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Moonta - Wallaroo mining area investigations, central Yorke Peninsula. Partial surrender report for the period 1/9/1960 to 9/6/1977, for a sector of Exploration Licence 249.
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...-
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Published: 31 Jul 1977
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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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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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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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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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Roopena. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 31/7/2000 to 26/10/2008.
The 1373 square km Roopena licence area, which lies a short distance inland from Spencer Gulf between Port Augusta and Whyalla, was taken by Aurora Gold to explore for possible economic deposits of gold and copper mineralisation formed within a...-
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Published: 22 Oct 1908
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Whiting. First partial surrender report for the period 15/2/2010 to 14/2/2013.
In the vicinity of Weetulta on northern Yorke Peninsula, as part of Minotaur's recent exploration for possible economic buried Moonta or Cloncurry-style IOCG - related base metal massive sulphide mineralisation, 60 line km of airborne VTEM survey data...-
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Published: 12 Aug 1913
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Maitland (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 comprised of three separate small sub-blocks centred ~17 km south of Moonta near Oakburn has been explored for possible buried economic IOCG type mineralisation which could have formed within Palaeoproterozoic or...-
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Published: 14 Mar 1916
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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 [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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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] : 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 2 of 2 ].
When Phelps Dodge began managing exploration on EL 2885 in mid-2002, its focus was on defining structurally-controlled magnetic targets that had remained untested, but which could host significant sized deposits of Olympic Dam or Ernest Henry type...-
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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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Bute. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 16/1/1980 to 30/6/1982.
In the latter stages of its search for possible economic base and precious metal deposits in the Bute area, North Broken Hill targeted the concealed pre-Adelaidean basement rocks for Mount Gunson or ?Olympic Dam type hydrothermal ores, and for Mount...-
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Port Broughton - Lochiel and Port Pirie areas. Partial relinquishment reports for the period 19/4/2002 to 18/4/2003.
Iron-oxide copper-gold mineralisation of the Moonta-Wallaroo or Olympic Dam style, hosted in Palaeoproterozoic rocks of the Moonta Sub-domain, was the target of exploration in an area located east of Port Broughton and south of Port Pirie on upper...-
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Published: 06 Jun 1903
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Marion Bay. Annual reports and final report to licence surrender, for the period 18/3/1997 to 17/9/2000.
Calcrete was sampled over the entire foot of Yorke Peninsula, approximately 200 km by road from Adelaide, to follow up aeromagnetic structures and anomalous base metals in groundwater. Several samples returned slightly elevated base metals, from...-
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Published: 18 Dec 1900
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Hesso and Bookaloo (part of the Torrens Project). Respective first partial surrender reports for the period 19/4/2002 to 18/4/2003.
Olympic Dam style iron-oxide copper-gold mineralisation hosted in Palaeoproterozoic and Mesoproterozoic basement rocks of the Stuart Shelf, and Mount Gunson type younger Neoproterozoic sediment-hosted copper mineralisation, were the targets of...-
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Published: 06 Jun 1903