The Hiltaba Suite Samphire granite lies south of Whyalla on the northeastern Eyre Peninsula. Uranium exploration in the area commenced in 2007 and resulted in the discovery of sediment-hosted uranium mineralisation in Eocene paleochannels eroded into...

The Coompana Province is an approximately 200,000 km2 region of crystalline basement in the Far West of South Australia that is entirely buried by Phanerozoic sediments. The lack of precompetitive geoscience knowledge and data in the Coompana Province...

A list of selected publications relating to geoscience in South Australia published in key journals or by the Department of State Development (DSD) in 2016. External publications link to abstracts via the doi (digital object identifier); DSD...

The surface geology for the ALCURRA 1:100,000 scale map sheet has been remapped and updated. Alcurra is located in the central northern region of South Australia near the eastern outcrop margin of the Musgrave Province, a highly prospective but...

This review reports on industry and DSD minerals, petroleum and geothermal activity in South Australia for the year 2015. It includes information on resource production, global bench marking, South Australia’s Minerals ScoreCard, exploration and...

Investigation of the provenance of zircon in heavy mineral deposits in the Mindarie area, Murray Basin, was initiated to identify the relative contribution of heavy minerals from various possible source regions. The results provide data that can be...

The Gawler Craton in South Australia has high economic potential including hosting major IOCG mineralisation. Light rare earth elements (LREE) are commonly enriched within these IOCG deposits and are host within a number of phases including monazite...

The Peltabinna map sheet area is situated on the northern Eyre Peninsula about 80 km north of Wudinna and forms part of the southern Gawler Ranges. This article provides a summary of the key outcomes and geological highlights from the recent...

Early mapping of the Gawler Craton on Eyre Peninsula recognised the metasedimentary and igneous character of the rocks but struggled with the complex interleaving of gneissic, schistose, quartzitic and granitoid units. As a result, the metasediments...

The Amata Dolerite is a mafic dyke suite that intruded the late Paleoproterozoic to Mesoproterozoic basement rocks of the Musgrave Province during the early Neoproterozoic at c. 800 Ma. Dykes of the Amata Dolerite occur within the Musgrave Province...

The Mineral Systems Drilling Program was a collaborative drill program managed by the Geological Survey of South Australia in partnership with the Deep Exploration Technologies Cooperative Research Centre, Minotaur Exploration, Kingston Resources and...

The St Peter Suite in the southwestern Gawler Craton has been identified as an unusual set of magmatic rocks, with a distinct geochemistry to other Proterozoic magmatic suites of the region. Isotopically, the St Peter Suite is relatively juvenile and...

The palaeovalleys in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands, far northwestern South Australia, are the least studied palaeodrainage systems in the state due to their remoteness and limited drilling and geophysical data coverage. An...

Source to Spectrum (S2S) is a new collaborative research project on economic mineral systems in South Australia funded under the Australian Research Council Linkage scheme. The universities of South Australia, Adelaide and Monash have partnered with...

This article summarises recently published 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology that investigated the region of crust between the Olympic Dam and Prominent Hill mines within the Olympic Cu–Au Province of the eastern Gawler Craton. The study aimed to determine...

The Geological Survey of South Australia (GSSA) provides innovative and high-quality geoscience for the benefit of South Australians. This is achieved through the creation, collection, management and delivery of data, information and knowledge of...

This review reports on industry and DSD minerals, petroleum and geothermal activity in South Australia for the year 2014. It includes information on resource production, global bench marking, South Australia’s Minerals ScoreCard, exploration and...

Low-temperature thermochronology provides information on the thermal evolution of a region, which can yield insights into the stability of continental interiors relative to far-field tectonic events. A previous low-temperature (<200 °C)...

This article covers the period October 2014 to early January 2015 and is compiled from information publicly released by companies. Includes news on: Adelaide Resources; Alliance-Quasar; Apollo Minerals; Arrium; BHP Billiton; Doray Minerals - Iluka...

Precompetitive geoscientific digital data (spatial layers and databases) has been released under the Australian Government’s Open Access and Licensing Framework1 Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australian Licence (CC-BY) via SARIG. This allows...