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Ruabon

City of Busselton

Ruabon is a mineral sands, ilmenite and leucoxene exploration project in the City of Busselton, Western Australia. Its 11 WAMEX reports were lodged by 3 companies between 1994 and 2015, most recently Iluka Resources Ltd in 2015. Of those, 1 declares a resource.

Reports
11
Operators
3
companies on record
Worked
22yrs
1994 to 2015, 11 years ago
Main target
Mineral Sands
6 commodities on record
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Ruabon in the City of Busselton
Ground extent23 × 18 km
Report areas mapped6

Who has explored here

Companies that lodged reports over Ruabon, most active first.

Simto Resources Ltd 4Westralian Sands Ltd 4Iluka Resources Ltd 3

Who controls this ground today

Today 71 live and pending tenements sit over the Ruabon ground, held under 10 names.

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Exploration record on Ruabon

Local government
City of Busselton
Commodities targeted
Mineral Sands 11 · Ilmenite 1 · Leucoxene 1 · Monazite 1 · Rutile 1 · Zircon 1
Work on record
RC drilling 5 · Heavy minerals (%) 3 · Oversize (%) 3 · Slimes (%) 3 · Aircore drilling 2 · Bulk sampling 2 · Heavy minerals 2 · Ilmenite 2
Resource declared
Yes, in 1 report: A100031 (2013)
Downloadable data
5 of 11 reports include a digital package
Reports with no exploration
1 of 11 record no work done
Report types
Annual 8 · Partial Surrender 2 · Final Surrender 1
Reports by decade
41990s
12000s
62010s

Exploration reports

11 WAMEX reports filed over Ruabon.
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Most recent reports
ReportYearOperatorTitle
A107103 2015 Iluka Resources Ltd Final Surrender Report E70/2414 Ruabon Project for the period 2nd May 2006 to 11th August 2015
A103933 2014 Simto Resources Ltd Ruabon Project C331/2011 Combined Annual Mineral Exploration Report for the period 1st September 2013 –31st Au
A100031 2013 Simto Resources Ltd Combined Annual Mineral Exploration report for the period 1 September, 2011 to 31 August, 2012, Ruabon Project
A97325 2013 Iluka Resources Ltd Ruabon Project, Partial Surrender Report for the period 02/05/2006 to 02/04/2013, E70/2414. [C105/2002]
A96632 2013 Simto Resources Ltd Combined Annual Mineral Exploration report for the period 1 September, 2011 to 31 August, 2012, Ruabon Project
A95098 2012 Simto Resources Ltd Combined Annual Mineral Exploration report for the period 1 August, 2011 to 31 July, 2012, Ruabon Project, C33
A61088 2000 Iluka Resources Ltd Technical Report Iluka-TR-2000/92 Annual Report on Operations Mining Lease M70/64 Ruabon.
A49287 1996 Westralian Sands Ltd Partial Surrender Report within EL70/1185 Raubon
A49286 1996 Westralian Sands Ltd Report on Exploration for Heavy Minerals Within EL70/1185 Raubon
A45870 1995 Westralian Sands Ltd Ruabon Project, Annual Report on Exploration for Heavy Minerals within E70/1185, October 1995.
A42577 1994 Westralian Sands Ltd Ruabon Project, Annual Report for the period 13th September 1993 to 12th September 1994, E70/1185.

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What does the exploration record say about Ruabon?

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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.