Cuesta Coal completes exploration drilling at Amberley

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Cuesta Coal  has reported completion of its resource expansion drilling program at the company’s 100 per cent-owned Amberley project located in the Clarence-Moreton Basin in Queensland. 

Fourteen open holes and three cored holes were completed for 2,040 metres of drilling.

All holes have been geophysically logged, surveyed and rehabilitation work is underway.

 

Drill hole locations of the current round of drilling by Cuesta. Source: Company announcement

The results from the drilling indicate that banded coal seams are present at less than 150 metres from the surface.

Samples collected from the coring activities have been sent for analysis and results are expected in the next six to eight weeks.

Highlights of coal intersections include:

  •         Cumulative coal thickness of 16.98 metres to a depth of 136.7 metres in cored hole AM016C
  •         Cumulative coal thickness of 8.0 metres to a depth of 57 metres in open hole AM007
  •         Cumulative coal thickness of 12.2 metres to a depth of 114.7 metres in open hole AM0014 


Cuesta’s technical team is now mobilising to the Eastern Galilee project for a planned 20 hole drill program that will occur over eight to twelve weeks.

“We were particularly encouraged by the presence of coal close to surface at Amberley and look forward to updating shareholders on a potential resource expansion,” Cuesta Coal’s managing director, Matthew Crawford commented in the company’s release to the ASX.