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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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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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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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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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EL 6105 - Wallaroo Plain area. Annual technical reports for the period 20/02/2018 to expiry 19/02/2023.
EL6105 was granted to Spencer Metals Pty Ltd (ACN) (“Spencer Metals”) on 20 February 2018, the tenement is located approximately 20 km north of Moonta on the Copper Coast, northern Yorke Peninsula and covers approximately 17 square km. The area had...-
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Published: 05 Apr 1923
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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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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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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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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 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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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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