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Glenloth Well. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/3/1973 to 29/3/1974.
Two inclined percussion holes were drilled at the Mount Mitchell tin prospect for a total penetration of 504 feet. The aim was to test a discrepancy between subsurface sample negative tin assay results obtained by the Department of Mines, and good...-
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Published: 21 Feb 1974
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RB 84/00013 Wilgena 1. Well completion report.
Wilgena 1 (TD 973 m) penetrated 964 m into Tarcoola Formation within the Wilgena Sub-basin, without encountering magnetic basement. Thin dacitic to basaltic tuffs and basaltic flows, interbedded with carbonaceous siltstones, indicate contemporaneous...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1984
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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 91/00066 Major South Australian gold deposits. Summaries.
This report summarizes information on 10 South Australian mineral deposits with individual aggregate gold resources and/or historic production of 1 tonne or more. By far the largest is the Olympic Dam Cu-U-Au-Ag deposit, with a measured and indicated...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1991
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RB 92/00039 Kingoonya bedrock drilling 1991.
36 reverse circulation drillholes totalling 1448 m (average depth 40.2 m) were drilled to determine the bedrock geology and geochemistry below sedimentary cover, in selected locations on the KINGOONYA 1:250,000 mapsheet area that had been recommended...-
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Published: 01 May 1992
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RB 88/00081 Kingoonya Geophysical and Stratigraphic Drilling Project. Well completion report.
9 vertical rotary drillholes, with bottom-hole coring, were drilled along a combined ground magnetic and gravity survey traverse extending from Mount Eba to Rocky Hill, to provide true information on concealed Mesoproterozoic sediments and volcanic...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1988
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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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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Tarcoola. Annual reports for the period 2/6/2008 to 29/7/2018.
During the first year of renewed EL 4167, in October and November 2008, Stellar Resources Ltd ("Stellar") completed a 5 hole, 1286.9 m RC and 2 hole, 157.1 m diamond cored inclined drilling programme at the Coolybring prospect which is located...-
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Published: 11 Sep 1918
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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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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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Summary report on exploration of the Kenella Rock[s] area, SML 436, during the period 15/9/1970 to 15/12/1971.
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Published: 05 Dec 1971
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Tarcoola. Data release made in lieu of a 25% first partial relinquishment at licence renewal: [Part 2 of 2] progress reports for the period 19/7/1984 to 6/12/1990. Part 1 of 2 also included.
Exploration of the Tarcoola Gold Field by Aberfoyle Resources began in mid-1984, following a partial relinquishment of other ground at licence renewal, when some promising gold assay values were detected from rock and mine dump sampling. Geological...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Gunson (part of the Mount Gunson Project). Annual reports for the period 15/7/1994 to 17/10/2008 [ Index Part 4 of 4 ].
During licence Year 12, following encouraging results made by its continuing exploratory drilling, Gunson Resources was able to negotiate a joint venture over the Mount Gunson Project tenements with Falconbridge Limited through its subsidiary Noranda...-
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Mount Finke [Heartbreak Hill]. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 28/7/1982 to 27/1/1984.
Exploration of an area extending from 20 km south to 35 km south-west and west of Tarcoola was designed to assess the potential of Archaean to Middle Proterozoic volcanics, granites and sediments for possible gold, base metal or tin deposits of...-
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Published: 29 Dec 1983
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Mount Eba, Lake Labyrinth and Gosse Range areas (north of Kingoonya). Progress reports and final report to licences' joint surrender, for the period 13/11/1979 to 22/2/1984.
After conducting low level aeromagnetic and radiometric surveys plus ground magnetic and gravity surveys during 1980 and 1981, in a search for possible syngenetic or stratiform base and precious metal deposits, Amoco drilled 6 rotary percussion holes...-
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Tarcoola and Malbooma. Data release made in lieu of a partial relinquishment at licences' expiry/renewal: progress reports for the period 7/6/1978 to 19/1/1983.
Exploration work included geophysical surveys, reprocessing of airborne radiometric data, and rotary and diamond drilling (237 holes totalling 5975 m; total depths from 3-55 m) in a search for sedimentary uranium in Tertiary palaeochannels, and gold...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1983
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Tarcoola Project reverse circulation rotary percussion drilling, Tarcoola, South Australia.
The March-April 1987 drilling programme, of 25 angled RC holes totalling 2437 m, tested the gold content of the known mineralised quartz veins and also attempted to determine the distribution of gold within the surrounding Tarcoola Formation....-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Lake Labyrinth West - Lake Harris West area (the Glenloth JV Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 25/5/1998 to 10/7/2008.
Continued exploration for Archaean lode-style gold and Mesoproterozoic Hiltaba Suite granite-related hydrothermal Cu-Au within the retained southern former subarea 'B' of EL 2518 located ~40 km south-east of Tarcoola, where there is also potential...-
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Published: 08 Oct 1908
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Tarcoola. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 2/6/2003 to 1/6/2008.
Exploration Licence 3089 is located in the central Gawler Craton and is centred near the township of Tarcoola. Continuation of tenure over the same area, from former ELs 1827 and 2510, was renewed by Gravity Capital Ltd on 2/6/2003, and full licence...-
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RB 2016/00010 U-Pb geochronological data from drill holes Nundroo 3 DDH and Nundroo 2 DDH, Fowler Domain, western Gawler Craton.
This report details newly acquired Sensitive High Resolution Ion Microprobe (SHRIMP) U-Pb isotopic data for three samples from two drill holes in the Fowler Domain of the western Gawler Craton. During the late 1980s,stratigraphic drilling done by the...-
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Published: 01 Jul 2016
