The Onkaparinga Catchment Water Management Board (OCWMB) is responsible for an area of approx. 920 square km which includes the Onkaparinga Catchment in the Adelaide Hills and the Noarlunga and Willunga sedimentary embayments south of Adelaide, South...

The Department for Water Resources drilled three wells at Kangaroo Flat in October and November 2000 as part of a hydrogeological investigation of the area. The wells were drilled as observation wells, and water levels will subsequently be monitored...

Mintaro Slate is produced from what is believed to be the oldest continuously operating quarry in Australia. The quarry was opened in the early 1850s, after Mintaro farmer Peter Brady discovered outcrops of slate in a creek bed on his property and...

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66 sidewall cores were processed and examined.

53 sidewall cores were processed and examined.

The annual Letter Books comprise 19 volumes, which contain primary copies of all of HYL Brown’s early work-related correspondence written after 1882, in his official capacity as SA Government Geologist, to his employer the SA Minister of Mines, plus...

6 selected drill core samples and 2 fossiliferous outcrop samples of Neoproterozoic Burra Group carbonate/dolomitic sediments from the Willouran Ranges were subjected to laboratory source rock analysis to determine their organic richness, kerogen type...

The annual Letter Books comprise 19 volumes, which contain primary copies of all of HYL Brown’s early work-related correspondence written after 1882, in his official capacity as SA Government Geologist, to his employer the SA Minister of Mines, plus...

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In a search for East Alligator River - type metamorphic uranium deposits, a review of previous geophysical data plus the conduct of ground and airborne radiometric surveys disclosed a number of anomalies in an area on central Eyre Peninsula extending...

Exploration was undertaken for lode and alluvial tin mineralisation which might exist within ground adjacent to the abandoned Mount Mitchell tin mine, and also for reef gold in altered granite and dolerites outcropping adjacent to the numerous small...

Acquisition and interpretation of an airborne scintillation spectrometer survey, and the unhindered drilling and gamma and electric logging of 16 rotary open holes (total 3242 feet), were undertaken. Lower Tertiary non-marine palaeochannel sand...

Little work was undertaken on this licence, 50 km south of Watson Siding because of disappointing results on an adjacent area.

Exploration licence 871 Area B contains Adelaidean sediments of the Callanna Beds, Burra Group and Umberatana Group overlying the Carpentarian Mount Painter Complex. The area is being investigated for stratiform copper mineralisation within the above...

Gunsight prospect was discovered in the late 1960s during the follow-up of anomalous copper detected by a stream sediment survey. In 1972-73 Dampier Mining Pty Ltd drilled eleven percussion holes (totalling 537 m) and eleven diamond holes (1764 m)...

Ongoing exploration for sedimentary uranium deposits and other radioactive minerals, in the plains area north-west of Lake Frome, consisted of the drilling and geophysical logging of 56 rotary holes for a total of 29,708 feet. Drillhole 355-1, which...

3 holes were drilled. Lignite was sampled and tested for wax, but this was of poor quality.

Under a joint venture agreement made between North Flinders Mines and Dampier Mining Co. (a BHP Exploration subsidiary), operative over the 7 square mile SML 705 between 14/9/1973 and 14/3/1974, at least 3500 feet of additional appraisal diamond...