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...

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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In December, 1979 a display of selected drillcore from the Gawler Craton, South Australia, was exhibited at the core Library complex of the South Australian Department of Mines and Energy. It was organised by the Geological Society of Australia (SA...

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...

This report summarizes information on 10 South Australian mineral deposits with individual aggregate gold resources and/or historic production of 1 tonne or more. By far the largest is the Olympic Dam Cu-U-Au-Ag deposit, with a measured and indicated...

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...

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...

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...

Results from previous geophysical surveys undertaken over Moonta Porphyry subcrop are presented herein, including : - IP, ground magnetic, electroprofiling and electrosounding data from the 1960s and 1970s, - INPUT, magnetic and radiometric...

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...

Exploration for buried metallic minerals carried out over seventeen years on northern and central Yorke Peninsula included the acquisition of ground magnetic, IP and electrosounding surveys, extensive soil geochemical sampling, drilling of 1341 auger...

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...

The Moonta project was initiated in 1959 and has been worked as a joint venture since the early 1960s. A large body of geological information has been accumulated, with factual input given by data obtained from geochemical exploratory drilling of ~...

TARGET: Extensions to known mineralisation, concealed beneath shallow cover. EXPLORATION: - Acquisition of reconnaissance and detailed ground magnetic surveys and frequency domain, electrode array IP surveys (9000 line km); - Exploration of the...

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,...

A SADM project to attempt to determine the ages of the youngest granites of the Gawler Block, of its north-western margin, and of known subsurface granites in the Officer and Eucla Basins, was initiated with Amdel in July 1969. The project aims to...

Yorke Peninsula lies between Spencer Gulf and Gulf St. Vincent. As its discoverer Matthew Flinders-wrote: "it is singular in its form, bearing some resemblance to a very ill-shaped leg and foot". This Bulletin deals with an area having an arbitrary...

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;...

Rock alteration to strata on the northern Yorke Peninsula, which appears to have been caused by an event which spanned the Palaeo-Mesoproterozoic boundary (~1600 Ma), was responsible for emplacing much of the mineralisation found in the...