South Australia has been a traditional source of non metallic minerals. Those minerals currently being mined that offer scope for expansion is – Barite – In pigments, drilling muds, the manufacture of barium chemicals and for medical purposes...

The aim was to derive a new method for the evaluation of porosity and water saturation for Pretty Hill Sandstone reservoirs, Otway Basin. Over 350 core plugs were measured for ambient and overburden porosity and permeability, and absolute grain...

During 2007-2008, the first year of the diamond exploration joint venture with the Filsell brothers in the Paratoo area, Flinders Mines' activities comprised: • acquiring part of a detailed helicopter-borne infill aerial magnetic ('helimag') survey,...

Older volcanic basalt outcrops in the north bank of Salt Creek 7 miles north of Dergholm (Section 42, Parish Dergholm, Victoria). Investigation of this olivine basalt flow with amygdules of zeolite, by surface mapping, auger and diamond drilling has...