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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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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Kainton, Melton and Paskeville (the Melton Project). Joint annual reports for the period 27/8/2007 to 26/8/2019.
Exploration for possible buried sandstone-hosted uranium mineralisation which could have formed within early Tertiary palaeochannel sediments of the northern Saint Vincent Basin is being carried out in a small area near Kainton on north-eastern Yorke...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Ardrossan, Minlaton and Ardrossan coast areas (the Pine Point Project). Joint annual reports for the period 2/8/2008 to 1/8/2014.
Rex Mineral’s ('Rex') primary objective in the Pine Point Project area is to determine the potential for economic basement-hosted iron oxide - associated copper-gold mineralisation such as that found at Olympic Dam, Prominent Hill, Ernest Henry and...-
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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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West Lake Torrens (part of the Murdie Project). Final report for geophysical, drilling and logistics program, Project ADI RD01-120 [part of Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 1, 2021].
ADI funding was granted by DEM to Kelaray to conduct approved geophysical surveys and exploratory drilling and apply logistical support within its Murdie Project, for a combined expenditure of up to A$320,000. At the outset of the project, Kelaray...-
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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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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Ardrossan, Minlaton and Ardrossan coast areas (the Pine Point Project). Joint annual reports for the period 19/4/2002 to 1/8/2018.
During the 2014-2015 joint reporting year for the three Pine Point Project licences, as a consequence of the extensive and detailed mine planning feasibility work then being undertaken at Hillside, Rex did not undertake any exploration. A Mining Lease...-
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ComRev 008 Iron Ore in South Australia 2000
The iron-rich rocks of South Australia have been classified into six deposit types - residual, chemical sedimentary iron formations, Fe-skarn and, of lesser significance, hydrothermal, clastic and magmatic. Production has been overwhelmingly from...-
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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] : Minlaton, Ardrossan and Ardrossan Coastal Area (the Moonta South Project). Annual and combined annual reports to licences' renewal, for the period 19/4/2002 to 1/8/2008.
Two exploration licences covering most of Yorke Peninsula south of Maitland were taken up by Avoca Resources to allow it to determine the region's potential for having economic basement-hosted iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) mineralisation...-
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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 2002/00018 16th Australian Geological Convention, Adelaide, South Australia, 1-5 July 2002 - Excursion A1 locality guide. Geology of Yorke Peninsula, and Cu-Au mineralisation at Moonta and Wallaroo.
This excursion was designed with the intent of introducing its participants to the geology, mineralisation and alteration styles present in the Moonta - Wallaroo region, through guided drill core inspection, a trip to the Wheal Hughes open pit mine,...-
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Published: 01 Jul 2002
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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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RB 2000/00050 Gawler Craton PIRSA / AGSO / WMC field trip, 28 August - 12 September 2000. Trip itinerary and planned stops field guide.
The subject field excursion performed in August-September 2000 in part mimicked that held by the GSSA during September 1997, but included 6 additional stops programmed for Day 1 (31st August 2000) to examine Archaean geology at the southern tip of...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2000
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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 2013/00014 IOCG-style mineralisation in the central eastern Gawler Craton, SA; characterisation of alteration, geochemical associations and exploration vectors.
While South Australia is well known as having within its borders major iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposits such as Olympic Dam, Prominent Hill, Carrapateena and Hillside, there has until now been a lack of publically accessible...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2013
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 2 partnership DPY2-44, Alford Shear Zone. Hiltaba Event - related IOCG mineral prospects. Project final report.
An area of 477 square km, situated to the west of Bute and north of Wallaroo and Kadina, is being explored by Argonaut Resources and Hillgrove Resources for economic base and precious metal deposits of Moonta-Wallaroo, Olympic Dam or Prominent Hill...-
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Painted Hill, Birthday Hill, White Hill, Mount Hawker and The Twins (the Mount Woods Project, then the Coober Pedy Project). Progress and combined annual reports for the period 27/11/1987 to 31/12/2007. [ Index Part 2 of 4 ].
After Poseidon Exploration took over the management of ELs 1448 and 1465 in November 1991 as a result of a supplementary farm-in agreement made with Burmine, whereby Poseidon would fund the next two year's of exploration to earn Burmine's 50% interest...-
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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
