URL: https://geoscience.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/cr121185
This annual report presents a summary of the geological and exploratory activities carried out during the term ending 7th April 2015 for EPC 1469, the tenure being in its 5th year of grant.
EPC 1469 is located 15km east of the township of Alpha and 95km west of the township of Emerald. The main access is by the sealed Capricorn Highway west to Alpha. A sparse network of secondary roads and dry weather tracks are accessible throughout the tenure area. EPC 1469 is located approximately 25km east of the proposed coal haulage rail corridor which is to connect the central proposed coal mines of the Galilee Basin to the existing Newlands rail line, near Denham Junction in the east (Aurizon, 2012).
EPC 1469 is one of a group of tenures belonging to Fox Resources Limited (ASX: FXR) which is located on the eastern margin of the Galilee Basin, where basal sequences of the Jericho and Jochmus Formation (Joe Joe Group) onlap the exposed Drummond Basin rocks to the east. In the majority of the project area, these Carboniferous and Permian sequences are obscured beneath Cainozoic cover (Biggs and Nowland, 2013).
Exploratory drilling conducted by the previous owners in surrounding tenures near Alpha were generally unhelpful, with only thick non-coal bearing sandstone and siltstone units being penetrated. However, more recent drilling in exploration areas to the south, held by the previous owners, has demonstrated the presence of coal seams in the Colinlea Sandstone, a younger formation than the Jericho Formation in the Galilee Basin (Biggs and Nowland, 2013).
Records have been provided to demonstrate that the previous owners were planning for a field mapping program to confirm the presence of this unit during the reporting period, but it appears that this program was never implemented.
There was no on-ground exploration work completed on EPC 1469 during the current reporting period