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Glenloth Well. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/3/1973 to 29/3/1974.
Two inclined percussion holes were drilled at the Mount Mitchell tin prospect for a total penetration of 504 feet. The aim was to test a discrepancy between subsurface sample negative tin assay results obtained by the Department of Mines, and good...-
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Published: 21 Feb 1974
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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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Wynbring [Siding]. Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial surrender report upon licence expiry/renewal : annual reports for the period 30/8/2004 to 29/8/2009.
An area located approximately 160 km north-northwest of Ceduna is being explored for possible economic nickel-copper-platinum group metal magmatic mineral deposits, which may have formed within Archaean to Proterozoic basement rocks in a geological...-
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Lake Labyrinth (part of the Gawler Joint Venture Project). Data release made at the surrender of a subsequently renewed licence (EL 3252) : annual reports for the period 27/7/1994 to 26/7/1999.
Exploration for possible economic buried magmatic/epithermal/hydrothermal/metamorphic gold and copper deposits, which may have formed within Archaean and Proterozoic basement rocks in an area located approximately 24 km north-west of Kingoonya,...-
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Ferguson [Siding]. Data release made in lieu of submitting a third partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal: annual reports for the period 6/9/2000 to 5/9/2005.
Exploration of an area located about 50 km west of Kingoonya, looking for possible Archaean to Proterozoic mafic intrusive and shear-related economic gold and base metal mineralisation, has lately been hampered financially by the exit of Mount Isa...-
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Published: 09 Sep 1905
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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 2 partnership no. DPY2-40, Soyuz gold / copper-gold mineral prospect. Project final report.
Previous exploratory work by Grenfell Resources and Gravity Capital at the Soyuz prospect in the Carnding area, located approximately 25 km west-northwest of Tarcoola, has included ground magnetic, gravity and soil sampling programmes that defined a...-
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Published: 15 Jun 1906
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Bulgunnia, Gosse and Kingoonya (the Mentor Project). Data release made at the surrender of subsequent licences : annual reports for the period 27/10/1992 to 15/11/1997. [Index entry Part 1 of 2 - a very long abstract is split between these two parts].
The Gawler Joint Venture partners (Dominion Mining and Resolute Resources) have been exploring three near-contiguous areas located in the north of the Tarcoola - Kingoonya district, seeking possible economic concealed epithermal/mesothermal...-
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Tarcoola - Mount Finke area. Progress reports and annual reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 1/6/1992 to 10/8/2002.
Buried Archaean Mulgathing Complex rocks, comprising metamafics, ultramafics, granites, mafic gneisses and possible greenstones, were the target host for gold, copper and nickel mineralisation in the Mount Finke - Malbooma area, south-west from...-
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Published: 26 Mar 1903
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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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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : the Tarcoola and Theseus Projects. Joint annual reports for the period 31/5/2010 to 31/12/2014.
A large part of the Harris Greenstone Domain basement tectonostratigraphic block, extending from 10 km to 130 km west of Kingoonya, is being explored for possible buried economic gold, nickel and other base metal mineralisation which may be associated...-
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Malbooma. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/9/1987 to 13/3/1990.
TARGET: Gold in Lower Proterozoic rocks of the Tarcoola Formation and part of the Mulgathing Complex, possibly as a metamorphosed equivalent of the high grade gold orebodies of The Granites (Tanami Desert, NT). EXPLORATION: Interpretation of aerial...-
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Lake Labyrinth. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/2/2010 to 1/2/2012.
Exploration for possible Proterozoic basement-hosted mesothermal gold mineralisation in rocks bounding the Labyrinth Shear Zone, 18 km north-west of Kingoonya, has consisted only of the acquisition of an airborne magnetic/radiometric survey (4847 line...-
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Published: 21 Mar 1912
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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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Mount Christie [part of the Barton Project]. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 5/6/1995 to 4/6/2000.
Calcrete sampling over aeromagnetic targets within the Fowler Shear Zone was undertaken, to locate evidence of possible Cu-Au mineralisation developed during emplacement of Hiltaba Suite granites south and south-west of Wynbring. Weakly anomalous Au...-
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Published: 16 Aug 1900
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Lake Labyrinth (part of the Gawler and the Labyrinth Joint Venture Projects). Data release at second partial relinquishment : project licences' combined annual reports for the period 27/8/1999 to 28/9/2008.
In a continuation of exploration for economic deposits of gold and base metal mineralisation in the Lake Labyrith area, joint venture operator MIM Exploration carried out a proprietary 'MIMDAS' geophysical survey (utilising combined dipole-dipole IP...-
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Published: 18 Mar 1909
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Talia Hill. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/9/2001 to 25/6/2009.
During the late 1990s, company exploratory drilling of the Harris Greenstone Belt in the central Gawler Craton, south of Tarcoola, revealed a package of previously unknown, shallowly buried komatiite lava beds with a strike length in excess of 350 km...-
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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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Wynbring [part of the Barton Project]. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/6/1995 To 12/6/2000.
Calcrete sampling over aeromagnetic targets within the Fowler Shear Zone was undertaken to locate evidence of possible Cu-Au mineralisation, developed during emplacement of Hiltaba Suite granites south and south-west of Wynbring. Weakly anomalous Au...-
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Published: 16 Aug 1900
