The Minerals value-chain Scorecard, initiated in 2001, provides information regarding the performance of South Australia's mineral industry across the exploration, investment, production, processing and export stages of wealth creation. In doing so,...

The Mineral Systems Drilling Program (MSDP) was a $3.5M cash and $4.11M in-kind collaborative drill program involving government, researchers, service providers and the minerals industry. The objective of the MSDP was to further the understanding of...

The mining and processing of copper ore in South Australia's early history were based on Cornish practice and technology. The discovery of copper deposits, which led to what proved to be economically viable operations in the new colony, proved timely,...

A small licence area located 8 km north-west of Olary township was taken up to explore for possible economic stratabound iron ore (magnetite) hosted by metamorphosed Adelaidean glacial sedimentary strata of the Yudnamutana Subgroup. During licence...

A very small licence area located 13 km north-west of Olary township was taken up to explore for possible economic stratabound iron ore (magnetite) hosted by metamorphosed Adelaidean glacial sedimentary strata of the Yudnamutana Subgroup. During...

Hillgrove Resources Ltd (HGO) has identified a large number of geophysical targets through the south-east Cambro-Ordovician basement of South Australia prospective for Cu-Au mineralisation and covered by the Tertiary-Quaternary Murray Basin sediments....

A small licence area located ~21 km north-west of Olary township was taken up to explore for possible economic stratabound iron ore (magnetite) hosted by metamorphosed Adelaidean glacial sedimentary strata of the Yudnamutana Subgroup. During licence...

A version of the Russian-invented CHIM electro-geochemical prospecting technique, which has lately been developed at Guilin University, China, was trialled in field surveys conducted at the Challenger gold mine, and at the Kalkaroo Cu-Au-Mo and Goulds...

The Boomerang gold prospect is located 650 km north-west of Adelaide in undifferentiated Proterozoic rocks incorporated within Archaean Harris Greenstone Belt mafic lithologies of the Gawler Craton. The prospect was originally discovered using...

Thick sediment cover in the Proterozoic Curnamona Province impedes effective mineral exploration in some of the most prospective areas located away from bedrock outcrop. The objectives of the CurnaMinEx project are to test the effectiveness of surface...

At least 90% of the phosphate was leached with either nitric, hydrochloric or sulphuric acids. Products unsuitable for the surface preparation of steel. The most promising outlet would be for upgrading the P2O5 content of super phosphate fertilizer.