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RB 82/00035 Preliminary investigation into the applicability of gamma ray spectrometry in regional geological mapping of the Gawler Craton.
Applicability of radiometrics and the portable gamma ray spectrometer was tested over parts of the southern Gawler Craton. Use of total count and separate counts for potassium, uranium and thorium helped to distinguish lithologies e.g. to locate...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1982
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Brimpton Lake. Data release made in lieu of submitting a second partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal : annual reports for the period 22/10/2001 to 21/10/2004.
Following the farm-in of Anglo American Exploration to this tenement in March 2003, new activity has focussed on the rapid definition of drilling targets in a search for possible Archaean basement volcanic or sediment-hosted base metal massive...-
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Published: 21 Oct 1904
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Hope. Annual reports for the period 12/4/2002 to 14/3/2019.
Exploration of an area located on western Eyre Peninsula between Sheringa and Mount Hope is continuing, with the intent of discovering economic buried base and precious metal deposits of volcanogenic sediment-hosted massive sulphide (VHMS) style...-
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The Western Eyre Peninsula JV Project. Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial surrender report for EL 2662, and a final report at the surrender of EL 2711: joint annual reports for the period 26/8/1994 to 11/4/2002.
A high amplitude, linear N-S trending magnetic feature, dubbed the Coffin Bay Magnetic Anomaly, and the recognition of basement lithologies analogous to those of metallogenically prospective late Archaean terranes in Canada, were the impetus for...-
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Published: 17 Jun 1902
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Buckleboo (part of the Buckleboo Project). Combined first annual/final report at licence full surrender, for the period 7/1/2014 to 20/2/2015.
A very small area located ~25 km north-west of Kimba has been explored for possible economic buried base and precious metal mineralisation that may have formed within Archaean metasedimentary bedrock and be related to younger igneous intrusions....-
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Menninnie Dam (part of the Fleurieu - Menninnie Dam Exploration Joint Venture Project). Combined annual report for the 5-year period 24/9/2005 to 26/10/2010, plus annual reports for the period 27/10/2010 to 26/10/2012.
During the 5-year period 2005-2010, intensified exploration undertaken at Menninnie Dam was focussed on the discovery and delineation of structurally controlled hydrothermal Pb-Zn-Ag mineralisation. Carbonate-rich Hutchison Group metasediments forming...-
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Wilcherry Hill. Drilling at the Weednanna Au-Fe deposit, an exploration model for gold deposits formed in the southern Gawler Craton. Collaborative drilling and research final report, Project ADI RD02-265 [Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2022].
Between 8 August and 6 October 2021, six inclined, rotary mud precollared diamond cored holes (21WDDH001 to 006) totalling 1560.6 m were drilled at the Weednanna gold and iron deposit located ~40 km north of Kimba on northern Eyre Peninsula, as part...-
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PACE Copper Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 9 partnership DPY9-11, Thurlga Ramp, northern edge of Cleve Domain, volcanic epithermal / hydrothermal replacement type precious metal prospects. Drilling final report.
A licence area, which lies adjacent on the west to Investigator Resources' Peterlumbo Hill EL 5368 containing the Paris silver deposit (where there is a currently inferred resource of 42 Moz @ 139 ppm Ag), is being explored under a joint venture with...-
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Mount Hope, Moorlands and Brimpton Lake (the Mount Hope Project). Joint annual reports and joint final report to licences' respective expiry/full surrender, for the period 24/5/2005 to 4/6/2010.
Monax Mining has been exploring the subsurface geology of three licences in the Mount Hope region of south-western Eyre Peninsula, seeking possible economic komatiite - hosted nickel deposits and also any felsic volcanic sediment - hosted massive...-
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Published: 27 Oct 1910
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Tungketta Hill. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 7/3/2007 to 9/6/2015.
An area centred ~25km south-east of Elliston on south-western Eyre Peninsula and which abuts the coast of the Great Australian Bight has been explored for possible buried economic occurrences of Archaean igneous intrusive body - related nickel...-
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Pinkawillinie (part of the Buckleboo Project). Combined first annual/final report at licence full surrender, for the period 1/5/2014 to 20/2/2015.
A small area comprising two separate sub-blocks respectively located ~35 km and ~85 km west-northwest of Kimba has been explored for possible economic buried base and precious metal mineralisation that may have formed within Archaean metasedimentary...-
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Karanda. First annual report plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/6/2013 to 12/6/2015.
A small area centred ~50 km west-southwest of Kimba has been explored for possible buried base metal mineralisation, including BIF type iron ore, and also for gold and perhaps palaeochannel style uranium, that may have formed within or close to...-
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Published: 12 Aug 1915
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RB 2004/00025 Beryl in South Australia
Gem-quality varieties of beryl occur rarely in South Australia and exist in insufficient quantities to be of current economic interest. Non-gem grade beryl, by contrast, is a widespread accessory mineral in many pegmatites of South Australia, but, at...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2004
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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 2001/00006 Reconnaissance sampling of basement rocks of the Gawler Craton, South Australia, for dimension stone.
Eighty-five sites of crystalline basement rocks on the Gawler Craton were inspected to determine which lithological or stratigraphical units have potential for use as dimension stone. The Gawler Craton contains a variety of rock types including...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2000
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RB 2001/00007 Lincoln bedrock drilling program, southern Eyre Peninsula.
Detailed airborne magnetic survey data which have recently been acquired over the southern Eyre Peninsula reveal a sequence of north-south, magnetically contrasting tectonic domains, separated by major north-south to northeast-southwest aligned shear...-
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Published: 01 Jul 2001
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RB 2017/00046 Koongawa Grey dimension stone deposit geological investigations: evaluation of gneiss on ML 6426 for use as dimension stone.
The Resource Assessment and Advice (RAA) team of the Geological Survey of South Australia (GSSA) was approached by John Chesini of Chesini House Pty Ltd to provide feedback as to the suitability of stone within Mining Lease (ML) 6426 for the purpose...-
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Published: 01 Feb 2018
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RB 2016/00024 Mineral Systems Drilling Program Rock Shack - [a pictorial catalogue of the] outcrop sample collection for the MSDP southern Gawler Ranges margin.
Between July 2015 and April 2016, the Geological Survey of South Australia, in collaboration with the Deep Exploration Technologies Cooperative Research Centre (DET CRC), Minotaur Exploration Limited and Kingston Resources Limited, carried out a...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2016
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RB 2012/00017 Transpression and lower crustal extrusion: a transect across the Paleoproterozoic Kalinjala Shear System in the south-eastern Gawler Craton.
The Gawler Craton preserves a tectonic history spanning the interval c. 3200 – 1400 Ma, and its evolution is dominated by Neoarchean to Mesoproterozoic tectonic events. Prior to the Jurassic-Cretaceous breakup of Australia and Antarctica, the Gawler...-
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Published: 01 Nov 2012
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Moonabie Homestead. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/2/1980 to 19/2/1982.
Exploration in the Moonabie area, located 40 km south-west of Whyalla, was aimed at possible concealed epithermal or Alligator Rivers (NT) type stratabound uranium occurrences within the Lower Proterozoic metasedimentary/metavolcanic sequence....-
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