A small area centred ~30 km west-northwest of Ceduna has been explored for possible economic Tertiary heavy mineral sands deposits. During the first licence year, Bemax performed a literature review and examined available geological data for this part of the Eucla Basin. DTM data revealed potential for an old shoreline to have existed in the area which is of the same age as the one that formed the Jacinth and Ambrosia heavy mineral sands deposits of Iluka Resources Limited further to the north-west. A small drilling campaign was planned to investigate this feature and to sample the Ooldea Sand beach facies strata. A field reconnaissance of access availability was undertaken during August 2008 using both 4WD vehicles and chartered flights, which found that there is excellent access throughout the licence via a network of public roads. During licence Year 2, Bemax made application to the SA Government for the grant of PACE Initiative drilling project subsidy funds, to assist with its planned EL 4051 campaign plus other drilling that was planned for its Eucla Basin tenements then being explored in joint venture with Red Metal. On EL 4051, drilling traverses were to be spread across the tenement to investigate the basal contact between the prospective Ooldea Sandstone and the Nullabor Limestone. These traverses would initially incorporate widely spaced holes 500 m apart, with this spacing to be closed down if the contact was encountered. A minimum of 1,200 m of drilling was envisaged at an estimated cost of $60,000+. During licence Year 3, Bemax did no work. The company was unsuccessful in its application to receive PACE Year 6 drilling project subsidy funds. A partial relinquishment of 38% of the licence area was effected upon licence renewal at the start of the year. During licence Year 4, Bemax did no work. The company began seeking PIRSA's approval to soon drill 60 holes for 3,000+ m along three traverses 3.5 km apart, the holes to be spaced at 400 m intervals over 20 line km. During licence Year 5, new licence owner Cristal Mining did no work. The start of the drilling campaign was postponed until after the company had acquired an ~1500 line km airborne radiometric survey across its tenements, scheduled for June 2013. During licence Year 6, on renewed EL 5253, Cristal Mining conducted the aforesaid airborne geophysical survey during June-July 2013, acquiring both magnetic and radiometric data. A total of 10,946 line km was flown by contractor UTS Geophysics across four tenements, i.e. ELs 4245, 4777, 5080 and 5235; this included 1334 line km of coverage on the subject EL 5235, along east-west flight lines spaced 100 m apart, using a 20 m mean sensor height above the ground surface. Preliminary results showed anomalous radiometric (particularly thorium channel) lineaments oriented west-northwest to east-southeast, coinciding in four places with some subtly expressed linear magnetic anomalies. Based on its interpretation of these processed survey data, the intended first drilling campaign was re-designed to involve a total of 94 holes for 3102 m, along three traverses still but with much changed traverse orientations/lengths. During licence Year 7, Cristal Mining did no work. A more detailed desktop review of the local geology was undertaken in July 2014, and it was then realised that the geology of the Charra district was likely to lack suitable conditions for the accumulation of significant heavy mineral sands occurrences, as only offshore marine facies are known to exist there according to both Red Metal and Iluka geologists. In light of that realisation, the decision was taken that it was not in Cristal’s interest to spend money on drilling in an area with such low prospectivity, and so the planned drilling was cancelled. Subsequently it was decided to fully surrender the licence by allowing tenure to lapse at the end of the year.