During construction of the green mill at Mount Gambier Government sawmill, cavities were found in excavations for a gangsaw in the Gambier Limestone. Diamond drilling showed the main cavity to be funnel-shaped and not a cavern top, but revealed minor...

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Copper carbonates are found irregularly dispersed within two types of quartz reef occurring in sheared Adelaide System quartzites and slates, 26 miles east south-east of Radium Hill and 4 miles south- southwest of Mutooroo Homestead. Mining there was...

Following the discovery, drilling and grouting of a large cavity in the proposed foundation area for the green milling section of the Mt Gambier Government sawmill, a second large cavity was found in the same area. A further 29 diamond drill holes...

In response to a request from the Corporation of the town of Wallaroo an inspection was made of swamp areas adjacent to the town boundaries for the purpose of accessing the salt producing potential of these areas. The request for this inspection arose...

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The East Boolcunda Basin was examined in order to map the Triassic rocks in detail and to assess their coal-bearing potentiality. It was found that these rocks conform to a true basin structure, similar in most respects to the Leigh Creek and...

4 specimens from the Domara River Beds, Papua, submitted by Bureau of Mineral Resources contained fresh water gastropoda referable to Cipangopaludina and Melanoides. The rocks are regarded as of non-marine origin and probable Pleistocene age.

Flow measurements on the Gawler and Little Para Rivers since 1971 indicate a substantial loss in surface flow as the rivers cross the plains from Gawler and Carisbrooke Park respectively. These losses are due to recharge of the aquifer and...

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A proposed Primary School will be constructed on thinly covered limestone in an area near caves and sinkholes. To avoid siting buildings on collapsible areas, a 601 station gravity survey was conducted on a 5 m grid. No near-surface voids were...

The FROME 1: 250 000 geological sheet is located between latitudes 30° S and 31° S and longitudes 139°30' E and 141° E and covers most of the area between the northern Flinders Ranges and the New South Wales border. Its southern and northern limits...

The trench from Moomba gasfield was examined to 20 km south. The sediments were alluvial quartz sand occupying a flood plain between sand ridges, and may be of Pleistocene to Holocene age, possibly equivalent to Tingana Clay. A carbonate palaeosol has...

The heavy mineral fraction of an alluvial sand south of Moomba contains fine black magnetic grains. X-ray diffraction and electron probe analyses show that the magnetic grains have a hexagonal crystal structure intermediate between that of hematite...

Forty-two thin sections collected from the Skillogalee Dolomite are representative of carbonate and non-carbonate facies, and include shales, siltstones, sandstones and conglomerates. Many of the specimens are partly or wholly stromatolitic: two...

The deposit is worked for filling sand, but is suitable for replenishment of beaches, and with beneficiation, for glass and foundry. Reserves, based on 110 auger holes, are 835 000 tonnes (indicated) and 270 000 tonnes (inferred).

Two sandstone sequences, one un-named and one equivalent to the Watchie Sandstone, have been recognized on CURDIMURKA. These sandstone sequences occur beneath the Etadunna Formation. Both are believed to be equivalent to the Eyre Formation. The...

The geomorphology of DALHOUSIE broadly consists of stony uplands which include mound springs in the west, and dunefield lowlands in the east on the edge of the Simpson Desert. Strongly folded ?Adelaidean sediments are overlain by a more gently folded...

The benthonic foraminifera `Heterolepa victoriensis indicates unit is Pata Limestone of early Middle Miocene age.