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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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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bosworth (part of the Lake Torrens Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 13/7/1998 to 5/4/2009.
An area covering parts of west-central Lake Torrens and Andamooka Island was taken up by Pima Mining because it was considered a strategic acreage acquisition, since it adjoins the southern boundary of the company's EL 2528 Andamooka already issued to...-
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Published: 06 May 1909
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The Lake Torrens Project; plus the Olympic Domain Project. Joint annual reports for the period 1/1/2006 to 31/12/2010.
Licensee Copper Range originally took up a group of three tenements located in central South Australia covering areas within and west of Lake Torrens, with the intent, much reinforced following the Carrapateena deposit discovery made in 2005, of...-
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Published: 04 Mar 1911
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Weetulta (part of the Alford Project). Information status at licence surrender, for the period 12/8/2015 to 12/1/2017: no work performed.
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Data release made in lieu of submitting a final report at the expiry/full surrender on 4/11/2019 of EL 5212/6172 Alford (the last-held licence of the Alford Joint Venture Project) : Project joint annual reports for the period 1/7/2014 to 30/6/2016.
A group of four separate tenements located on northern Yorke Peninsula to the north-east and south-west of the historic Cu-Au producing Moonta-Wallaroo region has been explored for possible economic buried IOCG style mineralisation that may have...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1916
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RB 2020/00015 Reconnaissance zircon U-Pb geochronology of the southeastern Olympic Cu-Au Province, South Australia.
The eastern Gawler Craton is the location of the Olympic Cu-Au Province, a world-class metallogenic province known for iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposits such as Olympic Dam, Prominent Hill and Carrapateena (Skirrow et al., 2007;...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2020
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Data release - as updated : Minlaton South-west, Minlaton, Oaklands and Stansbury (the Yorke Peninsula Project). Annual reports, plus joint final report at remaining licences' respective expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/1/2008 to 10/10/2019.
Phoenix Copper has been exploring several tenement blocks located on western Yorke Peninsula, the prime objective being to discover an economic iron oxide - associated copper-gold-uranium (IOCGU) deposit that may have formed in buried Proterozoic...-
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Published: 27 Nov 1919
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Pernatty [Station]. Annual reports for the period 29/11/2005 to 28/11/2009.
An area centred approximately 110 km north of Port Augusta, covering part of the Pernatty Ridge plateau on the south-western side of Lake Torrens, approximately 145 km south-east of the Olympic Dam mine, was taken up to explore for possible economic...-
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Published: 24 May 1910
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RB 2002/00007 The Palaeo-Mesoproterozoic geology of northern Yorke Peninsula, South Australia. Hiltaba Suite - related alteration and mineralisation of the Moonta - Wallaroo Cu-Au district (Resources '96 Convention, Adelaide, geological field excursion
Returns from copper and gold won from the Moonta-Wallaroo district supported the South Australian economy from 1860-1920. During those 60 years some 355,000 t of copper and 2 t of gold were extracted from the twin mining fields of Wallaroo and Moonta:...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1996
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RB 2016/00009 Geological field excursion guide — IOCGs – where it all began: the Moonta-Wallaroo region of the eastern Gawler Craton.
INTRODUCTION TO THE GUIDE Northern Yorke Peninsula (NYP) is within the southern portion of the Olympic Domain of the eastern Gawler Craton, which is arguably the world’s most fertile IOCG belt. That such a belt existed was only realised when Western...-
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Published: 01 May 2016
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 2 partnership DPY2-44, Alford Shear Zone. Hiltaba Event - related IOCG mineral prospects. Project final report.
An area of 477 square km, situated to the west of Bute and north of Wallaroo and Kadina, is being explored by Argonaut Resources and Hillgrove Resources for economic base and precious metal deposits of Moonta-Wallaroo, Olympic Dam or Prominent Hill...-
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RB 2002/00001 Late Palaeoproterozoic Wallaroo Group and early Mesoproterozoic mineralisation in the Moonta Subdomain, eastern Gawler Craton, South Australia.
The late Palaeoproterozoic Wallaroo Group is interpreted to have been deposited during a major rift event in the south-eastern Gawler Craton during ~1770-1740 Ma. On Yorke Peninsula the group contains three lithological units, viz. Wandearah...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2002
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Maitland. First partial surrender report, for the period 7/9/1992 to 6/3/1996.
Exploration in the Curramulka and Pine Point areas on east-central Yorke Peninsula targeted Olympic Dam style iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposits related through contact metasomatism to Hiltaba Suite equivalent granites. A gravity...-
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RB 2015/00003 PACE Geochronology: Results of collaborative geochronology projects, 2013–2015.
The PACE Geochronology program fosters collaboration on projects of geological and metallogenic significance with focus on dating rocks and minerals from samples suggested by companies through a competitive proposal-based selection process. Successful...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2017
