TVN Corporation (ASX: TVN) has caught the markets attention today after the first hole at the Nuurst project in central Mongolia intersected a 137 metre thick coal system in a down hole.
The market has applauded the result and by mid-afternoon trade TVN Corporation is changing hands at $0.061 - a 74% increase on the day.
What has helped spark the investor interest is the exploration target at Nuurst of 50 to 100 million tonnes assumed a coal thickness of just eight metres.
The happiest investors will be the participants in the placement at $0.02 earlier in the month.
Nuurst is statically located just six kilometres from existing rail infrastructure, providing low cost access to the key coal export markets of China, South Korea and Japan.
What is so fascinating about exploration and geological understanding in Mongolia is the lack of it, with an estimation that only three quarters of the country has been mapped to a scale of 1:200,000.
The underdeveloped and general lack of infrastructure in the country won't present much of a problem for TVN Corporation at this exploration stage.
Boosting the coal possibilities even higher for Mongolian focused companies, the country has coal reserves estimated at over 150 billion tonnes.