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Carnding. Data release made in lieu of submitting a second partial relinquishment report at licence expiry/renewal : progress reports and annual reports for the period 29/9/1994 to 16/1/2005.
Renewed brownfields gold exploration in an area situated 20-40 km north and west of the Tarcoola Goldfield, previously held in part by the licensee as EL 1848, was prompted by the May 1995 success of the Samantha/Resolute/Dominion corporate joint...-
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Published: 28 Jul 1905
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 2 partnership DPY2-42, Talia Hill area (Harris Greenstone Domain) copper-nickel and platinum group elements mineral prospects. Project final report.
In December 2005 Mithril Resources completed five RC percussion drillholes totalling 682 m on three 100 m - spaced traverses, as one of the approved PACE Initiative Year 2 subsidised drilling projects. This drilling was intended to test a surface TEM...-
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PACE 2020 Discovery Drilling 2012 : Year 7 Drilling Partnership no. DPY7-27 - Endeavour Copper Gold Pty Ltd, Tarcoola Project, Harris Greenstone Domain magmatic nickel - prospective ultramafic targets. Drilling project final report.
The principal mineral exploration target for Endeavour Copper Gold Pty Ltd ('Endeavour') on the three subject Tarcoola Project exploration licences is nickel sulphide mineralisation hosted by Archaean ultramafic intrusive rocks within the Harris...-
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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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Unlocking South Australia's Mineral and Energy Potential - A Plan for Accelerating Exploration. Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry) : Year 3 partnership no. DPY3-55, Glenloth Goldfield mineral prospects. Project final report.
Historical workings at the Glenloth Goldfield were the target for 10 exploratory RC drillholes put down by Minotaur Exploration during May-June 2006 as a PACE Initiative Year 3 project. Their accepted proposal was to drill a series of RC percussion...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Lake Harris. First annual report for the period 31/5/2010 to 30/5/2011.
An area extending for ~10 to ~60 km westwards from Kingoonya, comprising three separate sub-blocks, is being explored for buried Archaean greenstone belt - hosted primary metallic mineralisation. Work undertaken during the first year of tenure...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Deception Hill. First annual report for the period 1/6/2010 to 31/5/2011.
EL 4496 (Deception Hill) is centred approximately 15 km due south of Tarcoola, and extends from west to east for about 60 km. It is regarded by the licensee as being highly prospective for a range of commodities including gold and silver, nickel, iron...-
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Data release - as updated : Lake Harris. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 15/2/2012 to 14/2/2019.
An area centred ~90 km south-east of Tarcoola and adjacent to the western shore of Lake Gairdner is being explored for possible economic buried Carrapateena or Prominent Hill style IOCG and polymetallic skarn style mineralisation which may be...-
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Published: 20 Mar 1919
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Lake Everard. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 8/11/1999 to 24/8/2010.
During licence Year 6, on renewed EL 2697, AngloGold drilled a total of 177 vertical RAB holes (LER2508 – LER2679) for 9975 m plus 20 inclined RC holes (LRC360 – LRC379) for 2964 m. The drilling of 97 RAB holes at the Smith prospect revealed a 300 m x...-
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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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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : the Tarcoola and Theseus Projects. Joint annual reports for the period 1/1/2015 to 31/12/2018.
During the fourth year of project licences' joint reporting, for the Theseus Project, Endeavour undertook further RC and diamond core drilling at the Minos prospect on EL 5280, and did detailed auger calcrete geochemical sampling over the Lake...-
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Published: 21 Feb 1919
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Lake Labyrinth West - Lake Harris West area (the Glenloth JV Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 25/5/1998 to 10/7/2008.
Continued exploration for Archaean lode-style gold and Mesoproterozoic Hiltaba Suite granite-related hydrothermal Cu-Au within the retained southern former subarea 'B' of EL 2518 located ~40 km south-east of Tarcoola, where there is also potential...-
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Published: 08 Oct 1908
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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 2003/00010 Regolith characterisation and geochemistry as an aid to mineral exploration in the Harris Greenstone Belt, central Gawler Craton, South Australia.
Komatiitic greenstones were first recognised in South Australia from drillcore at Lake Harris on the Gawler Craton by Mines and Energy SA personnel in 1991. Subsequent petrography and detailed aeromagnetic data interpretation led to targeted drilling...-
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Published: 01 May 2004
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RB 2006/00009 Regolith studies at the Boomerang Gold Prospect, Central Gawler Craton, South Australia
The Boomerang gold prospect is located 650 km north-west of Adelaide in undifferentiated Proterozoic rocks incorporated within Archaean Harris Greenstone Belt mafic lithologies of the Gawler Craton. The prospect was originally discovered using...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2006
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RB 2006/00001 Guide to the sedimentary cover of the central Gawler Craton, South Australia
The central Gawler Craton is blanketed by thin sedimentary cover that ranges in age from Neoproterozoic to Quaternary. Locally, though, such cover can reach a maximum of ~500 m thickness in Permian glacial valleys or rift structures. This guide...-
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Published: 01 Jan 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 2008/00007 Regolith Benchmark Atlas, Gawler Craton, South Australia.
Transported regolith and deeply weathered basement together conceal large tracts of prospective crystalline basement (cratonic and geosynclinal rocks) in South Australia, and such cover forms a major exploration impediment for much of the Gawler...-
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Published: 01 Jun 2008
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Lake Harris. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/9/1996 to 12/9/2000.
The area lying immediately south of lakes Gairdner and Harris was considered prospective for concealed Olympic Dam style Cu-Au mineralisation hosted in Archaean to Mesoproterozoic basement rocks of the Gawler Craton. Acquisition of a regional 1 km x...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 1 partnership DPY1-10, Harris Greenstone Belt mineral prospects. Project interim and final reports.
In September and December 2004 Mithril Resources completed 53 vertical aircore and reverse circulation drillholes on Exploration Licence 2842 as part of the SA Government's PACE Initiative 'Theme 2' collaborative drilling programme involving PIRSA...-
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