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Review of Mineral exploration activity, 2003 and 2004.
2003 activity: Expenditure by companies on mineral exploration licences in South Australia for calendar year 2003 was $37.0 million, a slight increase on the $35.7 million spent in 2002. Mineral exploration drilling metreage, a key indicator of...-
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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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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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Stony Top Hill (part of the Gairdner Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/10/2010 to 6/10/2014.
An area centred ~17 km south-east of Kingoonya has been explored for possible buried IOCG deposits that could relate to the very large "Shellback" regional magnetic anomaly located in the south-eastern Kingoonya district. Farminee AngloGold's...-
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Published: 21 Oct 1914
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Kingoonya. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 27/11/2006 to 21/4/2015.
An area surrounding the township of Kingoonya and straddling the Trans Australia Railway line, that comprises six tenement sub-blocks,has been explored for possible economic occurrences of buried Tertiary roll-front style secondary uranium...-
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Published: 23 Apr 1915
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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 [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Mount Finke. Annual reports including 'no work' letters, for the period 12/8/2015 to 11/8/2018.
An area centred ~45 km south-west of Tarcoola is being explored for possible buried epithermal/hydrothermal copper-gold and magmatic copper-nickel-PGE mineralisation which could have formed within Archaean and Proterozoic basement rocks. During the...-
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Published: 09 Oct 1918
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Deception Hill. Annual reports, for the period 12/8/2015 to 11/8/2018.
An area centred ~25 km south-southwest of Tarcoola is being explored for possible buried epithermal/hydrothermal copper-gold and magmatic copper-nickel-PGE mineralisation which could have formed within Archaean and Proterozoic basement rocks. During...-
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Published: 09 Oct 1918
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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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Glenloth (part of the Tarcoola Joint Venture Project). First partial surrender report, for the period 11/7/2003 to 2/11/2009.
When exploring for nickel sulphide mineralisation within buried ultramafic rocks of the Archaean Lake Harris Greenstone Belt, over TEMPEST aerial EM anomalies lying ~16 km north-west of Yerda Outstation, Mithril Resources carried out a ground EM...-
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Deception Hill. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 26/10/2004 to 9/10/2013.
The iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) mineralisation potential of an area centred ~20 km south of Tarcoola, which appeared to contain untested but interesting gravity and soil geochemical anomalies, was investigated by Minotaur to try to...-
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Published: 28 Oct 1913
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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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Lake Labyrinth. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/2/2010 to 1/2/2012.
Exploration for possible Proterozoic basement-hosted mesothermal gold mineralisation in rocks bounding the Labyrinth Shear Zone, 18 km north-west of Kingoonya, has consisted only of the acquisition of an airborne magnetic/radiometric survey (4847 line...-
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Published: 21 Mar 1912
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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 - 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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Talia Hill. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/9/2001 to 25/6/2009.
During the late 1990s, company exploratory drilling of the Harris Greenstone Belt in the central Gawler Craton, south of Tarcoola, revealed a package of previously unknown, shallowly buried komatiite lava beds with a strike length in excess of 350 km...-
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