Somerville-Donkin project overview

Ownership

40%, earn into 50% with option to 74%

Coal resource

274Mt Gross in-situ inferred resource

Product

Coking coal

Exploration

  • Exploration target within tenements is 800-1 000Mt

Project highlights

  • Acquisition: Donkin (subject to positive due diligence) 42.4Mt inferred resource
  • Somerville – 274Mt inferred resources
  • Project area: +15 000ha under prospecting licenses
  • Historical drilling: coking coal potential
  • Current work: desk top studies

Somerville-Donkin is located in the Tuli coalfield, northwest of the Soutpansberg coalfield, with a gross in-situ inferred resource of 274Mt.

Universal Coal is targeting a coking coal resource base in excess of 1Bt and continues to explore underground mining potential over three seams.

Development of the Somerville-Donkin coking coal project is at reconnaissance phase at present.

 

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