Two localities near Noora have been geologically mapped and explored by 59 power auger holes totalling 957 feet and 31 diamond drillholes totalling 412 feet in depth. Quartzite of high quality is exposed in a series of very variable lenticular bands...

Surface lineaments on Landsat imagery within and around the margins of the Cooper Basin show variable density and variable length, but two preferred directions. These are 55 degrees and 305 degrees and correspond to dominant structural directions in...

The area mapped includes most of the area south of Lake Frome between the Flinders and Barrier Ranges, and part of the Olary Hills. Basin nomenclature has been revised for the Cainozoic. Drilling by CSR, Minad and Petromin NL has been used in the...

Two major palaeodrainage systems of Tertiary age, with watersheds of up to 35 000 square km and channel lengths of 200-250 km, have been recognised and delineated using LANDSAT imagery, during 1:250 000 scale geological mapping in western South...

A joint project between Dr I.G. Watmuff (consultant) and the Department of Mines and Energy, South Australia, to appraise the soil air CO2/O2 technique as a guide to concealed oxidising sulphides, has been completed. Testing was conducted over known...

As part of the South Australian Exploration Initiative, the use of high resolution aeromagnetic and radiometric surveying in petroleum exploration was tested in Block B5 west of Moomba. A number of associated studies were undertaken to utilise the...

The Poona Copper Mine on northern Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, was worked from 1988-92 on an extension of the original Poona lode, a narrow, shear-hosted copper sulphide vein deposit in Moonta Porphyry of Mesoproterozoic age. The orebody is...

Detailed lineament analysis of the Cooper Basin area has established the presence of two lineament networks. A gas-prone network of NW and NE trending lineaments shows strong correlation with the presence of gas in alternating blocks, but no gas...

Image processing of Landsat Thematic Mapper data and their subsequent interpretation have highlighted a zone of potential hydrothermal alteration. A diamond drillhole, Gibraltar 1, tested the western margin of the altered zone, which underlies an...

Soil air carbon dioxide and oxygen measurements as a guide to oxidising sulphide have been assessed by several researchers and government geological surveys in the United States, Ireland, Africa and Saudi Arabia over the period 1983-1990. The...

NOAA-AVHRR images of the Officer Basin were used to enhance spectral signatures of interpreted palaeodrainage networks with potential economic significance in that region. A vast agglomeration of Tertiary palaeodrainage can be observed in the Officer...

A 400 m line spacing aeromagnetic survey was conducted over ABMINGA during 1992-1993 as part of the South Australian Exploration Initiative (SAEI). Short wavelength 'bullseye-dipole' anomalies observed on the aeromagnetics appear very similar to...

An aeromagnetic survey was flown by World Geoscience at 200metre spacing over an area west of the Moomba gas field in the NE of South Australia. The data was acquired as a joint industry - Mines and Energy SA project to research the relationship of...

A test aerial spectrometric and subsidiary aeromagnetic survey of the onshore Otway Basin in SA was proposed in 1991 by APIRA, the Commonwealth Government's petroleum research authority. Initially it was aimed at utilising possible signature responses...

An interest by Carnegie Minerals prompted an investigation of the north and western side of Lake Eyre to locate palaeodrainage of possible economic significance. NOAA-AVHRR satellite images were processed over the area, paying particular attention to...

Two structural regimes have been identified from Landsat Multi Spectral Scanner imagery covering Adelaide and the Mount Lofty Ranges: - a thrust terrain in the Adelaidean metasedimentary sequence; - the major Kanmantoo Shear Zone affecting the...

There is no abstract created for this record

Bedded deposits of magnesite known to exist within the southern Flinders Ranges, where they outcrop over a considerable strike distance extent in the country approximately 20 km east of Port Pirie, were identified by Magnesium Developments Limited...

Magnesite beds formed within the Late Proterozoic Skillogalee Dolomite were the targets of exploration in the southern Flinders Ranges, 15 km east of Port Pirie. Field mapping and sampling, together with the acquisition and image processing of an...

During early 2005, the Drew Hill joint venture partners conducted a regional base metal exploration programme over their mineral tenements located approximately 20-70 km north-east of Olary. Possible epithermal iron oxide copper-gold (IOCG)...