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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 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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Barton East (part of the Gawler Joint Venture Project). Second partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 14/3/1997 to 13/3/2002.
Approximately 894 square km or 37.6% of the former area of EL 2282 Barton East has now been relinquished at this licence's expiry on 13/3/2002 and its subsequent renewal for a second 5-year term. The now relinquished portion of ground, which is...-
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Barton West and Barton East (part of the Gawler Joint Venture Project). Joint first partial surrender report, for the period 14/3/1997 to 26/10/1999.
Approximately 1113 square km or 62.8% of the former area of EL 2281 Barton West, plus 378 square km or 13.7% of the former area of EL 2282 Barton East, have now been jointly relinquished as of 26/10/1999 due to the perceived diminished prospectivity...-
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Published: 26 Oct 1999
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Maralinga. Relinquishment report for the period 14/3/97 to 26/10/99.
No anomalous values were reported from regional calcrete sampling in an area 230 km west of Tarcoola.-
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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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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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Mount Finke. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/3/1987 to 28/9/1989.
TARGET: Gold in the Mount Finke region. EXPLORATION: A photogeological study, aerial magnetic and radiometric surveys, image processing of aeromagnetic data reprocessed by the BMR, a regional geophysical interpretation, ground magnetic traverses,...-
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Barton (including the Western Gawler Gold JV Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 19/10/2009 to 17/8/2017.
Iluka Resources has previously been exploring an area located 200 km north-west of Ceduna primarily for buried Tertiary marine placer deposits of heavy mineral sands. But due to the poor results obtained from its reconnaissance traverse drilling...-
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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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