Bandanna Energy

Bandanna Energy is a Queensland headquartered exploration company which holds 16 coal exploration licences in the Bowen and Galilee basins in Queensland.While the company doesn't have any operating coal mines it has secured an allocation of 4 million tonnes per annum in Stage 1 of the Wiggins Island Coal Export Terminal which is slated to be commissioned in 2014.

Possible coal projects
On its website the company lists its current key projects as comprising the:


 * South Galilee Project in which AMCI has a 50% interest. The company states that the project "will produce up to 20 Million tonnes per annum (Mtpa) of high volatile, low sulphur thermal coal for export to international markets."
 * Springsure Creek Project which the company states it is undertaking "studies of a potential large underground raw thermal coal resource";
 * Arcturus Project where the company states it is "undertaking studies in order to delineate a potential thermal coal resource"; and the
 * Dingo West Project which the company states is "a potential open cut thermal/PCI project which may be fast tracked as a satellite pit development close to the existing Blackwater to Gladstone rail corridor." The company states that it is investigating a 0.7 - 2.4 Mtpa run of mine project which "is expected to yield a thermal/PCI product."

The Company refers to its Arcadia, Springsure and Arcturus projects as its "Golden Triangle" projects.

Contact details
Level 12, 410 Queen Street BRISBANE Queensland 4000 Phone: (07) 3041 4400 Fax: (07) 3041 4444 Email: info AT bandannaenergy.com.au Website: http://www.bandannaenergy.com.au/

Affiliations

 * member, Queensland Resources Council

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External resources

 * "Abbot Point", North Queensland Bulk Ports Corporation website