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CAADIA Metals applies AI-assisted forensic analysis to decades of open-file exploration data — the drill logs, geochemistry, and geophysics sitting in public archives across Australia. Most of it has never been re-examined with modern tools.

On this page we publish independent research notes on ASX-listed explorers and their project areas, drawn entirely from publicly available historical data. Each note asks a simple question: what does the historical record reveal when it's read again, precisely?

These notes are desktop reviews, not JORC-compliant reports, and nothing here constitutes investment advice or a recommendation on any security. They are published to demonstrate our methodology — the same approach that built CAADIA's own exploration portfolio — and to contribute to a more complete reading of Australia's exploration record.

Open Ground

Ashford Coal Measures — Open Ground Opportunity

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

Open Ground - The Clarence-Moreton Gas Story

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

Open Ground - Orange, NSW

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

ASX Listed

AERIS Resources - The Grade That's Still Open: Forensic Reinterpretation of the EL8810 Open-File Record

Some exploration licences are interesting because of what has been found on them. EL8810, in the Coolabah–Girilambone district about 45 km west-north-west of Nyngan, is interesting because of what was sampled but never finished on it — and that makes it one of the cleaner case studies we've worked through in this series. The licence forms the northern part of Aeris Resources' Tritton Operations package, held through Tritton Resources Pty Ltd. It was pegged deliberately: to co

Larvotto Resouces: Reading a Hillgrove-Style System Through an Antimony Lens: What the Open File Still Holds Over EL6419

Every so often a piece of ground rewards a second reading — not because the people who hold it have missed anything, but because the questions we ask of a dataset change with the commodity cycle. EL6419 "Hillgrove Regional," held by Hillgrove Mines Pty Ltd and beneficially owned by Larvotto Resources Limited (ASX: LRV), is one of those pieces of ground. This is a forensic re-read of the in-licence open-file record for EL6419 — the shallow historic drilling and the modern rock

Crossroad Gold Corp - An Open-File Forensic Look at the Pambula System, EL 9833

Every so often a piece of ground rewards the person who reads its file carefully rather than the person who simply walks it. The Pambula goldfield on the far south coast of New South Wales — held today under Exploration Licence 9833 by Rox-ex Pty Ltd, now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Crossroads Gold Corp (TSXV: CRG) — is one of those places. Pambula is a low-sulphidation epithermal gold–silver system hosted in the bimodal Boyd Volcanic Complex, sitting at the southern end of

Privately Held

Meta Minerals — An Open-File Forensic Look at the Birdwood Cu-Mo System, EL 9090

"Some ground is judged by the assays that were run. Better ground is judged by the assays that weren't." The Birdwood field, 35 miles east of Wauchope in the upper Hastings of northern New South Wales, is now held under Exploration Licence 9090 by Meta Minerals Pty Ltd (ACN 634 190 060). It sits in the western Hastings Block of the southern New England Orogen — Lower Devonian to Lower Permian shales, greywackes, sandstones and tuffs, intruded by an Upper Permian Trondhjemite

The Deposit That Was Drilled for the Wrong Commodity: Piedmont Magnesite, Bingara NSW

Some deposits are under-explored because nobody found them. Piedmont is the rarer case: a deposit everyone found, and nobody ever assayed. Roughly 28–30 km SSW of Bingara, near the Gwydir River on the Cobbadah 9037-IV-S sheet, the Piedmont Magnesite Mine sits in the schistose serpentinite of the Great Serpentinite Belt, hard against the Peel Fault system. The Geological Survey of NSW called it "the only documented metahydrothermally-derived magnesite deposit in the sheet area