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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 86/00041 Mulgathing Complex.
The Mulgathing Complex, an Archaean metasedimentary sequence with interlayered mafic and possibly acid volcanics, forms the basement of larger part of the northern Gawler Craton. These rocks have been complexly folded, subjected to granulite facies...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1986
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RB 97/00057 Gawler Craton excursion guide - September 21-26, 1997.
This 5-day field excursion was mounted by the GSSA to inform government and industry participants about significant newly identified geological features within the central Gawler Craton which are the subjects of ongoing study. The itinerary chosen...-
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Published: 19 Sep 1997
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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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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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Commonwealth Hill, Perfection Well and Wirrida. Six-monthly progress, plus combined annual and final reports, to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/12/1993 to 18/7/2006.
Exploration for possible economic deposits of epithermal/hydrothermal gold, plus precious metals and base metals, which might have formed in poorly outcropping Archaean and Proterozoic basement, commenced with a detailed interpretation of SAEI imaged...-
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Published: 10 Sep 1906
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Wirrida (part of Minotaur's Commonwealth Hill joint venture project). Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 29/9/1997 to 16/10/2006.[Index entry Part 1 of 2 - a very long abstract is split between these two parts].
Exploration of a long-held tenement package in the northern Gawler Craton was directed primarily at gold and also at platinum group metals, in specific work programmes executed under separate early joint venture arrangements made with Gawler Gold and...-
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Published: 10 Jan 1907
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 2 partnership DPY2-24, M1 oreshoot deep exploratory diamond drilling, Challenger mine area. Project final report.
Dominion Gold Operations applied for PACE Initiative Year 2 funding from PIRSA in 2005 to assist with the drilling of a deep diamond hole at its Challenger gold mine. The hole 'Wildcat 2' (05CDDH0072) aimed to test for the continuation of the M1 ore...-
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Gawler Project Central Tenement Block [Part]. Data release at licences' joint partial surrender: Southern Gold gold exploration JV - specific annual reports 6/2/2006 to 30/6/2009. [Index Part 2 of 2].
After the Southern Gold joint venture agreement was signed in February 2006, that company as JV operator performed a due diligence review of Dominion Mining's exploration data, did some orientation soil calcrete and biogeochemical sampling at Typhoon...-
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Published: 02 Feb 1910
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Gawler Project Central Tenement Block [Part]. Data release at licences' joint partial relinquishment: project combined annual reports, plus Southern Gold gold exploration JV - specific annual reports, 27/10/2004 to 30/6/2009. [Index Part 1 of 2].
During the first three years of the subject reporting period, exploration carried out by Dominion Mining as Gawler Project sole owner and operator was concentrated in and around the Challenger gold mine, to assist in defining ore reserves within the...-
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Published: 02 Feb 1910
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Mulgathing and Jumbuck areas (part of the Gawler Project Central Tenement Block). Data release at licences' joint partial surrender: project joint venture - specific annual reports for the period 1/7/2009 to 22/9/2010.
As part of the ongoing Challenger Area Joint Venture with Southern Gold intended to complete brownfields exploration near the mine and to expedite greenfields exploration of the Christie Domain for Archaean metamorphic/hydrothermal gold, work carried...-
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Published: 05 Jan 1911
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Sandstone Outstation. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/11/1996 to 17/1/2006.
A collection of eight land parcels recently relinquished from the Resolute Resources / Dominion Mining JV EL 2018, and covering 215 square km in an area located approximately 110 km south-west of Coober Pedy, was taken up by a new consortium intending...-
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Published: 28 Feb 1906
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Wirrida (part of Minotaur's Commonwealth Hill joint venture project). Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 29/9/1997 to 16/10/2006.[Index entry Part 2 of 2 - a very long abstract is split between these two parts].
Abstract (Continued from Part 1): Because of the presence of the highest gold concentration at the eastern end of the Target 14 aircore drill traverse, potential remains for delineating further mineralisation at this locality. In addition, the...-
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Published: 10 Jan 1907
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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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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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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Aurora Tank. First annual report for the period 2/2/2010 to 1/2/2012, plus the next submitted licence-specific annual reports for the period 21/3/2013 to 1/2/2016.
No field work was done on the subject licence during its first year, while land access permissions were being organised with the required authorities. The licence area is located approximately 100 km south-west of Coober Pedy and lies within the...-
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PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 8 partnership DPY8-20 - Golf Bore (part of the Jumbuck Project). Archaean basement, supergene zone, metamorphic/hydrothermal gold prospect. Drilling project final report.
The subject Golf Bore prospect and its currently subeconomic gold occurrence are located in the north-eastern corner of the Jumbuck Project mineral exploration tenement package, which incorporates ~8000 square km of ground – approximately 2500 square...-
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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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Ferguson [Siding]. Data release made at partial relinquishment of a subsequent licence : annual reports for the period 13/6/1995 to 12/12/2000.
An area located 35 km south-east of Tarcoola was targeted for gold because of interpreted aeromagnetic data, which suggested the presence of discrete Archaean iron formations and mafic rocks within the more widely distributed Kenella Gneiss, a rock...-
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Published: 15 Feb 1900
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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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