The deposit comprises of 4.9 million tonnes of steaming coal proven up and ready to mine and some 650 million tonnes of prognostic coal. Mienadu’s huge potential value lies in the exploration of its enormous prognostic reserves that need to be drilled and analyzed.

On taking over the project over SGC immediately carried out limited scale coal production mining in the proven reserve areas and started building an infrastructure with a pre-fabricated camp/office building from Turkey. 

In January 2008 Saddleback began an intensive programme to collect the Mienadu geological data and to create the mining plans. Good progress was made to assist SGC with more understanding of this massive deposit. Research quickly established that Mienadu was better addressed as an exploration project at this stage.