Mount Gunson, Woocalla, Mount Moseley and Yeltacowie (the Mount Gunson Project). Joint third partial surrender : respective licence progress reports for the period 10/10/2002 to 11/12/2014. [Letters only].
Published: 12 Mar 1915 Created: 12 Nov 2024 Revised: 12 Nov 2024

The Mount Gunson Project tenement package is being explored for three separate types of mineralisation: • stratiform copper mineralisation similar to that of the world-class Central African Copper Belt and White Pine deposit in Michigan. This...

The Mount Gunson Project tenement package is being explored for three separate types of mineralisation: • stratiform copper mineralisation similar to that of the world-class Central African Copper Belt and White Pine deposit in Michigan. This style of mineralisation would be hosted in flat-lying sedimentary units of the Adelaidean sequence, with copper metal being sourced from the underlying Pandurra Formation redbeds or even from zones of extensive alteration and leaching in the pre-Pandurra basement. The deposits at Windabout and at MG 14, hosted in dolomitic black shales of the Tapley Hill Formation in each case, have similarities to this style of mineralisation. The mineralisation mined at the Cattlegrid deposit, while differing in detail from the classic stratiform copper models, probably represents a local variant of this type of deposit, related to a redox boundary and a zone of structural preparation. • base-metal and gold mineralisation within brecciated and altered lithologies in the pre- Pandurra basement, as seen at the world-class Olympic Dam deposit. Variants of this style of mineralisation are seen elsewhere on the Stuart Shelf, and the tectonic and structural setting of the Mount Gunson region is favourable for repetitions of the Olympic Dam setting. • gold mineralisation of any of the types being explored in the central and western Gawler Craton. No on-ground field work was conducted by the project JV partners anywhere within the four now partially relinquished portions of the subject licences, although these areas have been assessed as part of various desktop reviews and target generation programmes that were undertaken by the partners. The only activity of relevance was the over-flying during October 2010 of the relinquished areas of ELs 4460 and 4187/5333 by a part of the Woomera detailed airborne magnetic/radiometric survey acquired by Aerosystems for Xstrata Copper Exploration.

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Record No mesac25661
Topic Geoscientific Information
Type of Resource Document
Category Type
Document Type Mineral Company Report - Mineral Exploration
Contributor Strandline Resources Limited
Sponsor
Tenement
Tenement Holder Gunson Resources Ltd;BHP Billiton Minerals Pty Ltd;Noranda Pacific Pty Limited;Strandline Resources Limited
Operator Gunson Resources Ltd;Xstrata Copper Exploration Pty Ltd;Strandline Resources Limited
Geological Province
Mine Name
Stratigraphy Tapley Hill Formation
Commodity
    Notes
    Notes: See an earlier, Sunset Release no. 7 data release of Mount Moseley EL 3022/3967 annual reports for the period 10/10/2002 to 28/10/2009, held separately in Env 10151.  See also previous partial relinquishment reports for EL 3022, held in...

    Notes: See an earlier, Sunset Release no. 7 data release of Mount Moseley EL 3022/3967 annual reports for the period 10/10/2002 to 28/10/2009, held separately in Env 10151. See also previous partial relinquishment reports for EL 3022, held in Envs 10231 and 10728. Woocalla EL 4725, formerly also included in the Mount Gunson Project acreage, was surrendered in full on 18/12/2014, and its area was counted towards the minimum 10% of the total project tenure required to be relinquished in 2014 under the terms of an Amalgamated Expenditure Agreement made with DSD/MER. Annual reports for work done on this licence have been released in Env 11304. Geographic Locality: Mount Gunson;Lake Windabout;Mount Moseley;Square Lake;Oakden Hills Station;2010 Woomera Aerial Magnetic Survey [part];2010 Woomera Aerial Radioactivity Survey [part] Doc No: Env 12692

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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/mesac25661
    Citation Cummins, B. 1915. Mount Gunson, Woocalla, Mount Moseley and Yeltacowie (the Mount Gunson Project). Joint third partial surrender : respective licence progress reports for the period 10/10/2002 to 11/12/2014. [Letters only]. Mineral Company Report - Mineral Exploration
    https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/mesac25661

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