With the dawning of renewed interest in one of South Australia’s historic gold provinces, driven by the newly acquired data from the Department’s highly successful Gawler Craton Airborne Survey (GCAS), the Geological Survey of South Australia has...

Investigations by Urangesellschaft of previously recorded aerial radiometric anomalies above sedimentary cover in the vicinity of outcropping granite at Carapee Hill, which body contains sporadic low grade uranium mineralisation, have included...

HyVista Corporation was contracted by DMITRE during August-September 2013 to process an archived set of HyMap airborne hyperspectral scanner data of the Earth's surface radiance properties, that had previously been acquired on 21/11/1998 from a survey...

This inaugural regolith map of the southern Gawler Ranges margin provides a valuable regional overview of the main regolith types and their associated landforms, plus a general outline of the major areas of bedrock or regolith-dominated terrain, as...

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...

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...

Drilling of 49 rotary mud and partially cored holes totalling 1443 m (of which only 20 holes penetrated into the top of the basement) has been undertaken at the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin to further outline an occurrence of Tertiary lignite...

14 rotary/cable tool holes were drilled to test for lignite and uranium.

TARGET: To define lignite in the Wilkinson Lakes lignite deposit which is of a composition that would be suitable to undergo carbon beneficiation and/or coal liquefaction processes; also, any economic oil shale occurrences and/or sedimentary uranium...

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Existing data reviewed only - no field activities. A mooted airborne EM survey to try to map possible uraniferous Tertiary palaeochannels was not performed because a joint venture partner could not be found to share the cost of this work.

Diamonds and base and precious metal exploration undertaken north-east of Port Kenny on western Eyre Peninsula comprised loam sampling for kimberlite indicator minerals, RC drilling (7 vertical holes, total 470 m), plus bedrock petrological, heavy...

TARGET: Possible commercial oil shale beds in either the Cretaceous Madura Formation or the Cambrian Observatory Hill Formation; possible Mississippi Valley - type lead-zinc deposits within the Observatory Hill Formation; economic lignite seams...

Following on from the conduct of both preliminary airborne and carborne radiometric surveys in an area 60 miles north of Penong, which disclosed numerous anomalies with potential for finding uranium occurrences, the locality was taken up and...

In a search for possible economic roll-front sedimentary uranium deposits thought to be hosted by Middle Eocene Pidinga Formation fluvial and lacustrine terrestrial sediments deposited in the eastern Eucla Basin, 13 scout RAB/RC open holes were...

As part of a search for possible economic sedimentary uranium mineralisation in the vicinity of Ifould Lake, an airborne radiometric survey of 700 line miles was flown at 2 mile line spacings, and 13 rotary holes with a total penetration of 464.8 m...

As part of a continued search for possible Proterozoic - Cainozoic unconformity - related, concealed sedimentary uranium deposits in an area of the Eucla Basin located 60 km north of Fowlers Bay, Pechiney conducted geological reconnaissance, ground...

Possible shallowly buried, surface-mineable coal formed within the Lower Permian Mount Toondina Formation, and similar to the coal occurring in the Phillipson Trough area, was the target of exploration carried out in the poorly defined Tallaringa...

10 reverse circulation holes were drilled, totalling 311 m. Surface radiometric effects were attributed to groundwater Ra and/or Rn, or to evaporitic concentrations of uranium daughter products. Results from drilling and from track etch (alpha)...