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Mount Rica

Shire of Ashburton

Mount Rica is an iron ore exploration project in the Shire of Ashburton, Western Australia. Its 3 WAMEX reports were lodged by 2 companies between 1998 and 2000, most recently Rio Tinto Exploration Pty Ltd in 2000.

Reports
3
Operators
2
companies on record
Worked
3yrs
1998 to 2000, 26 years ago
Main target
Iron
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Mount Rica in the Shire of Ashburton
Ground extent15 × 15 km

Who has explored here

Companies that lodged reports over Mount Rica, most active first.

Hamersley Iron Pty Ltd 2Rio Tinto Exploration Pty Ltd 1

Who controls this ground today

Today 8 live and pending tenements sit over the Mount Rica ground, held under 5 names.

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Exploration record on Mount Rica

Local government
Shire of Ashburton
Commodities targeted
Iron 3
Work on record
Geological reconnaissance 3 · Petrology 3 · Geological mapping 2 · Gravity surveys 2 · Rock chip sampling 2 · Aboriginal site surveys 1 · Geological interpretation 1 · Spectroscopy 1
Resource declared
Never on this record
Downloadable data
2 of 3 reports include a digital package
Report types
Annual 2 · Final Surrender 1
Reports by decade
21990s
12000s

Exploration reports

3 WAMEX reports filed over Mount Rica.
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Most recent reports
ReportYearOperatorTitle
A61578 2000 Rio Tinto Exploration Pty Ltd Final Report for the period ending 08/09/2000, E47/873, Mt Rica, Wyloo SF50-10, Western Australia, West Pilbar
A59180 1999 Hamersley Iron Pty Ltd Mt Rica Project Exploration Licence E47/873 West Pilbara Mineral Field Western Australia Annual Report for the
A56385 1998 Hamersley Iron Pty Ltd Mt Rica Project Exploration Licence E47/873 West Pilbara Mineral Field Western Australia Annual Report for the

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What does the exploration record say about Mount Rica?

NextMaps reads the WAMEX reports over a chosen area into a referenced prospectivity assessment: the geology, the historical programs, the drill intercepts and geochemistry, and the untested gaps, with every claim cited back to its source report. New accounts include a free report. How the reports work.

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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.