The Golden Grove Extractive Industry Area is the centre of the States brick industry and is the most important source of construction sand for the northern Metropolitan area. This paper presents an overview of 1 option for a development strategy as a...

Since 1947 the area has been a major source of construction sand, brick shale and plastic clay, the latter two commodities being produced from fluvio-lacustrine sediments of Tertiary age within the Golden Grove Embayment, on the eastern flank of the...

ICI has been undertaking a limited dewatering programme at its Penrice Quarry since mid-1978 to allow quarrying of the 4th level (EL 327 m). Monitoring carried out for the programme has included recording of the groundwater levels in wells drilled...