In a search for possible economic heavy mineral - bearing buried Tertiary beach sand deposits, similar to the recent Golden Grove discovery made in Eocene fluviatile sediments of an adjacent sub-basin, 20 vertical percussion stratigraphic drillholes...

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 2009, and compares the data with that returned for the previous six...

This report presents SHRIMP U-Pb zircon geochronology results for 21 samples from the Musgrave Province, South Australia, acquired over the period 2007-2012 as part of the Tieyon 1:100 000 mapsheet (5645) mapping program. Some of the work (done on all...

This project has been undertaken to develop fission-track dating expertise for several common minerals, which can subsequently be applied to specific geological or geochronological problems in South Australian regional geological mapping. In...

Diamond, gold and platinum group element (PGE) exploration activities carried out within an area of known kimberlitic and lamproitic intrusive rocks east of Elliston comprised aircore drilling (23 holes, total 1188 metres), addressing 17 out of 36...

An airborne magnetic survey acquired by the grant licensee over the Lameroo district during August 1997 generated a number of shallow-source anomalies which suggested that there was fair potential for discovering buried Tertiary palaeocoastal...

Exploration for possible buried Tertiary heavy mineral sands occurrences consisted of an interpretation of remote sensing data, followed by the conduct of two reverse circulation aircore drilling programmes (28 holes, total 892.5 m). The first...

Exploration for heavy-mineral sand in Tertiary sediments on the south-western flank of the Ooldea Range comprised geological reconnaissance and RC drilling (81 holes, total 1204 m). Up to 3% titaniferous heavy minerals were reported from drill samples.

Groundwater sampling, aeromagnetic interpretation, shallow auger sampling and isotope studies were carried out over an area 30 km northeast of Elliston. Heavy mineral concentrates from composite auger samples contained zircon, galena and sphalerite,...

Exploration for possible ancient beach strandline heavy mineral sand placer deposits formed within the Pleistocene Bridgewater Formation has been undertaken in the State's South-East region. This pioneering on-ground work came about after several...

Geochronology enables us to determine the age of rocks and minerals. The variety of isotopic geochronological techniques give complementary information on, for example, the timing of igneous or metamorphic crystallisation, as is often the case for the...

The Tarcoola Goldfield region is located in the central Gawler Craton, and forms the northern portion of the Central Gawler Gold Province. Gold deposits underlying the Tarcoola Ridge and adjacent areas have been exploited by in excess of 50 historic...

Exploration of an onshore area located immediately north of Murat Bay aimed to discover beach or shallow marine placer concentrations of zircon-rich heavy mineral sands, possibly formed within significant thicknesses of prospective Upper Tertiary...

Loam sampling over 8 possibly kimberlitic, SAEI-defined dipolar aeromagnetic anomalies located near the SA-NT border, north-east of the old Pedirka railway siding, revealed no diamond indicator minerals, and only traces of deep crustal type zircon...

Exploration of three small areas in the Poochera district, for possible economic buried Tertiary palaeocoastal marine placer deposits of zircon and other heavy minerals, has consisted only of a first-pass aircore drilling assessment of inferred...

This report details work undertaken by Iluka Resources to meet the agreed conditions for grant of PACE Initiative Year 5 exploration drilling project partial subsidy funds. Specifically, Iluka undertook heavy mineral sands exploratory drilling during...

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TARGET: Heavy minerals in beach sands and dunes. EXPLORATION: Hand auger drilling, heavy mineral analysis and mineralogy. RESULTS: A number of zircon, rutile and kyanite - bearing sand lenses were identified within the beach facies, but they are...

The heavy mineral placer deposits at Morrison Beach occur on four separate beach levels, as determined from scout boring along a number of traverses. Bulk sampling and heavy mineral analyses were used to calculate the quantities of rutile and of...