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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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Tarcoola. Data release in lieu of a 25% second partial surrender at licence renewal : progress and annual reports for the period 7/12/1990 to 20/4/2003. [ Index Part 1 of 4 ].
The abstract for this Envelope is contained (in three parts) as separately indexed records, due to SAMREF database system individual record data size limits presently applicable.-
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Gosse and Kingoonya (part of the Mentor Project, and later the Kingoonya Project). Data release made at joint partial relinquishment upon licences' expiry/renewal: annual reports for the period 3/12/1997 to 28/9/2008. [Index Part 2 of 2].
In continuing exploration carried out by Mount Isa Mines Exploration (MIM) during 1998 on EL 1792 / 2467 Gosse and EL 1798 / 2466 Kingoonya, additional calcrete sampling and RC drilling (25 holes for 1590 m total penetration) took place at four...-
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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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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bulgunnia (part of the Gawler JV Project). Annual reports for the period 19/11/1997 to 1/1/2013.
Within an area of the Wilgena and Christie Domains centred 40 km north of Tarcoola, exploration is continuing for Archaean to Proterozoic basement-hosted epithermal, hydrothermal and metamorphic type gold and base metal occurrences. Here an 841 square...-
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Muckanippie. Progress reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 6/1/1987 to 5/1/1989.
TARGET: Gold which could had been emplaced in sheared and altered zones present within the intrusions and on the contacts of the Hiltaba Suite Granite and Muckanippie Diorite. EXPLORATION: Reprocessing of historic aerial magnetic survey data, making...-
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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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Indooroopilly, Muckanippie and Commonwealth Hill. Data release made in lieu of submitting a joint partial surrender report for ELs 5799, 6166 and 6348: all project licences' joint annual reports for the period 21/3/2015 to 30/6/2019.
An agglomeration of exploration licences which partly surrounds the Challenger gold deposit at distances of between 35 and 80 km is being explored for similar type economic lode gold mineralisation that may exist in buried Archaean bedrock relatively...-
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Lake Labyrinth (part of the Tarcoola Joint Venture Project). Second and third partial surrender reports, for the period 31/10/2001 to 8/2/2009.
Exploration for possible buried epithermal or hydrothermal gold deposits within the large variety of Archaean, Palaeoproterozoic and Mesoproterozoic basement rocks present in an area located from 20-30 km east of Tarcoola has targeted the potential of...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Glenloth area (the Tarcoola JV Project). Annual reports for the period 11/7/2008 to 2/11/2018.
A biogeochemical sampling survey consisting of 20 lines (407 samples) was undertaken by the JV partners during August 2009, targeting buried gold mineralisation. Black Oak and Pearl Bluebush were the dominant deep-rooted plant species sampled and, to...-
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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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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Carnding. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 5/7/2005 to 4/7/2009.
EL 3369 is located in the central Gawler Craton, and is centred approximately 35 km west and west-northwest of Tarcoola. The licence area consists of two geographically separate [by ~5 km] blocks – exploration activity in the eastern block has...-
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Data release - as updated : Ferguson. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 28/2/2006 to 14/11/2016.
An area centred ~40 km west of Kingoonya has continued to be explored for possible economic buried epithermal/hydrothermal gold and base metals by the Deep Well/Abbey Feale Mining group. Due to financial constraints, the only work undertaken during...-
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RB 2006/00019 Previous exploration and mineral potential of ELA 2002/00154
ELA 2002/00154 is made up of three geographically separate sub-areas aligned in a north-easterly direction along the Bulgunnia Shear Zone. Neither the northern nor the central sub-areas have any basement rock outcrop, with the depth of younger cover...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2006
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RB 2010/00001 Investigation of partial leach soil surveys at the Tunkillia gold prospect, South Australia.
Geochemical soil samples were taken along two traverses over shear-hosted gold mineralisation in Area '223' at the Tunkillia gold prospect, located 550 km north-west of Adelaide. The objective was to assess the effectiveness of near-surface soil...-
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Published: 01 Nov 2009
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West Childara Project. Annual report for the period 6/12/96 to 5/12/97.
Regional calcrete sampling carried out 100 km south-west of Tarcoola disclosed weak gold anomalism in the south-eastern portion of the licence, coincident in part with gravity and aeromagnetic features. Detailed follow-up sampling is warranted.-
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Regolith map of the greater Tarcoola area of the central Gawler [Craton] region.
With the dawning of renewed interest in one of South Australia’s historic gold provinces, driven by the newly acquired data from the Department’s highly successful Gawler Craton Airborne Survey (GCAS), the Geological Survey of South Australia has...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2020
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RB 2019/00015 LA–ICP–MS geochronology from the Tarcoola Goldfield region 2018–2019.
The Tarcoola Goldfield region is located in the central Gawler Craton, and forms the northern portion of the Central Gawler Gold Province. Gold deposits underlying the Tarcoola Ridge and adjacent areas have been exploited by in excess of 50 historic...-
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Published: 01 May 2020
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RB 2016/00037 Vectorisation of residual gravity and TMI data in the northern Gawler Craton: implications for exploration targeting and GIS analysis.
Gravity and reduced-to-pole total magnetic intensity grids over the northern Gawler Craton have been vectorised, generating polygon datasets representing regions of locally anomalous gravity and magnetic intensity. Statistics from potential field...-
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Published: 01 Jul 2018
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Tarcoola. Annual reports for the period 2/6/2008 to 29/7/2018.
During the first year of renewed EL 4167, in October and November 2008, Stellar Resources Ltd ("Stellar") completed a 5 hole, 1286.9 m RC and 2 hole, 157.1 m diamond cored inclined drilling programme at the Coolybring prospect which is located...-
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Published: 11 Sep 2018