Themes/Feature Articles

Feature - Broken Hill Exploration Initiative Conference

• The Broken Hill Exploration Initiative: impacts on the search for new orebodies
• The Curnamona Province and its tectonic setting
• Willyama Supergroup structure and mineral exploration
• Timely ideas on Broken Hill rocks
• Broken Hill: origins of rock types and mineralisation
• Cu-Au mineral systems and regional alteration,
• Curnamona Province
• Seismic reflection and refraction studies in the Broken Hill region
• GIS datasets for the Curnamona Province

From the Director-General

Discovery 2000

• Reprocessing of deep crustal seismic data
• The DIGS project - further developments

Minerals

• Dubbo zirconia project
• Hot dry rock tender winner announced
• Peak Hill gold sulphide project
• Intec copper process
• Cadia opening: the first in a Newcrest trend?
• A new Geology of New South Wales - the 'blue' book has arrived
• Geology of New South Wales - Volume 2
• Forum on water and the minerals industry
• Important New South Wales mineral projects
• Exploration licences
• Exploration (Prospecting) licences in force October 1998
• Exploration licences granted September-November 1998
• Exploration licences in force November 1998 (map)
• Summaries of terminated exploration licences
• Exploration licences terminated before June 1998
• Register of mineral development opportunities

Coal & Petroleum

• Gas at Narrabri
• Coal summit
• Coal industry updates
• Coal authorisations/exploration licences November 1998
• Coal mining proposals December 1998
• Petroleum titles - December 1998

Safety

• Can geologists help to reduce coal mining fatalities?

Environment

• Environmental provisions for exploration and mining
• Premier's Award for Environmental Excellence, 1998

General

• Policy on coal mining under flood-prone land
• Single securities for multiple exploration licences
• First national opal mining symposium
• New South Wales Native Title Amendment Act
• New South Wales minerals conference, 20-21 May 1999
• Assistant Director appointed for Safety Operations
• Publications released October - December 1998