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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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Andamooka, Stuart Creek, Arcoona, Lake Torrens, Todds Dam, Lake Arthur, Woodforde Hill and Murdie Island (the Stuart Shelf Project). Joint first partial surrender report at licences' expiry/renewal, for the period 2/5/1975 to 16/6/1986.
WMC's Stuart Shelf exploration activities from 1975 to 1985 have sought mainly Olympic Dam style mineralisation (copper - uranium - precious metals in haematitic breccia host rocks), with lesser emphasis directed at: possible distal analogues of the...-
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RB 87/00061 Calca granite deposits - Discovery, geology and production. Calca quarry section - EML 4469, section 46, Hundred Rounsevell. Calca South - EML 5068, section 48, Hundred Wrenfordsley.
Middle Proterozoic red granite is quarried near Calca, 35 km SE of Streaky Bay on western Eyre Peninsula. It is ideally suited as dimension and monumental stone, being fresh, uniform in texture and colour, and comparatively free of defects. It is...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1987
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RB 77/00107 Evolution of the Middle Proterozoic Chandabooka Caldera, Gawler Range acid
Volcanism associated with the Middle Proterozoic Gawler Range acid volcano-plutonic province was initiated in the Kokatha area by the construction on Archaean basement of a large stratovolcano composed mainly of tholeiitic basalt and potassic basaltic...-
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Published: 20 Sep 1977
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RB 89/00084 Geology of St Peter and Goat Islands (Nuyts Archipelago) and Cape Beaufort.
Outcrops of Proterozoic rocks consist of a complex suite of comagmatic intrusives which exhibit a variable degree of deformation and are correlated with the Early Proterozoic Lincoln Complex. On southern Saint Peter Island, felsic volcanics,...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1989
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RB 97/00028 Reconnaissance granite sampling of the Mesoproterozoic Hiltaba Suite granite on northern Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, for dimension stone.
Reconnaissance sampling of Mesoproterozoic Hiltaba Suite granite on northern Eyre Peninsula, to identify all potentially quarryable granite varieties, was carried out by MESA during 1996/97. A total of 157 outcrops were inspected and 99 samples...-
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Published: 01 Apr 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 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 91/00011 Saint Francis Granite of the southwestern Gawler Craton.
Volcano-plutonic rocks of the Nuyts Archipelago represent a discrete phase of felsic magmatism at about 1630 Ma. Associated with the Nuyts Volcanics are grey alkali granites, leucogranites and leucoporphyries - here defined as the Saint Francis...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1991
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RB 89/00070 Gawler Ranges Excursion, October 7th-9th, 1989.
Summarises the chemical classification and macroscopic visual attributes of basement igneous rocks seen in outcrop within the regional geological settings of northern Eyre Peninsula and the Gawler Ranges.-
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Published: 01 Sep 1989
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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 96/00024 Gawler Ranges drilling report 1994.
The Mesoproterozoic Gawler Range Volcanics - Hiltaba Granite Suite - related Olympic Dam style Cu-U-Au mineralisation, and Menninnie Dam replacement style Pb-Zn-Ag mineralisation, have served to raise the prospectivity of rocks in and underlying the...-
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Published: 12 Sep 1996
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Port Broughton, Redhill and Mount Remarkable - Port Augusta areas (part of the Moonta North Project ELs combined reporting group). Annual reports and joint final report at licences' surrender, for the period 19/4/2002 to 22/5/2006.
Economic deposits of iron-oxide associated copper-gold mineralisation of the Moonta-Wallaroo or Olympic Dam style, hosted in Palaeoproterozoic basement rocks of the Moonta Sub-domain, were targeted by exploration in three now surrendered licences,...-
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Mabel Creek. Annual reports submitted until the commencement of joint licence reporting on the Mabel Creek JV Project tenements, for the period 20/12/1999 to 23/3/2006.
Exploration currently underway for possible economic buried iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) mineralisation within Proterozoic basement on the Mabel Creek High, in one of two joint venture group project licence areas located approximately 50...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 1 partnership DPY1-46, western Gawler Range Volcanic Province mineral prospects. Project interim and final reports.
An area of the Gawler Range Volcanic Province that straddles the southern portion of the Yarlbrinda Shear Zone, 80 km south of Kingoonya, and which contains mylonitised and sericite-altered Palaeoroterozoic intrusive rocks, was the target for three...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 3 partnership DPY3-38, Central Gawler Gold Province, Barns West and Baggy Green North gold prospects. [8 x RC drillholes] Project final report.
PACE Initiative Year 3 drilling project funds were secured by Adelaide Resources to evaluate a number of previously detected IP anomalies inferred to originate from sources in the Mesoproterozoic basement and saprolitic cover in the vicinity of the...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 2 partnership DPY2-45, Old Well and New Well shear-associated gold mineral prospects. Project final report.
The Yarlbrinda and Yerda Shear Zones of the central Gawler Craton, partly present within EL 3107 in the Tarcoola-Glenloth-Lake Harris region, were the target for a number of mineral exploratory drillholes put down there by by licence farminee Minotaur...-
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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 4 partnership no. DPY4-65, Chianti mineral prospect. Project completion dataset.
The subject set of reports describes the results of PACE Initiative Year 4 partly-subsidised drilling work conducted in the vicinity of the Chianti prospect, which lies approx. 20 km north of the old Mount Gunson mining camp. The aim of this work,...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bulgunnia (part of the Gawler JV Project). Annual reports for the period 19/11/1997 to 1/1/2013.
Within an area of the Wilgena and Christie Domains centred 40 km north of Tarcoola, exploration is continuing for Archaean to Proterozoic basement-hosted epithermal, hydrothermal and metamorphic type gold and base metal occurrences. Here an 841 square...-
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PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 8 partnership DPY8-28 - Cultana district, Eyre Peninsula, Extension Tank shear-hosted Mesoproterozoic IOCG-U or porphyry type Au and base metal prospect. Drilling final report.
An area centred approximately 50 km south-west of Port Augusta is being explored for buried economic occurrences of gold, base metals and uranium primary mineralisation which may be genetically associated with the past emplacement there of the Gawler...-
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