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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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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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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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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 2 partnership DPY2-45, Old Well and New Well shear-associated gold mineral prospects. Project final report.
The Yarlbrinda and Yerda Shear Zones of the central Gawler Craton, partly present within EL 3107 in the Tarcoola-Glenloth-Lake Harris region, were the target for a number of mineral exploratory drillholes put down there by by licence farminee Minotaur...-
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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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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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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 2003/00017 Gawler Craton 2003. State of play - The Excursion.
Following on from the highly successful Gawler Craton - State of Play 2002 conference held by PIRSA in Adelaide in December 2002, the Gawler Craton Team of PIRSA's Geological Survey Branch has recently undertaken a major excursion across the craton....-
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Published: 01 Sep 2003
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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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Mount Christie [part of the Barton Project]. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 5/6/1995 to 4/6/2000.
Calcrete sampling over aeromagnetic targets within the Fowler Shear Zone was undertaken, to locate evidence of possible Cu-Au mineralisation developed during emplacement of Hiltaba Suite granites south and south-west of Wynbring. Weakly anomalous Au...-
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Published: 16 Aug 1900
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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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RB 2007/00015 Geochronology of the Gawler Craton, South Australia.
Geochronology enables us to determine the age of rocks and minerals. The variety of isotopic geochronological techniques give complementary information on, for example, the timing of igneous or metamorphic crystallisation, as is often the case for the...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2007
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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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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
