Ashford is the only true mining-style coal in this dataset: a mapped, discrete Permian coal-measure belt hosting NSW's historic Ashford colliery, and one of the very few workable Permian coking-coal occurrences anywhere north of the Hunter. The coal is real, shallow and outcropping — the Early Permian Ashford Coal Measures form a narrow, north-north-east-trending strip that has been drilled repeatedly since 1979 and mined historically, yet never systematically tested along it

Across nearly seventy years and a dozen wells, no operator ever placed a modern, undamaged completion across proven pay. Hogarth 2 flowed half a million cubic feet a day through a packer that wouldn't seat and stabilised at 120 Mcf/d behind measured 50% formation damage; Hogarth 1's best log zones were never tested because all four packers failed; Clifden 1 was abandoned 200 feet short of its target when the hole caved; Cedar Point-1's only permeability test ended when the pa

The Miss: the single most anomalous rock chip in fifty years of district data — coincident gold, silver, arsenic, antimony and lead on a proven mineralised horizon — was logged as the "southern limit of sampling" in 1997, left behind while the crew moved north, and has sat untested on vacant ground ever since

Basket Swamp is a historic high-grade silver mine in northern NSW that produced bonanza-grade ore from 1888 to 1910 and was open-cut mined in the 1970s–80s — yet the lode itself has never been properly drilled. The structure can be traced for at least 450 metres at surface, but only 50–100 metres of it has ever seen a drill hole, and nothing has been tested below about 45 metres depth. The only drilling ever done on the prospect — six shallow scout holes in 1995–96 — was judg

Waratah is a large, shallow, fully worked-up geophysical target in northern NSW whose core has never been drilled. A coincident, high-amplitude gravity high and magnetic complex — interpreted as a mafic (possibly ultramafic) intrusive–extrusive body — sits under just 150–200 m of cover, with depth solutions placing its top at roughly 104–207 m and 3D inversions carrying the body to at least 700 m depth. The most recent holder spent six years building a complete modern dataset