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....

An area centred ~150 km west of Coober Pedy has been explored for possible buried economic sandstone-hosted secondary uranium deposits which might have formed within eastwards-draining tributaries of the Tertiary Garford Palaeochannel. This...

Three drill cutting samples of carbonaceous sands were submitted for palynological analysis. The spore-pollen assemblages of drillholes NR 3 (from the depth interval 16-18 m) and NR 4 (16-18 m) are possibly of the latest Eocene Upper Nothofagidites...

Palynological analysis and dating of 45 sediment core samples, obtained from several rotary drillholes that have recently been drilled to explore for buried diamonds and kimberlite indicator minerals on Flinders Island, South Australia, has indicated...

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...

Palynological analyses of eight rotary cuttings samples taken from Konkaby 1 drillhole in the eastern Eucla Basin show distinctive microfloral assemblages. The oldest samples are dated as Middle Eocene, and correlate with the Lower Nothofagidites...

Palynological analyses of seven cuttings samples taken from the Kingoonya Palaeochannel area drillholes KINPC 1 and KINPC 2 indicate the presence of Late Miocene - Early Pliocene fluvial sediments, whose age is confirmed by recognition of palynomorphs...

The precise geometric definition of palaeochannels on the north-western Gawler Craton, South Australia, is important in the exploration for placers (e.g. gold and heavy minerals), secondary geochemical deposits (e.g. uranium) and even for lignite and...

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...

The Peltabinna 1:75 000 Map Sheet was produced as part of a mapping program integrated into the Mineral Systems Drilling Program (MSDP) along the southern margin of the Gawler Ranges. The objective of the mapping program was to provide a regional...

An airborne magnetic survey conducted over an area centred 90 km south-west of Coober Pedy highlighted probable northwesterly-trending mafic dykes offset by north-eastern extensions of the shear zone on which the Challenger and Golf Bore gold deposits...

Diamond and gold exploration undertaken on the two relinquished ground portions located north-west and east of Venus Bay on Eyre Peninsula, which total 530 square km in area, have comprised heavy mineral sampling, heavy mineral grain microprobing,...

Tertiary palaeochannels of the northwestern Gawler Craton have become the focus of recent exploration due to the probable association between placer gold, heavy minerals, coal, uranium and groundwater resources, and channel sediments. The...

With the dawning of renewed interest in one of South Australia’s historic gold provinces, driven by the newly acquired data from the Department’s highly successful Gawler Craton Airborne Survey (GCAS), the Geological Survey of South Australia has...

This inaugural regolith map of the southern Gawler Ranges margin provides a valuable regional overview of the main regolith types and their associated landforms, plus a general outline of the major areas of bedrock or regolith-dominated terrain, as...

Diamonds and base and precious metal exploration undertaken north-east of Port Kenny on western Eyre Peninsula comprised loam sampling for kimberlite indicator minerals, RC drilling (7 vertical holes, total 470 m), plus bedrock petrological, heavy...

As part of a regional search for possible economic deposits of sedimentary uranium in the central Eyre Peninsula region, a reconnaissance open hole rotary drilling programme (8 holes for 1715 feet) was undertaken in November 1970 along the eastern...

The Cenozoic Eucla Basin is located on the southern margin of the Australian continent, with a present-day basin onshore edge which extends for over 2,000 km from Western Australia into South Australia. The basin’s sediment fill comprises a thin...

An area centred ~220 km WSW of Coober Pedy, and lying immediately west of the Tallaringa Conservation Park, has been explored for possible buried economic sandstone-hosted secondary uranium deposits which might have formed within the Palaeocene...

An area with poor basement outcrop located approximately 110 km north-east of Ceduna and 40 km south-west of Tarcoola, which lies wholly within the eastern part of the Yellabinna Regional Reserve, is being explored primarily for possible economic...