In order to better assess the oil prospects of the Cambrian rocks of Yorke Peninsula, the Fuel Section of the Geological Survey of South Australia undertook during 1956 a detailed investigation of the Proterozoic - Cambrian stratigraphic succession...

The Bookartoo ochre mine, which lies 19 km south-east of Parachilna on the western face of the Heysen Range, for centuries has been a traditional and important source of quality ceremonial decorative pigment for the aborigines of central and eastern...

Report discusses via a series of maps the subsurface geology of the Cooper and Pedirka regions underlying the Great Artesian Basin in South Australia. A general tectonic and depositional environmental framework is delineated for each of 3 layers of...

This report summarises known information on that portion of the Warburton Basin which underlies the Cooper Basin, and makes suggestions for research which may provide guidelines for petroleum exploration in pre-Permian rocks of northeastern South...

The history of deep mine drainage technology as developed and recorded since the Middle Ages, and the more recent story of the evolution of the steam powered Cornish beam engine during the Industrial Revolution, are described to form the basis for an...

In South Australia, early mining methods, haulage and processing of ore and pumping of water from mines such as Glen Osmond, Montacute, Burra, Kapunda and Wallaroo Moonta, were based on Cornish technology. Observations are presented, based on visit to...

Gold mining greatly contributed to the development of Australia in the second half of the 19th century. By the turn of the century the Echunga Goldfields had become South Australia's major producer of gold, mainly won from an area extending from the...

Small deposits of silver·lead ore are widely distributed through the Mount Lofty and Flinders Ranges. Historically the one at Glen Osmond, near Adelaide, is the most significant as the site of Australia's first metal mine. But Talisker was also one of...

Glen Osmond mines consist of a number of individual mines, the most famous being Wheal Gawler (,wheal' is Cornish for mine), Wheal Watkins and the Glen Osmond mine. The land at Glen Osmond was first surveyed and sold in the 1830s. Historically the...

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Kapunda Mine was the first successful metal mine in Australia and, together with Burra, contributed to the Colony's recovery from economic crisis in the early 1840s; it has also made a major contribution to South Australia's Cornish heritage. The...

In recognition of the centenary of Henry Yorke Lyell Brown's appointment as the first Government Geologist for South Australia, and the foundation of the Department of Mines and Energy, aspects of South Australia's colourful and vital mining and...

The Wirrealpa and Aroona Creek Limestones are early Middle Cambrian formations which crop out in the Flinders Ranges of eastern South Australia. They are up to 140 m thick and are underlain and overlain conformably by thick red bed sequences. This...

The extremely thick succession provides one of the most complete sedimentary records for the Late Proterozoic. The term geosyncline is used in a non-genetic sense for the basin in which deposition occurred during the Adelaidean and Cambrian. Only the...

This study draws together diverse aspects of South Australia’s heavy minerals (HM) resources geoscience to provide an overall context for evaluating their occurrence, economic significance and origins. Two main objectives are addressed by the subject...

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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 report, written by a very experienced consultant mining engineer (later the manager of the Broken Hill South Silver Mining Co.), addresses the known geology and mining history of the Kapunda copper mine from its opening in January 1844 until its...

Potential sources of breakwater construction material in the area surrounding Port MacDonnell have been investigated. Deposits of dolomite, basalt and flint pebbles in the area were inspected, and the presence of granite near Dergholm in Victoria has...