The precise geometric definition of palaeochannels on the north-western Gawler Craton, South Australia, is important in the exploration for placers (e.g. gold and heavy minerals), secondary geochemical deposits (e.g. uranium) and even for lignite and...

Exploring effectively through cover is a fundamental challenge for the minerals industry in Australia, and the same need is driving the restructuring of mineral exploration strategies world-wide. The study area chosen for this particular research...

The Mintabie Precious Stones Field (MPSF) has, since the early 1920s, produced some of the finest quality opal in the world. This report provides a review for understanding the remaining opal resources likely to exist there. A detailed spatial...

The Woomera Prohibited Area (WPA) is a military testing range covering ~127,000 square km of the land surface of central South Australia. Underlying it are highly prospective rocks of the Gawler Craton, a major province of the earth's crust which...

The Tieyon 1:100 000 mapsheet area is located on the South Australia – Northern Territory border in the central Far North of South Australia. It covers rock units of the Mesoproterozoic Musgrave Province, the Mesozoic Eromanga Basin and the Neogene...

Water is a valuable commodity in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands, which has traditionally been sourced from palaeovalley sands, calcrete, and alluvial and aeolian sediments, as well as from the onlapping sediments of the Officer...

Aerial photography, satellite imagery, geological maps and on-ground geological and geophysical (transient electromagnetic) investigations were used in early 1998 to select drilling sites for additional water wells to supply Indulkana township in the...

An area located south-west of Lake Frome, which it was thought might be tectonically analogous to the Torrens Hinge Zone, but developed on the opposite side of the Adelaide Geosyncline, has been explored for possible economic Mount Gunson or Olympic...

The CALLABONNA map area includes the southern end of the Strzelecki Desert and the north- eastern Flinders Ranges, between latitudes 29° to 30° S and longitudes 139° 30' to 141° E. Cameron Corner adjoins New South Wales and Queensland in the...

It has been estimated that an inferred resource of about 40,000 t of sand may be realised by quarrying from the area covered by Mineral Claim 3742 (now Extractive Mineral Lease 6269), located about 18 km north-northwest of Tintinara. The sand,...

In late 1999, the South Australian Government approved the purchase of 1000 square km of land in, and adjacent to, the Gawler Ranges, for the creation of the Gawler Ranges National Park. This land has significant mineral potential, and has been...

As part of a search for possible concealed nickel-copper-cobalt sulphide mineralisation of Voisey Bay type buried within the Giles Complex at the eastern end of the Musgrave Ranges, Landsat and aeromagnetic interpretation of the mid-Proterozoic...

Heavy minerals concentrated within the Ooldea Sand of the Eucla Basin, and possibly reworked and upgraded by later marine incursions into such deposits, which might have led to their redeposition elsewhere as translocated strandlines that are still...

Photo lineament analysis of an area centred on Mount Ogilvie, 30 km north-east of Leigh Creek, identified several targets considered to be potentially prospective for mineralisation. During a brief field visit seeking work clearance from native title...

Calcrete sampling done approximately 30 km north of Streaky Bay returned a number of weakly anomalous Au values, one of which (16 ppb) coincided with an 82 ppb value obtained previously by Carpentaria Exploration Co. from analyses of RC cuttings...

Heavy mineral-bearing palaeoshorelines of the Tertiary western Murray Basin were demonstrated to lie within the area of EL 2564 and the adjacent EL 2542. However, work undertaken previously elsewhere in the region suggests that these particular...

As part of exploration for sheeted vein, stratabound Telfer style and banded iron formation hosted Homestake style gold and base metal deposits in metasediments of Adelaidean age, a programme of soil auger drilling and calcrete sampling conducted 20...

Heavy mineral-bearing palaeoshorelines of the Tertiary western Murray Basin were demonstrated to lie within the area of EL 2542 and the adjacent EL 2564. However, work undertaken previously elsewhere in the region suggests that these particular...

Evaluations of 3.5 m resolution digital elevation models lately acquired over the Wingilpin Bluff area, located 75 km north-east of Kingoonya, have indicated that substantial Tertiary and Recent erosion has removed most of the potential opal-bearing...

Diamond exploration which was undertaken across practically the whole of Kangaroo Island, barring national and conservation parks and reserves, sought to test the potential of the island to contain kimberlite pipes and / or associated rock types, and...