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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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Maitland. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 8/1/1998 to 7/1/2001.
During exploration for Moonta-Wallaroo style Cu-Au, the licensees' interpretation of their 1999 aeromagnetic survey infilling the TEISA B5 programme highlighted a WNW-oriented structural corridor, possibly associated with the Arthurton Granite and...-
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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 [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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RB 96/00046 Metasomatites, magmatites, metasediments and metavolcanics : the Palaeo-Mesoproterozoic geology of the Moonta - Wallaroo Cu-Au district. Geological Society of Australia, SA Division. Field excursion, 30-31 March 1996.
Rock alteration to strata on the northern Yorke Peninsula, which appears to have been caused by an event which spanned the Palaeo-Mesoproterozoic boundary (~1600 Ma), was responsible for emplacing much of the mineralisation found in the...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1996
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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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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 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 2000/00013 Australian Clay Minerals Society Inc. 17th Biennial Conference, Adelaide, 10-12 April 2000: Field Guide for post-conference tour, 13-14 April 2000 - Yorke Peninsula clays and carbonates, copper mines, desert loam soils and mangroves.
This tour is concerned with aspects of the soils, geology, landforms, clays and mining on Yorke Peninsula, and likewise for the northern Adelaide Plains which are separated from the Peninsula by Gulf St Vincent. Both of these regions are among the...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2000
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Wallaroo - Moonta mines area. Inaugural SML: licensee JV reports for the period 24/7/1947 - 17/3/1949, plus technical data and expert assessments of prospectivity, pertinent to follow-on investigations undertaken by the SA Dept. of Mines between 1948-55.
This dataset contains the results of exhaustive greenfields geophysical, geological and geochemical investigations carried out by 'modern' methods over the Wallaroo - Moonta mining district during 1948 by the Zinc Corp. and its US joint venture...-
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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 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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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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