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Virgin Hills

Shire of Derby-West Kimberley

Virgin Hills is a copper, zinc and lead exploration project in the Shire of Derby-West Kimberley, Western Australia. Its 5 WAMEX reports were lodged by 3 companies between 1974 and 2020, most recently Albion Resources in 2020.

Reports
5
Operators
3
companies on record
Worked
47yrs
1974 to 2020, 6 years ago
Main target
Copper
Lead most reported overall
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Virgin Hills in the Shire of Derby-West Kimberley
Ground extent33 × 29 km
Report areas mapped3

Who has explored here

Companies that lodged reports over Virgin Hills, most active first.

Geopeko 3Albion Resources 1Noranda Australia Ltd 1

Who controls this ground today

Today 6 live and pending tenements sit over the Virgin Hills ground, held under 3 names.

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Exploration record on Virgin Hills

Local government
Shire of Derby-West Kimberley
Commodities targeted
Lead 5 · Zinc 5 · Barite 1 · Copper 1 · Silver 1
Work on record
Diamond drilling 3 · Core library 2 · Geological mapping 2 · Geological reconnaissance 1 · Gossan sampling 1 · Grab sampling 1 · Rock chip sampling 1
Resource declared
Never on this record
Reports with no exploration
1 of 5 record no work done
Report types
Annual 2 · Non-statutory 2 · Final Surrender 1
Reports by decade
11970s
1980s
31990s
2000s
2010s
12020s

Exploration reports

5 WAMEX reports filed over Virgin Hills.
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Most recent reports
ReportYearOperatorTitle
A123835 2020 Albion Resources Virgin Hills Annual Technical Report E04/2499 for the period ending 12/3/2020
A39973 1994 Geopeko Final report for Virgin Hills E04/610 for the period May 1992 to July 1993
A57568 1992 Geopeko Report No. WA93/32P Virgin Hills EL04/610 Report on Diamond Drilling Programme June 1992
A35758 1992 Geopeko Virgin Hills Project, Annual Report for the period 01/04/1991 to 01/04/1992,E04/610.
A5286 1974 Noranda Australia Ltd Virgin Hills, Annual report 1973 [non-statutory], MC04/1628 - 04/1632

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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.