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Australia's Identified Mineral Resources 2012 - Revised
Australia's Identified Mineral Resources is an annual national assessment that takes a long-term view of Australian mineral resources likely to be available for mining. The... -
Kirby's Hill and Tyldesley - Ben Bullen area, Western Coalfield: results of...
This statement gives the results of a scout drilling campaign conducted by the Bureau at the Kirby's Hill Area of the Western Coalfield of New South Wales. The area investigated... -
Report on a geological survey of Commonwealth Territory, Jervis Bay
This report is based on field work at Jervis Bay and in the surrounding area during the period 4th to 30th June, 1952. The purpose of the investigation was primarily economic,... -
Western coalfields: results of drilling in the Tyldesley area
The area tested by drilling comprises approximately 30 acres of the Parish of Cullen Bullen in the County of Roxburgh, and is immediately to the east of the Portland-Mudgee... -
Open cut coal scout drilling, West Wallsend, Newcastle region, New South Wales
Three widely separated scout holes totalling 566 feet of drilling were drilled to investigate the possibilities of open-cut mining sites on the Australasian Seam immediately to... -
Surveyor Creek, Newcastle district Results of drilling in northern portion...
In Portion 11, Ph. of Stockrington Diamond Drilling near an unnamed creek tributary to Surveyor Creek has disclosed coal continuously for a distance of 7,600 feet south from the... -
Results of drilling in the Swansea area, New South Wales
This statement sets out the results of drilling by the Bureau within Swansea Sub-area N.S.W. (J.B.C. plan BG-4). The area investigated comprises approximately 115 acres, about 2... -
White Rocks gravel pits, Queanbeyan
A deposit of weathered graphic granite at White Rocks, 2 miles south of Queanbeyan, was investigated and the limits of material in it suitable for easily quarryable road metal... -
The geology of an area surrounding the Fergusson railway siding, Northern Territory
The area covered by this investigation, totalling approximately 100 square miles, surrounds an occurrence of radio-active minerals which was discovered in 1950. The deposit is... -
The Flowery Gully limestones deposits, Tasmania
The Flowery Gully Limestone Deposit, twenty miles north of Launceston, was surveyed in detail to delineate the most suitable portions for supplying limestone to the Australian... -
Preliminary report on the Mosquito Creek tungsten field, Northern Territory
To date the Mosquito Creek field appears primarily to be a good gouger's prospect. It could carry one Company operating a small plant but not as at present three or four... -
Preliminary note on Howard Springs radioactive prospect
Howards Springs are situated about 3.5 miles north-east of a point on the Stuart highway about 16 miles south of Darwin. They are seepage springs on a branch of the Howard... -
Scout-drilling for open cut coal, Minmi-Plattsburg area, Newcastle region,...
Eleven scout drill holes entailing 1290 feet of drilling were sunk to find suitable open-cut prospecting areas for the Young Wallsend Seam of the "Upper" Coal Measures within an... -
The Maranboy tinfield Progress report
A geological investigation of the Maranboy Tin Field was commenced by officers of the Bureau of Mineral Resources in May, 1951. The object of the survey is, primarily, to obtain... -
Open cut coal programme-Newcastle region, Buchanan area Drilling results
A total of 22 "testing and defining" rotary cored drill holes were drilled by the Bureau and J. McD. Royle Ltd., contractor to the Bureau, during the prospecting for reserves of... -
Open cut coal scout drilling, Stony Pinch, and Thornton area
Six scout drilling holes totalling 1020 feet of drilling were sunk by the Bureau in the Stony Pinch and Thornton Area, about 6 miles south-south-east of the City of Maitland in... -
Pacific area: drilling results
A total of thirteen rotary cored bores were sunk by the Bureau approximately one mile south of the village of Teralba in the Parishes of Teralba and Awaba, Northumberland... -
Bauxite of Manus Island, Territory of Papua and New Guinea
Bauxite was found on Manus Island in 1952 by J.E. Thompson, Senior Resident Geologist, Territory of Papua and New Guinea, at three separate localities. At Lepatuan a dacite flow... -
Preliminary report on magnetite deposit, Gulgong, New South Wales
At the request of Australian Magnetite Pty. Ltd. of Melbourne and with the approval of the New South Wales Mines Department a geophysical survey was carried out over a lease... -
Mitchell's Flat area: drilling results
The area investigated, of approximately 16 square miles, is 10 miles east of Singleton in the Parishes of Sedgefield and Marwood, County of Durham and in the Parish of Belford,...