Resistivity methods in the search for groundwater, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland

On the western side of Cape York Peninsula, north Queensland (Fig. 1), in the Weipa-Aurukum area, surface water supplies are seasonal, and mining and pastoral development relies on the availability of groundwater. Artesian water is obtainable from the Mesozoic sandstone units of the Carpentaria Basin throughout the area, but the water is slightly saline (1000 ppm total dissolved salts) and unacceptably high in fluorine (around 15 ppm). Domestic and stock water is taken almost entirely from shallow aquifers within the late Cretaceous or early Tertiary Bulimba Formation, which underlies most of the area and supplies all the domestic and some of the processing water at Weipa and the domestic and irrigation water at Aurukun Mission. Because of the variable permeability of the Bulimba Formation pattern drilling is expensive for groundwater investigations on a large scale; in the area studied drilling alone had a 1 in 35 success rate. There is a need for a cheap reconnaissance geophysical method to locate favourable areas for drilling. The purpose of this note is to describe a resistivity traversing technique, supported by drilling, which was developed in a detailed geophysical and geological study (Pettifer et al., 1976) of a test area between Weipa and Aurukum, and to outline some interesting aspects of the use of resistivity methods in this type of environment.

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Smart, J.

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