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This mineral collection comprises 13,000+ locality based museum quality specimens derived from BMR/AGSO/GA field survey programs, from external organisations (e.g. Australian Museums, state geological surveys), or from donations or bequests by private collectors. It includes specimens from all over the world with a strong emphasis on minerals from Broken Hill.

There are three areas so far discovered, each in a different state of development. They are: the East Finniss deposit, which has had a number of costeans and three shafts sunk on it by the present party; the Brown's mine deposit, which has an old shaft and many costeans sunk for copper around 1906; and the Mt. Fitch prospect which has two costeans and an 11 ft. shaft, all old and some distance from the present area of interest. This report deals only with an assessment of the present position and with recommendations for future work in the uranium prospects.

In the vicinity of Roma about 3000-4000ft. of Mesozoic sediments overlie a basement consisting or granite and -metamorphic rocks. Permian rocks outcrop about 70 miles to the north of Roma. Considerable flows of natural gas, and small quantities of oil, have been found since 1900 in many of the bores which have been drilled in the Roma area; but no major commercial supplies have been developed. The sediments are mostly obscured by soil. Experience also suggests that pitting and shallow core drilling have limited value. It is therefore difficult, using normal geological methods, to determine geological structures in the region and to work out, except in the broadest way, the geological structure in the areas tested by drilling. In the present survey, gravity and magnetic methods were applied in an attempt to gain some indications of basement topography, which might be related to possible oil-bearing structures. It was found that the major geophysical anomalies are not related to known basement topography, but are probably due to variations of rock-types within the basement or other causes. However, it was possible to isolate some- gravity anomalies which might be related to high basement features. These anomalies are being tested by seismic methods to locate possible drilling targets.

This palaeontological collection comprises 100,000+ locality based samples derived from BMR/AGSO/GA field survey programs, from external organisations (e.g. exploration companies, state geological surveys), or from donations or bequests by private collectors over the last 100 years. It also includes laboratory subsamples, residues and microscope slides and is often referred to as the F Collection or Bulk Fossil Collection.

The Corporate Archive consists of deposited copies of all internal publications and documents of the agency and its predecessors: the Bureau of Mineral Resources, Australian Geological Survey Organisation and those which have merged with it over the years, such as AUSLIG. These include unique material such as field notebooks and a small quantity of manuscripts. Unrestricted items in this collection are currently being digitised to improve access

This report gives an overview of the known bauxite resources of Victoria. Descriptions are given of the general geology of the area, of the individual deposits, and of the bauxite.

The samples described in this report, which were submitted by the Director for petrographical examination, come from the Janjukian and Anglesean deposits between Torquay and Airey's Inlet. All sedimentary rocks from the area have been named according to the classification drawn up by M.A. Condon. The results of a rough chemical analysis made in 1947 on a sample of supposed jarosite are given, and a note on the occurrence and possible origin of the glauconite found in many of the samples is appended.

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The deposits of heavy mineral sands along the East Coast of Australia are being investigated primarily to determine their content of monazite. These deposits contain most of the known world reserves of zircon and rutile for which they are being exploited at various localities. Monazite, a phosphate of cerium, lanthanum, praseodymium and other rare earths, with thorium silicate, is utilised commercially as a source of cerium and of thorium. In this investigation, the thorium content on the monazite is being determined on the basis of its radioactivity. A principal deposit, and two smaller deposits, in the Fingal-Cudgen area were investigated. The geology of the area, methods of testing, and the results of the investigation are discussed in this report.