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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 88/00057 Torrens Hinge Zone Project - Bute region. Second and final report.
The Torrens Hinge Zone Project aimed to demonstrate the existence of prospective metalliferous rocks beneath the Cainozoic cover, to stimulate exploration and to investigate the transition between the Adelaidean sequences of the well-exposed Adelaide...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1988
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Wallaroo Bay area. Annual reports to licence expiry for the period 30/5/2002 to 29/5/2004.
Exploration for possible porphyry style Cu-Au-Mo mineralisation or Prominent Hill type copper-gold deposits, associated with the long-recognised North Wallaroo - Alford magnetic and altered red rock trend, has addressed the potential of a 20 km long...-
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Published: 27 Sep 1904
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Port Broughton. Progress reports, annual reports, technical reports, and final report to licence expiry/ surrender, for the period 15/7/1991 to 19/9/2001.
Exploration targetted Roxby Downs style and Ernest Henry style copper-gold mineralisation in an area of intensely magnetic, concealed Proterozoic metasedimentary and intrusive igneous basement terrain, characterised by complex regional geophysical...-
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Published: 12 Dec 1900
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Alford South (part of the Alford Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/1/2014 to 6/1/2016.
An area on northern Yorke Peninsula centred ~16 km south-west of Alford and 9 km north-northeast of Wallaroo has been explored for possible buried economic IOCG type mineralisation which could have formed within Palaeoproterozoic or younger basement...-
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Published: 14 Mar 1916
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Alford. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 25/10/2007 to 4/11/2012.
Work performed at the Alford Project, until the latter half of 2007, had so far mainly concentrated on the Netherleigh Park prospect, with the density of drilling there now providing the main insights into prospectivity and controls on mineralisation....-
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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 - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Alford. Annual reports submitted to the commencement of project licences' joint reporting, and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 5/11/2012 to 4/11/2019.
During the 2012-2013 licence reporting year, work conducted in this the 21st year of tenure at Alford consisted of: - commissioning a consultant to undertake image processing and 3D inversion modelling of available gravity and magnetic datasets for...-
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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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Bute - Port Broughton area. Progress reports, annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/6/1979 to 18/1/1991.
TARGET: Uranium and base metal deposits associated with Early to Middle Proterozoic basement geological structures and rock units in Spencer Gulf coastal areas east and south of Port Broughton. EXPLORATION: Aerial magnetic and radiometric surveys,...-
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RB 2021/00001 Precise zircon U-Pb geochronology of Hiltaba Suite granites, Point Riley, Yorke Peninsula.
This report provides a summary of high precision chemical abrasion - isotope dilution thermal ionisation mass spectrometry (CA-IDTIMS) U-Pb geochronology which has been performed on zircons from three samples taken from the eastern Gawler Craton. The...-
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Published: 01 May 2021
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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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Bull 055 A geochronological framework for the Gawler Craton, South Australia
This bulletin contains geochronological data and interpretations from the Gawler Craton of South Australia that have been completed by Mark Fanning of The Australian National University, by Geological Survey of South Australia personnel, and by...-
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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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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Alford. Progress and annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 22/4/1992 to 24/10/2007.
Exploration field activities operated by the parent company of the new licensee commenced during March-May 2003, when Argonaut Resources (Argonaut) undertook a rotary mud/diamond drilling programme to test targets located at Netherleigh Park, Alford...-
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RB 2002/00018 16th Australian Geological Convention, Adelaide, South Australia, 1-5 July 2002 - Excursion A1 locality guide. Geology of Yorke Peninsula, and Cu-Au mineralisation at Moonta and Wallaroo.
This excursion was designed with the intent of introducing its participants to the geology, mineralisation and alteration styles present in the Moonta - Wallaroo region, through guided drill core inspection, a trip to the Wheal Hughes open pit mine,...-
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Published: 01 Jul 2002
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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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