In 2012 DMITRE, in collaboration with industry stakeholders, undertook a review of the SARIG Online Tenement Wizard. Identified improvements have since been released and are described herein.

A major challenge to bedrock mineral exploration in many parts of South Australia is the need to be able to explore efficiently and effectively through extensive and thick regolith. Understanding and mapping regolith distribution and composition can...

This article presents a stratigraphic definition of the Tip Top Granite, a previously unnamed felsic intrusive belonging to the Lincoln Complex, but identified by new geochronology to be temporally equivalent to the Wertigo Granite and to represent a...

The offshore Bight Basin represents the world’s last underexplored Cretaceous delta with potential for giant petroleum accumulations. Evidence for an active petroleum system, including natural oil and gas seeps, natural strandings of asphaltite along...

Extraction of sand from the Kalbeeba Sand Pit, located ~4 km SE of Gawler, occurred from the early 1950s to the mid 1990s and significantly disturbed some 35 ha of rural land. Historic mining methodology had given little consideration to the physical...

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MINDEP is a data repository of South Australia’s mines and mineral deposits which resides in SA Geodata, DMITRE’s primary geoscientific database. The MINDEP module has now been included into the SARIG SA Geodata online delivery suite, enhancing access...

A new online ‘widget’ has been released in SARIG 2020 giving explorers and miners the ability to track the progress of their mineral exploration licence application.

This review reports on industry and DMITRE minerals, petroleum and geothermal activity in South Australia for the year 2012. It includes information on resource production, global bench marking, South Australia’s Minerals ScoreCard, exploration and...

The Coompana airborne survey was designed in 2014, as part of PACE Frontiers, to capture magnetics and radiometrics to current standards using 400 m line spacing and 80 m flight height. The survey covers the area of sparse to no radiometrics,...

Since 1997 a dolomitic rock from the Gambier Limestone, with the trade name Compton Sandstone, has been produced for use as a dimension stone from Carraill Quarry in the Marte area in the Lower South East. Compton Sandstone is suitable for a variety...

In 2010 seed funding through PACE was provided to commence a project that compared the properties of halloysite from a playa lake 60 km east of Maralinga, South Australia (the Camel Lake site), with halloysites from various geological settings within...

With the ever-expanding capabilities of molecular analysis our understanding of biological systems will become more complete, directly affecting our ability to adapt and apply this knowledge to industrial systems. Using state-of-the-art technologies a...

This article covers the period mid November 2015 to mid January 2016 and is compiled from information publicly released by companies. Includes news on: Adelaide Resources; Archer Exploration; Arrium; BHP Billiton; Boss Resources; Core Exploration;...

Recent geochronology carried out by Geoscience Australia and the Geological Survey of South Australia as part of the Onshore Energy Security Program in the NE Eyre Peninsula provided the first direct dating of Mesoarchean crust in the Gawler Craton....

A memorandum of understanding (MOU) for bilateral cooperation in the mining industry has been established between the Geological Survey of South Australia and SERNAGEOMIN, the National Geological and Mining Survey of Chile. The MOU was signed in...

During the Mineral Systems Drilling Program (MSDP) in 2015, four diamond holes were drilled in the Six Mile Hill area, on the southeast margin of the Gawler Ranges. Three of these drillholes intersected a succession of mafic and felsic volcanics of...

In 2013 Australian startup, Calix Limited, built and commissioned a commercial-scale demonstrator plant at Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, based on their patented technology, to showcase a transformational calcination process for creating reactive oxide...

In planning for future crewed missions to Mars, suitable terrestrial test sites are crucial to development and evaluation of equipment and processes needed for survival and work function. The Moon Plain, northeast of Coober Pedy in the arid region of...

A geological mapping program was undertaken in association with the 2015–2016 Mineral Systems Drilling Program (MSDP) to provide a regional geological context in which the stratigraphy, alteration and mineralisation of the MSDP drilling could be...