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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 83/00057 Petrography of eight volcanic rocks from the Tarcoola area.
Rocks are mainly from the Middle Proterozoic Gawler Range Volcanics. One may be from the Tarcoola Beds and one, not identified as it is too strongly altered by contact metamorphism, is of economic interest because of its highly mafic character.-
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Published: 01 Jul 1983
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RB 92/00037 Review of mineral exploration, KINGOONYA 1:250 000 map area.
This report was prepared as a summary of all open file mineral exploration data from the KINGOONYA 1:250000 mapsheet area that are held in the SADME records management Envelope system. The aim of the holdings review was to describe past exploration,...-
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Published: 29 Nov 1991
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RB 89/00091 Weakly deformed and metamorphosed Archean volcanics near Millers Creek, north-east of Kingoonya.
The dating of the volcanic rocks encountered in EL 600 mineral exploration diamond drillhole DP1 as Archaean (and by definition, also Mulgathing Complex) substantially changes the view of Archaean rocks in South Australia. Elsewhere, Archaean to...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1989
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Carnding. Data release made in lieu of submitting a second partial relinquishment report at licence expiry/renewal : progress reports and annual reports for the period 29/9/1994 to 16/1/2005.
Renewed brownfields gold exploration in an area situated 20-40 km north and west of the Tarcoola Goldfield, previously held in part by the licensee as EL 1848, was prompted by the May 1995 success of the Samantha/Resolute/Dominion corporate joint...-
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Published: 28 Jul 1905
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Wirrida (part of Minotaur's Commonwealth Hill joint venture project). Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 29/9/1997 to 16/10/2006.[Index entry Part 1 of 2 - a very long abstract is split between these two parts].
Exploration of a long-held tenement package in the northern Gawler Craton was directed primarily at gold and also at platinum group metals, in specific work programmes executed under separate early joint venture arrangements made with Gawler Gold and...-
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Published: 10 Jan 1907
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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. DPY2-40, Soyuz gold / copper-gold mineral prospect. Project final report.
Previous exploratory work by Grenfell Resources and Gravity Capital at the Soyuz prospect in the Carnding area, located approximately 25 km west-northwest of Tarcoola, has included ground magnetic, gravity and soil sampling programmes that defined a...-
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Published: 15 Jun 1906
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Wirrida (part of Minotaur's Commonwealth Hill joint venture project). Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 29/9/1997 to 16/10/2006.[Index entry Part 2 of 2 - a very long abstract is split between these two parts].
Abstract (Continued from Part 1): Because of the presence of the highest gold concentration at the eastern end of the Target 14 aircore drill traverse, potential remains for delineating further mineralisation at this locality. In addition, the...-
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Published: 10 Jan 1907
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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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Cedric Bore. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/4/2002 to 17/6/2008.
An area centred ~ 80 km north of Tarcoola was taken under licence to explore for possible economic buried precious and base metallic mineralisation hosted by Archaean and Proterozoic basement rocks. The area was selected on the basis of it having...-
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Published: 16 Sep 1908
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Kingoonya. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 27/11/2006 to 21/4/2015.
An area surrounding the township of Kingoonya and straddling the Trans Australia Railway line, that comprises six tenement sub-blocks,has been explored for possible economic occurrences of buried Tertiary roll-front style secondary uranium...-
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Published: 23 Apr 1915
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Mount Finke. Annual reports including 'no work' letters, for the period 12/8/2015 to 11/8/2018.
An area centred ~45 km south-west of Tarcoola is being explored for possible buried epithermal/hydrothermal copper-gold and magmatic copper-nickel-PGE mineralisation which could have formed within Archaean and Proterozoic basement rocks. During the...-
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Published: 09 Oct 1918
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Black Camp Hill. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 29/4/1987 to 28/10/1987.
Interpretation of image processed digital magnetic data from the 1978 SADME Kokatha Aerial Magnetic Survey, plus contouring of data from this survey and from the BMR's reprocessed TARCOOLA Aerial Magnetic Survey, had defined two possible ring...-
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Pimbaacla, Tallaringa, Lake Acraman no. 1 and Lake Acraman no. 2 areas. Combined joint first progress / final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 9/9/1968 to 8/3/1969.
A field investigation to detect possible sources for some radioactivity anomalies located in four separate areas, that were recognised on one mile - spaced regional north - south airborne radiometric survey data profiles which had been flown by the...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Deception Hill. Annual reports, for the period 12/8/2015 to 11/8/2018.
An area centred ~25 km south-southwest of Tarcoola is being explored for possible buried epithermal/hydrothermal copper-gold and magmatic copper-nickel-PGE mineralisation which could have formed within Archaean and Proterozoic basement rocks. During...-
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Published: 09 Oct 1918
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Mount Finke [Heartbreak Hill]. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 28/7/1982 to 27/1/1984.
Exploration of an area extending from 20 km south to 35 km south-west and west of Tarcoola was designed to assess the potential of Archaean to Middle Proterozoic volcanics, granites and sediments for possible gold, base metal or tin deposits of...-
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Published: 29 Dec 1983
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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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Commonwealth Hill Station - East (part of the Commonwealth Hill Project). First partial surrender report, for the period 2/7/2007 to 1/7/2017.
Five small portions of the subject licence, with a combined total area of 143 square km, have been surrendered due to their now perceived diminished prospectivity for iron ore, gold, uranium and base metals. During the period of their tenure,...-
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Published: 04 Dec 1917
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Commonwealth Hill, Commonwealth Hill Station - Central and East, and Aurora Tank areas (the Commonwealth Hill Project). Joint annual reports for the period 1/7/2013 to 30/6/2018.
During the sixth year of the project, base metals exploration was focussed on the Mars-Aurora Tank, Wirrida and Bundi prospects using ground gravity and IP survey methods. Some trial magnetotelluric and audio-frequency magnetotelluric survey profiles...-
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Published: 05 Sep 1918
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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