Aerial, Geological and Geophysical Survey of Northern Australia
AGGSNA
1935 – 1940
Commonwealth survey that used aerial photography, geological mapping and geophysical methods to search for mineral deposits in northern Australia, in cooperation with Queensland and Western Australia.
How it came into existence
Set up by the Commonwealth in 1935, with the cooperation of the Queensland and Western Australian governments, to stimulate mining in northern Australia; it built on the methods of the 1928–30 Imperial Geophysical Experimental Survey. It had no Commonwealth predecessor.
How it ended
Wound up around 1940, early in the Second World War; Commonwealth geological survey work was later re-formed in the wartime Mineral Resources Survey and, from 1946, the Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics.
Main functions
- Aerial photography of mineral fields
- Geological mapping in northern Australia
- Geophysical surveys for mineral deposits
- Reports on mining fields
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