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RB 83/00080 Precambrian correlation of the Lake Superior region, North America, and the Gawler Craton.
Geology of Lake Superior region outlined. Many similarities in tectonic evolution and depositional style of the 2 provinces. Recommends further research on Gawler Craton.-
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Published: 01 Sep 1983
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RB 86/00041 Mulgathing Complex.
The Mulgathing Complex, an Archaean metasedimentary sequence with interlayered mafic and possibly acid volcanics, forms the basement of larger part of the northern Gawler Craton. These rocks have been complexly folded, subjected to granulite facies...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1986
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RB 79/00044 Explanatory notes for the CHILDARA, 1:250 000 geological map sheet SH/53-14.
The CHILDARA 1:250 000 geological map covers part of the Precambrian Gawler Craton in north-western Eyre Peninsula, much of which is blanketed by Cainozoic and Mesozoic deposits. The oldest rocks are a complex assemblage of granitic gneisses and...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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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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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Johns Outstation / Giffen Well. Annual reports for the period 8/10/2007 to 7/10/2018.
To date, land access restrictions imposed by the Commonwealth Department of Defence have prevented any field work from occurring on the subject tenement, taken up to cover the Giffen Well magnetite iron ore deposit and adjacent inferred prospective...-
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Tarcoola - Kingoonya (Glenloth) areas. Joint annual reports, and first partial relinquishment report, for the period 4/3/1993 to 24/5/2001.
Exploration for Archaean lode-style gold and Hiltaba Suite granite-related hydrothermal Cu-Au in two licence sub-areas near Tarcoola targeted Archaean greenstone lithologies interpreted from aeromagnetic data, Mesoproterozoic intrusive-associated...-
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Tarcoola. Data release made in lieu of a 25% first partial relinquishment at licence renewal: [Part 1 of 2] progress reports for the period 7/6/1978 to 19/4/1984.
In 1978 exploratory rotary drilling (11 holes, total 629 m) for inferred sediment-hosted roll-front uranium orebodies buried beneath salt lake topographic depressions east of Tarcoola intersected low levels of uranium (max 14 ppm) at fresh water /...-
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Wilkinson Lakes East. Annual reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 3/5/2010 to 6/2/2015.
An area centred ~150 km west of Coober Pedy, that is located mostly north-west of and that also has a small part lying immediately south-east of the Karari Fault, a major crustal structure which has controlled deposition at the southern limit of the...-
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Lake Anthony. Quarterly reports, first joint annual report (with SML 711) and joint final report to licence full surrender, for the period 1/9/1971 to 31/5/1973.
An area located just to the east of the edge of the Nullarbor Plain, occupied by many scattered large and small salt lakes surrounded by sand dunes, with Precambrian basement [of the western Gawler Craton] subcropping near the surface, has been...-
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Published: 26 Jun 1973
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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 - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Glenloth area (the Tarcoola JV Project). Annual reports for the period 11/7/2008 to 2/11/2018.
A biogeochemical sampling survey consisting of 20 lines (407 samples) was undertaken by the JV partners during August 2009, targeting buried gold mineralisation. Black Oak and Pearl Bluebush were the dominant deep-rooted plant species sampled and, to...-
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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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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 2004/00001 Palaeochannel studies related to the Harris Greenstone Belt, Gawler Craton, South Australia. Architecture and evolution of the Kingoonya Palaeochannel system.
Exploring the earth resources in the Harris Greenstone Belt (HGB) region is complicated by a regolith cover produced by a long and complex history of landscape evolution. The present surface of the HGB indicates little of the complex palaeochannel...-
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Published: 01 Jun 2004
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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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RB 2006/00004 Crustal evolution of the Gawler Craton, South Australia: Application of the TerraneChron technique to detrital zircon from modern stream sediments.
This report presents the results of a Terranechron [registered brand name for this proprietary technique] study of detrital zircons from modern stream sediments of the Gawler Craton. The Terranechron approach involves obtaining uranium - lead decay...-
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Published: 01 Feb 2006
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RB 2007/00002 Commonwealth Hill magnetic anomaly, north-western Gawler Craton: an interpretation and results of zircon LA-ICPMS U-Pb dating.
High precision geochronological analyses of metamorphic and inherited magmatic zircon grains, which were obtained from stored percussion drillhole samples of a garnet gneiss that occurs within the Commonwealth Hill magnetic anomaly, north-western...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2007
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RB 2010/00015 Constraints on the timing of brittle faulting at [the] Challenger Mine.
The orebody at the Challenger gold mine shows remarkable down-plunge continuity, from the surface to some 1400 m vertical depth, which is geometrically equivalent to a down-plunge length of ~2800 m. However, at ~220 RL within the mine, the orebody is...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2010
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Heartbreak Bore (part of Afmeco's Tarcoola Joint Venture Project). Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/1/1980 to 15/1/1982.
Portions of regional airborne radiometric and magnetic surveys, plus a small part of the HW-IV seismic refraction traverse, and 20 line km of gravity and ground magnetic surveys, were undertaken by joint venture operator Afmeco as part of its Project...-
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