Leigh Creek coal mine, located in the northern Flinders Ranges, has played a key role in South Australia’s energy history for over 70 years. Credited with enabling post-war industrialisation, remediating the Leigh Creek coalfields was always going to...

This article reports on detrital zircon U-Pb data from the Mesozoic sediments near Tibooburra, northwestern New South Wales, to investigate if there is a local bedrock signature in the Mesozoic sediments that could have provided a source for the...

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 (DET CRC), Minotaur Exploration, Kingston...

The Source to Spectrum project (S2S) is focused on understanding the formation and likelihood of preservation of the spectrum of base and precious metal deposits associated with the c. 1595–1570 Ma Hiltaba Suite and Gawler Range Volcanics magmatic...

The Almanda mine, 20 km southeast of Adelaide, was a short-lived but relatively rich, 19th century silver mine. This study examines the mineralogy of historic Almanda dump material, including both oxidised and sulfide-rich samples, with the aims of...

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 2017. External publications link to abstracts via the doi (digital object identifier);...

On 9 August 2014 the new statutory access regime for new non-Defence users in the Woomera Prohibited Area (WPA) came into force with the passage of the Defence Legislation Amendment (Woomera Prohibited Area) Act 2014 (Cth) by the Australian...

Results from ultra-low density, overbank stream (outlet) samples taken during the National Geochemical Survey of Australia (NGSA) from an area of ~30 000 km2, to the east and northeast of Lake Eyre, showed high levels of zirconium (>5000 ppm) in...

The availability of high-quality, regional geophysical survey data has been an important component of the precompetitive geoscience framework for South Australia. The end of 2013 saw the release of two PACE 2020 funded major regional geophysical...

A broad cross section of year 10, 11 and 12 school students swapped two weeks of their December holidays for a Geosciences Summer School coordinated by DMITRE. The initiative – driven by DMITRE’s community education officer, John Mignone – gave 19...

This article is presented in two parts. Part 1 describes the opening of the first stage of the Four Mile uranium mine operations on 25 June 2014 in which South Australia’s high quality uranium assets, capabilities in uranium regulation and mining, and...

The Neoproterozoic Beda Basalt consists of a succession of subaerial, amygdaloidal to massive, tholeiitic basalt flows interbedded with fluvial sandstones and conglomerates of the Backy Point Formation, which is exposed around the Cultana Inlier, an...

In this paper we provide new observations on the upper and middle crust around the Olympic Dam Cu–Au–U deposit, South Australia, from seismic data reprocessed using the partially preserved amplitude technique. This technique is interpreted to have...

Patawarta Diapir, located in the central Flinders Ranges, South Australia, has been interpreted as a single allochthonous salt sheet containing Tonian-aged igneous and layered evaporite sedimentary intrasalt inclusions derived from the Callanna Group....

This article is a summary of ‘Linking cover and basement rocks in the central Gawler Craton, South Australia’ (Report Book 2020/00029) and provides an overview of the workflow to link basement and surface structures. We also explored the applicability...

The Coompana Province is a completely buried Proterozoic terrane between the South Australian, Western Australian and North Australian cratons. Until recently, very little was known about the area due to a paucity of data. Here we provide a summary of...

South Australia has some of the highest magnetotelluric (MT) station coverage worldwide providing a unique opportunity to understand lithospheric architecture of the state and ultimately reduce the exploration risk for mineral occurrences. While 2D...

Gold mineral systems of the central Gawler Craton region have been revised following a review for the Department for Energy and Mining’s Discover Gold program. Over 100 deposits and occurrences are described according to their host rocks, sulfide...

The Delamerian Orogen is a key greenfield target for the Geological Survey of South Australia under the MinEx CRC National Drilling Initiative (NDI). The project includes a geoscientific drilling program and allied research to understand the geology...

Boart Longyear are one of several service providers offering technology to acquire non-destructive, semi-automated X-ray fluorescence (XRF) data from drill core through their TruScan™ core and chip scanner. In 2017, they proposed a Cooperative...