The 2000 Mt Wintinna coal deposit is located approximately 700 km north-northwest of Port Augusta in South Australia. The area has opencut potential, and is proposed for development to supply a thermal power station. Meekatharra Minerals Ltd holds...

Study aimed at beneficiating the lignite, particularly removing sodium and chlorine, so that it could be used in pulverised fuel boiler unit to produce electricity. Study involved various leaching tests on lignite, and settling and filtering tests on...

Following the acquisition and interpretation of a semi-detailed aerial magnetic survey, drilling of 23 aircore/diamond holes to test bedrock (aggregate 1237.9 m, with 36.5 m cored) failed to lend encouragement to the search for uranium in an area...

Exploration licence 5781 was taken up to evaluate the development potential of the East Wintinna Early Permian sub-bituminous coal deposit, which is the largest known coal deposit in the Arckaringa Basin and is regarded as having the best future...

A large area consisting of two separate sub-blocks that were centred ~90 km east and 110 km south-east of Port Augusta has been explored for possible economic Tertiary lignitic coal deposits that may have formed in the southern part of a now uplifted,...

Exploration of an area located in the upper South-East for possible economic coal or uranium mineralisation has consisted of office studies only, examining regional data to interpret whether favourable structural settings for coal deposition exist,...

Licensee Agenco Resources Pty Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary of Nasaco Holdings Pty Ltd. The company is focussed on the development of a very large buried Tertiary lignite resource located near Kingston in the South-East district of South Australia....

A small area located ~90 km east-northeast of Port Augusta has been explored for possible economic Tertiary lignitic coal deposits that may have formed in the northern part of a now uplifted, ~50 km long x ~15 km wide intramontane sedimentary basin,...

Three adjoining large licences located in the Eringa Trough area ~120-170 km north-east of Marla, covering ground overlying the south-western end of the Pedirka Basin adjacent to the SA-NT state border, were taken up in order to evaluate the coal...

An area of 185 square km was taken up by SAPEX to allow it to evaluate afresh known sub-bituminous coal measures in the Permian Mount Toondina Formation that constitute the East Wintinna coal deposit. This deposit had been discovered by Meekatharra...

An area centred ~90 km south-east of Port Augusta has been explored for possible economic Tertiary lignitic coal deposits that may have formed in the southern part of a now uplifted, ~50 km long x ~15 km wide intramontane sedimentary basin, the...

Exploration carried out over two adjacent areas located 50 to 70 km south-west and south of Wudinna was progressed under the terms of two separate joint venture agreements made by the licensee in October 2006, firstly with GE Resources (a subsidiary...

The Kingston coal deposit, located within a geographic area that extends between 20 and 40 km north-east of Kingston (South-East) township, comprises 985 Mt of lignite shallowly interbedded in Tertiary sediments, in a series of seams that now (in a...

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Some large areas of vacant ground located in the south and west of Mulgathing Station that lie adjacent to the Bulgunnia Fault Zone were taken up by Monax Mining initially to explore primarily for Olympic Dam type IOCG-U mineralisation and also for...

An area of 304 square km was taken up by SAPEX to allow it to evaluate afresh known sub-bituminous coal measures in the Permian Mount Toondina Formation that constitute the Weedina coal deposit. This deposit, located ~90 km north-east of Coober Pedy,...

Olympic Dam style copper-gold mineralisation was the target of exploration in two adjoining areas which lie about 100 km north-northeast of Port Augusta and 55 km west of Hawker, on alluvial plains adjacent to south-eastern Lake Torrens. All of the...

In a study made of the Palaeozoic magmatic province underlying the Murray Basin, all available geophysical, geological and geochemical data was evaluated by Shell's technical consultants, who identified six conceptual targets which could reasonably be...

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Marsden 1 is located regionally on the eastern edge of the Battunga Trough, approximately 25 km south-west of the Toolachee Gasfield and 22 km east south-east of the Limestone Creek / Biala Oilfield. It was drilled as an exploration well to evaluate...