Carnarvon Basin
Carnarvon Basin is a zinc, lead and base metals exploration project in the Shire of Carnarvon, Western Australia, earlier explored for phosphate. Its 5 WAMEX reports were lodged by 4 companies between 1966 and 1991, most recently Mim Exploration Pty Ltd in 1991.
Who has explored here
Companies that lodged reports over Carnarvon Basin, most active first.
Who controls this ground today
Today 6 live and pending tenements sit over the Carnarvon Basin ground, held under 3 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 Carnarvon Basin
- Local government
- Shire of Carnarvon
- Commodities targeted
- Phosphate 3 · Lead 2 · Zinc 2 · Base Metals 1
- Work on record
- Rotary drilling 3 · Auger drilling 2 · Geophysical logging 2 · Gamma logging 1 · Geological reconnaissance 1 · Geophysical interpretation 1 · Palynology 1 · Radioactivity logging 1
- Resource declared
- Never on this record
- Report types
- Non-statutory 3 · Final Surrender 1 · Annual 1
Exploration reports
| Report | Year | Operator | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| A58930 | 1991 | Mim Exploration Pty Ltd | Carnarvon Basin Project, Results of Exploration and Recommendations for Further Work. MF\\04\\2. |
| A27454 | 1989 | Electrolytic Zinc Co | Carnarvon Basin, Final Report, E09/267, E08/278, E09/275. |
| A930 | 1967 | Cyanamid Australia Pty Ltd | Carnarvon Basin Project, Non-statutory Report: ( 2nd) Annual Report for the period ending 31st December 1966, |
| A928 | 1967 | Cyanamid Australia Pty Ltd | Carnarvon Basin Project, (2nd) Annual Report for the period ending 31st December 1966, TR70/3194, 3573 & 3490H |
| A1626 | 1966 | Imc Development Corporation | Final Report- Temporary Reseve 3234-H, Carnarvon Basin. |
Other projects in the Shire of Carnarvon
What does the exploration record say about Carnarvon Basin?
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.