Australian Sharemarket Listed Companies

Uranium is a very heavy (dense) metal which can be used as an abundant source of concentrated energy. There are three Australian uranium mines mines currently operating: the Ranger mine in the Northern Territory and the Olympic Dam and Beverley mines in South Australia. Worldwide uranium deposits can be grouped into 14 major categories of deposit types based on the geological setting of the deposits (OECD/NEA & IAEA, 2000). Australian uranium deposits can be grouped into 6 of these categories. Following requests from the British and United States governments, systematic uranium exploration in Australia for uranium began in 1944. Regulation of Australia uranium mining: Current regulatory arrangements applying to the three uranium mines are stringent, complex, and vary between and within jurisdictions.

Here is a list of Australian Uranium Companies:
Alpha Uranium (AHM)
African Energy Resources (Guernsey) (AFR)
Alara Uranium (AUQ)
Alliance Resources (AGS)
Aura Energy (AEE)
Burey Gold (BYR)
Contact Uranium (CTS)
Crossland Uranium Mines (CUX)
Epsilon Energy (EPS)
Eromanga Uranium (ERO)
Fission Energy (FIS)
Globe Uranium (GBE)
Korab Resources (KOR)
Marathon Resources (MTN)
Newera Uranium (NRU)
North Australian Diamonds (NAD)
Northern Uranium (NTU)
Nova Energy (NEL)
Oklo Uranium (OKU)
Paladin Resources (PDN)
Pepinnini Minerals (PNN)
Southern Uranium (SNU)
Territory Uranium Company (TUC)
U308 (UTO)
United Uranium (UUL)
Uranium Equities (UEQ)
Uranium Exploration Australia (UXA)
Uranium King (UKL)
Uranium Oil And Gas (UOG)
Western Uranium (WTN)
Yellow Rock Resources (YRR)

U308 Limited is listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) under stock code UTO. U308 Limited is engaged in uranium exploration. The Company controls 10 uranium projects in Western Australia, South Australia and Queensland, totaling approximately 2243 square kilometers within 15 granted tenements and applications for tenements. Of the 15 tenements, 14 are owned 100% by U3O8 Limited. Its first drilling program of 3 to 4 kilometer spaced reverse circulation traverses confirms uranium in calcrete over 20 kilometers strike at Dawson Hinkler Well. The Ashburton project comprises three granted tenements, prospective for unconformity-style uranium mineralization in the area south of Paraburdoo in Western Australia. The Ashburton project comprises three granted tenements, prospective for unconformity-style uranium mineralization in the area south of Paraburdoo in Western Australia. The Paddy Well Project is located in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia. U308 Limited’s other projects include Wabli Creek, Olary Creek, Ardmore East, Westmoreland, Maureen and Gregory. UTO was listed on the ASX on 9 May, 2006. [Read more →]

Epsilon Energy Limited is listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) under stock code EPS. Epsilon presents an opportunity to invest in a committed and well-resourced business whose mission is to create a leading Australian uranium exploration and development company. Epsilon has secured an agreement to acquire 100% of the rights to uranium mineralisation covering 8,851km squared of prospective tenements in four Australian States. This extensive portfolio, compiled over the past two years, reflects our development pipeline from early stage exploration to more advanced targets, with careful consideration given to geopolitical certainty and geological suitability for large tonnage-low cost uranium systems. The Directors believe these principles will be the key drivers to meeting the Company’s objective of creating growth and delivering returns for shareholders. The primary targets are sandstone-hosted and calcrete-hosted uranium deposits. Both types of deposits are associated with low cost extraction methods and are present as world-class deposits such as Beverley in South Australia and Mulga Rock and Yeelirrie in Western Australia.

Epsilon Energy Limited is an Australia-based company. Epsilon has secured an agreement to acquire 100% of the rights to uranium mineralization covering 8,851 square kilometers at seven projects in four Australian states. The primary exploration and development targets are sandstone-hosted and calcrete-hosted uranium deposits. In December 2006, Heron Resources Limited acquired a 37.50% interest in the Company. EPS was listed on the ASX on 13 December, 2006. [Read more →]

North Australian Diamonds (NAD) is a diamond exploration company focused on the Merlin Kimberlite Field (NT) and North Kimberley (WA) project areas. North Australian Diamonds Limited is an Australian producer of diamonds. The Company’s asset includes the Mining Lease 1154, encompassing 11 of the 13 known kimberlite pipes (of which nine were subject to open-pit operations), producing approximately 500,000 carats of diamonds. Its Seppelt Project comprises a number of related kimberlite dykes, blows and pipes constrained within a narrow corridor over a strike length of some six kilometers. Seppelt 2 is a kimberlite pipe comprised of both weathered kimberlite and infill gravels. North Australian Diamonds has entered into a farm-in agreement with DeBeers Exploration Australia Limited (DBAE) to earn 100% interest in tenements located in the Arnhem Land region of the Northern Territory. Two of the tenements, totaling 1,400 square kilometers, are available for immediate exploration. North Australian Diamonds Limited is listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) under stock code NAD. the company was listed on the ASX on 16 October, 1979. Australian based diamond exploration and development company North Australian Diamonds Limited (”North Australian” or ” the company”) has confirmed its intention to spinout its wholly owned subsidiary Top End Uranium Limited (Top End) as part of a A$9m initial public offering (IPO). Under the terms of the IPO, Top End will seek to raise a A$6 million through the issue of 30 million shares at A$0.20 per share with up to a further $3 million or 15 million shares in oversubscriptions. Company to spin-out wholly owned subsidiary, Top End Uranium Limited, as part of IPO to raise a minimum $6m with up to a further $3m in oversubscriptions; Top End Uranium controls one of the largest portfolios of highly prospective exploration tenements in the Northern Territory (approximately 30,000km squared); Tenements recognised as being highly prospective for uranium and base metals, subject to limited exploration in past 30 years; Top End Uranium to undertake an aggressive exploration programme to define a major uranium deposit of economic significance; and North Australian Diamonds to retain approximately 25% of new company, with current shareholders to have right to participate in a Priority Entitlement Offer. [Read more →]

Alpha Uranium (AHM) has released a prospectus in August 2007 to raise $10 million with an issue price of 20 cents per share. The Prospectus is dated 8 August 2007 and was lodged with ASIC on that date. Alpha Uranium was incorporated in May 2007 as a public company for the purpose of acquiring the uranium interests of Strategic Minerals Corporation NL (“SMC”) in Queensland and South Australia and to search for new uranium exploration opportunities in Australia and overseas. Alpha has acquired its projects from SMC which are advanced uranium projects in Queensland and South Australia. The Woolgar Uranium Project comprises the right to explore for Uranium over four Exploration Permits for Minerals (“EPM”) and eight Mining Leases (“ML”). It is located in northern Queensland and covers an area of 698 square kilometres. The Frome Basin Uranium Project is located in the Frome Basin in South Australia. It consists of an interest in four Exploration Licences and covers 2,050 square kilometres. The Company will focus initially on exploration of its established uranium targets within the granted tenements. In addition, the Company will have between $0.6 million and $3.7 million (after meeting its exploration, corporate and administrative expenses) to actively pursue additional investments in the mineral sector either in Australia or internationally. The Queensland project contains known uranium mineralisation discovered and partly explored in the 1970’s. The Company’s projects in South Australia being its interests in the Siccus Joint Venture the Reaphook Joint Venture and Martins Well are alllocated in an established district of current and past producing uranium mines. All of these projects have advanced prospects ready for drilling. Alpha also has an interest in the Lake Frome Joint Venture and Reaphook Joint Venture in respect of base metals. Alpha Uranium Limited is listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) under stock code AHM. [Read more →]

Pepinnini Minerals is engaged in the exploration for nickel, copper, gold, lead, zinc, uranium and other mineral commodities. As of June 30, 2006, the Company held 100% interest in 15 exploration tenements covering approximately 11,446 square kilometers in the Curnamona and Musgrave Provinces of South Australia and the Georgetown Inlier and Woolgar Goldfield of North Queensland. It also holds a 100% interest in an 83-hectare mining lease located in the Woolgar Goldfield of North Queensland. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2006 (fiscal 2006), the Company completed a program of 18 boreholes drilled to investigate base metal prospects identified in the Curnamona Province. Exploration commenced in the Musgrave Province in September 2005. In fiscal 2006, Hellman & Schofield Pty Limited completed a joint ore reserves committee (JORC) compliant resource estimate of the Crocker Well Uranium Field and Mt Victoria Deposit and determined a resource of 12.65 million tons. Pepinnini Minerals Limited is listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) under stock code PNN. [Read more →]

Marathon Resources Limited is a minerals exploration company focused on the development of Mt Gee, one of Australia’s largest undeveloped uranium deposits. With 40% of the world’s known uranium reserves, Australia has huge potential to meet continued growth in uranium demand and Marathon’s projects are set to supply some of this need. Marathon Resources Limited operates in the mining and exploration industry in Australia. It focuses on the development of Mt Gee, which is an undeveloped uranium deposit in Australia. Marathon’s portfolio also includes highly prospective copper-gold-uranium properties in the Gawler Craton of South Australia. The Company has gold and copper-gold projects in other parts of South Australia and western Victoria, including first class copper-gold and base metal (silver-lead-zinc) projects in the Adelaide Geosyncline in South Australia and a prospective gold project in the Moyston Fault Zone in western Victoria. Marathon also has a joint venture over tenements in central South Australia with UraniumSA Ltd, in which the Company holds a 7% stake. Marathon Resources Limited is listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) under stock code MTN. [Read more →]

Uranium Oil And Gas Limited is listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) under stock code UOG. The company is a Western Australia (WA) based exploration company focused on identifying and exploring for uranium and hydrocarbon resources. The company owns, and has joint ventures with, several highly prospective tenements within WA and the Northern Territory (NT). UOG also holds some gold, platinum and base metal prospects. In addition UOG has significant cash and asset holdings and is seeking joint venture or acquisition opportunities. Uranium Oil and Gas Limited (UOG) is an Australia-based mineral exploration company. The Company has entered into an agreement with Ansell and Strike Resources Limited, whereby Strike Resources Limited is entitled to a 70% interest in EL/57/607 and the Company is entitled to a 30% interest. UOG has entered enter into a joint venture with Red River Resources Limited on the Bungalow Well Uranium Project (exploration license application E36/549) in the North Eastern Goldfields, Western Australia. UOG has also entered into an agreement with Swancove Enterprises Pty Ltd, whereby the Company has the option to purchase all of Swancove Enterprises Pty Ltd’s interest in EL’s 70/2444, 70/2692, E70/2693 and EL70/2727 except for the right to explore for bauxite. Uranium Oil and Gas Limited engages in the identification and exploration of Uranium and hydrocarbon resources in Australia. The company holds various interests or joint ventures in uranium, oil and gas, and gold, platinum, and base metals projects located in Western Australia and Northern Territory. The uranium projects include Bungalow Well, Four Corners Bore, Galah Rock and Walling Rock, Rubberoid Well, and Nabberu Basin in Western Australia; and Lucky U, Charming U, Sandover, and Alroy in Northern Territory. The oil and gas projects consist of Canning Basin in Western Australia and Kilgour and Burdo in Northern Territory. The gold, platinum, and base metals projects comprise Mt. Vernon and Collier, and Wannamal and Wooroloo in Western Australia; and Ethel Creek and Treasure in Northern Territory. The company was incorporated in 2005 and is based in Perth, Australia. [Read more →]

Aura Energy Limited is listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) under stock code AEE. Aura has been established to make discoveries of economic uranium deposits. They have projects in Wondinong, Sweden, Gunbarrel Basin, West Africa, Kimberley, Altona, Central Yilgarin, Lake Austin, Shaws Bore, Lake Moore and Eastern Yilgarin. Several calcrete uranium deposits, including Yeelirrie, Lake Way, Lake Austin and Wondinong, were discovered in Western Australia in the 1970s. The Wondinong mineralisation was discovered by WMC in 1971. The Wondinong Project occurs on the delta where the Wondinong-Windsor drainage system enters Lake Austin. The company have lodged applications for has lodged applications for a significant landholding in one of the world’s major uranium provinces in Sweden. Aura Energy Ltd and Global Coal Management plc (LSE: AIM: GCM) have signed a legally binding heads of agreement to form an Alliance to identify and acquire uranium projects in Africa. The Alliance brings together the technical uranium experience, targeting and exploration skills of Aura with the project development and mining experience of GCM. Aura Energy Ltd. has entered into a farm-in agreement with Mega Redport Pty Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Canadian uranium company Mega Uranium Ltd, to explore Aura’s portfolio of properties in the Gunbarrel Basin. Aura Energy has been investigating Western Australia’s under-explored Kimberley region, assessing it for its potential to deliver high-grade unconformity-type uranium deposits, analogous to those found in Canada’s Athabasca region and the Alligator Rivers Field in the Northern Territory. The Altona Project comprises two exploration licences that cover 115 kilometres of calcrete-bearing channels. [Read more →]

Yellow Rock Resources Limited is listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) under stock code YRR. Yellow Rock Resources Limited engages in the acquisition and exploration of mineral resource properties primarily in Australia. It focuses on exploring for vanadium and uranium. The company has interests in Money Shoal Basin Uranium project and Douglas Range Uranium project, which are located east of Darwin, Northern Territory. It also has an agreement with Greater Pacific Gold Limited to acquire Gabanintha Uranium project and Nowthanna Uranium project, which are located south east of Meekatharra, Western Australia. The company was incorporated in 2005 and is based in Northbridge, Australia. [Read more →]