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Archaean Metabasic Diamond Drilling Project.
The Archaean Metabasic Diamond Drilling Project was undertaken by SADME Regional Geology Branch (part of the Geological Survey of South Australia) in two locations within the north-western Gawler Craton. Metasediments in this region include banded...-
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RB 86/00041 Mulgathing Complex.
The Mulgathing Complex, an Archaean metasedimentary sequence with interlayered mafic and possibly acid volcanics, forms the basement of larger part of the northern Gawler Craton. These rocks have been complexly folded, subjected to granulite facies...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1986
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RB 89/00058 Helicopter survey of the geology of the BARTON and TARCOOLA 1:250 000 map sheets.
Isolated outcrops of Archaean to Early Proterozoic basement and Phanerozoic cover were visited by helicopter over BARTON and the western part of TARCOOLA in May 1988. This report summarises the technical and costing aspects of the survey, and...-
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Published: 01 May 1989
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RB 97/00057 Gawler Craton excursion guide - September 21-26, 1997.
This 5-day field excursion was mounted by the GSSA to inform government and industry participants about significant newly identified geological features within the central Gawler Craton which are the subjects of ongoing study. The itinerary chosen...-
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Published: 19 Sep 1997
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RB 89/00075 Geological investigations of the Earea Dam Goldfield, South Australia.
Gold was discovered near Earea Dam 50 km SE of Tarcoola in 1899. Production to date totals 59 237.59 grams of gold bullion from 1869.63 tonnes of ore, with an average head grade of 35.33 g/t gold. Gold-bearing quartz was mined from an east-dipping...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1990
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RB 91/00035 Geological investigations. Lake Labyrinth Goldfield, South Australia.
Production since 1912 totals 5206.4 grams from 146.3 tonnes of ore with average head grade of 35.6 g/t gold bullion. Gold was won from shear zones and ferruginous quartz veins within Archaean Kenella Gneiss. Sub-vertical shear zones and quartz veins...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1991
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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 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 2000/00050 Gawler Craton PIRSA / AGSO / WMC field trip, 28 August - 12 September 2000. Trip itinerary and planned stops field guide.
The subject field excursion performed in August-September 2000 in part mimicked that held by the GSSA during September 1997, but included 6 additional stops programmed for Day 1 (31st August 2000) to examine Archaean geology at the southern tip of...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2000
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RB 2002/00011 Harris Greenstone Domain bedrock drilling, May-August 2001.
The Harris Greenstone Domain bedrock drilling program - Phase 1, carried out during May to August 2001, has determined depths to basement, the basement lithology, and has outlined areas of anomalous gold, nickel and chromium geochemistry within...-
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Published: 01 Jul 2002
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RB 2007/00015 Geochronology of the Gawler Craton, South Australia.
Geochronology enables us to determine the age of rocks and minerals. The variety of isotopic geochronological techniques give complementary information on, for example, the timing of igneous or metamorphic crystallisation, as is often the case for the...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2007
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RB 2022/00009 Zircon SHRIMP U–Pb geochronology on metasedimentary and meta-igneous rocks from the central-western Gawler Craton.
This report presents the results from zircon SHRIMP U–Pb geochronology on seventeen quartzofeldspathic samples from the central-western Gawler Craton. The samples were collected from stratigraphic units mapped as the Archaean to early...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2024
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RB 2009/00016 Compilation of Shrimp U-Pb geochronological data for the Mulgathing Complex, Gawler Craton, South Australia, 2007-2009.
This report book contains SHRIMP zircon U-Pb geochronological data obtained between July 2007 and June 2009, for 10 metasedimentary and meta-igneous rocks from the Mulgathing Complex of the north-estern Gawler Craton. The geochronological study was...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2009
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ExpNotes BARTON: Explanatory Notes BARTON, SH 53-09.
Shallow Precambrian crystalline basement underlies the greater part of the BARTON 1:250 000 map area. Thicker Neoproterozoic, Cambrian and Carboniferous Permian sediments occur in the northwest, with the southern margin bounded by the Karari Fault...-
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