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Glenloth Well. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/3/1973 to 29/3/1974.
Two inclined percussion holes were drilled at the Mount Mitchell tin prospect for a total penetration of 504 feet. The aim was to test a discrepancy between subsurface sample negative tin assay results obtained by the Department of Mines, and good...-
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Published: 21 Feb 1974
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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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Bulgunnia, Gosse and Kingoonya (the Mentor Project). Data release made at the surrender of subsequent licences : annual reports for the period 27/10/1992 to 15/11/1997. [Index entry Part 1 of 2 - a very long abstract is split between these two parts].
The Gawler Joint Venture partners (Dominion Mining and Resolute Resources) have been exploring three near-contiguous areas located in the north of the Tarcoola - Kingoonya district, seeking possible economic concealed epithermal/mesothermal...-
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Ferguson [Siding]. Data release made at partial relinquishment of a subsequent licence : annual reports for the period 13/6/1995 to 12/12/2000.
An area located 35 km south-east of Tarcoola was targeted for gold because of interpreted aeromagnetic data, which suggested the presence of discrete Archaean iron formations and mafic rocks within the more widely distributed Kenella Gneiss, a rock...-
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Published: 15 Feb 1900
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Tarcoola - Mount Finke area. Progress reports and annual reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 1/6/1992 to 10/8/2002.
Buried Archaean Mulgathing Complex rocks, comprising metamafics, ultramafics, granites, mafic gneisses and possible greenstones, were the target host for gold, copper and nickel mineralisation in the Mount Finke - Malbooma area, south-west from...-
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Published: 26 Mar 1903
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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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Heartbreak north and south [Talia and Jennet] areas. Progress reports for the periods 30/8/1993 to 29/8/1998, and 26/10/1998 to 25/4/2001.
Archaean to Proterozoic ultramafic igneous intrusions and granite masses associated with the Yarlbrinda Shear Zone, which are interpreted as being potential hosts for gold, nickel, chromium and platinum group elements, were the targets of exploration...-
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Published: 03 Nov 1900
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Earea Dam Goldfield. Reports on preliminary drilling programmes and on a geological investigation undertaken over the period January 1988 to January 1989.
TARGET: Possible undiscovered economic gold lodes at the Earea Dam Goldfield, which could form a resource of a size suitable for open pit mining. EXPLORATION: Reconnaissance lode outcrop geochemical sampling, later detailed surface and underground...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : the Tarcoola and Theseus Projects. Joint annual reports for the period 31/5/2010 to 31/12/2014.
A large part of the Harris Greenstone Domain basement tectonostratigraphic block, extending from 10 km to 130 km west of Kingoonya, is being explored for possible buried economic gold, nickel and other base metal mineralisation which may be associated...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Carnding. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 5/7/2005 to 4/7/2009.
EL 3369 is located in the central Gawler Craton, and is centred approximately 35 km west and west-northwest of Tarcoola. The licence area consists of two geographically separate [by ~5 km] blocks – exploration activity in the eastern block has...-
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RB 2007/00017 The geology of the Mulgathing Complex: from eastern Tallaringa to Glenloth Goldfield.
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...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2007
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 1 partnership DPY1-10, Harris Greenstone Belt mineral prospects. Project interim and final reports.
In September and December 2004 Mithril Resources completed 53 vertical aircore and reverse circulation drillholes on Exploration Licence 2842 as part of the SA Government's PACE Initiative 'Theme 2' collaborative drilling programme involving PIRSA...-
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RB 2002/00011 Harris Greenstone Domain bedrock drilling, May-August 2001.
The Harris Greenstone Domain bedrock drilling program - Phase 1, carried out during May to August 2001, has determined depths to basement, the basement lithology, and has outlined areas of anomalous gold, nickel and chromium geochemistry within...-
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Published: 01 Jul 2002
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2003 Boomerang prospect HyMap survey. Mineral maps Data Package.
HyVista Corporation was contracted by DMITRE during August-September 2013 to process an archived set of HyMap airborne hyperspectral scanner data of the Earth's surface radiance properties, that had previously been acquired on 21/11/1998 from a survey...-
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ExpNotes BARTON: Explanatory Notes BARTON
Shallow Precambrian crystalline basement underlies the greater part of the BARTON 1:250 000 map area. Thicker Neoproterozoic, Cambrian and Carboniferous Permian sediments occur in the northwest, with the southern margin bounded by the Karari Fault...-
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Lake Labyrinth (part of the Gawler and the Labyrinth Joint Venture Projects). Data release at second partial relinquishment : project licences' combined annual reports for the period 27/8/1999 to 28/9/2008.
In a continuation of exploration for economic deposits of gold and base metal mineralisation in the Lake Labyrith area, joint venture operator MIM Exploration carried out a proprietary 'MIMDAS' geophysical survey (utilising combined dipole-dipole IP...-
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Published: 18 Mar 1909
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Talia Hill. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/9/2001 to 25/6/2009.
During the late 1990s, company exploratory drilling of the Harris Greenstone Belt in the central Gawler Craton, south of Tarcoola, revealed a package of previously unknown, shallowly buried komatiite lava beds with a strike length in excess of 350 km...-
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RB 2015/00003 PACE Geochronology: Results of collaborative geochronology projects, 2013–2015.
The PACE Geochronology program fosters collaboration on projects of geological and metallogenic significance with focus on dating rocks and minerals from samples suggested by companies through a competitive proposal-based selection process. Successful...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2017
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RB 2009/00016 Compilation of Shrimp U-Pb geochronological data for the Mulgathing Complex, Gawler Craton, South Australia, 2007-2009.
This report book contains SHRIMP zircon U-Pb geochronological data obtained between July 2007 and June 2009, for 10 metasedimentary and meta-igneous rocks from the Mulgathing Complex of the north-estern Gawler Craton. The geochronological study was...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2009