking South Australia's Mineral and Energy Potential - A Plan for Accelerating Exploration. Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry) : Year 3 partnership no. DPY3-22, Barton West heavy mineral sand prospect. Project final report.
Previous drilling in 2005, undertaken as part of another PACE project, DPY2-52, discovered significant occurrences of heavy mineral sands within an area of 15 km x 5 km in the southern part of EL 3092 (the Notrab prospect). These sands were...-
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