Komatiitic greenstones were first recognised in South Australia from drillcore at Lake Harris on the Gawler Craton by Mines and Energy SA personnel in 1991. Subsequent petrography and detailed aeromagnetic data interpretation led to targeted drilling...

The enigmatic Radium Ridge Breccias (Drexel and Major, 1987) of the Mount Painter Inlier in the northern Flinders Ranges have fascinated geoscientists since the first major attempt to understand the geology during and immediately after World War II....

Identification of a fibrous mineral, two samples of which were retrieved from a small open pit at abandoned mine workings located 2.5 km west of Rowland Flat in the Barossa Valley, on the bank of the North Para River, was made using X-ray diffraction...

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...

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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...

A field mapping project was set up by PIRSA to investigate the age, origin and emplacement history of newly discovered [by Goldstream Mining NL on EL 2222] volcanic rocks within the Mount Grainger Anticline, close to the town of Oodla Wirra. Outcrop...

The Proterozoic Curnamona Province extends across central eastern South Australia and into western New South Wales. While most of the Province is obscured by younger sedimentary cover regions of exposure are present in the northwest as the Mount...

Palynological analyses of eight rotary cuttings samples taken from Konkaby 1 drillhole in the eastern Eucla Basin show distinctive microfloral assemblages. The oldest samples are dated as Middle Eocene, and correlate with the Lower Nothofagidites...

Palynological analyses of seven cuttings samples taken from the Kingoonya Palaeochannel area drillholes KINPC 1 and KINPC 2 indicate the presence of Late Miocene - Early Pliocene fluvial sediments, whose age is confirmed by recognition of palynomorphs...

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 analyses of four drill cuttings samples taken from the Nalara Palaeochannel NR 3 and NR 4 drillholes, located in the eastern part of the Eucla Basin, show distinctive microfloral assemblages. The samples from both drillholes have been...

Four selected drill cuttings samples spanning a 12-metre depth interval within BHP Minerals' BR 97001 drillhole, located 26 km west of Lyndhurst, have been palynologically analysed and dated. Their contained palynoflora are correlative with the...

Palynofloras from Cape Barren and Flinders Islands, Tasmania, are time equivalents to those characteristic of the Early Oligocene - Early Miocene Proteacidites tuberculatus Zone (Stover & Partridge, 1973). Pollen dominance of the Rooks River...

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...

Palynological analyses of samples from the Fossil Hill area [of Flinders Diamonds' Calabrinda diamond exploration prospect], in the northern Willochra Basin, have indicated the presence of Late Miocene to Early Pliocene sediments correlated with the...

Palynological analyses of two trench regolith samples obtained from the Pine Creek and Chapel Hill diamond exploration licence areas in South Australia show distinctive microfloristic assemblages. Both samples are dated Late Miocene into Early...

Reconnaissance investigations of outcropping rocks of the western and central Mulgathing Complex reveal a series of pelitic and psammitic sedimentary rocks, interleaved with generally mafic to intermediate composition meta-igneous lithologies. The...

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...