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Moonta-Wallaroo region - South Australian Exploration Initiative. Prospectivity re-assessment and GIS data package (compiled 1994-1995).
To promote renewed regional exploration of the northern Yorke Peninsula using modern techniques and concepts, MESA as part of the SAEI programme has prepared a GIS-based data package, which incorporates a study of all available drillcore and a...-
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RB 55/00006;Amdel 00126 Accessory minerals of South Australian granites.
The purpose of the work described was to compare and contrast the petrography, accessory minerals, and absolute ages of 25 granitic and allied rock samples collected from widely scattered localities in South Australia. The processes that are...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1961
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RB 97/00051 Poona copper mine, Moonta, South Australia - Investigation of alteration mineralogy using short-wave infrared analysis.
The Poona Copper Mine on northern Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, was worked from 1988-92 on an extension of the original Poona lode, a narrow, shear-hosted copper sulphide vein deposit in Moonta Porphyry of Mesoproterozoic age. The orebody is...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1997
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RB 92/00060 Soil Air CO2/O2 Project. Progress report 2, Moonta district.
The rationale of utilising soil air carbon dioxide and oxygen measurements as a guide to oxidising sulphide is that sulphide oxidation in the presence of water and oxygen will produce sulphuric acid, which in turn will attack any carbonates present to...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1992
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Moonta - Wallaroo area. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 13/3/1988 to 17/11/1996.
Following the acquisition of EL 1394 by Moonta Mining NL from Western Mining Corporation in March 1988, all data which had been generated until that date were released in September 1988 as part of the Moonta-Wallaroo Exploration Data Package (Env...-
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Moonta - Wallaroo district, Gawler Block, South Australia. A review of the geology, ore deposits and untested potential of EL 544.
The aim of this consultant's economic geological review was to ascertain whether any now obvious but still untested targets remained in the Wallaroo - Moonta mining area after 20 years of intensive exploration. WEST DOORA - VULCAN: This line of...-
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Published: 15 Dec 1980
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Moonta - Wallaroo area (where licence is subject in part to the Moonta Porphyry Joint Venture). Annual reports for the period 24/12/1996 to 11/4/2008. [ Index Part 1 of 2 ].
A 106 square km area, comprising two blocks which cover the main historic copper and gold - producing districts centred around the towns of Moonta and Kadina, is being explored afresh in an attempt to identify ore resources of quantity sufficient to...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Moonta - Wallaroo area (the Moonta Project). Annual reports for the period 12/4/2008 to 11/4/2018.
During the 2008-2009 project reporting year (Year 13), Adelaide Resources Limited continued to review all of the past exploration in the Moonta region. This disclosed 190 surface gold anomalies that the company thought warranted further consideration,...-
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Published: 10 Jun 1918
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RB 73/00008 Geological survey, Torrens Hinge Zone Project, Bute region. Report no. 1.
This report outlines the history and concept of the Torrens Hinge Zone project. An account is given of the regional geology, geophysics, geochronology and stratigraphic drilling in the Bute region and adjoining areas of northern Yorke Peninsula. An...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1973
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[ The Moonta - Wallaroo mining district, 1859-1923 ]. Proceedings of the AMHA 12th Annual Conference, Kadina, South Australia, 5-10 July 2006.
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Whiting. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 15/2/2010 to 14/2/2014.
A number of small, disjoint parcels of available exploration ground in the Moonta-Wallaroo district were taken up by Minotaur early in 2010 to assess their basement IOCG mineralisation potential. A preliminary review done by Minotaur of historic...-
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Published: 21 Mar 1914
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Anna Villa (part of the Alford Project). Annual report and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 20/6/2013 to 16/6/2016.
An area on northern Yorke Peninsula comprising five semicontiguous sub-blocks which are centred ~23 south-southeast of Moonta has been explored for possible buried economic IOCG type mineralisation which could have formed within Palaeoproterozoic or...-
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Published: 19 Aug 1916
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Moonta - Wallaroo area (where licence is subject in part to the Moonta Porphyry Joint Venture). Annual reports for the period 24/12/1996 to 11/4/2008. [ Index Part 2 of 2 ].
When Phelps Dodge began managing exploration on EL 2885 in mid-2002, its focus was on defining structurally-controlled magnetic targets that had remained untested, but which could host significant sized deposits of Olympic Dam or Ernest Henry type...-
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RB 2000/00013 Australian Clay Minerals Society Inc. 17th Biennial Conference, Adelaide, 10-12 April 2000: Field Guide for post-conference tour, 13-14 April 2000 - Yorke Peninsula clays and carbonates, copper mines, desert loam soils and mangroves.
This tour is concerned with aspects of the soils, geology, landforms, clays and mining on Yorke Peninsula, and likewise for the northern Adelaide Plains which are separated from the Peninsula by Gulf St Vincent. Both of these regions are among the...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2000
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Notes on some Wallaroo bore cores.
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Published: 21 Jun 1948
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Geological report on Wallaroo - Moonta, South Australia.
Prospecting of the lease areas has been restricted to surface examination of the locations of previously noted geophysical (magnetic, electrical resistivity) and geochemical (soil sampling) anomalies. One of four old caved-in prospecting shafts found...-
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Published: 23 Sep 1948
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Wallaroo - Moonta mines area. Inaugural SML: licensee JV reports for the period 24/7/1947 - 17/3/1949, plus technical data and expert assessments of prospectivity, pertinent to follow-on investigations undertaken by the SA Dept. of Mines between 1948-55.
This dataset contains the results of exhaustive greenfields geophysical, geological and geochemical investigations carried out by 'modern' methods over the Wallaroo - Moonta mining district during 1948 by the Zinc Corp. and its US joint venture...-
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Wallaroo - Moonta mines. Company-compiled copies of geological and petrographic logs of drill cores from diamond drillholes put down in near-mine exploration undertaken by the SADM over the period 1907-1947.
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Published: 01 Jan 1948
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RB 2002/00028 Gawler Craton, 2002. State of play. [Notes to accompany viewing of the ancillary] Drill core display.
This geotechnical workshop of seminars and core displays, which was held over two days on 5-6 December 2002, aimed to highlight recent collaborative research between PIRSA [MER], Geoscience Australia and the South Australian mineral industry that has...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2002
