Base metal exploration activities undertaken by Thiess Brothers in the Yumali - Coomandook area investigated several coincident regional gravity and aeromagnetic anomalies arising from concealed Palaeozoic basement rocks. These anomalies are part of a...

A multi-commodity mineral exploration programme carried out over an area between Mannum and Strathalbyn, seeking buried targets concealed in Tertiary sediments and basement rocks, comprised aerial magnetic, radiometric and EM surveys; groundwater,...

Report presents results of the first regional hydrogeological survey of the Lower South-East area of South Australia, aimed at providing guidelines for optimising groundwater prospecting, use and protection during the period of strong urban,...

Small inlier of lower Ordovician rhyodacite in Baker Range in the South-East is an important source of road sealing aggregate. 750 000 tonnes of rhyodacite are inferred to underlie 220 000 tonnes of overburden. Diamond and rotary drilling is recommended.

Inspection of 57 pits of 82 sites revealed that most pits are located on stranded coastal dunes of Pleistocene Bridgewater Formation. Material has also been won from interdunal lagoonal dolomite of Padthaway Formation. These materials are limited to...

Origin of the colour variation could not be determined by optical petrography.

During the period March to June 1990, 9 stratigraphic rotary mud/diamond cored holes with a total penetration of 3056 m, including 433.25 m of NQ or HQ cored diamond tails, were drilled by SADME in three cases and by its contractor Rockdril for the...

The study area is underlain by two aquifer systems - unconfined Cainozoic marine limestones and confined Tertiary fossiliferous limestones and sands. Both aquifers contain saline groundwater which is flowing slowly to the west under low gradients....

Nine observation wells were drilled in the SW Murray Basin between Goolwa and Salt Creek to monitor groundwater levels and salinity in the confined Renmark Group / Buccleuch Group aquifer. The area of interest is underlain by the Padthaway Ridge of...

Two major belts of anomalous gravity and magnetic intensity are distinguished at the SW margin of the Murray Basin. The main belt is about 420 km long and is arcuate in broad outline. In detail it appears to be controlled by three major linear...

Drilling and sampling of basement rocks underlying the south-western Murray Basin, newly performed by CSR Ltd and SADME, have revealed that a hitherto unknown igneous domain exists there. The most abundant rocks are altered and soda-enriched basaltic...

The Groundwater (Border Agreement) Act of 1985 legislated to provide a framework for the joint management of groundwater resources within a 40 km wide strip along the length of the South Australian and Victorian Border, which is referred to as the...

The buried basement encountered at a site located 5 km west-southwest of Coomandook is similar to that sampled by CSR Ltd in the same area. Four selected drill core samples were examined in hand specimen and in thin section. Metabasaltic lava and...

The Cambro-Ordovician basement underlying Murray Basin sediments in the Cooke Plains and Coomandook areas was sampled by a reverse circulation drilling programme as part of the South Australian Exploration Initiative. Greenschist to low amphibolite...

Exploration of an area located 50 km south-southwest of Keith aimed to test the potential of known Cambrian siliceous volcanic rocks for hosting massive base metal sulphide deposits plus possible disseminated and skarn-related precious metals,...

No new work - data collection and review only. The subject areas flanking known outcropping uraniferous basement rocks of the Padthaway Ridge were taken up to explore for possible economic sandstone-type uranium deposits that may have formed in...

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To investigate the possible Cu-Ni-PGE mineral sulphide mineralisation potential of a known buried mafic / ultramafic layered igneous intrusive complex situated near Ki Ki in the upper South-East, as well as exploring for base metal mineralisation...

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Exploration of an area located in the south-eastern Kanmantoo Trough aimed to discover a giant stratabound sedex, skarn or sandstone-hosted silver-lead-zinc-copper deposit by drilling into previously untested stratiform and low amplitude or reversely...