Whaleshark
Whaleshark is a gold, copper and iron ore exploration project in the Shire of Ashburton, Western Australia. Its 3 WAMEX reports were lodged by 3 companies between 2019 and 2024, most recently Miramar Resources Limited in 2024.
Who has explored here
Companies that lodged reports over Whaleshark, most active first.
Who controls this ground today
Today 7 live and pending tenements sit over the Whaleshark ground, held under 5 names.
- Which tenements sit over this ground, and who holds each
- The area they cover and when they expire
- The main holders here, by number of titles
- Whether that ground is meeting its expenditure commitments
- Dormant tenements and active forfeitures
- Mortgages, caveats and the expiry profile
Exploration record on Whaleshark
- Local government
- Shire of Ashburton
- Commodities targeted
- Copper 3 · Gold 3 · Iron 1
- Work on record
- Fauna 2 · Flora 2 · Geological interpretation 2 · Co-funded drilling 1 · Core library 1 · Core photography 1 · Density 1 · Diamond drilling 1
- Resource declared
- Never on this record
- Downloadable data
- 3 of 3 reports include a digital package
- Report types
- Final Surrender 2 · Co-Funded Drilling 1
Exploration reports
| Report | Year | Operator | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| A142990 | 2024 | Miramar Resources Limited | Whaleshark EIS Co-Funded Diamond Drilling 2023 (R27) |
| A120957 | 2019 | Zebra Minerals Pty Ltd; Spectrum Rare Earths | Whaleshark Project E08/02972 Final Surrender Report for the period 13 June 2018 to 24 May 2019 |
| A120956 | 2019 | Zebra Minerals Pty Ltd | E08/02924 Whaleshark Surrender Report for the period 5 December 2017 to 24 May 2019 |
Other projects in the Shire of Ashburton
What does the exploration record say about Whaleshark?
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.
Get the free report Open this ground on the mapTenure 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.