This set of reports describes the resource discovery, process of appraisal, selective extraction and product sales history relating to a group of small Holocene surficial gysum deposits located in the brackish to saline swampy hinterland extending...

Over the report period Agip Australia completed the drilling and geophysical logging of 39 open rotary holes totalling 3845 m to investigate if economic coal seams occur within Permian sediments of the southern Arckaringa Basin. Although the Permian...

A number of shallow Neogene salt lakes, that extend in chain-like fashion along the length of the inner Coorong and its hinterland as far south as Lacepede Bay, have been investigated for possible economic evaporitic mineral deposits that may have...

Within the surrendered sections of the subject exploration licences in the Karoonda, Marmon Jabuk, Swan Reach, Blanchetown and Cooke Plains areas, following the conduct there of a 45.4 line km gravity survey and the drilling and geophysical logging of...

TARGET: Lower Permian coal of steaming or coking grade, suitable for open cut development. EXPLORATION: Rotary drilling of 42 open and partly cored holes totalling 5122 m, including 105 m of coring, with follow-up geophysical logging. RESULTS: 7...

Negative heavy mineral sampling results and a lack of magnetic anomalies suggest that two areas located south-west of Lake Eyre South have little potential for diamonds and / or kimberlites.

Possible economic buried ilmenite-rutile-zircon heavy mineral sand deposits were targeted along buried Pliocene strandlines of Loxton-Parilla Sand in an area abutting 120 km of the SA-Victoria State Border between Naracoorte and Mount Shaugh....

Exploration for gypsum that may have formed in Holocene salt lakes of the Ashville area, 30 km south of Tailem Bend, comprised field inspections and the completion of 14 push tube coreholes up to 1.67 m deep for a total penetration of 13.02 m. High...

Interpretation of aerial photographs revealed a paralic salt lake adjacent to the Coorong National Park near Kingston (South-East), in an area of land that was about to be sterilised for allowing ongoing mineral exploration, due to the provisions of...

A licence area covering a large salt lake (Lake Gregory) of the Cenozoic Lake Eyre Basin, and the underlying Mesozoic Eromanga Basin sediments situated to the north of the uranium-rich Mount Babbage and Mount Painter inliers, ~120 km north-east of...

Continuing exploration by Delhi of the industrial salt potential of subsurface brines in the Lake Torrens basin aimed to ascertain the potential reserves of NaCl in the southern part of the lake, and to confirm the availability of suitable brine...

Exploration aimed at alluvial gold in Cainozoic sediments derived from Umberatana Group, as opposed to previous exploration for reef gold. No encouraging assay results from 154 samples or from ground inspection and quartz vein samples in Umberatana...

129 test pits were sampled and analysed using the water of crystallization method to identify economic gypsum above the water table.

Very limited reconnaissance sampling of Cainozoic marginal lakebed sediments in northern Lake Gairdner has suggested that little chance exists there for discovering deposits of soluble sodium carbonate minerals.

An area of the western Murray Mallee located near Blanchetown has been explored for possible economic heavy mineral sand accumulations in Pliocene raised beach strandlines. At the outset, the licensee performed a field inspection and drew up measured...

Exploration for lacustrine evaporites and for detrital heavy minerals on and near the shores of Lake Alexandrina, south of Milang, had previously located minor deposits of garnet sands along a 700 m stretch of beach on the northern shore of Sturt...

Five push tube cored sediment samples (two taken from sites onshore and three from sites offshore) were taken in the northern part of Lake Alexandrina, 20 km east-northeast of Milang. Previously reported heavy mineral placer concentrations of up to...

Possible Cainozoic garnet-rich heavy mineral sand placer deposits that might have been derived from erosion of Cambrian Kanmantoo Group metasediments were investigated by very shallow auger drilling (11 holes, total 19 m) and beach sand sampling...

In the search for possible economic sedimentary uranium lately centred on buried Tertiary palaeochannels in the vicinity of Munyallina Creek, where earlier good drilling indications of roll-front uranium mineralisation had been detected, licence...

Exploration for possible commercial grade celestite and for filler type carbonate material deposited in coastal lakes, undertaken in an area of the southern Coorong extending for 7-30 km north of Kingston, entailed the collection and analysis of...