by ACS.Admin | Sep 21, 2023 | Blog
Sydney Shelf Sand Bodies: from Discovery to Metromix In 1984 a paper appeared in an international journal describing the existence of elongate, shore-parallel sand bodies on the lower shoreface in water depths greater than 30m off the Sydney cliffed coastline. The...
by ACS.Admin | Aug 30, 2023 | Blog
Coastal Poetry from Sydney’s East Recently Irene and I attended a poetry reading at the Waverley Council Library. Two poets, Libby Hathorn (LH) and Elizabeth Cummins (EC) read from their book entitled Coastal Poetry (Pacific Ocean Press, 2023). It covers that...
by ACS.Admin | Aug 18, 2023 | Blog
Heavy Mineral Sand Mining in Eastern Australia In a previous blog I have commented on mechanisms for the concentration of heavy minerals in sand deposits along the coast of eastern Australia. For just over 100 years commencing around 1870 when gold was discovered in...
by ACS.Admin | Aug 4, 2023 | Blog
Coast to Coast: Adelaide to Darwin Irene and I have just completed a trip across the heart of Australia on the Ghan courtesy of a lovely gift package from our family. I think they felt we needed to get away from our coastal world and experience the vastness of the...
by ACS.Admin | Jul 12, 2023 | Blog
Coastal Sand Mining – Background Southeastern Australia has been endowed (some would say cursed) with concentrations of a group of heavy minerals in coastal sand deposits. The geological history and geomorphological emplacement of these heavy minerals has...