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...

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...

After placing the Aclare mine within its setting in the early mining history of the Kanmantoo and Callington districts, this historical account ranges widely, for the problems encountered during Aclare's period of operation plus the vicissitudes of...

Presents methods of environmental planning, concentrating on those not yet in general use in Australia and not yet dictated by legislation.

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...

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....

Data Metallogenica (DM) is a knowledge base of the world's mineral (especially metallic mineral) deposits that relies on a library collection of comprehensive sets of miniaturized rock / ore samples, permanently cemented to approximately A4 page-size...

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 purpose of the project is to provide essential data on the hardrock extractive (construction material) resources supplying the Adelaide metropolitan area, in order to be able to: - Critically examine current hardrock supplies and resources and how...

The Department for Energy and Mining (DEM) is the state government agency responsible for the administration, management and regulation of South Australia’s mineral resources industry. egislation governs the access to land and the regulation of...

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...