The Bullbadger tenement is Exploration Licence 52/1563 which covers an area with interesting potential for niobium (Nb) and thorium (Th) and Rare Earth Elements (REE) in possible carbonatites. The Bullbadger Exploration Licence (EL) for the project was applied for by Geotech International on 19th February 2001 and was granted on 5th January 2006. Ownership was transferred to All Star Minerals thereafter.

The tenement lies on the northwestern part of the Archaean Yilgarn Craton, close to the boundary with the Palaeoproterozoic Glenburgh Terrane. These are some of the oldest known rocks in Australia (3730 Ma).

The Yilgarn represents the deepest and most severely weathered region in Australia. Large tracts are covered by considerable thickness of regolith, being dominated by sand plains, laterite and transported sedimentary cover. The presence of this regolith can be a major impediment to exploration.

The Bullbadger tenement is covered extensively by laterite, which is being eroded into unconsolidated sand, silt and gravel in braided streams and broad alluvial sheet-wash and colluvial plains. Remnant lateritic inselbergen are present on/and adjacent to the tenement.

Previous work on the area was carried out by Government Geological Surveys; Government Geophysical Surveys; Government Geochemical Surveys; with CSIRO Geochemical Surveys (ASTRO); and Astro Mining NL Lamprophyre Investigations covering parts of the tenements.

All Star Minerals has carried out stream sediment sampling; rock chip and laterite sampling; and soil sampling.

The Nb-Ce-Y-Th- (plus other REE) anomalies found by the Geological Survey of Western Australia (GSWA) and further prospected by All Star Minerals, in the stream sediments at Bullbadger are of interest as they possibly have a carbonatites signature.

The Bullbadger tenement has some zones with relatively high tenor Th radiometric anomalies. Some of the anomalies correspond to alluvial/colluvial/ sheetwash  areas along drainages. It is possible that these Th anomalies are caused by placer concentrations of monazite.

Much of the anomalous area corresponds to laterite, and the laterite shows some evidence of reworking indicating that concentrations of monazite may also occur in it. The ultimate bedrock source of the Th and the REEs is not yet known. The potential for hidden carbonatites (under the laterites) with Th and REE mineralization make this area prospective.