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Mount Gunson - Pernatty. Quarterly reports and annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/2/1987 to 15/4/1994.
Ongoing copper exploration in the Mount Gunson area was directed primarily at locating economic stratiform mineralisation in the Tapley Hill Formation, which overlies Pandurra Formation and the associated Cattlegrid orebody. New work comprised...-
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Gosse and Kingoonya (part of the Mentor Project, and later the Kingoonya Project). Data release made at joint partial relinquishment upon licences' expiry/renewal: annual reports for the period 3/12/1997 to 28/9/2008. [Index Part 2 of 2].
In continuing exploration carried out by Mount Isa Mines Exploration (MIM) during 1998 on EL 1792 / 2467 Gosse and EL 1798 / 2466 Kingoonya, additional calcrete sampling and RC drilling (25 holes for 1590 m total penetration) took place at four...-
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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 Hill. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/9/1996 to 26/9/1997.
Mulgathing Complex and Hiltaba Suite rocks were interpreted from aeromagnetic data obtained in areas located 10 km north of, 70 km south-east of, and 35 km south of Tarcoola. Calcrete sampling was followed by RAB drilling (178 holes, total 5047 m)...-
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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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Unlocking South Australia's Mineral and Energy Potential - A Plan for Accelerating Exploration. Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry) : Year 1 partnership no. DPY1-13, Gemini mineral prospect. Project final report.
The Mount Woods South Joint Venture (Adelaide Resources Ltd and Perilya Ltd) successfully made application for a share of the SA Government's PACE Initiative funding in 2004 to test geophysical anomalies located on EL 2901 which were defined by...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Acropolis South and North Roxby. Joint annual reports for the period 26/4/2003 to 3/5/2009.
Exploration for possible economic deposits of buried, Mesoproterozoic basement-hosted IOCG-U style mineralisation is being conducted over two separate multiple-block licence areas in the Olympic Dam district, EL 2931 (Acropolis South) and EL 2932...-
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PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 8 partnership DPY8-12 - Corunna Station, north-eastern Eyre Peninsula, structurally controlled Mesoproterozoic epithermal Ag-Au and base metal prospects. Drilling final report.
Musgrave Minerals Ltd (MGV) is the holder of the subject EL 5497 Corunna North, located in the southern Gawler Ranges approximately 65 km west of Port Augusta and 10 km north of Iron Knob, where it is exploring for economic base and precious metal...-
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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] : 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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PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 8 partnership DPY8-01 - Nuckulla Hill Project, western Gawler Ranges, Mesoproterozoic shear-hosted gold-silver mineral prospects. Drilling project final report.
The Nuckulla Hill Project tenements are located within the Central Gawler Gold Province, and cover approximately 60 km extent of the Yarlbrinda Shear Zone (YSZ), from a northernmost point that is approximately 36 km south of the Tunkillia gold-silver...-
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Lake Labyrinth (part of the Tarcoola Joint Venture Project). Second and third partial surrender reports, for the period 31/10/2001 to 8/2/2009.
Exploration for possible buried epithermal or hydrothermal gold deposits within the large variety of Archaean, Palaeoproterozoic and Mesoproterozoic basement rocks present in an area located from 20-30 km east of Tarcoola has targeted the potential of...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Pernatty Lagoon [East]. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 27/6/1997 to 26/6/2002.
An area of the Stuart Shelf located between Pernatty Lagoon and the Beda Arm of Lake Torrens, with its western boundary lying 15 km east of the historic Mount Gunson copper mining field, is being explored for possible economic basement-hosted IOCG...-
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PACE 2020 Discovery Drilling 2012: Year 7 Drilling Partnership DPY7-11 - Renaissance Uranium Ltd, Tanner Dam Project, Gawler Range Volcanics - hosted primary uranium mineralisation, magnetic anomaly targets. Drilling project interim and final reports.
In execution of Renaissance Uranium's approved PACE 2020 Discovery Drilling 2012 project designated DPY7-11, which was partly subsidised by DMITRE to assist in company high-risk high-reward mineral exploration within South Australia, 2 exploratory RC...-
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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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Tanner Dam North. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 22/11/2012 to 26/2/2014.
An area centred approximately 130 km north-northwest of Kimba has been explored for possible economic primary uranium mineralisation, where the principal target is the igneous rock succession of Mesoproterozoic Gawler Range Volcanics (GRV) and...-
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Tanner [Dam]. First annual report plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/12/2011 to 20/12/2013.
An area centred approximately 120 km north-northwest of Kimba has been explored for possible economic primary uranium mineralisation, where the principal target is the igneous rock succession of Mesoproterozoic Gawler Range Volcanics (GRV) and...-
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RB 2001/00005 Reconnaissance sampling of Gawler Range Volcanics for use in the porphyry industry.
The Gawler Range Volcanics are an extensive series of subaerial felsic lavas and ignimbrites, which crop out on the central Gawler Craton. Twenty seven sites within the southern Gawler Range Volcanics were inspected to determine their potential to...-
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Jubilee Dam (part of the Equinox JV Nuckulla Hill Project). Annual reports and progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 8/1/1996 to 7/1/2001.
Ernest Henry / Olympic Dam style Cu-Au mineralisation hosted by Mesoproterozoic Gawler Range Volcanics and Hiltaba Suite granites was the target of exploration in an area situated immediately south of Lake Everard. Regional calcrete, soil, rock chip...-
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Eileen Bore and Cedric Bore (part of Bulgunnia copper-gold project). Annual and final surrender report for the period 10/5/2002 to 14/4/2003.
A review of available geological and geophysical data from an area 40 km north of Tarcoola identified a large coincident gravity-magnetic feature located close to a drill intersection of massive to brecciated magnetite, this being indicative of...-
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