Australian Mining/Exploration Companies

Company	Commodity	Capital Raising (A$ million)	Proposed ASX Code	Proposed Listing Date	Comments
Australis Oil & Gas	Oil & Gas	30	ATS	25 July 2016	Australis Oil & Gas (Australis) is an oil and gas company formed by the founders and executives of Aurora Oil & Gas Limited (Aurora), which was sold in June 2014 for an enterprise value of A$2.6 billion including assumed debt of approximately $800 million LISTED
Berkut Minerals Ltd	Gold	3.5	BMT	26 September 2016	A Perth-based mineral exploration company established with the purpose of acquiring, exploring and developing gold and other mineral deposits.
Egan Street Resources Ltd	Gold	6	EGA	14 September 2016	Focused on realising the potential near term, high grade, low capital cost development of the Rothsay Gold Project in WA.
Horizon Gold Ltd	Gold	15	HRN	TBA	Horizon Gold is raising $15 million in an underwritten IPO to advance its 1.25Moz Gum Creek Gold Project in the Gum Creek Greenstone Belt, Western Australia. The Gum Creek Gold Project previously produced >1Moz of gold and has significant infrastructure already in place. Panoramic Resources acquired the project in 2011-2012 for $23 million and has since doubled the Resource base to 1.25Moz.
King of Gold Group Co. Ltd	Gold	40-42	KGG	TBA	The Company has acquired 100% of the shares in Golden Management International Ltd (Golden Management), a company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands, which holds the rights to the Kengtou Project, which comprises the Chaoyangzhai Tenement and Didouchong Tenement (Tenements) in China.
Lithium Consolidated Mineral Exploration Pty Ltd	Lithium	8	LI3	21 December 2016	LCME's core projects are in Nevada, USA. LCME holds two large lithium brine exploration projects in West Central Nevada (within 4km of Albemarle's Silver Peak Mine, which is the only producing lithium brine mine in North America). Lithium brine is the lowest cost and most direct method for producing high-value lithium carbonate.
Macquarie Gold Limited	Gold	3.6	MQX	6 September 2016	Developing the Adelong Gold Project in NSW
Marquee Resources Ltd	Lithium	TBA	TBA	TBA	Sovereign Gold Company Limited (ASX: SOC) (Sovereign or the Company) advises that the Board of Directors have resolved to spin-off the Clayton Valley (Nevada) Lithium Project into the newly formed Marquee Resources Limited (Marquee Resources).
River Rock Energy	Potash	4	RRR	3 May 2016	River Rock Energy (RRR) is looking to define and develop the Percival Lakes and Lake Auld Potash Deposits, in the northern region of Western Australia. The project is located in the Canning Basin, which is emerging as the new major potash province of Australia.
SolGold PLC	Gold, Copper	5-6	SLG	January	SolGold has an extensive portfolio of porphyry copper-gold plus epithermal gold-silver targets at various stages of advancement in Australia, the Solomon Islands and Ecuador
Traprock Mining Ltd	Gold, Copper	6.5	TMI	21 December 2016	Traprock is a Queensland based exploration company with projects sited in south-east and central Queensland. We have prospective and exciting projects, including the flagship Mt Chalmers project which has great promise to expand historic resources.