HEADLINE 1‘SQUAE’ ROLLERS REDUCE TYRE WEAR AT MINES AROUND THE WORLD

HEADLINE 2ENERGY GIANT INVESTS IN LIQUID FUTURE

HEADLINE 3INEW RESEARCH CLUSTER TO TARGET LIVESTOCK GAS EMISSIONS

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contentsThe Mining Oil and Gas Guide

Targeting Live Stock with Research

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‘Square’ rollers reduce tyre wear at mines around the world

F OR decades, the Broons ‘square’ Impact Roller has been improving the

running surface on haul roads,tip heads and pit floors, resulting in reducedhaul truck tyre wear at mine sites around the world. Large or sharp rocks can slice through and critically damage even a brand new tyre, while smaller rocks can lodge between the lugs and eventually penetrate and cause punctures. By turning rocks into rubble, the roller can improve a mine’s tyre manage-ment regime, simultaneously reduc-ing mechanical wear and tear on haul truck suspension and associ-ated components while delivering lower maintenance rquirements and a reduction inspare parts costs. Towed bya270 horsepower to 330hp tractor, the1.3m-wide8t(BH-1300MS) and 1.95m-wide12t(BH-1950MS) modules quickly reduce the large and sharp-edged rocks, allowing haul trucksto travel easily without the fear of tyre damage. The cost of a Broons‘s quare’ Im-pact Roller can be rapidly recouped by mining companies, through the savings made from improved tyre wear and reduced damage to haul-trucks and their tyres.

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Energy giant invests in liquid future

Q UEENSLAND is known to have one of the ricchest sources of on-

shore CSGre- serves in Australia, particularly with in the Bowen and Suratbasins. The GLNG (Glad-stone LNG) project in South East Queensland will use world- first technology to process CSG into LNG and is expected to produce its first exports in 2015. Santos GLNG will convert CSG from the Bowen and Suratbasins to LNG, and will involve the construction and connection of a 420km gas transmission pipeline from the gas fields to a 7.8 million ton-nesperannum two-train process-ing facilityon Curtis Island and two LNG storage tanks in Glad-stone, which are currently under construction. A gas treatment facility will be built in Wallum-

billa, pending environmental and state approvals to separate hydro carbons from the gas before transfer to Gladstone. Estimated to cost US $16 billion, the project will create 5000 jobs during construction and 1000 jobs during operation, and will promote Queensland’s LNG export industry to the third-largest in the world.

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New research collaboration aims to improve thebetween a team of scientists measurement and and the CSIRO’s Sustainable management of Agriculture Flagship is aiming methane emissions forto reduce Australia’s overall grazing lands in northerngreenhousegas emissions Australia, thought to beby targeting one of its key responsible for five per cent

contributors– burping livestock. of the country’s overallgreen house gas emissions.According to the CSIRO, Australian agriculture directly In a statement, Universityaccounted for about 10 per of Melbourne project leadercentof the country’s Professor Deli Chen said thatgreen housegas emissions; the LMRC would draw on thethe Livestock Methane Researchs kills of world-leading research

Cluster (LMRC) intends to institutes to accurately measureless enthis impact. methane emis-sions from livestockunder real grazing conditions.Led byresearchersfrom theUniversity of Melbourne,the LMRC

New research cluster to target livestock gas

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Cleaning up Australia’s energy future

DESPITE its position as a world leader in the provision of major natural resources such as oiland gas, Australia is being over-shadowed by its

DESPITE its position as a world leader in the pro-vision of major natural resources such as oi land gas, Australia is being over shadowed by itsmajor trading partners in one key area of develop-ment: its use of clean energy generation-methods.

A recent World Wildlife Fund study, Clean Econo-my, Living Planet, found that despite marginally improving development to fits clean energy industry, Australiaran ked just 26 of 40 countries in terms of-clean technology product-manufacturing, lagging behind countries such as China, Korea, the US and Russia. Locally, however, theClean EnergyCouncil (CEC)isw o r k i n g t o c h a n g e A u s t

ralia’sstanding among

theworld’susersofclean

energy. TheCECisa national not-

for-profitorganisationthat

representsAustralia’sclean energy

sector, madeup ofmorethan 600

membercompanies thatoperate

inthe fieldsofrenewableenerg-

yand energy efficiency, develop-

ing ordeploying all major‘clean’energytechnologies.

TheCECpromotesawarenessofthe cleanenergyin-

dustrythrough leadership and businessopportuni-

ties such as industryevents, meetings, newsletters,

directoratesand media interaction.Membersof

theCEC

receivea rangeofbenefits,including: advocacyon-

theirbehalftodrive

governmentpolicies;opportunitiesto participatein

industrydevelopment

programs;informationon marketand regulatoryd-

evelopmentsand

governmentpoliciesandprograms;and media up-

datesandinvitationsto member-onlyevents.

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On Thursday 28 June 2012 Yancoal Australia waslisted on theAus-tralian Stock Exchange following its merger with Gloucester Coal Limited.Yancoal Australia Limited is expected to be Australia’s largest listed pure-playcoal producer.

The merger between Yancoal and Gloucester will create a significant and growing coal company with a diversified product mix of metallur-

gical and thermal coal mines in New South Wales and Queensland.

It will ben inth largest pure-play-coal companyglobally (based on reserves), with 3.4Bt of resources, 697M to fre- serves and plans to grows aleable productionto a pproximately 25Mtpa to33Mtpa by2016 (equitybasis).

The Duralie Open Cut Operation is located in the southern part of the Gloucester Basin, 20 kilometres south of GCL’s Stratford Operation.

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The mystery of Russia’s dangling carats

IN 1945, the Soviet Union,despiteits status as a recog-nised global super power, desperatelyneededto rebuild itswar-ravaged economy. In lightof this, Joseph Stalin-decreedth at the discoveryof industrialdiamonds(or kimberlite)– usedin oiland gasexploration,thecreation ofprecision mechanicalpartsandvariousotherindustrial-applications– withinRussia’svastborderswasofthehighestpriority.

TheSovietUnionhad beentotallyde-pendentontheworldwide diamond monopolyofDe-Beersforits industrial diamonds, buta loomingin-ternational embargothreatenedtheregion’s supply Stalin knew thesituation required urgentaction, and theSovietsembarkedon a bullish and widespread explorationprogram:sending outnumerous geological-teamstolocatea local, moredependable supply.Diamond mineshad neverbeen establishedin theSoviet Union priorto Stalin’scampaign, but in June1955–against all odds, and after 10 yearsof aggressiveex-ploration– a younggeologist namedYuri

Khabardindiscovered afoxhole inaravinein Eastern Siberia. Afterdeterminingthehigh diamond contentofthe area, he sentthefollowing messageoverhisshortwave radio:“Iamsmokingthepipeof peace”– a pre-arranged codephrasethatindicatedhehadfoundkimberlite and determined,throughtesting, thatitwasmineable.

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Cleaning up Australia’s energy future

HAVINGcomprehensively estab-lished it self as the world leaderin iron oreproduc-tion through a number of acquisitions and explora-tionsuccesses, diversemetals behemoth Vale is nowlooking to increase itscoal foot print both in Aus-tralia and overseas with a similar level of achieve-ment.

The company’s global coal division, which is head-quartered in Brisbane, overseesa portfolio that include-san integrated open cu-tand underground minein NSW and two Queensland mines, aswell as assetsin Mozambique, Colombi-aand China.

In May 2011, six years af-ter Vale’s Brisbane office opened, the company an-nounced that it was seek-ing approval from its head office for more than $2 bil-lion in funding to purchase Central Queensland coal

projects in2012.

“In seven to 10 years’ time, I wouldn’t be surprised if Vale was one of the four larg-est players in Australia interms of coal, ” Vale globalmanaging director of coal Decio Amaral-said at the time in an interview with The-Courier Mail.Its deals to date withAM CIand Aquila Resources have given Vale full or partownership of three operating mines–Isaac Plainsand Carborough Downsnear Moranbahin Queensland, and Integra Coal in NSW.

It also has threeadvanced projects in the pipeline, includ-ing the $640 million Ellensfield under-ground coal project, which will be oper-ated by Vale subsidiary Ellensfield Coal Management (ECM) and which is due for completioni nt he second half of 2012.

The Ellens field project will involve the development of a state-of-the-art un-derground long wall mine in Central Queensland’s Bowen Basin. The mine isforecast to produce about 5.5 mil-liontonnes per annum of exportcoking coaland thermal coal for a project life of-about 20 years.

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NEW LYASX-listed Armour Energy has encountered gas in the highly prospec-tive Batten Trough.The Australian based company,which is focusedon the Northern Territory’s hydro car-bon province, estimatedit could recov-er 18.6 trillion cubic feet of gas and 2 billion barrels of liquid from its 11,000 square kilometre EP171 and 176 tene-ments.

The Cow Lagoon 1well hit gas at depths between342m and 540min a tight calcitece-mented dolomite shale with poor po-rosityand permeability. Armours tatedt hatthe discovery demonstrated the-broad presence of both gas generating shales and dolomites o freservoirpotentialin the trough, which lies inthe MacArthurBasin.

In a statement released to sharehold-ers, Armour said it expected to com-plete the Cow Lagoon 1 bycollecting cores through the Barney Creek Shale and Cox co Dolomiteto test thermal maturity, and fororganic carboncon-tent, liquids and gas.

The company stated that the drill-ing rig would then be moved to the Kilgour Anticline to test for a poten-tiallyliquid-rich gas window at 1700m.

reserves by 2013.

It is the only company to have identi-fied shale potential in the Northern Territory. Gas was discovered in the region in 1979, when a zinc explora-tion drill hit the Coxco Dolomite wet gas window underlying the Barney Creek Shale at a depth of 500m and

Explorer encounters gas in Batten Trough

Armouris targeting liquid-rich gas breakthroughsacross theBatten Troughto definegas resourcesasthefirst step

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