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RB 2005/00008 Age, Origin and Emplacement of the Oodla Wirra Volcanics
A field mapping project was set up by PIRSA to investigate the age, origin and emplacement history of newly discovered [by Goldstream Mining NL on EL 2222] volcanic rocks within the Mount Grainger Anticline, close to the town of Oodla Wirra. Outcrop...-
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Published: 01 Jun 2005
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RB 2003/00004 Regolith studies at Edoldeh Tank (ET) gold prospect, Gawler Craton, South Australia.
Much of the Gawler Craton (in South Australia) is covered with soil and other regolith materials that hide basement rocks and hinder mineral exploration. In the western parts of the Gawler Craton, for example, weathered basement rocks are covered by...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2003
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RB 2004/00003 Mineral and Petroleum prospectivity analysis of the proposed Square Kilometre Radiotelescope Array (SKA) site, Murnpeowie Station, South Australia
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a proposed radiotelescope receiver network that, when constructed, will have an effective collection area of one square kilometre, making it up to 100 times more sensitive than any present-day instrument on Earth....-
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Published: 01 Apr 2004
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RB 2006/00023 Chinese electrogeochemical CHIM method: Field Trials 2005, South Australia
A version of the Russian-invented CHIM electro-geochemical prospecting technique, which has lately been developed at Guilin University, China, was trialled in field surveys conducted at the Challenger gold mine, and at the Kalkaroo Cu-Au-Mo and Goulds...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2006
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RB 2006/00020 Compilation of SHRIMP U-Pb geochronological data for the Gawler Craton, South Australia, 2006
This report book contains zircon - derived U-Pb geochronological data, which was obtained between January 2005 and April 2006, for basement rock samples taken from the Gawler Craton of South Australia. The data has been generated as part of the...-
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Published: 01 Nov 2006
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RB 2006/00019 Previous exploration and mineral potential of ELA 2002/00154
ELA 2002/00154 is made up of three geographically separate sub-areas aligned in a north-easterly direction along the Bulgunnia Shear Zone. Neither the northern nor the central sub-areas have any basement rock outcrop, with the depth of younger cover...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2006
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RB 2006/00003 Data Metallogenica [the collection] as a predictive exploration aid : [report on its] targeted upgrading in support of the SA Government's Plan for Accelerating Exploration.
Data Metallogenica (DM) is a knowledge base of the world's mineral (especially metallic mineral) deposits that relies on a library collection of comprehensive sets of miniaturized rock / ore samples, permanently cemented to approximately A4 page-size...-
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Published: 01 May 2005
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RB 2006/00009 Regolith studies at the Boomerang Gold Prospect, Central Gawler Craton, South Australia
The Boomerang gold prospect is located 650 km north-west of Adelaide in undifferentiated Proterozoic rocks incorporated within Archaean Harris Greenstone Belt mafic lithologies of the Gawler Craton. The prospect was originally discovered using...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2006
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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 2006/00001 Guide to the sedimentary cover of the central Gawler Craton, South Australia
The central Gawler Craton is blanketed by thin sedimentary cover that ranges in age from Neoproterozoic to Quaternary. Locally, though, such cover can reach a maximum of ~500 m thickness in Permian glacial valleys or rift structures. This guide...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2006
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RB 2006/00008 Proterozoic geology of islands in southern Spencer Gulf, southern Gawler Craton
An emplacement age of 1497 ± 38 Ma for the felsic Spilsby Suite exposed on islands in southern Spencer Gulf is anomalously young with respect to magmatism elsewhere within the Gawler Craton, and is approximately 75 to 90 million years younger than the...-
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Published: 01 Jun 2006
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RB 2003/00030 Hydrogeochemical assessment of the Musgrave Block.
The results of a 1982 State-wide hydrogeochemical survey showed the Musgrave Block to be anomalous and potentially mineralised. In 1997 a groundwater quality survey was undertaken for the remote communities in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Lands. Water...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2003
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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 2007/00004 Director of Mines' Exploration Licence Application 383 (Sleaford Bay). Report of results.
This report presents the results of exploration on the Director of Mines E.L.A. 383 at Sleaford Bay during November, 2006. A number of samples of Carnot Gneiss, Hutchison Group and Donington Suite granitoids were collected from coastal exposures at...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2007
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RB 2007/00003 Petrology of selected kimberlite and related rocks in South Australia - Volume 1.
Detailed petrological descriptions of 16 surface and near surface samples of intrusive ?igneous rocks obtained from nine localities spread around Terowie, Eurelia and Bangor have shown that they are intensely altered and weathered, making confirmation...-
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Published: 01 Feb 2007
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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 2003/00018 Mineral prospectivity of [the] Yellabinna region, western Gawler Craton, South Australia.
An assessment of the mineral prospectivity of the Yellabinna Region in the far west of South Australia has been prepared to assist in discussing with the Department for Environment and Heritage the development of conservation strategies. The...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2003
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RB 2003/00020 MANN map sheet bedrock drilling program.
After two years of negotiation with traditional owners and the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Land Council, the Geological Survey Branch of PIRSA's Minerals, Petroleum and Energy Division (MPE) commenced stratigraphic drilling on the 15th May 2002, in the...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2003
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RB 2003/00021 Musgrave Province - Geological summary and exploration history.
The Musgrave Province is largely incorporated within the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Lands and includes cratonic crystalline middle Proterozoic basement rocks of the Musgrave Province proper, as well as mantling younger sedimentary rock successions...-
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Published: 01 Nov 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