The groundwater in Booborowie Valley is a small although locally very important resource. Monitoring combined with a study of climatic records indicated that over-extraction was taking place and that salinities were rising in the southern half of the...

This report provides information for a management plan addressing the problems of dryland salinity and surface water flooding in the area from Keith to Naracoorte, west of the Keith to Naracoorte road. Data shows a general rise in groundwater levels...

The Willunga Basin is a groundwater resource being stressed by groundwater abstraction for agricultural purposes. The Southern Vales Water Resources Committee, in conjunction with MESA, DENR and SA WATER, are developing groundwater management...

The Lacepede District Council is considering a proposal for the construction of a marina and associated infrastucture in Maria Creek, Kingston (South-East). The proposal includes two options, A and B, with Option A sited closest to existing town...

The high environmental values of the Coongie Lakes area are recognised through their inclusion in the Register of the National Estate, their inclusion as a wetland of international importance under the Ramsar Convention, and wider acknowledgement that...

MESA has been approached by The Links development consortium to assess the prospects for an aquifer storage and recovery (ASR) scheme at the golfing project site known as The Links, Lady Bay (south of Normanville), to enhance the availability of water...

Bedded deposits of magnesite known to exist within the southern Flinders Ranges, where they outcrop over a considerable strike distance extent in the country approximately 20 km east of Port Pirie, were identified by Magnesium Developments Limited...

Exploration for possible buried iron oxide-associated copper-gold deposits along the eastern side of the Middleback Range in the vicinity of Iron Knob, has consisted of a review of historical calcrete sampling data and the acquisition and processing...

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Evaluation of the perceived Olympic Dam style copper-gold and Stuart Shelf type stratabound copper potential of, respectively, the Proterozoic basement and the Adelaidean cover rocks in an area lying immediately to the west of the Cultana Inlier was...

Field investigations including drilling and soil gas sampling, carried out as part of a subsurface hazard assessment for a parcel of land at Saint Agnes, did not indicate any significant risks to an intended building development.

This report on the history and condition of the abandoned pioneer silver-lead mines at Glen Osmond on Adelaide's eastern outskirts was prepared for the Burnside suburban council to allow it to make an informed discussion about the possibility of...

Three potentially economic gold and platinum / palladium - bearing, known primary uranium-mineralised targets in the Palaeoproterozoic Houghton basement inlier have been evaluated through the conduct of office-based geological and geophysical studies,...

The disturbed soil profiles at 29 historic light to heavy industrial sites in the city of Hindmarsh were investigated to determine their respective levels of hazard contamination and suitability after rehabilitation for undergoing residential...

Work carried out during the final stages of the investigation consisted of diamond and percussion drilling (3 inclined and 11 vertical holes respectively, totalling 4107 and 1122 feet), plus shallow shaft sinking (16 shafts totalling 483 feet) for the...

This review has been undertaken to meet the State Government's commitment to maintain a long-term, competitively priced supply of extractive minerals to the community, as mandated by Strategy 1.5H of the S.A. Government response to the Resources Task...

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...

Exploration of the Lake Torrens JV Project area during 2008, managed by Teck Cominco Australia (Teck), consisted of diamond drilling some wedge holes off a parent to determine the lateral and vertical dimensions of bornite and chalcopyrite - dominated...

The Dudley pegmatite, located a short distance inland near the eastern tip of Kangaroo Island, ~10.5 km south-east of Penneshaw township, was worked historically during the 1890s and early 1900s for gem tourmaline, ceramic-grade feldspar and silica,...

During the eighth year of tenure, work done on EL 2639 included: - the conduct of infill ground gravity and CSAMT surveys; - geophysical modelling and interpretation of the new survey data; - geological interpretation and refinement of drilling...