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Fortescue Valley

Shire of Ashburton

Fortescue Valley is an iron ore exploration project in the Shire of Ashburton, Western Australia. Its 4 WAMEX reports were lodged by 4 companies between 1978 and 2019, most recently Bhp Iron Ore Pty Ltd in 2019.

Reports
4
Operators
4
companies on record
Worked
42yrs
1978 to 2019, 7 years ago
Main target
Iron
2 commodities on record
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Fortescue Valley in the Shire of Ashburton
Ground extent184 × 87 km
Report areas mapped3

Who has explored here

Companies that lodged reports over Fortescue Valley, most active first.

Bhp Iron Ore Pty Ltd 1Bhp Billiton Iron Ore Pty Ltd 1Gold Dust Holdings Pty Ltd 1Mt Newman Mining Co Pty Ltd 1

Who controls this ground today

Today 31 live and pending tenements sit over the Fortescue Valley ground, held under 14 names.

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Exploration record on Fortescue Valley

Local government
Shire of Ashburton
Commodities targeted
Iron 3 · Manganese 1
Work on record
Aerial geophysical surveys 2 · Aerial magnetic surveys 2 · Aerial radioactivity surveys 2 · Flora 2 · Ground gravity surveys 2 · Heritage survey 2 · RC drilling 2 · Water sampling 2
Resource declared
Never on this record
Downloadable data
2 of 4 reports include a digital package
Report types
Final Surrender 2 · Partial Surrender 1 · Annual 1
Reports by decade
11970s
1980s
11990s
2000s
22010s

Exploration reports

4 WAMEX reports filed over Fortescue Valley.
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Most recent reports
ReportYearOperatorTitle
A122178 2019 Bhp Iron Ore Pty Ltd Final Surrender Report for Fortescue Valley - E47/1584 reporting period 9th July 2013 to 18th November 2019
A109722 2016 Bhp Billiton Iron Ore Pty. Ltd. Surrender Report - Fortescue Valley E47/1584 for the period 9 July 2013 to 30 August 2016
A39194 1993 Gold Dust Holdings Pty Ltd Fortescue Valley Project, Final Surrender Report for the period 03/071992 to 02/07/1993, E47/586.
A7779 1978 Mt Newman Mining Co Pty Ltd Fortescue Valley Project, Annual [Geological ] Report, April 1978, TR70/ 6456-6472H.

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Tenure data sourced from the DMPE public registers and SLIP WA (© Government of Western Australia, CC BY 4.0). Compiled by NextMaps. Verify against primary sources before reliance.