TARGET: Diamonds in the Mount Hope area on western Eyre Peninsula. EXPLORATION: An airborne magnetic-radiometric survey (SADME / BMR / Stockdale 1988), heavy mineral sampling, follow-up ground magnetic surveying, and RAB drilling (91 holes totalling...

A project to compare Gawler Craton iron formations of unknown age with those of known Archaean age (from geochronology) and with the Proterozoic, Lake Superior - type Middleback Range iron deposits has concentrated on characterising each formation by...

Exploration for possible economic stratiform/volcanogenic base metal sulphide deposits hosted by the (elsewhere) pyrite - bearing Early Cambrian Bruckunga Formation, in the Vivonne Bay district on south-central Kangaroo Island, was hampered by the...

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Beach sands of Recent age which have accumulated in shallow water adjacent to the present shore of Morrison Beach, Kangaroo Island, have a heavy mineral content of 0.31%. The recently completed drilling programme has defined a sequence of fine to...

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The Resource Assessment and Advice (RAA) team of the Geological Survey of South Australia (GSSA) was approached by John Chesini of Chesini House Pty Ltd to provide feedback as to the suitability of stone within Mining Lease (ML) 6426 for the purpose...

While looking for possible westward extensions to the Eurelia Kimberlite Province, Stockdale's stream gravel sampling for kimberlitic indicators, followed by ground magnetometer traversing and observation of vegetation anomalies, led to the discovery...

The Mount Toondina structure, a small but pronounced vertically fault-bounded inlier of Permian sediments within a flat-lying Mesozoic sequence, is represented by an annular magnetic feature located 45 km south of Oodnadatta. A single gravity profile...

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...

Exploration for lacustrine evaporites and for detrital heavy minerals on and near the shores of Lake Alexandrina, south of Milang, had previously located minor deposits of garnet sands along a 700 m stretch of beach on the northern shore of Sturt...

The Gawler Craton has, for some time, been known to have potential for kimberlite discoveries. Recently, Orogenic Exploration Pty Ltd found a complete range of kimberlitic indicator minerals, and five small diamonds, on Flinders Island, about 40 km...

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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...

Following a literature review of the mode of occurrence, field relationships, matrix mineralogy and geochemistry of Terowie - type kimberlite intrusions, the lease operator undertook large scale costeaning and bulk sampling of four kimberlites in that...

A suite of Jurassic kimberlite dykes occur near Orroroo, South Australia. They range in thickness from a few millimetres to 30 metres. The intrusions are all extensively altered at surface, but a few of them are petrographically similar, and have...

An 11 km x 23 km area located east of Broken Hill township was chosen for the acquisition of an experimental OARS (Operational Airborne Remote Sensing) and prototype TIPS (Thermal Infrared Profiling System) hyperspectral survey flown during the period...

Exploration conducted primarily for base metals, over an area extending for 5-50 km north of Port Lincoln, has consisted of reconnaissance and detailed stream sediment surveys followed by soil and rock chip sampling, plus limited geological mapping....

Laboratory beneficiation feasibility tests have been conducted on a 250 lb bulk sample of known heavy mineral - bearing beach sands which were taken from nearshore dunes located along the northern coastline of Kangaroo Island at Nepean Bay. It was...

An area centred approximately 110 km north of Port Augusta, covering part of the Pernatty Ridge plateau on the south-western side of Lake Torrens, approximately 145 km south-east of the Olympic Dam mine, was taken up to explore for possible economic...