TARGET: Gold in Lower Proterozoic rocks of the Tarcoola Formation and part of the Mulgathing Complex, possibly as a metamorphosed equivalent of the high grade gold orebodies of The Granites (Tanami Desert, NT). EXPLORATION: Interpretation of aerial...

Previous classification of gold deposits in the Gawler Craton grouped occurrences into either Archean orogenic deposits, or intrusion-related deposits associated with the Hiltaba Suite intrusive event (Central Gawler Gold Province). In this study, the...

This bulletin contains geochronological data and interpretations from the Gawler Craton of South Australia that have been completed by Mark Fanning of The Australian National University, by Geological Survey of South Australia personnel, and by...

The trigger event causing this data release to be made is that three portions of licence ground that together cover ~289 square km or 19.5% of the former area of EL 4217 Barton East have now been relinquished, as of 11/1/2011. No corresponding partial...

The Gawler Iron Project is situated approximately 25 km north of the Trans-Australian Railway and 200 km south-west of Coober Pedy, along the western margin of the Gawler Craton in South Australia. The project area formerly had not been systematically...

Gold and copper exploration undertaken in an 89 square km area of almost no outcrop (<1%) in the vicinity of the Challenger gold discovery on the north-western Gawler Craton, where the surface geology is predominantly aeolian sandsheets and...

Exploration Licence 3262 Sandstone JV is one of eight ELs forming a project group in the vicinity of Dominion Mining's Challenger gold mine, all of which are presently being explored for satellite gold deposits that may eventually be exploited to feed...

Gold and copper exploration undertaken in an area of almost no outcrop (<1%) in the vicinity of the Challenger gold discovery on the north-western Gawler Craton, where the surface geology is predominantly aeolian sandsheets and pedogenic calcrete...

Two separate small areas located just north of Comet Outstation, that were originally taken up to explore for possible diamonds and Triassic-Jurassic kimberlite intrusions that could be associated with intensely faulted shallow basement, have also...

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...

The three licences comprising the Challenger West Project were taken up principally to explore for economic gold, which could possibly occur in strike extensions of known gold lodes formed within Archaean basement rocks that constitute the Challenger...

Emerging awareness of the geological similarities between the Archaean of the Yilgarn Craton of Western Australia, with its many known gold deposits, and the Archaean of the Gawler Craton of South Australia, originally led Kevin Wills, Keith Yates and...

An area located 140 km north-west of Tarcoola was taken up to explore for possible economic high grade occurrences of palygorskite clays formed in Tertiary palaeochannels and associated playa lakes. This was a response to a discovery of palygorskite...

Indooroopilly Outstation EL 4702 lies within the northern Gawler Craton approximately 170 km south-west of Coober Pedy. It is located in the south-eastern corner of the Tallaringa 1:250,000 geological mapsheet area, and covers an area of approximately...

An area centred about 100 km north-west of Tarcoola has been explored principally for buried economic iron ore formed within Paleoproterozoic BIF strata and also for iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) mineralisation, while the central portion...

Following on from the highly successful Gawler Craton - State of Play 2002 conference held by PIRSA in Adelaide in December 2002, the Gawler Craton Team of PIRSA's Geological Survey Branch has recently undertaken a major excursion across the craton....

A version of the Russian-invented CHIM electro-geochemical prospecting technique, which has lately been developed at Guilin University, China, was trialled in field surveys conducted at the Challenger gold mine, and at the Kalkaroo Cu-Au-Mo and Goulds...

Reconnaissance investigations of outcropping rocks of the western and central Mulgathing Complex reveal a series of pelitic and psammitic sedimentary rocks, interleaved with generally mafic to intermediate composition meta-igneous lithologies. The...

High precision geochronological analyses of metamorphic and inherited magmatic zircon grains, which were obtained from stored percussion drillhole samples of a garnet gneiss that occurs within the Commonwealth Hill magnetic anomaly, north-western...

The orebody at the Challenger gold mine shows remarkable down-plunge continuity, from the surface to some 1400 m vertical depth, which is geometrically equivalent to a down-plunge length of ~2800 m. However, at ~220 RL within the mine, the orebody is...