Myponga, South Australia

Myponga is a small town in South Australia is located 58 km away from Adelaide in the southern Mount Lofty Ranges. The site is adjacent to the north-west western end of the Myponga reservoir, a dam.

The original name of the town comes from the Aboriginal Maipgunga and was modified over time in Myponga, which means "high cliffs ". The village lies in a grass land that was previously covered by trees that were felled for the mines in the area of Broken Hill. Today is a pasture.

This area was formerly also search for ores and found in the 1950s, the rare mineral Uranospinite at Wild Dog Hill. The mineralization of uranium took place in the Barossa gneiss complex in the Proterozoic. The reduction, which took place about 5 km southwest of Myponga, resulted in the years 1954-1955 346 t of uranium oxide at a grade of 0.36% U308, which was produced in a facility in Port Pirie. Today there is no uranium mining in Myponga more.

In the village is a cheese factory whose products are exported because of the high quality.