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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 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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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Ardrossan, Minlaton and Ardrossan coast areas (the Pine Point Project). Joint annual reports for the period 19/4/2002 to 1/8/2018.
During the 2014-2015 joint reporting year for the three Pine Point Project licences, as a consequence of the extensive and detailed mine planning feasibility work then being undertaken at Hillside, Rex did not undertake any exploration. A Mining Lease...-
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ComRev 008 Iron Ore in South Australia 2000
The iron-rich rocks of South Australia have been classified into six deposit types - residual, chemical sedimentary iron formations, Fe-skarn and, of lesser significance, hydrothermal, clastic and magmatic. Production has been overwhelmingly from...-
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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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Maitland. Annual reports and final report to licence surrender, for the period 7/9/1992 to 24/9/2004.
Exploration undertaken by MIM across all of north-central Yorke Peninsula initially targeted Fe-oxide associated Olympic Dam style Cu-U-Au deposits within Palaeoproterozoic metasediments and volcanic rocks, which could be genetically related through...-
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Published: 02 Dec 1903
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Port Hughes (subject to the South Moonta joint venture option agreement). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/3/2007 to 6/3/2010.
A small licence area located immediately south of Port Hughes on northern Yorke Peninsula was taken out primarily to explore for possible economic epithermal, vein style or IOCG type copper, gold, base metal and uranium mineralisation formed within...-
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Published: 17 Aug 1910
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PACE 2020 Initiative : PACE Targeting, Year 1 partnership no. 5 - Wauraltee airborne electromagnetic (AEM) geophysical survey. Project PT1-05 final report.
EL 4177, made up of three disjoint parts, is located on the central-western side of Yorke Peninsula near the towns of Port Victoria, Maitland and Arthurton, and covers a total area of 243 square km. The underlying basement rocks there are part of the...-
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Published: 05 Aug 1912
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Paskeville (subject to the East Moonta joint venture option agreement). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/3/2007 to 6/3/2010.
An elongate narrow area lying ~15-20 km to the south-east and east of Kadina on northern Yorke Peninsula was taken out primarily to explore for possible economic epithermal, vein style or IOCG type copper, gold, base metal and uranium mineralisation...-
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Published: 17 Aug 1910
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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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PACE 2020 Initiative : PACE Targeting, Year 1 partnership no. 4 - western Yorke Peninsula versatile time domain electromagnetic (VTEM) airborne geophysical survey. Project PT1-04 final report.
During November-December 2011 a helicopter-borne VTEM survey was flown over the northern portions of Phoenix Copper Ltd’s (Phoenix) ELs 4031 and 4312 on western Yorke Peninsula to test for Cu-Au mineralisation in Hiltaba Suite rocks (host to the...-
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Published: 22 Feb 1912
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Anna Villa (part of the Alford Project). Annual report and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 20/6/2013 to 16/6/2016.
An area on northern Yorke Peninsula comprising five semicontiguous sub-blocks which are centred ~23 south-southeast of Moonta has been explored for possible buried economic IOCG type mineralisation which could have formed within Palaeoproterozoic or...-
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Published: 19 Aug 1916
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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 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
