History of the town, smelters and port, and main points of interest along the Wallaroo heritage and walking trails.

History of the town and mine, and main points of interest along the Kapunda heritage and walking trails. Includes numerous current and historic photographs and a detailed Heritage Trail map. The name Kapunda is after the Aboriginal term 'cappie...

This colourful publication, prepared with the assistance of the local extractive and commercial minerals industry, depicts how current South Australian surface mines and quarries are being designed to acceptable environmental standards. A readily...

The Department for Energy and Mining, through the Mineral Resources Division (MRD), is the state government agency responsible for the administration, management and regulation of South Australia’s mineral resources industry. To achieve this, MRD is...

An expedition carried out to scientifically inspect the Musgrave Ranges and Everard Range region indicates poor prospects for discovering minerals, but, with care in accessing and maintaining underground water supplies, the country appears to hold...

The Woomera Prohibited Area (WPA) is a military testing range covering 122,188 square km of the land surface of central South Australia. Underlying it are highly economic minerals - prospective rocks of the Gawler Craton, a major province of the...

This bulletin describes the soil resources of the state's temperate or agricultural areas. For the first time comprehensive information (based on all new data) is presented in the one volume on the nature, key features, distribution, potential and...

This report summarises the regulatory activities of the Department and the regulatory performance of the South Australian mineral resources industry in 2016. It covers all assessment and compliance-related activities related to South Australia’s...

This document aims to establish an appropriate geological framework and resource potential baseline for DEM's knowledge about lime sand on Kangaroo Island (KI), by showing and discussing what new lime sand resource areas are available, based on the...

Exploration for possible buried vein style copper-gold mineralisation, that may have formed in contact metamorphosed hornfelsic rocks adjacent to an inferred buried Delamerian or younger mafic intrusive body, has been conducted in a preliminary...

During the 2009-2010 reporting year, as part of the strategy to significantly advance the future development of the Hawks Nest Iron Ore Project, Western Plains Resources (WPG) successfully concluded a series of complex joint venture negotiations with...

Exploration for possible economic concealed Beltana mine type stratabound lead-zinc-(silver) mineralisation, and for other diapiric and associated basic igneous intrusion - related base metal and/or gold occurrences, was carried out over a small area...

An area centred approximately 115 km south-east of Marla was taken up to explore for possible economic buried gold and base metal mineralisation that may have formed in Archaean to Proterozoic basement rocks or the overlying Palaeozoic sedimentary...

A previously undrilled area of the Stuart Shelf centred about 80 km west-northwest of Andamooka and 50 km north-east of the Olympic Dam mine is being explored for possible economic buried IOCGU mineralisation that may be hosted by Mesoproterozoic...

In May 2004 the Minister for the Department of Environment and Heritage purchased Bimbowrie Station pastoral lease. The station was purchased because it encompasses part of the Olary Ranges, which is part of the environmentally important Broken Hill...

Over the period from 1955 until 1976 an outcrop of Ordovician porphyritic rhyolite was quarried for road-sealing aggregate and rail ballast from two quarries at Mount Monster, 12 km south of Keith. The total recorded production was 548,000 tonnes....

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a proposed radiotelescope receiver network that, when constructed, will have an effective collection area of one square kilometre, making it up to 100 times more sensitive than any present-day instrument on Earth....

The Musgrave Block in South Australia's far North-West has been identified by Primary Industries and Resources South Australia (PIRSA) as one of the State's most highly prospective regions for mineral exploration, along with the Gawler Craton and...

In his two month - long technical secondment from PIRSA to Canadian major nickel explorer and producer Inco Ltd, the mode of genesis of the Reid Brook Zone of the Voisey’s Bay nickel-copper mineralised magmatic system was analysed by the author using...

This report contains summaries of categorised relevant GIS data types, i.e. in the geology, regolith, geochemistry, geophysics, spectral, topographic, land tenure and cultural categories, for all datasets which have been located to date. It includes...