This report describes the fossils collected by D.M. Traves early in 1948 from the Barkly Tableland and adjacent areas in Queensland and the Northern Territory. The sequence of Cambrian faunas as far as it can be recognised in the present collection corresponds to the revised sequence given by F.W. Whitehouse in "The Cambrian Faunas of North-East Australia". This report comprises stratigraphical and palaeontological notes, and a preliminary list of fossils with notes on the lithology of the rocks in which they occur.

This report is written chiefly to present estimates of reserves of bauxite proved to date in Gippsland. Consequently, discussions of the geological aspects of the investigation, though essential to an understanding of the subject, are kept to a minimum. The existence of bauxite in the neighbourhood of Boolarra and Thorpdale, County Buln Buln, South Gippsland has been known for some years and bauxite from Nahoo, Allot. 8 Ph. Narracan South, has been used for chemical purposes for over 20 years. Eleven additional discoveries were made from time to time up to April, 1942, when an extensive prospecting programme was undertaken. In the short time that has elapsed since then a further twelve deposits have been discovered, making a total of twenty-four deposits in the adjoining parishes of Moe, Allambee East, Narracan South, Mirboo and Budgeree in the county of Buln Buln. Several of these deposits have been systematically tested by shaft sinking and boring. This exploration is still in progress.

During the period August 1942 - August 1943, a boring campaign was conducted in the Coorabin section of the coalfield by the Commonwealth Coal Commission. The boring was done by the Water Conservation and Irrigation Commission of New South Wales under the supervision of the Mineral Resources Survey Branch of the Department of Supply and Shipping. When the Coal Commission withdrew, and before the plant was removed from the field, an additional bore was put down by the Department of Supply and Shipping in the Oaklands section of the field. This report contains the results of analyses of the bores.

Boring by the Alice Springs Works Department and by Webb Bros. of Mt. Riddock Station showed that subterranean water supplies in the schists and gneisses in this area are usually small in quantity and that the water is brackish. The best chances of obtaining water for the mining fields seems to lie in sinking relatively shallow wells on the creeks and depressions running northward from the Harts Range. These depressions are believed to contain from 30 to 60 ft. of alluvium. Eight possible sites for wells were selected, two being within the foothills of the main range and six at a distance of 1.5 to 2 miles from the foothills of the range. Six of these sites are now being tested by a light hand-boring plant. This plant is expected to penetrate the alluvium quickly and wells will be sunk where favourable results are obtained. The sites selected are within easy reach of the following mines: Jenkins' Mine, The Spotted Tiger Mine, B. Rech's (Rex?) Mine, Hit and Miss Mine, Central Mine and Eldorado Mine.

Gibsonvale tin field is situated approximately three miles southeast of the village of Kikoira. This preliminary report was prepared following an examination of the tin field by the writer. Aspects of the general and economic geology of the field are discussed herein.

Results of a micro-faunal examination of samples from bores Nos. 188, 195, 208, and 213, parish of Maryvale, Victoria.

This work was prepared on a request to provide field infonnation on the Williams and Naraku Batholiths, which I visited in a series of short field trips in 1978, 1984, 1985, 1986 and 1988. I have only included data on the post D2 phases. I have included very little information on the Naraku Batholith, primarily because I have not done all that much work on it since my initial sampling trip in 1978. Five traverses are documented which focus in particular on the altered phases of the Williams Batholith and some albitite intrusions in the Naraku Batholith. My last trip to this area was in 1988, and since then, as there has been a considerable amount of exploration work done in the area, the access information may not be all that reliable. As far as is possible, I have recorded access as it was in my last visit, and I take no responsibility for accuracy, as I have not had the luxury of checking its current status. The five traverses documented are as follows: Traverse 1-Wimberu Granite Traverse 2 - Northern Squirrel Hills and southern Mount Angelay Granite Traverse 3 - Hampden Mines to northern Mount Angelay Granite and Cloncurry Traverse 4 - Tank Hole Bore and Glen Eva Homestead area Traverse 5 - The southwestern plutons of the Williams Batholith In the accompanying documentation I have provided a preprint of an article on the Williams Batholith from the next issue of the BMR Research Newsletter. It provides an overview of the Williams granite system and in particular refers to the concept of convective fractionation. I suggest that this article, as well as the article on "Granites: their tectonic and met allogenic applications" are mandatory reading before setting foot on any of the localities described in this report. I have also included a copy of the BMR regional radiometrics, as it is invaluable in determining the location of the fractionated phases. It is a hand coloured copy of the original diagram which appeared in the Bulletin on the Duchess-Urandangi Region. Finally, for anyone attempting to follow though on the traverses described in this area, remember that the Williams and Naraku Batholiths are the most interesting and spectacular batholiths that I have ever worked on. The diversity in primary magmatic phases and the overprinting alteration types is almost unique, and their association with Cu and Au mineralisation in the area is without question.

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This is a compilation photoscale set of SE53-03.

The stratigraphy and structure of an area in the Carnarvon sedimentary basin covered by the Williambury and Moogooree one mile sheets, is described. Resting unconformably on a Pre-Cambrian basement of schists gneisses and granites, are Devonian marine sediments 4750 feet thick, followed conformably by Carboniferous approximately 2150 feet thick; these are separated from the overlying Permian more than 8000 feet thick, by a possible hiatus. The Cretaceous System is represented by about 40 feet of siltstone lying unconformably on the Palaeozoic rocks. Marine Tertiary arenaceous deposits are widespread and have a maximum thickness of 80 feet; they are not seen in contact with the Cretaceous rocks. The whole area has been subjected, in Tertiary time, to lateritisation, the most prominent feature of which is the presence of a silicified cap ranging in thickness from a few feet to 30 feet. In one place a post-laterite deposit of 12 feet of probably fresh-water limestone has been observed. An account is given of the structural geology, geological history, and physiography of the region.