Five conjoined exploration licences covering the buried central and northern Benagerie Ridge basement province that is comprised predominantly of Mesoproterozoic volcanic and intrusive rocks, have been explored for possible economic iron oxide -...

Exploration Licence 2340 “Hedley Hill” is located adjacent to the northeast extremity of Lake Torrens. During the 80’s and 90’s exploration of the Lake Torrens district has had the prime objective of the discovery of an "Olympic Dam" style deposit...

Approximately 66% of the former area of the subject licence has been surrendered in two separate portions together totalling 104 square km, due to perceived diminished prospectivity for possible buried Proterozoic IOCG-U deposits. During March 2015,...

Exploring the earth resources in the Harris Greenstone Belt (HGB) region is complicated by a regolith cover produced by a long and complex history of landscape evolution. The present surface of the HGB indicates little of the complex palaeochannel...

The central Gawler Craton is blanketed by thin sedimentary cover that ranges in age from Neoproterozoic to Quaternary. Locally, though, such cover can reach a maximum of ~500 m thickness in Permian glacial valleys or rift structures. This guide...

This project reviewed literature in order to: - evaluate any downhole environmental risks associated with drilling fluids and completion practices in the Cooper and Eromanga Basins; and - assess the effectiveness of cementing practices in achieving...

Two South Australian Government grants totalling $100 000 have been used by the Coober Pedy Miners Association Inc. to fund the use of an auger drilling rig on a drilling programme designed to explore for opal at selected locations away from the known...

A new high-resolution resistivity measurement instrument, developed by ZZ Resistivity Imaging Pty Ltd, was tested within the Coober Pedy Precious Stones Field, located 900 km north-west of Adelaide, to determine its suitability for assisting in opal...

Opal at Andamooka is found in the Bulldog Shale, a stratigraphic unit comprising shallow marine-deposited sediments of Cretaceous age. The opal mostly has formed within a bleached sediment weathering profile developed at the contact of a sandy...

The WINTINNA 1:250 000 mapsheet area lies between latitudes 27° to 28° South and longitudes 133°30’ to 135°00’ East. This ~16 400 square km area includes the Marla and Cadney Park settlements, and is crossed by the Stuart Highway and Adelaide to...

Tieyon is located on the eastern margin of the Proterozoic Musgrave Province. The region includes rocks from two distinct geological provinces, the eastern limit of exposure of the Musgrave Province, and the north-western margin of the Mesozoic...

During a search for possible diamondiferous rocks within an area lying to the north of William Creek and abutting the south-eastern side of the Peake and Denison Ranges, stream sediment sampling and a low level, 5300 line km aeromagnetic / radiometric...

Precious opal in South Australia occurs near the base of the weathered profile developed in Early Cretaceous host marine clastic sediments. It is associated with the supergene minerals alunite, kaolinite, gypsum and iron oxides, that are variously...

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...

The northern Curnamona Province includes the northern Flinders Ranges, comprising the Mounts Babbage and Painter Inliers (Palaeoproterozoic to Neoproterozoic crystalline basement) and overlying metasediments of the Adelaide Geosyncline...

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...

The CALLABONNA map area includes the southern end of the Strzelecki Desert and the north- eastern Flinders Ranges, between latitudes 29° to 30° S and longitudes 139° 30' to 141° E. Cameron Corner adjoins New South Wales and Queensland in the...

A new high-resolution resistivity measurement instrument, developed by ZZ Resistivity Imaging Pty Ltd, was tested within the Andamooka Precious Stones Field, located 640 km by road north of Adelaide, to determine its suitability for assisting in opal...

Agnes Creek is located near the eastern outcrop margin of the Proterozoic Musgrave Province, which is composed predominantly of amphibolite to granulite facies meta-igneous and metasedimentary gneisses of the Birksgate Complex. Geochronological...

The Mount Toondina structure, a small but pronounced vertically fault-bounded inlier of Permian sediments within a flat-lying Mesozoic sequence, is represented by an annular magnetic feature located 45 km south of Oodnadatta. A single gravity profile...