Returns from copper and gold won from the Moonta-Wallaroo district supported the South Australian economy from 1860-1920. During those 60 years some 355,000 t of copper and 2 t of gold were extracted from the twin mining fields of Wallaroo and Moonta:...

This excursion was designed with the intent of introducing its participants to the geology, mineralisation and alteration styles present in the Moonta - Wallaroo region, through guided drill core inspection, a trip to the Wheal Hughes open pit mine,...

Adelaide lies towards the western margin of the Delamerian Fold Belt which extends across strike as far east as the Glenelg Province in western Victoria. Outcrop across this belt is very incomplete as most of the region of the Murray Basin is covered...

The Northern Adelaide Plains (NAP), immediately north of Adelaide, is an extremely important horticultural area for the city as well as interstate. Approximately 4000 ha of glass and polyhouses, as well as open-air cultivation, produce a diverse range...

To help interpret a magnetic survey which it had conducted in the Wallaroo-Moonta area, the Zinc Corporation requested that this Department test a suite of ore and rock samples from that district. They supplied a Watts vertical magnetometer for the work.

This 4-day excursion travelled north along the Flinders Ranges which are made of folded thick, Neo-Proterozoic Adelaide Geosyncline sediments, then passed over stable Archaean- Mesoproterozoic crystalline basement rocks of the Gawler Craton, which are...

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Includes Mine inspection reports, plan of East West lode, Wallaroo-Moonta 1937-1939.

Includes articles on the following: Government drilling operations - Wallaroo mines, west - Smith lode 1932-1933 (log and MR .56 p.40-41). Moonta mining scheme (detailed report).

Includes articles on the following: Mine inspection reports, Paramatta mine, 1918. Mount Lyell Consols Wallaroo copper mine (Bingo), MR 17 p.48, 1913. Mine inspection reports - Cornwall mine (Wallaroo East). Mine inspection reports - Yelta mine...

Includes articles on the following: Salt and gypsum and natural whiting Yorke Peninsula. Government diamond drilling operations (during the half-year ended June 30th, 1917). Chinastone and fireclay leases, Hundred of Dudley, Kangaroo Island. Apatite...

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Includes articles on the following: Report on the Australian Slate Quarry, Willunga. Report on some gold workings on Fifth Creek. Report on the Royal George gold mine, Tarcoola. Report on the manganese deposits of the Australian Manganeses Co. NL....

Includes articles on the following: Report on Parabarana copper mine. Report on Kanmantoo copper mine. Diamond Jubilee mine, ML 9278. Holmes Block, MC 10468. Niddrie, ML 2288. Mount. of Light Mineral Claims 10341, 10407, 10502, 10507, 10619, 10689....

With a view to providing facilities for settlers to establish themselves on the land that will be made available by the railway, the Government directed that a geological examination be made of a portion of this area with regard to the possibilities...

The extension of railways through Eyre's Peninsula, and the opening up of the country to agricultural settlement has made the problem of water supply a matter of grave concern to the Government of South Australia. Large centrally situated reservoirs,...

The visit to Kangaroo Island extended over the period August 3rd to August 22nd, and that to Western Eyre's Peninsula over the period October 15th to October 20th, 1912. In both areas a rapid geological reconnaissance was made of the particular...

Contains appendix articles on the following: Flora of the country between Oodnadatta and the Musgrave and Everard Ranges (Appendix 1). Author White, S.A. Pages 61-63 Results of magnetic and astronomical observations. (Appendix 2 in: Geology of country...

For some years past .information has been accumulating ill the Geological Survey branch of the Department of Mines concerning occurrences of underground water in the pastoral areas. Some of the material consists of logs and records of bores and wells...

In any discussion of the iron ore resources of South Australia it has always to be borne in mind that, in a country of great distances, with in many cases complete absence of transport facilities, bodies of iron ore are valueless when the cost of...