Mintaro Slate is produced from what is believed to be the oldest continuously operating quarry in Australia. The quarry was opened in the early 1850s, after Mintaro farmer Peter Brady discovered outcrops of slate in a creek bed on his property and...

In a search for East Alligator River - type metamorphic uranium deposits, a review of previous geophysical data plus the conduct of ground and airborne radiometric surveys disclosed a number of anomalies in an area on central Eyre Peninsula extending...

Acquisition and interpretation of an airborne scintillation spectrometer survey, and the unhindered drilling and gamma and electric logging of 16 rotary open holes (total 3242 feet), were undertaken. Lower Tertiary non-marine palaeochannel sand...

Ongoing exploration for sedimentary uranium deposits and other radioactive minerals, in the plains area north-west of Lake Frome, consisted of the drilling and geophysical logging of 56 rotary holes for a total of 29,708 feet. Drillhole 355-1, which...

3 holes were drilled. Lignite was sampled and tested for wax, but this was of poor quality.

In a search for economic Tertiary brown coal in the south-eastern Murray Basin, a large reconnaissance drilling programme was undertaken during February-April 1981 to test known carbonaceous sediments reported as encountered by previous drillholes and...

Drilling of two percussion holes (aggregate 400 metres) near Yerila, south of Lake Blanche, failed to give encouragement to the search for possible Permian coal and Tertiary uranium in the southern Eromanga Basin / Lake Blanche Lineament uplift area...

Fourteen stratigraphic holes were drilled in the eastern portion of the Frome Embayment in NSW.

Airborne and ground magnetic surveys were conducted in the Bundulla area of the Nullarbor Plain (SA), prior to drilling a prominent circular aeromagnetic feature. 2 percussion/rotary mud holes, each drilled to TD 369.5 m, penetrated crystalline...

A computerised lineament analysis of Landsat digital image data covering the northern portion of the Flinders Ranges has shown a strong correlation between the known mineralisation and fracture structuring peripheral to granites, suggesting that...

Investigations included drilling in the eastern part of EL 41, costeaning and close space drilling near Nob Well and Apollonaris anomaly, water well sampling, and ground search for carnotite.

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Targets of ongoing subsurface investigations in the plains area north-west of Lake Frome, now being conducted under a new joint venture, were respectively to delineate further sedimentary uranium occurrences within buried Middle and Late Tertiary...

As part of a continuing regional search for economic deposits of uranium and other radioactive minerals within alluvial fan sediments deposited adjacent to and east of the Mount Painter Block basement outcrops, 32 rotary holes (total 16,218 feet) were...

Appraisal of a newly discovered large deposit of kaolin, found in the near surface regolith to Archaean basement on two farms situated 7 km south of Mount Hope on southern Eyre Peninsula, has consisted of further air/rotary drilling (35 holes, total...

An area of 100 square km, located 45 km west of Kingscote, was taken to enable follow-up exploration of some anomalous stream sediment geochemical sample values in lead (to a maximum 3200 ppm Pb) previously discovered by Elcor (Australia) Pty Ltd, but...

Ongoing exploration for possible Tertiary sediment-hosted roll front uranium occurrences in an area abutting western Lake Frome has consisted of the drilling of 7 open rotary holes for a total of 1384 m, to test ground midway between previously...

In order to further test a large Delamerian granite pluton for its potential to host an economic porphyry molybdenum deposit of the Climax, Colorado type (following initial exploratory drilling and IP surveys that had been carried out by the SA...

Results of water bore sampling (7 samples) and drilling of 6 holes totalling 614 metres were disappointing. The drill holes intersected Adelaidean and Cretaceous sediments underlying Tertiary ? - Quaternary fluviatile sediments, without encountering...

Drilling of a 196 m deep vertical diamond hole to further investigate the oil shale potential of Permian strata in the axis of the Boorthanna Trough, north of Billa Kalina Homestead, intersected only Lower Permian glacial sediments below 30 m thick...