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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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RB 89/00075 Geological investigations of the Earea Dam Goldfield, South Australia.
Gold was discovered near Earea Dam 50 km SE of Tarcoola in 1899. Production to date totals 59 237.59 grams of gold bullion from 1869.63 tonnes of ore, with an average head grade of 35.33 g/t gold. Gold-bearing quartz was mined from an east-dipping...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1990
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RB 91/00035 Geological investigations. Lake Labyrinth Goldfield, South Australia.
Production since 1912 totals 5206.4 grams from 146.3 tonnes of ore with average head grade of 35.6 g/t gold bullion. Gold was won from shear zones and ferruginous quartz veins within Archaean Kenella Gneiss. Sub-vertical shear zones and quartz veins...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1991
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Lake Labyrinth (part of the Gawler Joint Venture Project). Data release made at the surrender of a subsequently renewed licence (EL 3252) : annual reports for the period 27/7/1994 to 26/7/1999.
Exploration for possible economic buried magmatic/epithermal/hydrothermal/metamorphic gold and copper deposits, which may have formed within Archaean and Proterozoic basement rocks in an area located approximately 24 km north-west of Kingoonya,...-
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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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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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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 - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : the Tarcoola and Theseus Projects. Joint annual reports for the period 1/1/2015 to 31/12/2018.
During the fourth year of project licences' joint reporting, for the Theseus Project, Endeavour undertook further RC and diamond core drilling at the Minos prospect on EL 5280, and did detailed auger calcrete geochemical sampling over the Lake...-
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Published: 21 Feb 1919
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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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Lake Labyrinth. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/2/2010 to 1/2/2012.
Exploration for possible Proterozoic basement-hosted mesothermal gold mineralisation in rocks bounding the Labyrinth Shear Zone, 18 km north-west of Kingoonya, has consisted only of the acquisition of an airborne magnetic/radiometric survey (4847 line...-
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Published: 21 Mar 1912
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Carnding. Annual reports for the period 5/7/2009 to 27/3/2019.
As part of Stellar Resources' regional gold exploration programme, aircore drilling along six north-south traverses crossing the Bulgunnia Shear Zone was undertaken during July-August 2009 (data pertaining to this programme was not reported in the...-
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Published: 27 Mar 1919
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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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