The Coompana area is characterised by several thick basin cover sequences dominantly composed of limestone, and forms the topographically flat Nullarbor Plain. Consequently, this region was previously considered too challenging for mineral...

A newly found, up to 2 inch wide vein of asbestos occurring within a magnesian marble bed in the Mount Olinthus district was inspected and qualitatively assessed from a single shallow trench exposure.

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Ideal location - 26 miles from Adelaide - good climate. 3½ miles from Nairne on Adelaide-Melbourne railway line. Electric supply to Nairne-Power requirements could probably be obtained from supply company. Small flow permanent water beside deposit,...

South Australia’s Olympic Cu-Au Province hosts some of the world’s great iron oxide copper gold (IOCG) deposits, such as Olympic Dam, Prominent Hill and Carrapateena. The same causative thermal event resulted in variants of this deposit class being...

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EVERARD, South Australia. Sheet SG/53-13, International Index. 1:250 000 Geological Series

An application for financial assistance to resume mining at the Avondale mine, by sinking a vertical shaft to a depth of 220 feet on the East lode, was made on 28/6/1948 by Mr. A.R. Dodson on behalf of Dodson & Co. After making a geological...

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Late Palaeozoic sedimentary rocks of the Arckaringa Basin in northern South Australia include diamictite and sandstone units of the Boorthanna Formation that were deposited as lodgement till under fluvioglacial conditions. The clast size and matrix...

Regolith mapping over the Mingary 1:100 000 map area in the northeast of the State is in progress. To date, the Cockburn North, Cockburn South, Mutooroo North, Mutooroo South and Radium Hill South 1:25 000 maps have been completed. A well-developed...

In 2017, the Geological Survey of South Australia, in partnership with Geoscience Australia, undertook a regional drilling program in the far west of South Australia: the Coompana Drilling Project. The project sought to obtain geological information...

The most promising of three newly discovered kyanite deposits located near Radium Hill has been examined to ascertain its readiness of access, deposit morphology, probable ore grade, possible recoverable tonnage from opening up five orebody masses,...

During the very early days of settlement, inhabitants of Adelaide and the surrounding plains were forced to depend upon surface water supplies for their needs. These were obtained by collecting water shed from roofs, and by carting or pumping from the...

The gypsum deposit is a dune formation situated on the south eastern margin of Lake Fowler, 9 miles west of the out port at Edithburgh, on the east coast of Lower Yorke Peninsula. The gypsum occurs in two forms - mainly "seed" with interbedded and a...

This report presents the results of a study jointly conducted by the Geological Survey of South Australia and CSIRO Mineral Resources which aimed to enhance the expression of geological structure in geophysical images and to derive depth to magnetic...

This report presents the results of a study jointly conducted by the Geological Survey of South Australia and CSIRO Mineral Resources which aimed to enhance the expression of geological structure in geophysical images and to derive depth to magnetic...

This report presents the results of a study jointly conducted by the Geological Survey of South Australia and CSIRO Mineral Resources which aimed to enhance the expression of geological structure in geophysical images and to derive depth to magnetic...

Sandstone as a building material was used extensively in Adelaide and regional South Australia from the founding of the colony until the end of World War II. However, since 1945 the industry has declined steadily, with closure of many quarries, until...