As part of a wider search over SA for possible continental salt lake occurrences of NaCO3-rich brines and of fossil crystalline trona beds, presumed to be equivalent to the Lake Magadi (Kenya) / Green River Basin (Utah - Wyoming) style Tertiary...

Exploration for possible ancient beach strandline heavy mineral sand placer deposits formed within the Pleistocene Bridgewater Formation has been undertaken in the State's South-East region. This pioneering on-ground work came about after several...

A resistivity survey consisting of four E-W profiles and a follow-up rotary drilling programme (16 holes, total 1456 m) were conducted in EL 121, adjacent to the SA-NSW border, to try to locate possible sedimentary uranium deposits within inferred...

Hallett Cove is one of South Australia’s foremost natural science treasures. Exposed examples for prime geological concepts of superposition of strata, depositional unconformities (representing time breaks), and folding and faulting of sedimentary...

The Six Mile Hill area was one of three areas targeted in the Minerals Systems Drilling Program (MSDP) during 2015-2016. Four holes were drilled in the Six Mile Hill area to test for potential for iron oxide-copper-gold (IOCG) mineralisation and to...

This handbook brings together a local science history of all of the applied aspects of geology, the responsible exercising of which has helped to shape metropolitan Adelaide, and even if indirectly, has also invariably affected the lives of its...

Although gold is widespread throughout South Australia, the state has traditionally been, and continues to be, recognised as a minor producer. The 2001-2002 gold production figure of 3.64 t still only represents approximately 1.4% of the total...

A compilation of expert-written articles on all aspects of SA mining history, most of which were presented as papers at the first Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Seminar on Mining Heritage held in Adelaide on 25 March 1986.

Hallett Cove is one of South Australia’s foremost natural science treasures. Exposed examples for prime geological concepts of superposition of strata, depositional unconformities (representing time breaks), and folding and faulting of sedimentary...

Exploration of an onshore area located immediately north of Murat Bay aimed to discover beach or shallow marine placer concentrations of zircon-rich heavy mineral sands, possibly formed within significant thicknesses of prospective Upper Tertiary...

Several potential diatreme-like circular targets up to 1 km in diameter were identified from an interpretation of regional and subsequently acquired infill aeromagnetic data over an area of the north-western Gawler Craton, 45 km south of Ooldea Siding...

22 line km of ground magnetic surveys, conducted over two single point regional aeromagnetic anomalies recognised 20 km south of Marla, did not reveal that these anomalies have diatreme or kimberlite signatures.

Exploration of an area in the eastern Musgrave Ranges located 80 km north of Marla and 65 km south of the SA/NT state border, and which straddles the Stuart Highway, has sought to find possible Giles Complex - hosted magmatic nickel sulphide and...

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A search has been performed for possible commercial grade diatomaceous silica - rich sediments within an area straddling the Greanium - Lameroo - Pinnaroo Road and extending westwards from the SA/Vic. state border for ~90 km. The target locations were...

Ongoing uranium exploration work in an area immediately south of Lake Frome has comprised the evaluation of pervasive uranium mineralisation encountered within the Billeroo Palaeochannel over several km of its length, a short distance north of the...

Several potential diatreme-like circular targets up to 1 km in diameter were identified from an interpretation of regional and subsequently acquired infill aeromagnetic data over an area of the north-western Gawler Craton, 55 km south of Ooldea Siding...

Rotary drilling of 23 open holes (total 4 817 m) in a search for Tertiary sedimentary uranium occurrences north-west of Lake Frome intersected an aureole of radioactivity greater than ten to fifteen times background level in eight of the holes.

An area situated along the western margin of the Gawler Ranges was taken up by a local landowner to explore for possible economic copper-gold and platinum metal deposits. His initial aerial reconnaissance of surface geological structures was made in...

Two areas located approximately 45-55 km west of Ooldea were explored for possible buried Olympic Dam - type base metal deposits in poorly known Archaean to Early Proterozoic basement beneath the Eucla and Officer Basin sedimentary sequences. A...