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RB 2019/00025 Gold mineral systems and exploration strategies for [finding them within] the Gawler Craton, South Australia
Previous classification of gold deposits in the Gawler Craton grouped occurrences into either Archean orogenic deposits, or intrusion-related deposits associated with the Hiltaba Suite intrusive event (Central Gawler Gold Province). In this study, the...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2022
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Lake Everard West (part of the Gawler Craton Joint Venture, and latterly part of the Tunkillia JV Project). Annual & surrender reports for the period 7/6/1996 to 18/05/2021.
An area with poor basement outcrop located approximately 60 km south of Tarcoola, which largely lies within the north-eastern corner of the Yellabinna Regional Reserve, is being explored primarily for possible economic fault or breccia-hosted...-
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Fowlers Bay North. Annual report plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 4/8/2008 to 3/8/2010.
Within an area located approximately 110 km north-west of Ceduna, exploration has primarily been directed at assessing the heavy mineral sands potential of Tertiary Eucla Basin shoreline sediments, with an additional objective of determining the base...-
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Published: 31 May 1911
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Yellabinna. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/5/2005 to 10/10/2013.
An area with poor basement outcrop located approximately 110 km north-east of Ceduna and 40 km south-west of Tarcoola, which lies wholly within the eastern part of the Yellabinna Regional Reserve, is being explored primarily for possible economic...-
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Published: 28 Oct 1913
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RB 2006/00004 Crustal evolution of the Gawler Craton, South Australia: Application of the TerraneChron technique to detrital zircon from modern stream sediments.
This report presents the results of a Terranechron [registered brand name for this proprietary technique] study of detrital zircons from modern stream sediments of the Gawler Craton. The Terranechron approach involves obtaining uranium - lead decay...-
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Published: 01 Feb 2006
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RB 2006/00005 The Southern Australian Archaean-Proterozoic Synthesis: Developing tectonic frameworks to assist mineral exploration. Abstract volume.
Includes abstracts with the following titles: 1) How magnetotellurics (MT) works, and an overview of new central Australian MT results (Kate Selway) 2) Latest MT traverse results: western Gawler Craton (Stephan Thiel) 3) A constrained 3D...-
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Published: 01 Feb 2006
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RB 2007/00008 CHILDARA, South Australia, [geological map] sheet SH53-14. South Australia. Geological Survey. 1:250 000 Series - Explanatory Notes.
The CHILDARA 1:250 000 map area is located on the western Gawler Craton, an ancient crystalline shield comprising Archaean, Palaeoproterozoic and Mesoproterozoic metasediments, volcanics and granites that has been tectonically stable since 1450 Ma...-
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Published: 01 May 2007
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RB 2001/00004 CHILDARA bedrock drilling program.
Fifty-eight shallow aircore holes totalling 2140.5 m were drilled by PIRSA's Mineral Resources Group in the Ceduna area during November 1999 to as part of a programme designed to assist regional mapping and geological interpretation of the CHILDARA...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2001
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RB 2015/00014 Chief Government Geologists' excursion, 2015.
This report contains the excursion guide for the field trip which was held as part of the Chief Government Geologists' Meeting convened in South Australia on 23rd and 24th March 2015. The focus of the field trip was to see rocks of the Gawler Range...-
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Published: 01 May 2015
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RB 2016/00010 U-Pb geochronological data from drill holes Nundroo 3 DDH and Nundroo 2 DDH, Fowler Domain, western Gawler Craton.
This report details newly acquired Sensitive High Resolution Ion Microprobe (SHRIMP) U-Pb isotopic data for three samples from two drill holes in the Fowler Domain of the western Gawler Craton. During the late 1980s,stratigraphic drilling done by the...-
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Published: 01 Jul 2016
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RB 2012/00013 Reconnaissance LA-ICPMS zircon U-Pb geochronology of crystalline basement outcrops on the FOWLER 1:250 000 mapsheet.
Zircon crystals found in eleven samples of granitic to gneissic rocks collected from the FOWLER 1:250 000 mapsheet area have been analysed via uranium-lead radiometric dating methods, using laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2012
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Toondulya Bluff. Annual and final surrender reports for the period 23/1/2001 to 22/1/2003.
Exploration for Olympic Dam style copper-gold mineralisation in the Toondulya Bluff area, 100 km north-east of Streaky Bay, comprised compilation and interpretation of existing calcrete data, assaying of samples from earlier aircore drilling, and...-
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Published: 09 Sep 1903
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RB 2016/00012 Magmatic processes of the St Peter Suite, Gawler Craton: New U-Pb geochronological data and field observations.
The St Peter Suite has been previously interpreted to have formed in a subduction-related setting; however, there are limited data with which to assess this interpretation. This report comprises two parts. The first is a summary of Sensitive High...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2016
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RB 2015/00025 Zircon U-Pb geochronology from selected Paleoproterozoic igneous rocks of the Gawler Craton by laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry.
This technical report presents laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICPMS) U-Pb zircon geochronology data for 15 rock samples derived from locations spread across the Gawler Craton. The purpose of the subject dating project...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2015
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RB 2012/00019 Geochemistry of pre-1570 Ma mafic magmatism within southern Australia: implications for possible tectonic settings and timing of major mineralisation events in South Australia.
Geochemical and isotopic data from mantle-derived mafic rocks provide important constraints on our understanding of the composition and evolution of the lithosphere through time. Since the lithosphere is sensitive to tectonic processes such as...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2012
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RB 2015/00029 What lies beneath the western Gawler Craton? [Eucla-Gawler Seismic Survey line] 13GA-EG1E Seismic and Magnetotelluric Workshop 2015. Extended abstracts [of technical presentations].
This compilation of written and associated oral papers that were presented for the “What lies beneath the western Gawler Craton? 13GA-EG1E Seismic and Magnetotelluric Workshop 2015” is an important step in building our geological understanding of one...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2015
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RB 90/00060 Palaeoproterozoic Nuyts Volcanics of the western Gawler Craton.
U-Pb zircon geochronology of the Nuyts Volcanics yielded an age of 1627 +/- 2 Ma, supporting a previous dating of 1631 +/- 3 Ma. The major and trace element compositions, as well as the presence of a tectonic fabric, suggest that the Nuyts Volcanics...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1990
