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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 88/00067 Drilling in the Torrens Hinge Zone - Spencer Shelf region between Bute and Port Germein, 1968-1983.
Contains summarised geological logs of 93 diamond drillholes and 4 percussion drillholes that were drilled by SADM/SADME and by exploration companies, including the logs of 2 early water bores drilled near Port Pirie. The holes penetrated Cambrian,...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1988
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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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Moonta - Wallaroo area. Second partial surrender report, for the period 10/1/2002 to 11/4/2009.
Work completed within the three now relinquished small portions of this licence (total 6.16%) has included regional and semi-detailed calcrete sampling (56 samples taken at 1 km spacing, plus 111 infill samples taken on 400 m grid centres), parts of...-
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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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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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EL 6105 - Wallaroo Plain area. Annual technical reports for the period 20/02/2018 to expiry 19/02/2023.
EL6105 was granted to Spencer Metals Pty Ltd (ACN) (“Spencer Metals”) on 20 February 2018, the tenement is located approximately 20 km north of Moonta on the Copper Coast, northern Yorke Peninsula and covers approximately 17 square km. The area had...-
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Published: 05 Apr 1923
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Webling Bay. Annual reports for the period 02/06/2016 to 01/06/2019.
Exploration licence 5777 “Webling Bay” covers an area of 82 square km is situated on the western Yorke Peninsula. The project area consists entirely of Cainozoic quartz sand cover with minor outcrop of Tickera granite along the coast. The Cainozoic...-
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Published: 29 Jul 1918
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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 [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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Moonta-Wallaroo Joint Venture. History of exploration activities.
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 ~...-
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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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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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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
