A water well survey of the eastern portion of the Hundred of Adelaide was carried out and 320 water wells were visited. The groundwater is obtained predominantly from fractured hard rocks, and consequently there is a large variation in well yields and...

Examines the way in which the South Australian Planning and Development Act allocates present and future land use with respect to the mining and quarrying industry, highlighting its inadequacies, and makes numerous recommendations for improvements in...

Control of mineral workings and mineral resource protection is largely neglected. The future availability of essential mineral and energy products requires protection and control.

Describes special features of mineral bearing land to provide basis for developing practical planning policies.

A hydrological survey to update information for the MURLOOCOPPIE 1:250 000 geological sheet was carried out in October and November 1975. Approximately 80 water wells were located and photographed. Nearly all wells are used for stock water. Salinity...

Major source of construction materials for metropolitan Adelaide, currently supplies 25% of natural construction sand, 60% of white plastic clay and 45% of brick shale. 2 brick works produce 63 million bricks annually. Total reserves of 85 million...

A study has been carried out to determine the cause of declining water levels in wells for irrigation, stock and domestic supplies. The study commenced in 19/1 and has involved field surveys, the establishment of a network of observation wells and the...

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Naracoorte Corporation area straddles two northwesterly trending dune ridges and their corresponding flats. Cemented limestones of the Bridgewater Formation and Gambier Limestone, occasionally mantled by windblown sands, form the two ridges; younger...

Within the Angas - Bremer Irrigation Area, the source of the groundwater being taken currently primarily for the large-scale irrigation of lucerne fodder crops is the confined low salinity Tertiary limestone aquifer. The extent of pumping from bores...

15 auger holes which were drilled to a maximum depth of 10 m have shown a gently dipping sequence of Quaternary silt and clay, passing down at about 6 m depth into a dense Tertiary sandstone. The highly calcareous, plastic silt which occurs...

Groundwater investigations undertaken in the Willunga Basin since 1974, which have included the drilling of stratigraphic wells, geophysical well logging, water level and salinity monitoring and surface water hydrology studies, have enabled the...

It is appropriate for a paper on exploration and mining to be included in a conference concerned with conservation because mineral and energy resources have similar unique properties to the other natural and cultural features listed in this programme....

A three day symposium on urban and environmental geology was held between 30th October and 1st November, 1978, and was attended by 11 delegates from interstate and 13 from South Australia. The Bureau of Mineral Resources, the Australian Road Research...

Environmental and amenity factors have introduced a new dimension to the technical problems of the mining industry in finding, extracting and processing the mineral and energy products on which we all depend. Intervention by outside regulatory bodies...

This thesis describes the physiographic features of the Adelaide region, and their interpreted significance for elucidating past climatic, hydrological and biotal conditions. The application of physiographic mapping in modern land use management is...

Investigations in the Hindmarsh Tiers Basin have shown that there is no direct evidence for depletion of groundwater, although summer pumping casues 5 to 10 metre drawdowns near the centre of the area. The main aquifer, a Tertiary bryozoal limestone,...

A water well survey of the eastern portion of the hundred of Yatala, located 355 wells of which 160 were visited. Well yields range from 10m3/day to 750m3/day, salinities from 50mg/1 to 3000mg/1 and standing water levels from ground level to 75.0m....

Basement rocks have exploration potential. Planning should protect known deposits and allow for future discoveries.

No metallic mineral deposits are known, although potential exists for the discovery of significant metalliferous deposits in shallow basement rocks, concealed below Quaternary cover. Other resources are granular and seed gypsum SE of Streaky Bay, high...