The South Australia Drill Core Library is globally recognised as providing the best possible services to industry, academia and the people of South Australia.

The team are the custodians of South Australia's drill core and geological samples. They ensure those samples are available for viewings and inspections, catalogued appropriately and digitally available. The team are also a wealth of knowledge for companies providing drill core and geological sample submissions.

The Core Library offers event space for seminars and meetings, and the team can support you in managing events at the facility.

More information on the Drill Core Library

The Industry Facilitation and Geoscience team focuses on the mineral and energy prospectivity of South Australia, with a key aim to reduce the critical geoscientific uncertainty and increase company mineral and energy resource investment, stimulate exploration activity and ultimately production and royalties.

The team of geoscientists has specialised skills across six work programs:

• Regional geology, digital and field mapping
• Mineral systems analysis
• Basin and energy resource play analysis and gas storage, including natural hydrogen and geothermal energy
• Prospectivity analysis
• Geological and geophysical data acquisition and interpretation
• Resource evaluation and planning

The team is responsible for:

• prospectivity research at a regional scale to generate a full cycle portfolio of geological concepts that are used to promote mineral and energy resource investment opportunities nationally and internationally
• developing, delivering, and promoting pre-competitive geoscience initiatives
• providing strategic input to generate new competitive tender exploration acreage releases
• providing geoscientific advice and expertise to stakeholders, industry, and academic researchers.

The team's core business is to manage and develop geoscientific data and information systems to promote South Australia's mineral and energy prospectivity in the global marketplace. This involves assembling, maintaining and making available geoscientific information to meet the expectations of all customers and stakeholders.

The team is responsible for:

• providing custodianship and management of South Australia's geoscience and geospatial data
• managing mineral and energy geoscience data to comply with the Mining Act 1971, Energy Resources Act 2000 and associated regulations
• managing and delivering high-quality pre-competitive geoscience information, maps and online platforms such as SARIG and PEPS South Australia
• expanding the digital footprint of South Australian geoscience information to unlock mineral and energy resources
• delivering international and national standard geoscience web services to enable future data-driven exploration technologies
• ensuring South Australian geoscience digital assets are valued, reliable and accurate by following the FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable) and TRUST (transparency, responsibility, user focus, sustainability, technology) principles
• providing advice to industry on meeting their obligations regarding statutory digital data submissions.

Discovery Day is an opportunity to hear directly from the Geological Survey of
South Australia on our new projects, research, and insights from the last 12 months.

Since 2016, Discovery Day has been an integral part of the Geological Survey of
South Australia’s calendar.

View our Discovery Day webpage.

The PDAC Convention brings together up to 30,000 attendees from over 130 countries for its educational programming, networking events and business opportunities.

View more about GSSA's involvement on our PDAC webpage.

Formed in 2010, the Roundtable has more than 2,250 representatives from over 1,150 organisations including industry, governments, and peak representative bodies for industry, environment protection and Aboriginal people, along with research institutions and individuals.

View the Roundtable for Energy Resources webpage.