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Sandstone [south-western] (part of the Gawler Joint Venture Project). Data release made in lieu of submitting a report at project licences' joint partial surrender: progress reports and annual reports for the period 3/4/1995 to 19/10/2006.
Published: 28 Feb 1907 Created: 12 Nov 2024 Revised: 12 Nov 2024
Author: Wood, M.;Robinson, P.;Charters, G.

Gold and copper exploration undertaken in an 89 square km area of almost no outcrop (<1%) in the vicinity of the Challenger gold discovery on the north-western Gawler Craton, where the surface geology is predominantly aeolian sandsheets and...

Gold and copper exploration undertaken in an 89 square km area of almost no outcrop ( 175 ppm As) were recorded across the drilling traverse from 97WEAR009-018, with a peak assay result of 495 ppm As coming from hole 97WEAR009. The basement lithologies at all three of the latterly drilled prospects comprised biotite gneiss and garnet gneiss with lesser mafic rocks and minor pegmatite. Although the gold results coming from the 1997 drilling were poor, the arsenic anomalism found at Wedgetail was seen to be of interest, particularly since it lies north-easterwards along strike from the Challenger deposit ~17 km to the south-west. No further field work was done on the subject licence area in the succeeding years 4 to 10 of its tenure, but the ground was retained in full due to its possible strategic importance.

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Record No mesac24211
Topic Geoscientific Information
Type of Resource Document
Category Type
Document Type Mineral Company Report - Mineral Exploration
Contributor
Sponsor
Tenement
Tenement Holder Dominion Gold Operations Pty Ltd;Resolute Resources Ltd;Southern Gold Ltd
Operator Resolute Resources Ltd;Dominion Gold Operations Pty Ltd
Geological Province
Mine Name Cockatoo Ridge prospect;Pegasus prospect;Phoenix prospect;Wedgetail prospect
Stratigraphy
Commodity
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Notes: Under the yearly reviewed terms of the Gawler Project Central Tenements Area amalgamated expenditure agreement with PIRSA, Dominion Gold was committed to relinquish a minimum of 10% of this combined tenement area after 28/2/2008. Between...
Notes: Under the yearly reviewed terms of the Gawler Project Central Tenements Area amalgamated expenditure agreement with PIRSA, Dominion Gold was committed to relinquish a minimum of 10% of this combined tenement area after 28/2/2008. Between 7/5/2009 and 13/10/2009, following PIRSA's grant of an extension to this deadline, Dominion Gold, with the consent of its joint venture partners, relinquished 32 square km of EL 3262, 161 square km of EL 3270, 36 square km of EL 3435, 92 square km of EL 3554, and also surrendered EL 3629 (total area 48 square km), in order to satisfy this commitment. The related data release includes the following licence-specific Envs (indexed separately):  Envs 9000, 9077 & 11313 re. Sandstone JV [north-eastern] ELs 2018 / 2654 / 3262 - contain reports submitted up until the subject fourth partial relinquishment of 13/10/2009;  Env 9006 re. Jumbuck ELs 1971 / 2637 / 3270 - contains reports submitted up until the subject second partial relinquishment of 29/9/2009;  Env 9076 re. Sandstone [south-western] ELs 2076 / 2734 / 3435 - contains reports submitted up until the subject first partial relinquishment of 29/9/2009;  Env 9153 re. Blowout ELs 2103 / 2778 / 3554 - contains reports submitted up until the subject fifth partial relinquishment of 7/5/2009.  Env 9209 re. Skye ELs 2120 / 2808 / 3629 - data previously released in July 2010 - this area was surrendered on 29/9/2009.  Dominion Mining transferred a 50% interest in EL 2103 to JV partner Resolute Resources in November 1995 : this share was subsequently re-purchased by Dominion from Resolute in December 2000. Dominion has lately entered into a joint venture agreement with Southern Gold Ltd after 6/2/2006, with that farminee assuming management of the ongoing gold exploration programme within the Gawler Central Tenements Area that includes the subject ground.
Geographic Locality: Great Victoria Desert;Commonwealth Hill Station;Sandstone Outstation;Western Highway;Woomera Prohibited Area
Doc No: Env 09076
Drillhole: 96CRAR001 - 96CRAR020;(210345 - 210364);97PGAR001 - 97PGAR010;(210365 - 210374);97PHAR001 - 97PHAR008;(210375 - 210382);97WEAR001 - 97WEAR024;(210383 - 210406)
Drillhole Unit No: 5638 00717;THROUGH;5638 00778

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Language English
Metadata Standard ISO 19115-3

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License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Persistent identifier https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/mesac24211
Citation Wood, M.;Robinson, P.;Charters, G. 1907. Sandstone [south-western] (part of the Gawler Joint Venture Project). Data release made in lieu of submitting a report at project licences' joint partial surrender: progress reports and annual reports for the period 3/4/1995 to 19/10/2006. Mineral Company Report - Mineral Exploration
https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/mesac24211

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