This review has been undertaken to meet the State Government's commitment to maintain a long-term, competitively priced supply of extractive minerals to the community, as mandated by Strategy 1.5H of the S.A. Government response to the Resources Task Force Report. It has come at a time of critical changes in the local extractive industries generally, and in the concrete sand and brick industries in particular. Concrete sand production has changed dramatically over the last decade, driven by the discovery of large, relatively clean construction sand deposits in a Tertiary palaeochannel on northern Yorke Peninsula. Pits developed in these deposits increased production from 49,860 tonnes in 1990 to 496,365 tonnes in 2000, gaining 41% of the metropolitan concrete sand market. During the past two decades there has been rationalisation in the brick industry, and the consumption of brick clay and shale has declined by almost two-thirds. During the post-war building boom of the 1950s and 1960s, when Adelaide's population was growing at a rate of 2-4% per year, extractive industry companies acquired large resources of brickmaking materials. In recent years, they have begun to re-assess their long term requirements. The Golden Grove Management Plan (Pain, 1993) is due for review, and significant land use planning decisions need to be made. The last published review of Adelaide's construction materials was undertaken in 1988/89, using 1981 to 1987 production figures for trend prediction (Pain and Keeling, 1990). This is now out of date. For the current review, reserves and resources of 47 deposits (or groups of deposits) were assessed more rigorously than previously, and in addition, production, transport, and rehabilitation costs were considered. Initially it was hoped to make the main body of the original report available to the industry, but for this to have happened, much of the really critical data would need to have been deleted or generalised to maintain confidentiality. This would have greatly reduced its relevance and usefulness, so the consultants were instructed to prepare a detailed confidential report for PIRSA use, and this abridged, summary report for wider circulation.