This report presents detailed industry-derived statistics on the State's output and sales values of earth resource commodities realised during the six month period ended 30 June 2015, and compares the data with that returned for the previous six...

The Gluepot Granite is a heterogeneous granite comprising coarse-grained porphyritic granite and medium-grained equigranular granite, as well as late stage pegmatite and aplite phases. It occurs as a large pluton intruding the c. 1755 Ma Moonabie...

Former sheep station ‘Bimbowrie’, situated in the Olary Ranges, South Australia, was purchased by the South Australian Government as a conservation park in 2004. It has had a long history of mining, mineral exploration and geoscientific investigation....

This report presents detailed industry-derived statistics on the State's output and sales values of earth resource commodities realised during the six month period ended 30 June 2016, and compares the data with that returned for the previous six...

The Murray Basin in south-eastern Australia contains significant economic resources of heavy minerals (ilmenite, zircon, rutile) in coastal strandlines of a prograding sandplain that formed during marine regression in Late Miocene – Early Pliocene...

The Queen Mary Wolfram Mine at Callawonga Creek which was discovered in 1911, worked till 1918 and reopened in 1952 is the only one three local workings to produce worthwhile wolfram ore. The mine is located intersecting pneumatolytic quartz veins...

Two basin systems in north-eastern Eyre Peninsula comprising Palaeoproterozoic metasedimentary and volcanic successions are described in terms of rock age and provenance. The older system comprises the Myola Volcanics and the Broadview Schist, which...

This report details newly acquired Sensitive High Resolution Ion Microprobe (SHRIMP) U-Pb isotopic data for three samples from two drill holes in the Fowler Domain of the western Gawler Craton. During the late 1980s,stratigraphic drilling done by the...

This report presents detailed industry-derived statistics on the State's output and sales values of earth resource commodities realised during the six month period ended 30 June 2008, and compares the data with that returned for the previous six...

This report presents detailed industry-derived statistics on the State's output and sales values of earth resource commodities realised during the six month period ended 31 December 2008, and compares the data with that returned for the previous six...

This report presents whole rock Sm-Nd and Hf in zircon results for 31 samples from the Tieyon 1:100 000 mapsheet area of the Musgrave Province, South Australia, acquired over the period 2007–2012 as part of the Musgrave Province mapping program. It is...

This report presents detailed industry-derived statistics on the State's output and sales values of earth resource commodities realised during the six month period ended 31 December 2015, and compares the data with that returned for the previous six...

This report presents the results of geochronology from projects completed during 2011 and 2012, which addressed rock samples collected from a number of different geological provinces within South Australia. The Musgrave Province in northern South...

This report presents detailed industry-derived statistics on the State's output and sales values of earth resource commodities realised during the six month period ended 31 December 2014, and compares the data with that returned for the previous six...

The Tieyon 1:100 000 mapsheet area is located on the South Australia – Northern Territory border in the central Far North of South Australia. It covers rock units of the Mesoproterozoic Musgrave Province, the Mesozoic Eromanga Basin and the Neogene...

This report book contains a compilation of zircon and monazite U-Pb geochronological data, plus geochemical data, that are derived from the Fowler Domain of the Gawler Craton. The related study has been undertaken as part of the Australian Research...

The MARREE mapsheet area includes the south-western portion of the Strzelecki Desert plus parts of the Tirari Desert, north-western Flinders Ranges and north-eastern Willouran Ranges, between latitudes 29 to 30 degrees S and longitudes 138 to 139...

Zircon crystals found in eleven samples of granitic to gneissic rocks collected from the FOWLER 1:250 000 mapsheet area have been analysed via uranium-lead radiometric dating methods, using laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry...

This report presents the results of SHRIMP U-Pb zircon geochronology from the southern Gawler Craton that has been acquired with the view to improving our understanding of some key stratigraphic units of this region. Eight samples taken from outcrops...

During the period June 2008 to October 2011, the Geological Survey of South Australia was one of the sponsors for a Mineral and Energy Research Institute of Western Australia research project conducted using the zircon U-Th-Pb-He double dating...