Aeromagnetic images of the Musgrave Province are characterised by a series of laterally continuous, approximately east-west-striking, magnetically low lineaments, which have been interpreted as faults. These structures have been divided into two main...

A coherent and related system of Mesoproterozoic magmatism, hydrothermal alteration and deformation extends from the western Gawler Craton to eastern Curnamona Province. This system produced the Olympic Dam iron oxide – copper–gold (IOCG) orebody and...

The Department of State Development’s Rock Stars Geosciences Summer School is a great way to provide students who are interested in geology with an in-depth course that touches on all the disciplines within the geosciences. As it is free it is...

The Hills Sculpture Trail comprises 26 world-class sculptures located in the Adelaide Hills and Fleurieu Peninsula, linking people with towns and regions, geology and art, nature and beauty. The sculptures were crafted during three Adelaide Hills...

The Coompana Province in far western South Australia is an under-explored region undergoing renewed mineral exploration interest. The area is characterised by a magnetic anomaly and a substantial sedimentary cover creating a need for innovative...

The Adelaide Hills International Sculpture Symposium Inc. is a community-based organisation that formed in 2011 to develop an exciting arts initiative for the Adelaide Hills. Symposium director, Silvio Apponyi, had a vision to ‘Enrich the hills with...

Igneous activity across the Gawler Craton during the Mesoproterozoic (c. 1595–1575 Ma) resulted in intense hydrothermal activity and formation of iron oxide – copper–gold (IOCG) deposits along the eastern margin of the craton. Other mineralisation has...

The Coompana Province is a completely buried crustal block that occurs at the nexus of the West, South and North Australian cratons. However, very little is known about the region. This was addressed with a recent program to acquire and interpret...

During 2006 to 2009, excavation of the Kirchdorf tunnel on the Bruck Expressway S35, Austria, encountered high volumes of airborne asbestos fibres, far in excess of that predicted from preliminary site geotechnical and environmental surveys. The...

A list of selected publications relating to geoscience in South Australia published in key journals or by the Minerals Resources and Energy Resources divisions in 2018. External publications link to abstracts via the doi (digital object identifier);...

Potential field data across the northern Gawler Craton reveal structural fabrics and a number of large plutonic bodies that suggest the region has a complex tectono-metamorphic and magmatic evolution. Existing geochronological studies confirm this...

Copper-bearing sandstones were mined near Mount Gunson from the late 19th century. Located ~410 km NNE of Adelaide, the deposits occur within Proterozoic sediments of the Adelaide Geosyncline. Because copper deposits were found at two different...

Reliable water availability is critical to sustaining community water supplies and determining economic development opportunities. In many cases, particularly in remote and arid areas such as in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in...

The South Australia Drill Core Reference Library contains samples from 38,713 open file drillholes that are available for inspection. These drillholes provide an invaluable record of exploration activity and government geoscience initiatives....

The Frome Embayment (Mesozoic) and Callabonna Sub-basin (Cenozoic) that overlie the Curnamona Province (Paleo-Mesoproterozoic) contain South Australia’s richest sandstone-hosted uranium deposits. This article considers organic matter (OM) as a key...

The recent acquisition and interpretation of the deep crustal seismic line 13GA-EG1 has allowed a new 3D model to be constructed for the western Gawler Craton. The new model expands on the 2014 Eastern Gawler IOGC / Woomera Prohibited Area model....

This article summarises the results of our recently published study into the low-temperature thermal history of the Musgrave Province, South Australia, in which we utilised apatite fission track thermochronology and apatite and zircon (U–Th–Sm)/He...

Iron oxide – copper–gold (IOCG) mineralisation within the eastern Gawler Craton formed synchronous with emplacement of a silicic large igneous province – the Mesoproterozoic Gawler Range Volcanics and Hiltaba Suite. A causal link between the...

South Australia is now home to the Department for Energy and Mining. Headed by Dr Paul Heithersay PhD, BSc (Hons), PSM, the new department has been tasked with reducing energy costs to create more jobs and grow exports. The department will also work...

With the Australian Lithospheric Architecture Magnetotelluric Project (AusLAMP) deployment across South Australia nearing completion, the subsequent 3D inversion modelling of the magnetotelluric (MT) data and integration with other geophysical,...