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Landsat thematic mapper study of the Yardea Dacite, Gawler Range Volcanics, YARDEA 1:250 000 scale map sheet.
The South Australian Department of Mines and Energy (SADME) commissioned the South Australian Centre for Remote Sensing (SACRS) to undertake a digital analysis of Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) data in an attempt to locate prospective areas for...-
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RB 99/00013 Glass shards in the Gawler Range Volcanics, Gawler Ranges, South Australia.
The Gawler Range Volcanics outcrop extensively across the central part of the Gawler Craton. They form a Mesoproterozoic volcanic complex made up of many ash flows, ignimbrites, lava flows and air-fall tuffs. This report is a compilation of...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1999
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RB 89/00070 Gawler Ranges Excursion, October 7th-9th, 1989.
Summarises the chemical classification and macroscopic visual attributes of basement igneous rocks seen in outcrop within the regional geological settings of northern Eyre Peninsula and the Gawler Ranges.-
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Published: 01 Sep 1989
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RB 96/00024 Gawler Ranges drilling report 1994.
The Mesoproterozoic Gawler Range Volcanics - Hiltaba Granite Suite - related Olympic Dam style Cu-U-Au mineralisation, and Menninnie Dam replacement style Pb-Zn-Ag mineralisation, have served to raise the prospectivity of rocks in and underlying the...-
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Published: 12 Sep 1996
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Bond Hill. Annual reports to licence surrender for the period 17/5/2002 to 3/6/2005.
An area located between Lakes Acraman and Gairdner was taken up to explore for possible buried iron oxide - associated copper-gold deposits hosted by subcropping basement rocks of the Gawler Range Volcanics (GRV). The licensee had noted a lack of...-
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Published: 14 Apr 1905
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Kolendo. First annual and final report to licence expiry for the period 10/3/2004 to 9/3/2005.
Gawler Range Volcanics outcrop and subcrop near some NW-SE trending regional magnetic lineaments passing south-east of Lake Gairdner, were investigated for possible shear-related epithermal / hydrothermal gold occurrences. Limited rock chip and soil...-
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Scrubby Hill. First partial surrender report for the period 19/4/2007 to 18/4/2009.
An area located approximately 110 km north of Kimba, on the eastern margin of Lake Gairdner, is being explored for possible buried iron oxide - associated copper-gold±uranium (IOCG-U) mineralisation formed within the Mesoproterozoic or older basement...-
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Published: 04 Sep 1909
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Wipipippee Hill. First partial surrender report, for the period 3/5/2012 to 2/5/2016.
Two separate blocks of ground in the centre and the east of EL 4865, together comprising ~43% of the original area of the licence, have now been relinquished. To date, exploration work undertaken generally on the licence has focused on data...-
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Tanner Dam. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/6/1996 to 15/10/2002.
The Tanner Dam Project was acquired to explore for concealed structural-related gold mineralisation, and Olympic Dam / Mount Leyshon - type hydrothermal or epigenetic base metal deposits, both associated with Gawler Range Volcanics and Hiltaba Suite...-
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Published: 16 Jan 1903
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SADME/Amdel Project 1/1/144 : "Stratigraphy and petrology of the Gawler Range Volcanics". Progress reports 1 to 20 for the period 17/4/1972 to 24/11/1983.
This dataset presents the observations and interpretive results of a project aiming to define and classify the complex suite of volcanic rocks found outcropping within the Gawler Ranges, as a corollary to regional geological mapping by the SA...-
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Published: 24 Nov 1983
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Nonning (latterly part of Terramin's Menninnie Zinc Project). Annual reports for the period 30/3/2006 to 30/11/2012.
An area centred ~70 km north of Kimba, which also lies about 7 km north of the Menninnie Dam lead-zinc-silver deposit, was taken up to explore for possible buried economic volcanic epithermal/hydrothermal Mesoproterozoic Fe-rich Cu-Au mineralisation...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Mount Kolendo [not "Taringa"] (part of the Menninnie Zinc Project). Annual reports for the period 21/2/2011 to 20/2/2013.
An area located adjacent to the southern margin of the Gawler Ranges, that includes some exposures of Mesoproterozoic Gawler Range Volcanics (GRV), and which at its southern boundary lies approximately 15 km north-east of the Menninnie Dam Pb-Zn-Ag...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Gairdner - Unalla Hill (part of the Mount Ive Project). Annual reports for the period 7/6/2013 to 6/6/2015.
A licence consisting of three separate small sub-blocks located on the northern part of Mount Ive Station is being explored primarily for buried economic, basement hosted and structurally controlled hydrothermal Ag-Zn-Pb and epithermal Au-Ag-(Cu) vein...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Tanner (part of the Mount Ive Project). First annual report for the period 01/8/2014 to 31/7/2015.
A licence area centred on Tanners Dam which is located ~26 km south-west of Lake Gairdner is being explored primarily for buried economic, basement hosted and structurally controlled hydrothermal Ag-Zn-Pb and epithermal Au-Ag-(Cu) vein style...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Thurlga. First annual report for the period 28/11/2014 to 27/11/2015.
A large area of the southern Gawler Ranges comprising two separate sub-blocks has been taken up to allow Menninnie Metals to conduct further regional exploration to try to delineate structurally controlled hydrothermal Ag-Zn-Pb and epithermal...-
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Fiddle Hill. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 4/9/1980 to 3/9/1982.
TARGET: Olympic Dam style Cu-Au-U mineralisation lying on a linear gravity feature extending south of Lake Macfarlane, which has associated magnetic discontinuities; unconformity - related sedimentary U at the Pandurra Formation/Gawler Range Volcanics...-
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Garden Well. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 1/2/91 to 2/7/91.
TARGET: Mid-Proterozoic acid volcanic - hosted copper mineralisation in the Moonaree area of the Gawler Ranges, 120 km south-southeast of Kingoonya. EXPLORATION: Elevated base metal geochemical anomalies identified on the north-west flank of the...-
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Published: 15 Jul 1991
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Kangaroo Bluff (Lake Gairdner area). Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/8/1984 to 5/9/1985.
In a search for possible epithermal or sedimentary uranium deposits, plus any base metal mineralisation, in an area located east of Lake Gairdner and approximately 70 km south-west of Woomera, the licensee acquired a 6240 line km airborne...-
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Charba Hill, Peltabinna Hill and Unalla Hill. Joint progress reports plus joint final report to licence full surrender, for the period 22/12/1989 to 14/11/1990.
TARGET: Possible epithermal gold and base metal deposits associated with volcanic centres; related hydrothermal alteration deposits; and diamonds. EXPLORATION: Regional and follow-up geochemical sampling (gravel, stream sediment and rock chip, plus...-
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Published: 10 Dec 1990
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Kolendo, Taringa, Nonning, Wipipippee and Menninnie Dam (the Menninnie Project). Joint annual reports for the period 1/1/2013 to 31/12/2016.
The Menninnie JV Project area consists of five contiguous exploration licences, and is considered prospective for Pb-Zn-Ag-Cu-Au-Mo-U deposits associated with past epithermal, porphyry, IOCG and skarn - forming geological environments. It lies in a...-
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