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Landsat thematic mapper study of the Yardea Dacite, Gawler Range Volcanics, YARDEA 1:250 000 scale map sheet.
The South Australian Department of Mines and Energy (SADME) commissioned the South Australian Centre for Remote Sensing (SACRS) to undertake a digital analysis of Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) data in an attempt to locate prospective areas for...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 3 partnership DPY3-14, Pernatty Lagoon area (eastern Gawler Craton) IOCG mineral prospects. Project final report.
PACE proposal DPY3-14 aimed to discover a new iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) mineralised magmatic centre, similar to the Olympic Dam setting, within the eastern margin of the Gawler Craton. The Pernatty Lagoon project is located less than...-
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Published: 20 Sep 1906
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Gilles Downs. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal (as part of a larger area), for the period 12/3/1979 to 11/3/1981.
Ongoing diamond exploration by Stockdale over the PORT AUGUSTA 1:250,000 mapsheet area has concentrated on country to the east and south-east of Lake Gilles, where some microdiamonds and kimberlitic indicator minerals were discovered during the period...-
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Published: 18 Mar 1981
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Earea Dam Goldfield. Reports on preliminary drilling programmes and on a geological investigation undertaken over the period January 1988 to January 1989.
TARGET: Possible undiscovered economic gold lodes at the Earea Dam Goldfield, which could form a resource of a size suitable for open pit mining. EXPLORATION: Reconnaissance lode outcrop geochemical sampling, later detailed surface and underground...-
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SADM / Amdel Project 1/1/122 : Geochronology of the younger granites of the Gawler Block and its north-western margin. Progress reports 1-32 for the period 10/7/1969 to 2/3/1982.
A SADM project to attempt to determine the ages of the youngest granites of the Gawler Block, of its north-western margin, and of known subsurface granites in the Officer and Eucla Basins, was initiated with Amdel in July 1969. The project aims to...-
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Gilles Downs (part of the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project). First annual report (prior to start of joint reporting status) for the period 8/7/2005 to 7/7/2006: and final report submitted at licence full surrender, for the succeeding period to 30/7/2015.
A licence area consisting of two separate sub-blocks located on the plains extending to the west of the Middleback Range on north-eastern Eyre Peninsula was taken up to explore for possible economic buried deposits of stratabound magnetite iron ore...-
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Peterlumbo, Botenella Range, Lake Gilles [West], Eurilla Dam, Wilcherry Hill, Uno, Mount Miccollo and Tin Hut Hill (the Wilcherry Hill Project). Joint annual reports for the period 6/6/2002 to 31/10/2008. [Index Part 1 of 2].
Aquila Resources took up ownership of the much previously-explored ground comprising the Wilcherry Hill Project with the intent of exploring for the first time the iron oxide - associated copper-gold & uranium (IOCG-U) mineralisation potential of...-
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Published: 31 Dec 1908
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RB 2005/00007 Lake Gairdner “section 12 determination” – Mineral Potential
The proposed Lake Gairdner 'section 12 determination' area has the potential to host significant mineral deposits. The area lies close to two major geological boundaries; to the immediate north is the Yerda Shear Zone, and to the west, the Yarlbrinda...-
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Published: 01 May 2005
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RB 2012/00014 Age of host rocks at the Chianti Cu-Au prospect, eastern Gawler Craton, from zircon U-Pb geochronology.
The primary aim of the U-Pb geochronology work reported herein was to constrain the age of granites that form the principal host unit to the minor mineralisation and extensive alteration present within the Chianti Cu-Au prospect located in the eastern...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2012
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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 2014/00006 Geology of the Cultana 1:100 000 map sheet (6432).
The revised digital geology map of the Cultana 1:100 000 map sheet and accompanying geological descriptions in this report are the first components of the 2nd edition PORT AUGUSTA 1:250 000 map sheet to be completed. The subject map sheet occupies the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2014
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RB 2016/00025 Geology of the Peltabinna 1:75 000 Special Edition Map Sheet.
The Peltabinna 1:75 000 Map Sheet was produced as part of a mapping program integrated into the Mineral Systems Drilling Program (MSDP) along the southern margin of the Gawler Ranges. The objective of the mapping program was to provide a regional...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2017
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RB 2000/00033 Mineral potential of the proposed Gawler Ranges National Park.
In late 1999, the South Australian Government approved the purchase of 1000 square km of land in, and adjacent to, the Gawler Ranges, for the creation of the Gawler Ranges National Park. This land has significant mineral potential, and has been...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2000
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Lake Ross, Lake Hanson, Kowal and Gosses areas (Glendambo Project). Annual and final reports for the period 18/3/97 to 3/4/2000.
Interpretation of existing geophysical and drillhole data, including core chip re-assaying and petrography, was carried out for four areas located approximately 60 km north-west of Woomera. Interpreted geophysical features of the basement are...-
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Lake Harris. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/9/1996 to 12/9/2000.
The area lying immediately south of lakes Gairdner and Harris was considered prospective for concealed Olympic Dam style Cu-Au mineralisation hosted in Archaean to Mesoproterozoic basement rocks of the Gawler Craton. Acquisition of a regional 1 km x...-
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Kangaroo Bluff. Progress reports to licence full surrender, for the period 27/8/1980 to 16/12/1982.
Following the acquisition and interpretation of a semi-detailed aerial magnetic survey, with ground gravity and magnetic surveys follow-up, 4 aircore/diamond drillholes, totalling 508.5 m, and 78 shallow RAB drill holes, totalling 974 m, were drilled...-
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Published: 27 Jan 1983
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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 1 partnership no. DPY1-24, Canegrass IOCG mineral prospect. Project interim and final reports.
In a search for a new style of economic iron oxide copper - gold mineralisation in the Gawler Craton's Olympic Domain, which is being focussed on prospects mapped along a craton - scale, NW trending late fault in an area 70 km south-east of Woomera,...-
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Published: 20 Oct 1905
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Margoon Dam. Combined first progress / final report to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 23/10/1969 to 22/5/1970.
The possible untested economic base metal potential of a 10 mile long zone of airphoto-interpreted intense hydrothermal alteration of the Gawler Range Volcanics, which follows the Uno Fault near Margoon Dam, was investigated on the ground by sampling...-
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Published: 08 May 1970
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ExpNotes STREAKY BAY: Explanatory Notes STREAKY BAY, SI 53-02.
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ExpNotes YARDEA: Explanatory Notes YARDEA, SI 53-03.
The YARDEA 1:250,000 scale regional geological map area straddles the southern margin of the Gawler Ranges on northern Eyre Peninsula. The only major township within the area is Minnipa, with Kimba and Wudinna both located immediately south of the...-
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