Themes/Feature Articles

Exploration NSW

• Lightning Ridge Survey Results Boost Hopes for Opal Industry
• NewGenGold2001 Conference
• Investigating the Regolith and Bedrock East of Cobar

Minerals

• The Murray Basin: an Emerging Major Titanium Minerals Province
• Mining at Gingko on Track for 2003
• Dubbo Zirconia Project Update
• Exploration Licences (ELs)
• ELs granted September- December 2001
• Summaries of terminated ELs August - November 2001
• ELs in force (map)
• ELs cancelled/expired December 2001 (map)
• 'TAS2Net': Exploration Licenses Online
• Important New South Wales Minerals Projects

Coal and Petroleum

• Coal Industry Updates
• Coal Discussion Day 2001
• Southern Coalfield Stratigraphic Study to Assist Industry Planning
• Eastern Australian Basins Symposium
• Coalfield Geology Council holds Geological Hazards Symposium
• Coonarah Gas Project Update
• Coal Authorisations/ELs January 2002 (map)
• Coal Mining Proposals March 2002 (map)
• Petroleum Titles December 2001
• Petroleum ELs December 2001 (map)

Safety

• First Aid and Rescue Competition
• 1999 - 2001 Mine Safety Report Published
• 12th Mechanical Engineering Safety Seminar & Workshop

General

• Imapct of Tax Changes to Mining R&D
• NSW Geology Key to Mystery of Gondwana
• Primordial air may have been breathable
• Commercial forestry as a post-mining land use
• Publications released December 2001 - February 2002