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 The drought and lower water levers have revealed that the Coorong is
indeed an ancient Phoenician "heavy mineral sands" / tin / cassiterite
mine ,  that is over 100 km long and a km wide  , that was used to
farm Murex snails to produce purple dye over 3000 years ago after the
sand was mined for heavy minerals , , as well as the gold mining in
the nearby mountains as described in the Turin gold map
http://picasaweb.google.com/kangarooistan9/KangarooistanOldIronToolProofTurinPapyrusGoldMineIsInSouthAustraliaTestImages#5335900216165640418
It will take a while for the experts to admit it , but it is beyond
any doubt more evidence of the early contact the Phoenician traders
had in South Australia
http://picasaweb.google.com/kangarooistan9
kanga
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H.Y.L. Brown was appointed the first Government Geologist. Travelling
by camel, often under considerable hardship, he undertook extensive
fieldwork which resulted in the first geological maps of South
Australia. Early editions of the map in 1883 and 1886 were superseded
in 1899 by a State geological map at a scale of sixteen miles to the
inch. This map, still broadly accurate, was the foundation of future
geological work.
http://www.atlas.sa.gov.au/go/resources/atlas-of-south-australia-1986/environment-resources/geology/geology
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British museum scientists discovered that from 1000 BC onwards
eucalyptus resin was employed in the embalming of the dead in Egypt.
Eucalyptus was only found in Australia and New Guinea at that time.
The tomb of a woman was uncovered in Feb 1964 in the Jordan Valley
using Euc. Resin. Boomerangs have been found in the tombs of Egyptian
kings and queens. They were introduced around 100 BC.

In West Iran, archaeologists have discovered the remains of earthworks
and irrigation channels & other structures extending for 50 miles
suggesting an extensive earth works were common. The amount of
Phoenician and other relics being dug up there suggest the colony
existed around 3000 years ago. The approx. time of the South
australian  - Phoenician colony.and age of the old iron tool and
purple leather , found in the south australian mine
http://picasaweb.google.com/kangarooistan9


http://www.arta.com.au/samaps/maps/coorong.gif
Murex snail aquaculture near Phoenician port , at lower Murray lakes
in South Australian /  20 km from Turin Papyrus  gold mine in nearby
mountains

In Australia, although there are equivalent shellfish, no evidence has
yet been found that these were ever used for textile dyeing until the
fossilized red / purple leather from the kangarooistan Fabian Ancient
Mine 1
.
http://picasaweb.google.com/kangarooistan9/KangarooistanOldIronToolProofTurinPapyrusGoldMineIsInSouthAustraliaTestImages#5335900216165640418



But it was the seafaring nation of traders, the Phoenicians, who were
destined to become irrevocably linked with murex purple dye.
  The name “Phoenician”—and “phoenix,” the legendary bird reborn in
the flames— is derived from the Greek phoinix, meaning “purple-
red.” (Murex comes to us from Latin, derived from the Greek muax, or
“purple fish.”)

It was the Phoenicians who developed and promoted the Mediterranean
murex market. Herodotus tells us that Tyre, built on an island and the
neighboring mainland, was founded in 2759 BC. Archeology supports this
as a roughly probable date for the  settlement in south Australia. The
geography of their long, narrow country, with its high mountains
sloping toward the coastal plain, made the Phoenicians look naturally
outward to the sea.
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BRITISH MUSEUM
Dye formulae of many kinds were widely known by the time this
cuneiform tablet was inscribed in the seventh century bc near Babylon,
now in Iraq. It describes the dyeing of wool to shades of “lapis-
lazuli,” which was apparently an attempt to imitate murex.

The sea meant trade, and by the eighth century BC, the Phoenicians
were established as traders, craftsmen and daring seafarers, and
Phoenician sarcophagi depict wealthy businessmen. Perhaps because good
business required efficient accounting, the Phoenicians invented an
alphabet which was passed on to and adapted by the Greeks—and which
became the origin of our own today.

 Phoenician vessels traveled as far as the British Isles, where they
traded for tin in Cornwall and tin, gold, silver and copper in
Spain.there is no reason they could not have sailed anywhere on earth
with ease , for a long time historians assumed everything of any value
could be found very locally , but 3 years sea voyages are often
referred to and  indicate world wide trade was probable , trading more
than conquering and the traded goods can be seen as luxury items in
the ancient world

All around the Mediterranean there are wide stretches of beaches
composed of crushed murex shells, silent witnesses to the geographical
scope and longevity of the Phoenician dyeing industry. One famous
Phoenician dye-works was near Cadiz, in the south of Spain; others
were in present-day Tunisia, where Carthage was a Phoenician colony.
At all these sites, the shellfish were crushed, and the pigment
extracted, processed, mixed and used. Gravestones of “purple
merchants” (purpurarii or negotiatores artis purpurariae) often show a
set of scales or hanks of yarn, indicating that here too yarn was dyed
before weaving, enabling it to be used for woven patterns and
embroidery.

similar large piles of shells can be seen in South Australia and Murex
snails are very common ,though they were  probably shipped live to
central processing centers

Muricidae, common names murex snails or rock snails, is a large and
varied taxonomic family of small to large predatory sea snails. At
least 1,000 species of muricids are known, and there are numerous
subfamilies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muricidae
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http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200604/millennia.popup2.htm
STATE HERMITAGE MUSEUM
The oldest known murex-dyed textile is a fine wool tapestry woven
during the fifth to fourth centuries bc in Persia. Originally a
garment, it was later adapted—in a well-worn condition—as a felt-lined
horse trapping, which was buried with its owner.
.
On the supply end, the “marriage” of silk and murex may have occurred
relatively early.

 Strands of Chinese silk—the remains of a decorative net, —have been
identified in the hair of an Egyptian mummy dating from 1000 BC, long
before an established trade network is thought to have existed—a
reminder of the importance of keeping an open mind to the reassessment
of historical knowledge.

   The East–West land and maritime routes that became known as the
Silk Roads are generally considered to have been “opened up” during
the time of the Han and the Roman Empires, but already during the
sixth century BC and probably long before the trade between China and
Ancient Brittani indicate Phoenicians could trade anything  of value
from anywhere


Note that heavy mineral sands are being mined in  the ancient stranded
beach sands ,  even today in South Australia ,  inland from this
site ,
http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&channel=s&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=WHJ&q=mineral+sand+mining+south+australia&btnG=Search&meta=
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 If it is profitable to recover heavy minerals from beach sands
today , why would it not have been done in ancient times , strip
mining beach sands is far easier than hard rock mining quartz
.
South Australian deposits

No heavy mineral deposits are currently mined in South Australia but
exploration has highlighted the prospectivity of the Murray and Eucla
Basins, and several deposits are in an advanced exploration stage.



Quaternary sand dunes of the Murray Basin (courtesy Murray Basin
Minerals NL).
http://outernode.pir.sa.gov.au/minerals/geology/minerals_mines_and_quarries/commodities/mineral_sands

Murray Basin

The Early Pliocene Loxton Sand and overlying Parilla Sand formations
have been the target of mineral sand exploration in the Murray Basin.

 During the 1980s one of the world’s largest accumulations of heavy
minerals was delineated by drilling in the basin

In 1986–87, Aberfoyle Resources Ltd drilled the Mindarie, Perponda and
Mercunda prospects near Karoonda just inland from the coorong in South
Australia, where heavy minerals have accumulated in northwest–
southeast-trending Pliocene strandlines. A renewed phase of
exploration commenced in 1998, with Murray Basin Minerals NL defining
11 mineralised strandlines in the Karoonda area (Fig. 2). In September
2000, the company announced the results of a first-stage feasibility
study based on a resource of 65.6 Mt containing 3.3% heavy minerals

Phoenicians were experts at metallurgy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallurgical_engineering

Silver, copper, tin and meteoric iron can also be found native,
allowing a limited amount of metalworking in early cultures. Egyptian
weapons made from meteoric iron in about 3000 B.C. were highly prized
as "Daggers from Heaven"[2]. However, by learning to get copper and
tin by heating rocks and combining those two metals to make an alloy
called bronze, the technology of metallurgy began about 3500 B.C. with
the Bronze Age.

The extraction of iron from its ore into a workable metal is much more
difficult. It appears to have been invented by the Hittites in about
1200 B.C., beginning the Iron Age. The secret of extracting and
working iron was a key factor in the success of the Philistines.[3][4]

Cassiterite is a tin oxide mineral, SnO2. It is generally opaque but
is translucent in thin crystals. Its luster and multiple crystal faces
produce a desirable gem. Cassiterite is the chief ore of tin today.



Most sources of cassiterite today are found in alluvial or placer
deposits containing the resistant weathered grains

The black grains seen in the Kangarooistan "old iron tool "
conglomerate  are cassiterite / tin , as used to add to copper to make
Bronze
http://picasaweb.google.com/kangarooistan9/KangarooistanOldIronToolProofTurinPapyrusGoldMineIsInSouthAustraliaTestImages#5335998821973788498

Cassiterite is a tin oxide mineral, SnO2.

site of heavy mineral mining in South Australia was Morrison Beach on
the north coast of Kangaroo Island where 1200 t of rutile and 190 t of
zircon were mined by Minoil Services Pty Ltd between 1971 and 1976
(Morris, 1986).

Drilling for construction sand along the eastern margin of the Golden
Grove Embayment by the former Department of Mines in 1975 discovered
heavy minerals within lacustrine sand of the Middle Eocene North
Maslin Sand.
   The mineral suite comprises rutile, zircon, ilmenite and monazite
sourced from Adelaidean quartzite, slate, schist and pegmatite, and
Barossa Complex schist, gneiss and pegmatite. The resource is inferred
to contain ~26 000 t of ilmenite and altered ilmenite, 39 000 t of
rutile and 32 000 t of zircon. This modest resource may eventually be
exploited

IfPhoenetian miners were in the area they WOULD have mined this most
sought after mineral

I claim the DID

I claim the Coorong is an ancient mine site where mineral sands were
mined , and the resultant long thin water course was then used to farm
Murex snails after the miners slowly moved along the coast over
several thousands of years

That we today call the Coorong , is clearly an ancient Phoenician
strip mine , after tin or other heave y minerals , that was then used
to grow murex snails , to make " purple dye " and the mine nearby was
indeed the mine in the mountains just inland  , as  shown in the Turin
Papyrus

An examination of these sites can show clear evidence of VAST man made
features , of mining and maritime peoples a very long time ago , that
seem to be after minerals and Murex snails , the local Aboriginal
peoples seem to not use but may have traded them
http://www.arta.com.au/samaps/maps/coorong.gif
http://www.arta.com.au/samaps/maps/coorong.gif
http://www.mdbc.gov.au/subs/annual_reports/ar0405/img/BarragesMap.gif

http://picasaweb.google.com/kangarooistan9/KangarooistanOldIronToolProofTurinPapyrusGoldMineIsInSouthAustraliaTestImages#5335900216165640418