Boreholes B2/73, B3/73 intersected (i) thin Quarternary units over ?Plio-Pleistocene Carisbrooke Sand, uncomformably overlying (without intervening Port Willunga Beds) (ii) an Eocene succession (correlated with the lower part of Reynolds' standard...

Pollen from deep-sea drillsites on the Ninetyeast Ridge reflects island floras that flourished. in the Paleocone and Oligocene, and showed pronounced similarity to Australian and New Zealand Early Tertiary floras. Although closer to southern...

A thirteen day excursion to Britain during September 1975 provided the opportunity to visit briefly the major outcrops of late Precambrian rocks of England, Scotland and Wales. These included (l) a fossiliferous vulcano-sedimentary sequence at...

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Assemblages of spores and pollen are recorded from volcanogenic sediments immediately above oceanic basement at drillsites on the Ninety East Ridge, Indian Ocean, and are believed to reflect the vegetation of islands which were emergent along the...

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An area on northern Arkaroola Station, which has since 26/4/2012 has been legally quarantined from mineral exploration operations under the South Australian Mining Act, was considered by its former titleholders to be prospective for an array of...

The principal aim of Flinders Diamonds Limited’s (FDL) exploration in the Chapel Hill area is to discover a commercial diamond deposit. The source of the "Echunga" diamonds, found in the alluvial gold workings within the Chapel Hill Fossicking Reserve...

An area located immediately west of the northern tip of Lake Torrens, and covered by the dunefield in which the head of Stuart Creek rises, was taken under licence by Western Mining Corp. (WMC) to document the stratigraphic section present on the...

Rio Tinto Exploration Pty Ltd (Rio Tinto) took up the subject tenement at Douglas Creek, located ~ 20 km east of the central Peake and Denison Ranges, to explore the Palaeoproterozoic and Mesoproterozoic metamorphic basement rock sequence that it...

Tasman Resources' Central Gawler Project acreage, originally comprising seven exploration licences ELs 3339 to 3345, was initially applied for on the basis of perceived prospectivity for diamonds, however, further potential for discovering buried...

A diamond exploration project area comprising nine mineral exploration licences located in the central Mount Lofty Ranges was taken up by new public company Flinders Diamonds (FDL) to search for possible commercial accumulations of diamonds, thought...

The three licences comprising the Challenger West Project were taken up principally to explore for economic gold, which could possibly occur in strike extensions of known gold lodes formed within Archaean basement rocks that constitute the Challenger...

An area located on central western Eyre Peninsula between Minnipa and Port Kenny was taken up to explore the Precambrian basement rocks, which are poorly exposed there, for possible economic buried iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposits....

The Lake Blanche Project lies on the western edge of the Eromanga Basin in South Australia to the north Frome Embayment. The Eromanga Basin of central Australia is a major oil-producing, sedimentary basin of Mesozoic age. Sediments in this basin...

Brown coal has been reported in the past from a number of localities on Eyre Peninsula having been discovered chiefly during water boring. A few of the more promising areas have been investigated further by boring and samples analysed. Existing...

Palynological analyses of seven cutting samples from several drillholes in the eastern Eucla Basin, South Australia, indicate the presence of Late Miocene - Early Pliocene sediments, correlated with the Monotocidites galeatus spore-pollen zone. Open...

The Abminga bedrock drilling program was initiated in 1999 as part of the Targeted Exploration Initiative of South Australia (TEISA) strategy conceived by the SA Government and implemented through PIRSA's Mineral Resources Group. Drilling was proposed...

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In mid-1980, CRA Exploration took out four mineral tenements in the Polda Basin area of western Eyre Peninsula to explore for Tertiary and Jurassic lignites and also for possible Permian sub-bituminous coal. Interest in this area had been generated by...