As we watched Elmer, Fred Burns’ father, unload the very first donga on May 3, 1977 at ‘Grasstrees’ property, little did we realise what a monumental adventure had just started. After selecting the camp site, the small geological team, assisted by Bruce McLaughlin a local […]

After graduating with First Class Honours from Sydney University in 1951 Cliff McElroy worked at the Geological Survey of NSW for 12 years specialising in Regional and Coalfield Geology. During those years Cliff completed his M.Sc and his Ph.D on the Clarence-Moreton Basin. In early […]

The involvement of MBGS personnel with coal basins in Antarctica goes back to 1964 when our company’s founder, Dr Cliff McElroy, made his first field trip to the Transantarctic Mountains in 1964. A few years later in 1966, Dr John Bryan, MBGS co-founder and former […]