This report deals comprehensively with the physiography, prospect geology, and ore genesis, and includes an assessment of the iron ore reserves and other mineral resources of an area which has been almost the sole source of the iron ore used in...

A regional geological survey covered 15 standard 1-mile map sheets. Detailed mapping established a 50 000 ft sequence of Archaean sedimentation of gneissose, schistose and granitoid rocks, migmatite, quartzite, dolomite and haematitic quartzite. These...

Mineral prospecting in the Olary Province began many years ago, about the time of discovery of the great Broken Hill lode of New South Wales. Although many discoveries were made, and a number of mines worked, no significant producers survived from the...

This publication is the result of a joint investigation, by the Department of Mines and the Division of Soils of the C.S.l.R.O., of the soils of the Adelaide metropolitan area. The object of the work was to obtain information on the distribution of...

This publication details the stratigraphy of the Murray Basin Province of South Australia. The work leading up to this report has played a major part in the understanding of the sedimentary succession of this important basin-area of the State. The...

This report has been prepared to collate the present knowledge on distribution, occurrence, accessibility and composition of these rocks and to bring together all relevant analytical data available, with appropriate references where applicable. It was...

The report is a record of the investigational work undertaken by the department over a 10 year period from August, 1941, when interest in the field was revived as a consequence of the uncertainty of adequate and regular supplies of coal from New South...

The South-East Province of South Australia is divisible into two zones, namely, the Gambier sunklands and the Padthaway "buried" horst. Tertiary overmass sediments in the sunklands attain a maximum thickness of more than 7,000ft and overlie an unknown...

Bulletin, No. 20 of the series, dealing with another group of mines was published in 1942, and has proved a valuable source of reference in connection with the proposals for the further exploration of the fields concerned. In the case of the group of...

The demand for talc and other non-metallic minerals in South Australia increased markedly during the Second World-War when overseas sources of supply were severed. Australian manufacturers succeeded in using material from local deposits. In recent...

This publication is the result of a broad survey of the known clay deposits of the State carried out by the Department of Mines and the Division of Industrial Chemistry of C.S.I.R.O. The survey comprised the inspection of the clay occurrences and the...

With a view to providing facilities for settlers to establish themselves on the land that will be made available by the railway, the Government directed that a geological examination be made of a portion of this area with regard to the possibilities...

Regional geological mapping of the area was initiated in 1959 and was completed in 1964. All tracks in the area were traversed and detailed mapping confined to critical localities and to areas where this was considered desirable. Geological boundaries...

Summarised stratigraphic data are presented for 93 bores in the Adelaide Plains Sub-Basin of the St. Vincent Basin from hundred of Dublin to hundred of Noarlunga, including the Adelaide City area on the Para Fault Block. For the purposes of this...

The soils and geology of the then metropolitan zone with particular regard to building foundations were discussed by Aitchison et al. (1954) in Bulletin 32 of the South Australian Department of Mines. The changes in urban development indicated above...

The Gawler Ranges extend across northern Eyre Peninsula in South Australia, and comprise an extensive tract of extrusive rocks consisting of red feldspar porphyry. The Ranges were discovered and named by Edward John Eyre in 1839, in the course of...

The need for a second dam site in the Torrens Gorge was recognized by the Engineering and Water Supply Department many years ago. The Kangaroo Creek Dam, located in the Mount Lofty Ranges 14 miles northeast of Adelaide, has been constructed to provide...

Yorke Peninsula lies between Spencer Gulf and Gulf St. Vincent. As its discoverer Matthew Flinders-wrote: "it is singular in its form, bearing some resemblance to a very ill-shaped leg and foot". This Bulletin deals with an area having an arbitrary...

These reports deal with work carried out with the object of ascertaining whether, by intensive study of the structural features of the ore bodies, any recommendation could be made in favour of the further exploration or development of these fields...

During the past twenty years attention has been directed to the natural resources of the State in pigment materials, and a considerable body of information, based 011 official reports, has been accumulated, which is now collected into this Bulletin,...