URL: https://geoscience.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/cr121380
This annual and final report presents a summary of the geological and exploratory activities carried out during the life of the permit from 9 June 2010 to 8th June 2015 for EPC 1307, Emerald Central Project.
EPC 1307 is located 66.7km south-east of the township of Alpha and 107.8km west of the town of Springsure. The main access is by the partly-sealed Dawson Developmental Highway west to Tambo. A sparse network of secondary roads and dry weather tracks are accessible throughout the tenure area. EPC 1307 is located approximately 75km south-west (at the closest point) of the coal haulage rail corridor that extends to Alpha (Aurizon, 2012). EPC 1307 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, and on the boundary of the Springsure Shelf of the Bowen Basin, where basal sequences of the Jericho and Jochmus Formation (Joe Joe Group) onlap the exposed Drummond Basin rocks to the east. Over some parts of the project area, these Carboniferous and Permian sequences are obscured beneath Cainozoic cover. Drilling in the south-western part of the exploration area by the previous owners was encouraging; demonstrating the presence of mineable coal seams in the Colinlea Sandstone, a younger formation than the Jericho Formation in the Galilee Basin. Records have been provided to demonstrate that the previous owners were planning for a Stage 2 drilling program to confirm the presence of this unit during the reporting period, but it appears that this program was never implemented.
Geological assessment has been disrupted during this period through a sale process conducted by the
Joint Venture partners, culminating in the sale in December 2012 to Fox Resources Limited.
Reassessment of potential target formations only commenced late in the period. This work is currently in progress. The main exercise is to create a relational database (using Ventyx’s GDB software) from the collation of historical stratigraphic drilling, registered water bores, and company drilling within, and adjacent to, the EPC. This is particularly true for the 1981 drilling records at Glen Avon Oil Shale deposit some 18.9km to the west (now MDL 330), where additional mapping information sighted in relinquishment reports could be usefully included into Fox's databases.