Over the period from 1955 until 1976 an outcrop of Ordovician porphyritic rhyolite was quarried for road-sealing aggregate and rail ballast from two quarries at Mount Monster, 12 km south of Keith. The total recorded production was 548,000 tonnes....

The PORT AUGUSTA 1:250,000 mapsheet area covers the north-eastern part of the Eyre Peninsula, the northern Spencer Gulf and the south-western Flinders Ranges, and extends from latitude 32°00'S to 33°00'S and longitude 136°30'S to 138°00'S. The main...

This report presents detailed industry-derived statistics on the State's output and sales values of earth resources commodities realised during the six month period ended 31 December 2004, and compares the data with that returned for the previous...

Gem-quality varieties of beryl occur rarely in South Australia and exist in insufficient quantities to be of current economic interest. Non-gem grade beryl, by contrast, is a widespread accessory mineral in many pegmatites of South Australia, but, at...

This report presents detailed industry-derived statistics on the State's output and sales values of earth resource commodities realised during the six month period ended 30 June 2006, and compares the data with that returned for the previous six...

This report presents a detailed statistical record of the State's output and sales values for petroleum, minerals and earth resource materials for the six-month period ended 31 December 2003. The first part of the report details the production sales...

The purpose of the project is to provide essential data on the hardrock extractive (construction material) resources supplying the Adelaide metropolitan area, in order to be able to: - Critically examine current hardrock supplies and resources and how...

Proterozoic basement outcrops consist of syn and post- Kimban Orogeny granitoids, volcanics and basic dykes. Their rock type geochronology, field relationships and regional correlation are reported. Previous economic mineral investigations, plus...

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After placing the Aclare mine within its setting in the early mining history of the Kanmantoo and Callington districts, this historical account ranges widely, for the problems encountered during Aclare's period of operation plus the vicissitudes of...

This publication represents the work of many officers of the Geological Survey, over a number of years from 1946 to the latter part of 1953. It includes descriptions of the important uranium deposits of Radium Hill, Crockers Well, Mount Painter and...

The correct stratigraphical succession of certain post-glacial formations, having a very limited range, however, can be determined in this southern portion of the Mount Lofty Range. During the previous six years the writer has had an opportunity of...

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Because of the presence of considerable tonnages of remnant high grade oxidised copper ore above the water table in the Spring Creek mine, the SA Government is keen to see a resumption of working of the lodes on a business-like basis, and herein...

A detailed spatial analysis recently performed by the Geological Survey of South Australia (GSSA) shows that at Mintabie, after approximately 40 years of mining carried out to look for opal, an area totalling less than 2 square km has been...

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Given the imperative of Australia's wartime strategic needs, the subject report describes a rapid attempt that was made by the SA Department of Mines to assess the remaining copper resource potential of the historic, now abandoned Burra district...

An area of approximately 900 square miles was examined in the course of ten days with a view to establishing the fundamental relationships between the mineral deposits and the rocks and rock structures in the area in question.

At least twenty nine separate copper lodes have been worked in the Kapunda Mines besides numerous small branches and zones of mineralised rock. The ore, chiefly oxidized, occurred in true fissure veins 18 to 24 inches wide, 150 to 200 feet long, and...