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Sandstone [north-eastern] JV area (part of the Gawler Joint Venture Project). Data release at project licences' joint partial surrender: annual reports for the period 14/10/2004 to 13/10/2007.
Exploration Licence 3262 Sandstone JV is one of eight ELs forming a project group in the vicinity of Dominion Mining's Challenger gold mine, all of which are presently being explored for satellite gold deposits that may eventually be exploited to feed...-
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Published: 27 May 1908
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Blowout (part of the Gawler Joint Venture Project). Data release made in lieu of submitting a third partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal: progress and annual reports for the period 29/8/1995 to 3/12/2005.
Gold and copper exploration undertaken in an area of almost no outcrop (<1%) in the vicinity of the Challenger gold discovery on the north-western Gawler Craton, where the surface geology is predominantly aeolian sandsheets and pedogenic calcrete...-
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Published: 13 Feb 1906
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Wildingi Claypan (part of the Central Gawler Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 5/10/2005 to 13/1/2015.
Two separate small areas located just north of Comet Outstation, that were originally taken up to explore for possible diamonds and Triassic-Jurassic kimberlite intrusions that could be associated with intensely faulted shallow basement, have also...-
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Published: 19 Dec 1914
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Tarcoola. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 2/6/2003 to 1/6/2008.
Exploration Licence 3089 is located in the central Gawler Craton and is centred near the township of Tarcoola. Continuation of tenure over the same area, from former ELs 1827 and 2510, was renewed by Gravity Capital Ltd on 2/6/2003, and full licence...-
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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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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mulgathing (part of the Gawler JV Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 9/10/1992 to 18/11/2005.
Emerging awareness of the geological similarities between the Archaean of the Yilgarn Craton of Western Australia, with its many known gold deposits, and the Archaean of the Gawler Craton of South Australia, originally led Kevin Wills, Keith Yates and...-
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Published: 13 Jul 1906
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Sandstone [Outstation] (part of the Gawler Joint Venture Project's Central Tenement Block). Data release made in lieu of submitting a second partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal : annual reports for the period 9/9/1994 to 13/10/2004.
An area located 140 km north-west of Tarcoola was taken up to explore for possible economic high grade occurrences of palygorskite clays formed in Tertiary palaeochannels and associated playa lakes. This was a response to a discovery of palygorskite...-
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Published: 11 Jan 1904
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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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Mulgathing (part of the Woomera Iron Ore Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/6/2012 to 21/6/2016.
An area centred about 100 km north-west of Tarcoola has been explored principally for buried economic iron ore formed within Paleoproterozoic BIF strata and also for iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) mineralisation, while the central portion...-
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Published: 29 Jul 1916
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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 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 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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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 2010/00015 Constraints on the timing of brittle faulting at [the] Challenger Mine.
The orebody at the Challenger gold mine shows remarkable down-plunge continuity, from the surface to some 1400 m vertical depth, which is geometrically equivalent to a down-plunge length of ~2800 m. However, at ~220 RL within the mine, the orebody is...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2010
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Mount Christie. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 24/2/1995 to 23/2/2000.
Interest in an area near Mount Christie Siding was stimulated by the 1993 MESA Barton Bedrock Drilling Programme, which detected anomalous gold, chromium, base metals and platinoid metals in layered ultramafics. Initially, tenement-wide calcrete...-
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Published: 10 Aug 1900
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Data release made in lieu of submitting a final report for fully surrendered EL 2735 : Mulgathing, Jumbuck, Sandstone, Mobella, Igy, Blowout and Skye areas. Annual reports plus partial surrender reports, for the period 3/4/1995 to 21/2/2001.
Gold and copper deposited in the desert sand - covered Archaean basement terrain of the north-western Gawler Craton were the targets of exploration within a contiguous group of licences. Calcrete sampling by hand dug holes or vehicle mounted auger...-
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Moonbi. First annual and final report to licence surrender for the period 29/9/2003 to 10/11/2003.
Calcrete sampling under an earlier Exploration Licence (EL 2077) in the Moonbi area, 160 km north-west of Tarcoola, had returned an anomalous gold sample of 13 ppb Au. As part of Dominion's brownfields exploration programme for gold resources to...-
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Challenger - South Australia's first Archaean gold mine.
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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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