The WA Tenement Brief

Every caveat and mortgage on a live WA mining title names the party holding it. We read all 7,635 of them and drew the web: royalty companies, banks, funds, traders and security trustees, linked to the companies whose ground they sit over. Royal Gold holds caveats over more live titles than any bank. Search any company and see its whole web.

97 live WA titles are more than a month late on rent, and 82 on a Form 5. Every title runs on its own calendar, and a book of them is a lot of dates to keep straight. The new NextMaps compliance manager reads every deadline on your titles from the DMPE register each morning, ticks them off when the register shows them done, and reminds you before they fall due.

Trek Metals to Pilbara Gold leads 10 registered transfers this week, with 12 holders releasing ground and 2 new entrants to WA.

BHP, Rio Tinto and Fortescue hold no WA tenements in their own names. Their ground sits under subsidiaries, and the register only ever tells you who holds a title, never who owns the holder. We read the annual reports of every listed company with WA ground and traced each subsidiary back to its parent. You can now colour the map by owner, search by ticker, and watch or alert on a whole company.

Chapman, Morgan Leslie to A.C.N. 686 750 890 leads 20 registered transfers this week, with 12 holders releasing ground and 1 new entrants to WA.

Chapman, Morgan Leslie to A.C.N. 686 751 208 leads 16 registered transfers this week, with 12 holders releasing ground and 2 new entrants to WA.

Genesis Minerals (Laverton) Pty Ltd to Jasper Exploration Pty Ltd leads 11 registered transfers this week, with 12 holders releasing ground and 2 new entrants to WA.

WA1 Madura Holdings Pty Ltd to 97992001 Pty Ltd leads 10 registered transfers this week, with 12 holders releasing ground and 7 new entrants to WA.

Iris Metals Limited to Kym Mining Pty Ltd leads 18 registered transfers this week, with 12 holders releasing ground and 6 new entrants to WA.

Iris Metals Limited to Kym Mining Pty Ltd leads 9 registered transfers this week, with 12 holders releasing ground and 2 new entrants to WA.

The analytics panel in NextMaps has been rebuilt on our own copy of the WA tenement register. Five cards: what was pegged and dropped week by week, who is gaining and giving up ground, transfers grouped by the deal rather than by the tenement, new tenure pegged on parcels someone just walked away from, and the make-up of whatever tenure is on your screen. It is the WA Mining Weekly, scoped to your viewport and available whenever you want it.

Beatons Creek Gold Pty Ltd to Keras (Gold) Australia Pty Ltd leads 12 registered transfers this week, with 12 holders releasing ground and 1 new entrants to WA.

Nex Metals Explorations Ltd to Kym Mining Pty Ltd leads 10 registered transfers this week, with 12 holders releasing ground and 5 new entrants to WA.

A new Tenement Intelligence layer in NextMaps, built on the Warden's Court cause lists. Forfeiture applications, plaints and ballots plotted on the ground they concern, about six weeks before the hearing. And when a ballot names only one applicant, we name the other one from our own tenure data.

A new remote-sensing layer in NextMaps: EnMAP hyperspectral mineral maps, our own derived products from 224-band satellite data. Where ASTER sees a broad mineral group, hyperspectral resolves the species and its chemistry, so white-mica chemistry, kaolin crystallinity and chlorite Fe/Mg become alteration vectors. Now tiled over the whole state, straight on the WA tenement map.

A roundup of what we have shipped since the Premium and Pro launch: AI prospectivity reports that stay on your ground, WAMEX intelligence that filters and extracts the drilling and geochem for you, tenement data that runs off our own fresh feed instead of the lagging public one, and a faster timeline.

Two new remote-sensing layers in NextMaps: ASTER mineral maps for district-scale alteration, and timestamped Sentinel-2 imagery with mineral-ratio composites for the exact ground you are working. Map iron oxides, clays and silica straight on the WA tenement map, no GIS licence required.

Exploration ground carries value that is hard to realise, because there has never been an easy place to move it. A gold project has now listed and sold through the marketplace, start to finish. The venue works.

The full WA mineral titles register for any tenement, compiled into one clean Excel workbook and downloaded straight from the map. A single tenement, a selection, or a whole holder's portfolio.

Catalyst (Old Highway) Consolidates Bryah Basin Block as Albright Exits

Not sure where to start? The new Map Explorer agent turns plain language questions into the right layers, filters, and settings, no manual setup required.

I spent years building presentation maps for mining clients by hand, layer by layer. Here's the tool I wish I'd had.

Like most geos, I have looked at enough ground get pegged and vended to eventually think: surely I can have a crack at that. So I did.

Majors are shedding ground. Juniors are circling. This week's WA tenement register tells an interesting story.

Know a tenement's exploration history and prospectivity potential in minutes, not days. NextMaps AI Prospectivity Reports synthesise every WAMEX A-file for your ground into a full desk study, grounded in real data, not generic geology.

The Great Outback Handover: 58 Holder Changes, $475M Deals, and the Art of the Strategic Exit

The ground you're about to drop in this year's schedule review is worth something to someone. But only while you still hold it.

The WA tenement register has always contained valuable signals, but they were buried across static records, PDFs, and disconnected systems. NextMaps turns that registry data into a spatial intelligence platform, surfacing behavioural patterns around exploration spend, competition, ownership, drilling activity, distress, and ground availability across Western Australia.

Rio's 145,700-hectare power move

We got a nice surprise last night seeing Nextmaps pop up in a YouTube deep dive by The ASX Mining Analyst on ASX:ODY.

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