Recently imposed water resource management controls in the Angas - Bremer Irrigation Area have reduced the local irrigators' aggregate groundwater allocation to within the sustainable limits of the basin, primarily by conversion of their licences...

The Challenger gold deposit lies in the northern Gawler Craton, South Australia, 750 km NW of Adelaide, and 140 km NW of Tarcoola. A 1.5 km traverse (the regolith line) was chosen for the study of geochemical dispersion and regolith stratigraphy...

The principal objective of the Cooperative Research Centre for Landscape Evolution and Mineral Exploration (CRC LEME) Shields Program and the Primary Industry and Resources of South Australia (PIRSA) Regolith Terranes Group in South Australia is to...

The aquifer storage and recovery scheme at the Regent Gardens housing development became operational during 1995. Water quality monitoring of the wetland/detention basin was undertaken to determine the relationship between turbidity, suspended...

Aerial photography and satellite imagery, plus an on-ground geological reconnaissance and a transient electromagnetic geophysical survey, were used to select sites for drilling water wells to provide a major expansion of the Pukatja town water supply....

The groundwater model described in this report was used to quantify the changes in salt loads to the River Murray and induced discharge to the degraded river flats of proposed future management options for the Loxton Irrigation Area. The options...

A fundamental question remains to be answered in the Clare Valley. How much water can be safely extracted without causing depletion of the groundwater resources? This question is being addressed by a major investigation into the groundwater...

The Torrens Rural Catchment can be divided into three zones where groundwater extraction from fractured rock aquifers is significant - the Fourth and Sixth Creek catchments, and the Birdwood - Gumeracha area. The Fourth Creek Catchment, which is...

As part of the South Australian Steel and Energy Project, Mines and Energy South Australia completed an exploration programme for iron ore at the Hawks Nest prospect during 1995 and 1996. Along with detailed magnetic and gravity surveys, the work...

An increase in groundwater salinity in parts of the Padthaway area threatens the sustainability of established irrigation developments. A number of management options to mitigate the groundwater salinity increase are being considered by State...

Hydrochemical data from a total of 165 bores along the 40 kilometre wide strip of the South Australian - Victorian Border Designated Area were used to provide a spatial, and temporal, hydrochemical framework of the groundwaters from the three main...

The two-day Cooper 99 petroleum symposium organised by PIRSA's Petroleum Group was attended by 160 local and overseas delegates. The prime intent was to announce the release, for competitive tender, of 11 exploration blocks within the soon-to-expire...

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...

The Brownhill Creek Catchment can be divided into two main zones - the Hills Zone (rural catchment) and the Plains Zone (urban catchment). The Hills Zone is underlain by fractured rock aquifers which contain good quality groundwater (salinities...

The Willunga Basin is a complex multi-aquifer groundwater system supporting an area of high agricultural production. Because of the inter-connection between the various aquifers and surrounding basement rocks, the effects of significant withdrawals...

Cambro-Ordovician Warburton Basin strata and intrusive granites are conventionally regarded as the economic basement beneath the Cooper-Eromanga oil and gas province in northeastern South Australia and southwestern Queensland. This study, the first...

The United States Geological Survey software package MODFLOW was used to construct a three-layer predictive simulation model of the groundwater flow underlying Emu Springs, an area in the southern Mallee region of South Australia near Tintinara. The...

A combined groundwater and solute transport model (MODFLOW and MT3D) was constructed of the Loxton Irrigation Area to determine the future impacts on groundwater levels and salt loads to the river and floodplain for a range of local irrigation...

Wollastonite is a calcium silicate mineral of high temperature metamorphic or igneous origins, which lately has been found to have an increasing range of industrial applications. Its main producing country is China. At Ethiudna, in South Australia's...

Tank model simulations have shown that regardless of the permeability, if a gas saturated sand is sufficiently thick it is capable of gas recovery. The extent of recovery is dependent on the sand thickness, degree of stimulation via hydraulic...