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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 4 partnership DPY4-50, Mount Hope Project area stratigraphic drilling on potential Archaean VHMS mineral prospects. Project final report.
The PACE Initiative Year 4 subsidised auger drilling programme undertaken on the Mount Hope (EL 3355) / Brimpton Lake (EL 3561) mineral exploration tenements was a trial to test the application of a new low cost drilling technique to exploring under...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Brimpton Lake. Annual reports for the period 9/2/2005 to 8/8/2018.
An area of the southern Gawler Craton, which is located on Eyre Peninsula east of Elliston, is continuing to be explored for possible economic buried Archaean to Proterozoic bedrock-hosted primary base and precious metal deposits of inferred...-
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Bull 055 A geochronological framework for the Gawler Craton, South Australia
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...-
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Mount Hope, Moorlands and Brimpton Lake (the Mount Hope Project). Joint annual reports and joint final report to licences' respective expiry/full surrender, for the period 24/5/2005 to 4/6/2010.
Monax Mining has been exploring the subsurface geology of three licences in the Mount Hope region of south-western Eyre Peninsula, seeking possible economic komatiite - hosted nickel deposits and also any felsic volcanic sediment - hosted massive...-
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Published: 27 Oct 1910
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 2 partnership DPY2-39, western Eyre Peninsula VHMS base metal and komatiitic (magmatic) nickel mineral prospects. Project final report.
An almost 3000 square km area situated to the north of Coffin Bay and to the east of Elliston, on western Eyre Peninsula, is being explored for possible volcanic-hosted massive sulphide (VHMS) and ultramafic magmatic nickel deposits formed in Archaean...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 4 partnership DPY4-52, Oakdale Project area Archaean VHMS mineral prospects. Project final report.
Five rotary precollared, NQ2 diamond drillholes were completed as a PACE Year 4 subsidised drilling project (DPY4-52) between January 2007 and June 2007, during a regional diamond drilling programme on the licensee's ELs (involving overall ~ 6000 m of...-
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RB 2007/00015 Geochronology of the Gawler Craton, South Australia.
Geochronology enables us to determine the age of rocks and minerals. The variety of isotopic geochronological techniques give complementary information on, for example, the timing of igneous or metamorphic crystallisation, as is often the case for the...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2007
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 3 partnership DPY3-24, Greenly Project nickel and base metals mineral prospects. Project final report.
A high-resolution 100 m line spaced aeromagnetic/radiometric survey conducted in October 2006 by UTS Geophysics for InterMet Resources over its EL 3314, located immediately north of Coffin Bay, revealed prominent N-S trending linear magnetic features...-
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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 2 partnership no. DPY2-58, Empire mineral prospect. Project final report.
Adelaide Resources Limited made application early in 2005 for PACE Initiative Year 2 drilling project funding to test a highly regarded multi-element geochemical anomaly (the Empire prospect) located on its EL 2869, which had been defined by previous...-
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RB 2012/00019 Geochemistry of pre-1570 Ma mafic magmatism within southern Australia: implications for possible tectonic settings and timing of major mineralisation events in South Australia.
Geochemical and isotopic data from mantle-derived mafic rocks provide important constraints on our understanding of the composition and evolution of the lithosphere through time. Since the lithosphere is sensitive to tectonic processes such as...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2012
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RB 2002/00028 Gawler Craton, 2002. State of play. [Notes to accompany viewing of the ancillary] Drill core display.
This geotechnical workshop of seminars and core displays, which was held over two days on 5-6 December 2002, aimed to highlight recent collaborative research between PIRSA [MER], Geoscience Australia and the South Australian mineral industry that has...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2002
