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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 - 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 [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Minlaton, Ardrossan and Ardrossan Coastal Area (the Moonta South Project). Annual and combined annual reports to licences' renewal, for the period 19/4/2002 to 1/8/2008.
Two exploration licences covering most of Yorke Peninsula south of Maitland were taken up by Avoca Resources to allow it to determine the region's potential for having economic basement-hosted iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) mineralisation...-
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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 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 2001/00017 TER 001, Yorke Peninsula. Well completion report.
Drillhole TER 1, funded by the TEISA program, was drilled to test basement depth and stratigraphy to the west of Minlaton, Yorke Peninsula. This drilling project followed TEISA aeromagnetic and geological surveys of the Peninsula in 1999, which had...-
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Published: 01 Nov 2001
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RB 2000/00050 Gawler Craton PIRSA / AGSO / WMC field trip, 28 August - 12 September 2000. Trip itinerary and planned stops field guide.
The subject field excursion performed in August-September 2000 in part mimicked that held by the GSSA during September 1997, but included 6 additional stops programmed for Day 1 (31st August 2000) to examine Archaean geology at the southern tip of...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2000
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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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RB 2013/00014 IOCG-style mineralisation in the central eastern Gawler Craton, SA; characterisation of alteration, geochemical associations and exploration vectors.
While South Australia is well known as having within its borders major iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposits such as Olympic Dam, Prominent Hill, Carrapateena and Hillside, there has until now been a lack of publically accessible...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2013
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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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Painted Hill, Birthday Hill, White Hill, Mount Hawker and The Twins (the Mount Woods Project, then the Coober Pedy Project). Progress and combined annual reports for the period 27/11/1987 to 31/12/2007. [ Index Part 2 of 4 ].
After Poseidon Exploration took over the management of ELs 1448 and 1465 in November 1991 as a result of a supplementary farm-in agreement made with Burmine, whereby Poseidon would fund the next two year's of exploration to earn Burmine's 50% interest...-
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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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Eastern-central Gawler Craton : Archaean to Middle Mesoproterozoic solid geology.
This data package comprises all of the GIS-related technical elements of a preliminary basement solid geology interpretation, which has been undertaken by DSD for the purpose of updating a fundamental mineral exploration-guiding dataset applicable to...-
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Gawler Province regional geology 3D Model (3D version 1).
The Gawler Province 3D Geological Model is the second product of PIRSA's early 3D modelling trials conducted using 3D GeoModeller software. The work began with identifying the statigraphic units that were to be modelled. Due to the regional scale of...-
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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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ExpNotes MAITLAND: Explanatory Notes MAITLAND
The MAITLAND Special 1:250,000 scale geological map covers the greater part of South Australia's Yorke Peninsula. The rocks in the map area comprise deformed Palaeoproterozoic and early Mesoproterozoic basement of the south-eastern Gawler Craton, and...-
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Emmie Bluff IOCG Mineral System 3D Model (3D pdf version)
The eastern Gawler Craton hosts the giant Olympic Dam iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposit, as well as several other world class IOCG deposits (i.e. Prominent Hill and Carrapateena). The region is covered by a thick sequence of...-
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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
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Punt Hill Project. 3D data package.
South Australia’s Olympic Cu-Au Province hosts some of the world’s great iron oxide copper gold (IOCG) deposits, such as Olympic Dam, Prominent Hill and Carrapateena. The same causative thermal event resulted in variants of this deposit class being...-
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