Three copper prospects were radiometrically surveyed in the Hundred of Muloowurtie. These comprise the Hillside copper mine, Hart’s copper mine and a prospecting shaft on section 39. These mines are situated between 8 and 9 miles south of Ardrossan....

During September-October 1954, the Department of Mines drilled two exploratory diamond cored holes in the historic Yudnamutana Mining Field to test beneath abandoned shallow underground copper mine workings for inferred possible low grade but perhaps...

Because of the reports of six separate sources of radioactivity, all within a distance of 2½ miles of the town of Port Lincoln, further geologic investigations were undertaken, prior to the appraisal of the area as a possible source of uranium. The...

Ground scintillometer gridding and reconnaissance work was carried out by the writer at Dead Horse Bay Uranium Prospect, and an isorad plan prepared. Owing to the large amount of soil cover in the area and the weathered nature of the outcrops, the...

Recently modifications to existing borehole logging equipment have been carried out at Parkside Laboratories. In order to standardise borehole logging results and shorten the time delay in plotting, certain alterations in procedure have been...

A radiometric investigation of mine dumps in the Moonta-Kadina copper-mining district and of 17 other known copper prospects on northern Yorke Peninsula revealed the presence of anomalous radioactivity associated with much of the copper mineralisation...

A significant discovery of pitchblende mineralisation was made recently by Departmental prospectors at the abandoned workings of the Shamrock mine located in the Yudnamutana Copper Mining District. The occurrence comprises two separate well-defined...

In order to standardise borehole logging results and shorten the time delay in plotting, alterations in procedure and modification to equipment have recently been made. Arrangements have been made with the Boring Branch and the Officer-in-charge at...

An aerial magnetometer survey carried out by the BMR in 1952, followed up by SADM during 1953 with detailed ground magnetometer surveys, revealed two prominent magnetic high anomalies located south of Balgowan on Yorke Peninsula (maximum recorded...

Diamond drilling recently completed near Port Lincoln at the Lomax prospect, of 3 eastwards inclined holes with an aggregate total penetration of 236 feet, has indicated that the uranium mineralisation occurring there has a very limited extent. A...

From the end of January to the end of August a total of 108 hours 25 minutes was spent in flying the Plumbago-Glenorchy and the Kalabity areas. A further 23 anomalies were recorded, 18 in the Plumbago-Glenorchy area and 5 in the Kalabity area. No...

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The purpose of this refraction seismic and resistivity survey was to determine the nature of the bedrock in the area of the proposed freeway near Crafers. The results indicate that the sandstone bedrock is strongly weathered to depths of at least...

Light No. 1 was drilled on shot point E126 subsequent to the Middle Beach Seismograph Survey. The purpose of the well was primarily to determine the depth to basement, to assist the correlation of seismograph records, and to further stratigraphic...

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The effects of earthquakes on buildings and structures are described with reference to the 1954 Adelaide earthquake, and some severe earthquakes in California in 1952. The resistance to earthquake shock of various building materials and structures and...

Further gravity traverses across the Eden-Burnside Fault zone show pronounced anomalies due to the faulting in the Proterozoic basement. The results thus obtained agree well with the structure derived solely from geological considerations, and have...

At the request of the S.A. Gas Co., a resistivity survey was carried out in an area suggested by the Gas Co. to test the ground for its acceptibility for installing a Cathodic Protection System. This system is to be used to minimise electrolytic...