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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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Port Broughton, Redhill and Mount Remarkable - Port Augusta areas (part of the Moonta North Project ELs combined reporting group). Annual reports and joint final report at licences' surrender, for the period 19/4/2002 to 22/5/2006.
Economic deposits of iron-oxide associated copper-gold mineralisation of the Moonta-Wallaroo or Olympic Dam style, hosted in Palaeoproterozoic basement rocks of the Moonta Sub-domain, were targeted by exploration in three now surrendered licences,...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 1 partnership DPY1-31 - Bute township area mineral prospect. Project interim and final reports.
The licensee, Peter Forwood, has been involved in mineral exploration at Bute for many years, initially with North Broken Hill Ltd in ELs 248, 420, 577 and 972, and has pursued the exploration of the area through many phases. Two important features...-
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Myola. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 8/11/1996 to 29/7/2003.
Palaeoproterozoic gold, copper and base metal occurrences were the targets of exploration in an area surrounding the Iron Baron mine that, in a tectonic sense, incorporates parts of the Cleve, Middleback and Moonta Subdomains. Regional calcrete...-
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Roopena and Iron Knob. Joint progress reports, joint annual reports and final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 22/4/1992 to 23/2/2000.
Exploration for Mount Isa style, Fe-oxide associated Cu-Au mineralisation has targeted Whyalla Group metasediments and associated Hiltaba Suite granitic intrusions within a 110 km long x 15 km wide, north - south aligned corridor situated west of...-
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Bute. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/12/1998 to 16/3/2006.
Sustained recent attempts to locate economic Moonta - style copper mineralisation in Proterozoic basement in the vicinity of Bute township have been based on the presence there of a large regional aeromagnetic high, and on a past drilling discovery by...-
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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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Maitland. First partial surrender report, for the period 25/8/2008 to 24/8/2015.
58 square km of the Area C southernmost sub-block of EL 5320 have been relinquished to compensate for a shortfall in exploration spending against commitments. During the past seven years, the only work performed on the relinquished ground was the...-
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Published: 20 Mar 1916
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Data release - as updated : Maitland (the Yorke Peninsula Copper Project). Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 25/8/2008 to 24/8/2017.
An area of the western Yorke Peninsula, comprising three separate sub-blocks, was taken up to explore for possible economic buried IOCG-U deposits similar to those at Hillside (located 25 km to the east of sub-block 'B'), Olympic Dam, Prominent Hill...-
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Published: 18 Oct 1917
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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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Ardrossan (part of the Pine Point Project). First partial surrender report at licence renewal, for the period 2/8/2012 to 1/8/2017.
Within the northernmost of two now relinquished portions of the licence area, the only work undertaken was the collection and analysis (by ICP-MS/AES with ultra-trace level methods, following an aqua regia digest) of 380 x minus 180 micron particle...-
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Published: 22 Mar 1918
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Port Hughes. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 29/11/2010 to 17/8/2017.
A licence consisting of three separate small sub-blocks that cover a large number of freehold broad-acre farms in the Bute - Agery - Moonta South district has been explored for possible buried economic IOCG mineralisation, which may have formed on or...-
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Published: 31 Aug 1917
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PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 8 partnership DPY8-08 - northern Yorke Peninsula, Alford Copper Belt, structurally controlled IOCG mineral prospects. Drilling project final report.
As part of ongoing mineral exploration within the Moonta-Wallaroo region of South Australia, Peninsula Resources Limited via its parent company Adelaide Resources Ltd is exploring for economic buried copper-gold mineralisation within its EL 4961,...-
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Bute. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/7/1989 to 17/7/1991.
TARGET: Economic hydrothermal copper or gold mineralisation in shallowly concealed pre-Adelaidean meta-igneous and metasedimentary bedrock known to occur over an area near Bute township. EXPLORATION: Ground magnetic profiling over previously defined...-
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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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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 - 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
