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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Bulgunnia. Annual reports for the period 3/6/1996 to 2/6/1998.
Exploration for possible Challenger - type primary gold deposits formed within buried Archaean basement rocks in a multi-block licence area located roughly mid-way between Tarcoola and Coober Pedy is being conducted under a joint venture agreement...-
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Published: 18 Aug 1998
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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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Muckanippie, Garford, Commonwealth Hill and Mulgathing Hill (part of the Central Gawler Project). Joint annual reports to licences' expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/5/2005 to 19/5/2010.
Tasman Resources' Central Gawler Project acreage, originally comprising seven exploration licences ELs 3339 to 3345, was initially applied for on the basis of perceived prospectivity for diamonds, however, further potential for discovering buried...-
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Garford [Outstation], Indooroopilly Outstation and Half Moon Lake (the Challenger West Project). Joint annual reports and joint final report to licences' respective expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/4/2003 to 13/10/2010.
The three licences comprising the Challenger West Project were taken up principally to explore for economic gold, which could possibly occur in strike extensions of known gold lodes formed within Archaean basement rocks that constitute the Challenger...-
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PACE 2020 Discovery Drilling 2012 : Year 7 Drilling Partnership no. DPY7-04 - Marmota Energy Limited Gawler Craton Project, Moonbi gold target. Drilling project final report.
Indooroopilly Outstation EL 4702 lies within the northern Gawler Craton approximately 170 km south-west of Coober Pedy. It is located in the south-eastern corner of the Tallaringa 1:250,000 geological mapsheet area, and covers an area of approximately...-
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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 2008/00007 Regolith Benchmark Atlas, Gawler Craton, South Australia.
Transported regolith and deeply weathered basement together conceal large tracts of prospective crystalline basement (cratonic and geosynclinal rocks) in South Australia, and such cover forms a major exploration impediment for much of the Gawler...-
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Published: 01 Jun 2008
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RB 2009/00003 Chinese CHIM electrogeochemical method: [results of] field trials [during] 2007, [within] South Australia.
A version of the CHIM electro-geochemical prospecting technique that has been developed at Guilin University, China, was trialled in South Australia during August 2007 in field surveys conducted at the Challenger gold mine, at the Tunkillia gold...-
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Published: 01 Feb 2009
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RB 2013/00020 The South Australian Atlas of Geoscience and Mineral Exploration data - Woomera Prohibited Area within the Gawler Craton.
The Woomera Prohibited Area (WPA) is a military testing range covering ~127,000 square km of the land surface of central South Australia. Underlying it are highly prospective rocks of the Gawler Craton, a major province of the earth's crust which...-
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Published: 01 Nov 2013
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Perfection Well. Data release made at the full surrender of a subsequent licence : progress report and first annual report for the period 7/10/1994 to 6/10/1995.
An area centred ~80 km south of Coober Pedy was taken up to explore for possible buried economic copper-gold mineralisation which might have formed in association with acid volcanism of the Gawler Range Volcanics, because Minotaur's image...-
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Published: 05 Jan 1996
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Jumbuck (Gawler Project Central Tenement Block). Data release made in lieu of submitting a second partial relinquishment report at licence expiry/renewal: annual reports for the period 1/8/1994 to 26/10/2004. [Index 2 of 3].
[ Note - here is only Part 2 of an abstract comprised of 3 separately indexed parts ]. During the third licence year of EL 1971, the joint venturers continued to conduct exploratory drilling of new gold-in-calcrete anomalies that were delineated by...-
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Jumbuck (Gawler Project Central Tenement Block). Data release made in lieu of submitting a second partial relinquishment report at licence expiry/renewal: annual reports for the period 1/8/1994 to 26/10/2004. [Index 3 of 3].
[ Note - here is only Part 3 of an abstract comprised of 3 separately indexed parts ]. During the fifth licence year, infill calcrete sampling performed at the Monsoon SW prospect (96 samples taken at 100 m x 100 m spacing) delineated two high order...-
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Mulgathing. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 28/8/1969 to 27/2/1970.
Continuing exploration of the geochemically anomalous (35-210 ppm Ni) Lower Proterozoic basement rocks previously identified by Kennecott at Blackfellow Hill has consisted of first laying out a 10,000' x 7200' prospect grid, before conducting soil...-
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Mulgathing. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 18/11/1968 to 17/11/1969.
Reconnaissance mapping and sampling of an area of poorly exposed Precambrian crystalline basement north of Kingoonya has shown that the regional geology is dominated by intensely folded, discontinuously outcropping banded iron formations that are...-
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Data release - as updated : McDouall Peak. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 8/10/2007 to 7/10/2022.
Quasar Resources has been exploring a large licence area centred approximately 40 km south-west of the Prominent Hill mine for possible economic buried iron-oxide-copper-gold (IOCG) style mineralisation, epithermal base metal mineralisation of the...-
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Published: 27 Oct 2022
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Commonwealth Hill area (the Eaglehawk Joint Venture Project). Annual reports for the period 22/6/2012 to 21/6/2017.
An area centred ~115 km south-west of Coober Pedy is being explored for possible economic buried precious and/or base metal mineralisation (including iron ore) that may exist in predominantly buried Archaean or younger Proterozoic basement rocks, as...-
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Published: 29 Aug 2017
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Commonwealth Hill. Annual reports to licence expiry/non-renewal, for the period 9/8/2012 to 8/8/2017.
An area centred ~20 km north of the Challenger gold mine has been explored for possible buried primary Challenger type basement gold lodes and also for secondary roll-front style uranium mineralisation that may be hosted in buried Tertiary fluvial...-
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Published: 14 Nov 2015
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Commonwealth Hill Station - East (part of the Commonwealth Hill Project). First partial surrender report, for the period 2/7/2007 to 1/7/2017.
Five small portions of the subject licence, with a combined total area of 143 square km, have been surrendered due to their now perceived diminished prospectivity for iron ore, gold, uranium and base metals. During the period of their tenure,...-
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Published: 04 Dec 2017
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Commonwealth Hill Station - Central (part of the Commonwealth Hill Project). Second partial surrender report, for the period 11/5/2007 to 10/5/2017.
Six separate portions of the subject licence, with a combined total area of 35 square km, have been surrendered due to their now perceived diminished prospectivity for iron ore, gold, uranium, PGEs and base metals. During the period of their tenure,...-
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Published: 04 Dec 2017
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Warrior (part of the Central Gawler Project). Annual reports for the period 17/2/2010 to 20/6/2015.
During the sixth licence year, in February 2011, new licence owner Marmota Energy Limited ('Marmota') undertook a reconnaissance biogeochemical survey at the Pundinya prospect, collecting 54 x 30 g grab samples of vegetation of Mulga trees, in the...-
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Published: 06 Oct 2015
