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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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