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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 5 partnership DPY5-44, eastern Eyre Peninsula, Glensea & Franklin gravity targets representing inferred Proterozoic mesothermal/metamorphic basement uranium prospects. Final report.
PACE Initiative Year 5 funding for exploratory drilling was granted to Stellar Resources under its proposal DPY-5-44 for a project designed to test geophysical targets within EL 3978 which were interpreted / inferred to represent alaskite units...-
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Yudnapinna [West]. Combined first annual/final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/9/2020 to 21/9/2021.
Two contiguous exploration licences, ELs 6522 and 6523, were secured in the Yudnapinna district to apply new concepts and techniques aimed at revitalising the rate of copper-gold mineral deposit discovery in South Australia. The licences’ area lay...-
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Published: 03 Nov 1921
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Yudnapinna [East]. Combined first annual/final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/9/2020 to 21/9/2021.
Two contiguous exploration licences, ELs 6522 and 6523, were secured in the Yudnapinna district to apply new concepts and techniques aimed at revitalising the rate of copper-gold mineral deposit discovery in South Australia. The licences’ area lay...-
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Published: 03 Nov 1921
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Middleback Range and Moonabie Hills. Joint annual reports for the period 1/2/2007 to 30/1/2019, plus surrender reports to 9/7/2023.
Project Connelly is designed to target haematite mineralisation on OneSteel's mining and exploration leases, including EL 3516 Middleback Range, with the aim of adding to the haematite reserve. In addition to the exploration programme, reserve...-
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Published: 29 Mar 1918
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Cowell (latterly part of the Cowell JV Project). Annual reports for the period 23/9/2002 to 6/11/2008.
A large licence area, comprising two separate blocks aligned along strike, which cover the northern Cowell Hills and the less elevated country stretching north-east of Lucky Bay, was taken up by Avoca Resources Ltd as part of a much wider search...-
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RB 2006/00021 Tectonics of the southeastern Gawler Craton, South Australia: A field guide to the Palaeoproterozoic gneisses of Corny Point, Yorke Peninsula
This field guide presents an introduction to the geology and tectonics of the south-eastern Gawler Craton, particularly as observed at the Corny Point locality. Topics covered include the detrital zircon age distributions within the Corny Point...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2006
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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 2014/00009 Epithermal-style textures, brecciation, veining and alteration, southern Gawler Ranges margin, South Australia.
Along the southern margin of the Mesoproterozoic (~1590 Ma) Gawler Range Volcanics lava flows, on northern Eyre Peninsula, numerous occurrences of silver, lead, zinc and copper mineralisation have been recorded at or near the base of the volcanic...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2014
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RB 2008/00011 Definition of the Cultana Subsuite, Gawler Craton: a high level felsic Hiltaba Suite age intrusive with hydrothermal alteration and brecciation.
This paper provides a formal definition of the Cultana Subsuite, outlining the igneous petrology of the intrusion, its geochemical characteristics, and the nature of hydrothermal alteration and brecciation affecting the rocks. The Cultana Subsuite is...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2008
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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 2020/00007 Gawler Craton Airborne Geophysical Survey Region 7, Spencer – Enhanced geophysical imagery and magnetic source depth models.
This report presents the results of a study jointly conducted by the Geological Survey of South Australia and CSIRO Mineral Resources which aimed to enhance the expression of geological structure in geophysical images and to derive depth to magnetic...-
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Published: 01 Mar 2020
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RB 2017/00026 Interpretative report on the lower Gawler Range Volcanics in the Six Mile Hill area.
The Six Mile Hill area was one of three areas targeted in the Minerals Systems Drilling Program (MSDP) during 2015-2016. Four holes were drilled in the Six Mile Hill area to test for potential for iron oxide-copper-gold (IOCG) mineralisation and to...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2017
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RB 2015/00021 Stratigraphy of the lower Gawler Range Volcanics in the Roopena area, north-eastern Eyre Peninsula.
The Mesoproterozoic (~1590–1586 Ma) Gawler Range Volcanics (GRV) comprise a sequence of A-type dominantly felsic volcanic rocks which were extruded in the central part of the Gawler Craton as part of a volcano-plutonic Silicic Large Igneous Province...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2015
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Cultana basement regional geology 3D Model.
The Cultana basement 3D Geological Model covers a region which includes the Roopena, and western half of the Cultana, 1:100,000 mapsheet areas. The subsurface geology that has been modelled comprises a succession of deformed Palaeoproterozoic...-
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RB 2016/00030 Mineral Systems Drilling Program in the southern Gawler Ranges, South Australia.
The Mineral Systems Drilling Program (MSDP) was a $3.5M cash and $4.11M in-kind collaborative drill program involving government, researchers, service providers and the minerals industry. The objective of the MSDP was to further the understanding of...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2017
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RB 2012/00010 Geochronology and geochemistry of a Kimban diorite, drillhole LED001, Lake Gilles, eastern Gawler Craton.
The geology of the Lake Gilles locale in the south-west of the PORT AUGUSTA 1:250k map sheet area is poorly understood. Outcrop of basement rocks there is sparse, and typically occurs along the margins of the salt lake, where it is highly weathered....-
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Published: 01 Apr 2012
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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 2008/00003 The Corunna Conglomerate, Gawler Craton: a review of the sedimentology and new U-Pb zircon geochronology.
The Corunna Conglomerate is a sequence of unmetamorphosed fluvial to shallow marine sediments, comprising conglomerates, sandstones and siltstones, which were deposited in active fault grabens in the eastern Gawler Craton. It is found on the...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2008
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RB 2011/00003 PACE Geochronology: Results of collaborative geochronology projects [performed during] 2009-2010.
This report book presents the results of seven geochronology research projects completed during 2009 and 2010 as a new part of the ongoing PACE Initiative geoscientific data gathering activity underwritten by the South Australian Government. It has...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2011
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RB 2015/00003 PACE Geochronology: Results of collaborative geochronology projects, 2013–2015.
The PACE Geochronology program fosters collaboration on projects of geological and metallogenic significance with focus on dating rocks and minerals from samples suggested by companies through a competitive proposal-based selection process. Successful...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2017
