This report presents the results of a Terranechron [registered brand name for this proprietary technique] study of detrital zircons from modern stream sediments of the Gawler Craton. The Terranechron approach involves obtaining uranium - lead decay...

The central Gawler Craton is blanketed by thin sedimentary cover that ranges in age from Neoproterozoic to Quaternary. Locally, though, such cover can reach a maximum of ~500 m thickness in Permian glacial valleys or rift structures. This guide...

The Murray Basin is an intracratonic basin filled with Cainozoic fluvial to shallow marine sediments. Deposition in the Eocene and early Oligocene was characterised by floodplain and swamp deposits, emplaced with occasional interbeds of shelly clays...

After two years of negotiation with traditional owners and the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Land Council, the Geological Survey Branch of PIRSA's Minerals, Petroleum and Energy Division (MPE) commenced stratigraphic drilling on the 15th May 2002, in the...

The Musgrave Province is largely incorporated within the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Lands and includes cratonic crystalline middle Proterozoic basement rocks of the Musgrave Province proper, as well as mantling younger sedimentary rock successions...

The Niton Corp. XL-700 series portable XRF analyser was trialed by members of the Musgrave Team, PIRSA Geological Survey Branch, to determine its viability for use in the field by DME and exploration company personnel. Analyses of soil (250 micron...

The proposed Lake Gairdner 'section 12 determination' area has the potential to host significant mineral deposits. The area lies close to two major geological boundaries; to the immediate north is the Yerda Shear Zone, and to the west, the Yarlbrinda...

The results of a 1982 State-wide hydrogeochemical survey showed the Musgrave Block to be anomalous and potentially mineralised. In 1997 a groundwater quality survey was undertaken for the remote communities in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Lands. Water...

Palynological analysis and dating of 45 sediment core samples, obtained from several rotary drillholes that have recently been drilled to explore for buried diamonds and kimberlite indicator minerals on Flinders Island, South Australia, has indicated...

This report presents a detailed statistical record of the State's output and sales values for petroleum, minerals and materials for the six-month period ended 30 June 2003. The first part of the report details the production sales figures for the...

This report presents detailed industry-derived statistics on the State's output and sales values of earth resource commodities realised during the six month period ended 31 December 2005, and compares the data with that returned for the previous six...

This report presents detailed industry-derived statistics on the State's output and sales values of earth resources commodities realised during the six month period ended 30 June 2005, and compares the data with that returned for the previous...

This report presents a detailed statistical record of the State's output and sales values for petroleum, minerals and other earth resource materials for the six months ended 30 June 2004. The first part of the report details the production sales...

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 PORT AUGUSTA 1:250,000 mapsheet area covers the north-eastern part of the Eyre Peninsula, the northern Spencer Gulf and the south-western Flinders Ranges, and extends from latitude 32°00'S to 33°00'S and longitude 136°30'S to 138°00'S. The main...

The Mount Woods Domain (sometimes termed Mount Woods Inlier) is located ~850 km north of Adelaide along the Stuart Highway. The nearest major population centre is Coober Pedy, which lies ~70 km north-west of the northern domain boundary. Geologically,...

The prevailing model of the crustal-scale architecture of the Musgrave Province (Lambeck and Burgess, 1992) proposes a Moho depth offset of 20-25 km beneath the Musgrave Province to explain early teleseismic arrivals and a regional gravity high. This...

Seven samples of Proterozoic basement rocks, representing syn and post-tectonic leucocratic melts that formed during the Kimban Orogeny within the Donington Suite and within cross-cutting Tournefort Metadolerite mafic dykes on the southernmost Eyre...

The Boomerang gold prospect is located 650 km north-west of Adelaide in undifferentiated Proterozoic rocks incorporated within Archaean Harris Greenstone Belt mafic lithologies of the Gawler Craton. The prospect was originally discovered using...

This report presents detailed industry-derived statistics on the State's output and sales values of earth resources commodities realised during the six month period ended 31 December 2004, and compares the data with that returned for the previous...