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RB 98/00010 Regolith studies related to the Challenger gold deposit, Gawler Craton, South Australia. Geochemistry and stratigraphy of the Challenger gold deposit - Volume 1: text, and Volume 2: appendices.
The Challenger gold deposit lies in the northern Gawler Craton, South Australia, 750 km NW of Adelaide, and 140 km NW of Tarcoola. A 1.5 km traverse (the regolith line) was chosen for the study of geochemical dispersion and regolith stratigraphy...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1998
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RB 98/00008 Geochemical studies of the regolith at the Mount Gunson copper deposits, Stuart Shelf, South Australia.
The principal objective of the Cooperative Research Centre for Landscape Evolution and Mineral Exploration (CRC LEME) Shields Program and the Primary Industry and Resources of South Australia (PIRSA) Regolith Terranes Group in South Australia is to...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1998
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Port Broughton, Redhill and Mount Remarkable - Port Augusta areas (part of the Moonta North Project ELs combined reporting group). Annual reports and joint final report at licences' surrender, for the period 19/4/2002 to 22/5/2006.
Economic deposits of iron-oxide associated copper-gold mineralisation of the Moonta-Wallaroo or Olympic Dam style, hosted in Palaeoproterozoic basement rocks of the Moonta Sub-domain, were targeted by exploration in three now surrendered licences,...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Tootla. Annual reports for the period 6/6/2009 to 13/10/2015.
During the 2009-2010 reporting year, Great Southern Kaolin Pty Ltd (GSK)'s activities comprised: - commissioning the pilot plant at the fabrication site in Kingaroy, Qld, in May-June 2010, and processing about 2 t of kaolinised granite through it to...-
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Lake Anthony. Quarterly reports, first joint annual report (with SML 711) and joint final report to licence full surrender, for the period 1/9/1971 to 31/5/1973.
An area located just to the east of the edge of the Nullarbor Plain, occupied by many scattered large and small salt lakes surrounded by sand dunes, with Precambrian basement [of the western Gawler Craton] subcropping near the surface, has been...-
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Published: 26 Jun 1973
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Lake Torrens - Port Augusta and Point Paterson areas. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 26/11/1977 to 30/11/1979.
SALT MINING STUDY: Field tests on the feasibility of Lake Torrens salt production to supply raw material for the planned Redcliff Petrochemical Project were continued, with project planning technical data demonstrations given to visiting officials of...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Poochera Industrial Minerals Project. Annual reportS, for the period 1/9/2015 to 31/8/2018.
Exploration activity on Exploration Licences 5016 (Whichelby), 5308 (Mount Hall), 5398 (Sceales), 5787 (Yanerbie) and 5814 (Tootla) is focused on gypsum and kaolin deposits. The tenements are grouped in the Poochera Project Amalgamated Expenditure...-
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Cadaree Hill (part of the Stuart Range Joint Venture Project). Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 11/8/1977 to 10/8/1978.
Following the first public announcement on 18/11/1976 by Western Mining Corp. of its giant Olympic Dam copper, gold and uranium discovery on Roxby Downs Station, Newmont Pty Ltd began a detailed assessment of the Stuart Shelf region of South...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Kottata Well, Eldale, Tootla and Broadacres (also part of the Yaninee Project). First annual report for EL 3135, plus subsequent joint annual reports, for the period 29/9/2003 to 5/6/2009.
An area located on central western Eyre Peninsula between Minnipa and Port Kenny was taken up to explore the Precambrian basement rocks, which are poorly exposed there, for possible economic buried iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposits....-
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RB 2006/00023 Chinese electrogeochemical CHIM method: Field Trials 2005, South Australia
A version of the Russian-invented CHIM electro-geochemical prospecting technique, which has lately been developed at Guilin University, China, was trialled in field surveys conducted at the Challenger gold mine, and at the Kalkaroo Cu-Au-Mo and Goulds...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2006
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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 2000/00018 Exploring ancient landscapes. Workshop abstracts.
Abstracts to PAPERS: - Baker, A.K.M. - Metal geochemistry of regolith in the Mount Lofty Ranges and associated alluvial fans on the Adelaide Plains. - Belperio, A.P. and Freeman, H. - Exploration using gold and base metal pathfinders in calcareous...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1999
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RB 2017/00011 A Mesoproterozoic advanced argillic alteration system: 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology from Nankivel Hill, Gawler Craton.
The Nankivel Dam prospect, located in north-western Eyre Peninsula, contains alunite, pyrophyllite, dickite, topaz and diaspore alteration of its rocks that is thought to be consistent with mineral assemblages found in advanced-argillic alteration...-
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Published: 01 May 2017
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RB 2000/00003 Regolith studies related to the Birthday gold prospect, Gawler Craton, SA.
Our knowledge of geochemical dispersion of gold and gold pathfinders in the Gawler Craton (South Australia) is poor since there have been very few published research or orientation studies. In this study conducted at the Birthday gold prospect, the...-
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Published: 01 Mar 2000
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Trial Well. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 15/6/79 to 4/1/82.
TARGET: An assessment of the potential for uranium and lignite deposits within the Eocene Pidinga Formation, and separate investigations of coincident, possible Olympic Dam target type magnetic and gravity anomalies in the crystalline Precambrian...-
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RB 2009/00003 Chinese CHIM electrogeochemical method: [results of] field trials [during] 2007, [within] South Australia.
A version of the CHIM electro-geochemical prospecting technique that has been developed at Guilin University, China, was trialled in South Australia during August 2007 in field surveys conducted at the Challenger gold mine, at the Tunkillia gold...-
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Published: 01 Feb 2009
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Port Broughton - Lochiel and Port Pirie areas. Partial relinquishment reports for the period 19/4/2002 to 18/4/2003.
Iron-oxide copper-gold mineralisation of the Moonta-Wallaroo or Olympic Dam style, hosted in Palaeoproterozoic rocks of the Moonta Sub-domain, was the target of exploration in an area located east of Port Broughton and south of Port Pirie on upper...-
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Published: 06 Jun 1903
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Hesso and Bookaloo (part of the Torrens Project). Respective first partial surrender reports for the period 19/4/2002 to 18/4/2003.
Olympic Dam style iron-oxide copper-gold mineralisation hosted in Palaeoproterozoic and Mesoproterozoic basement rocks of the Stuart Shelf, and Mount Gunson type younger Neoproterozoic sediment-hosted copper mineralisation, were the targets of...-
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Published: 06 Jun 1903
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Tallacootra. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/11/1975 to 2/8/1976.
A largely soil and dune-covered area bordering the eastern side of the Nullarbor Plain near Lake Tallacootra was investigated initially for possible Precambrian metasedimentary iron ore ocurrences, that may be associated with a number of narrow...-
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Burdunga Rock Hole. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 28/10/1975 to 19/11/1976.
TARGET: Permian coal in the Tallaringa Trough, east of Maralinga. EXPLORATION: An 11 hole RC drilling programme totalling 1480 m. RESULTS: Eight drillholes intersected up to 4 horizons of lignite and lignitic clay of demonstrated Eocene age, that...-
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