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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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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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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] : 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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Wildingi [Claypan] and Galaxy [Outstation]. Licence-specific annual reports, plus joint final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 22/11/1995 to 13/4/1999.
21 gold exploration targets with anomalous regolith Au > 10 ppb were generated by extensive regional and infill calcrete sampling of an area 80 km south-west of Coober Pedy. Aircore, RAB and RC drilling at four of these prospects (269 holes, total...-
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Lake Woorong. First partial surrender report, for the period 8/6/2012 to 7/6/2015.
An area centred about 80 km south-west of Coober Pedy is being explored for possible economic buried coal seams in Permian strata and for economic iron ore deposits or massive sulphide base metal mineralisation (copper, nickel) that may have formed...-
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Comet Project. Final report, Project ADI RD02-279 [Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2022].
The Comet Project comprises 3 granted tenements and one Application Area. The Proof-of-Concept Study was limited to work undertaken on EL 6443 (Comet) and EL 6633 (Gina). The project area is centred ~85 km south-southwest of Coober Pedy within the...-
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Jumbuck (Gawler Project Central Tenement Block). Data release made in lieu of submitting a second partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal: annual reports for the period 1/8/1994 to 26/10/2004. [Index 1 of 3].
The abstract for this Envelope is contained (in 3 parts) as separately indexed records, due to SAMREF database system individual record data size limits presently applicable. Exploration for possible buried epithermal/hydrothermal gold deposits...-
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Malbooma. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/9/1987 to 13/3/1990.
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...-
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RB 2019/00025 Gold mineral systems and exploration strategies for [finding them within] the Gawler Craton, South Australia
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...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2022
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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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Garford [Outstation], Indooroopilly Outstation and Half Moon Lake (the Challenger West Project). Joint annual reports and joint final report to licences' respective expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/4/2003 to 13/10/2010.
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...-
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PACE 2020 Discovery Drilling 2012 : Year 7 Drilling Partnership no. DPY7-04 - Marmota Energy Limited Gawler Craton Project, Moonbi gold target. Drilling project final report.
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...-
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RB 2010/00015 Constraints on the timing of brittle faulting at [the] Challenger Mine.
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...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2010
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Moonbi. First annual and final report to licence surrender for the period 29/9/2003 to 10/11/2003.
Calcrete sampling under an earlier Exploration Licence (EL 2077) in the Moonbi area, 160 km north-west of Tarcoola, had returned an anomalous gold sample of 13 ppb Au. As part of Dominion's brownfields exploration programme for gold resources to...-
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Challenger - South Australia's first Archaean gold mine.
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Jumbuck (Gawler Project Central Tenement Block). Data release made in lieu of submitting a second partial relinquishment report at licence expiry/renewal: annual reports for the period 1/8/1994 to 26/10/2004. [Index 2 of 3].
[ Note - here is only Part 2 of an abstract comprised of 3 separately indexed parts ]. During the third licence year of EL 1971, the joint venturers continued to conduct exploratory drilling of new gold-in-calcrete anomalies that were delineated by...-
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Jumbuck (Gawler Project Central Tenement Block). Data release made in lieu of submitting a second partial relinquishment report at licence expiry/renewal: annual reports for the period 1/8/1994 to 26/10/2004. [Index 3 of 3].
[ Note - here is only Part 3 of an abstract comprised of 3 separately indexed parts ]. During the fifth licence year, infill calcrete sampling performed at the Monsoon SW prospect (96 samples taken at 100 m x 100 m spacing) delineated two high order...-
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Mulgathing. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 18/11/1968 to 17/11/1969.
Reconnaissance mapping and sampling of an area of poorly exposed Precambrian crystalline basement north of Kingoonya has shown that the regional geology is dominated by intensely folded, discontinuously outcropping banded iron formations that are...-
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