Exploration in the 1980s discovered a large sub-bituminous coal deposit 800km north of Adelaide, South Australia. Altona Resources, an AIM and Australian stock exchange listed company is implementing a development plan using a number of established technologies to convert coal-to-liquid (CTL) fuels and provide gas for power generation.

Sporting performance is a complex mix of mechanics, physiology and psychology, which makes it difficult to ascribe improved performance to specific aspects of the equipment. While much sports apparatus must be light and stiff, favouring composites and polymers, the athlete is intimately connected to the equipment and so the transfer of force from product to athlete needs to be considered. The ability to alter dynamic properties in polymeric and polymer-matrix composites allows better optimisation of these materials for sporting applications, provided that the sporting action and hence materials merit indices can be determined.

A unique application of oil and gas well drilling fluids has created a profitable new opportunity for the Bernic Lake pegmatite in Manitoba, Canada. Drilling for oil and gas requires the well to be filled with a dense fluid or drilling mud to prevent highly-pressured fluids and gases entering the well bore and flowing to the surface, cesium formite drilling mud improves project economics and reduces the operational risk of developing oil and gas reservoirs.