The Onkaparinga Catchment Water Management Board (OCWMB) is responsible for an area of approx. 920 square km which includes the Onkaparinga Catchment in the Adelaide Hills and the Noarlunga and Willunga sedimentary embayments south of Adelaide, South...

Data compilation and interpretation.

The standing of crude oil on the beaches of southern Australia was first recorded approximately 150 years ago. This material, known locally as coastal bitumen, was used by the early maritime visitors and settlers to caulk their vessels and is the...

Marla 1A and 1B reached 215.30 metres and 379.40 metres respectively, penetrating aeolian sands overlying the Bulldog Shale, Cadna-owie Formation an d Observatory Hill Beds. In contrast to Byilkaoora 1, oil shows and calcite pseudomorphs after...

Coonawarra is important viticultural area. Its establishment was possible because of low salinity groundwater and suitable soil. Since 1970 groundwater levels have shown no significant decline due to irrigation and no increase in salinity. A pollution...

The Murray Bridge Abattoir is located 1.2km from the River Murray proper on the western edge of Mobilong Swamp. The Abattoir disposes of 0.7 to 0.8 Ml of effluent on each week day and until recently, all effluent was poured down four drainage wells....

A recent scout well drilled into the confined Dilwyn Formation (formerly Knight Group) at Mundulla intersected only low permeability sediments unsuitable for development. However, this does not rule out the possibility that a suitable aquifer will be...

Murray Bridge Abattoir's effluent is being disposed through drainage wells into unconfined aquifers which are hydraulically connected to the Murray River. Six rotary wells encircling the abattoirs area, proved the regional hydraulic gradient to be...

Plant macrofossils from silicified Cainozoic fluvial sediments on CURDIMURKA occur in 2 discrete suites. One suite has been found only in outcrops of silicified Eyre Formation in the Poole Creek Palaeochannel. This suite and the macroflora of the...

Economic deposits of iron-oxide associated copper-gold mineralisation of the Moonta-Wallaroo or Olympic Dam style, hosted in Palaeoproterozoic basement rocks of the Moonta Sub-domain, were targeted by exploration in three now surrendered licences,...

A chemical survey of Dawesley Creek in the Brukunga Mine area has concluded that seepages from the southern mine waste dumps located alongside the creek contribute the greater proportion of pollutants (acidity, iron, aluminium, manganese, zinc,...

An area extending for ~10 to ~60 km westwards from Kingoonya, comprising three separate sub-blocks, is being explored for buried Archaean greenstone belt - hosted primary metallic mineralisation. Work undertaken during the first year of tenure...

The Mt Caroline exploration licence is in the eastern part of the Musgraves Province in northern South Australia, approximately 300 km southwest of Alice Springs within the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands. The tenement is comprised...

EL 4496 (Deception Hill) is centred approximately 15 km due south of Tarcoola, and extends from west to east for about 60 km. It is regarded by the licensee as being highly prospective for a range of commodities including gold and silver, nickel, iron...

EL 5846 covers an area of 462 km2 and is located approximately 70km east of Adelaide. It is located within the Murray Basin, with a basement of poorly outcropping to deeply covered Neoproterozoic and Cambrian Kanmantoo Group sediments and...

Early in 2016, Adelaide Resources submitted a proposal to DSD for a grant of PACE Initiative Year 9 collaborative drilling project subsidy funds to help it drill ~80 exploratory aircore or RC holes for a total of approximately 8000 m to further...

An orientation survey found anomalous base metal concentrations in trees growing over Cattlegrid, but not over MG14. The source of higher metal concentrations at Cattlegrid is probably the bedrock geochemical anomaly which is due to the shallow water...

Seven wells along a line of section in the southern Cooper Basin were studied. Examination of coals in Permian and Triassic sequences revealed marked vertical and lateral trends in vitrinite, inertinite and exinite content and their microlithotypes....

Organic matter in Jurassic and lower Cretaceous sediments from 5 wells in the central Eromanga Basin was studied microscopically. The lower Jurassic Birkhead Formation, upper Jurassic to lower Cretaceous Murta Member and lower Cretaceous Transition...

Coal types and associated quality throughout the coal zone were assessed and the relationship between coal and quality parameters was evaluated.