Themes/Feature Articles

Cover Feature - Mining & Environmental Planning

• Environmental performance is vital to future of mining
• Rehabilitating Ravensworth State Forest
• Derelict Mines Program allocates funds
• Derelict mines: an ideal habitat for bats
• Environmental Geochemical Services
• Strategic framework for mine closures
• Revised guidelines for Mining Operation Plans
• Security deposits ensure environmental compliance

Exploration NSW

• NSW Petroleum Exploration Initiatives
• Eromanga Basin data package promotes petroleum exploration
• Narrabri data to encourage oil and gas exploration
• Broken Hill benefits from Exploration NSW
• New maps for old exploration challenges in the regolith at Broken Hill
• High copper-gold prospectivity in Broken Hill
• Koonenberry geoscience datasets CD available
• Geophysics helps in the search for opals at Lightning Ridge
• Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists Conference
• Wagga Geophysical Survey

Minerals

• Prospects for Fused Magnesia Production in NSW
• Important NSW Mineral Projects
• Exploration Licences (ELs)
• ELs Granted April-August 2001
• Summaries of Terminated ELs January-August 2001
• ELs in Force August 2001 (map)
• ELs Cancelled/Expired August 2001 (map)

Coal and Petroleum

• Coal Updates
• Ridgelands drilling suggests coal resources
• Coal Authorisations/ELs August 2001
• Coal Mining Proposals September 2001
• Petroleum Titles July 2001
• Petroleum ELs July 2001 (map)
• Hunter Coalfield Development map available

Mine Safety

• Minister opens key NSW mining safety conference
• NSW Minerals Council presents Safety
• Innovation Awards
• Preventing underground fires

General

• Course teaches advances in exploration geochemistry
• Geoscience Information Workshops
• Adelmo Agostini, 1941-2001
• Renewal of titles and the Native Title Act
• Publications released July - November 2001