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Mount Deans

Shire of Dundas

Mount Deans is a lithium, gold and tin exploration project in the Shire of Dundas, Western Australia. Its 9 WAMEX reports were lodged by 8 companies between 1966 and 2020, most recently Aruma Exploration Pty Ltd in 2020. Of those, 2 declare a resource.

Reports
9
Operators
8
companies on record
Worked
55yrs
1966 to 2020, 6 years ago
Main target
Lithium
Tin most reported overall
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Mount Deans in the Shire of Dundas
Ground extent7.2 × 10 km
Report areas mapped6

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Today 25 live and pending tenements sit over the Mount Deans ground, held under 9 names.

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Exploration record on Mount Deans

Local government
Shire of Dundas
Commodities targeted
Tin 5 · Tantalum 5 · Gold 4 · Lithium 2 · Lignite 1 · Oil Shale 1 · Tungsten 1
Work on record
Rock chip sampling 4 · RC drilling 3 · Geological mapping 2 · Mineral resource estimate 2 · Aerial colour photography 1 · Cassiterite 1 · Channel sampling 1 · Costeaning 1
Resource declared
Yes, in 2 reports: A65809 (2002), A12207 (1982)
Downloadable data
4 of 9 reports include a digital package
Reports with no exploration
1 of 9 record no work done
Report types
Annual 8 · Non-statutory 1
Reports by decade
11960s
1970s
21980s
11990s
42000s
2010s
12020s

Exploration reports

9 WAMEX reports filed over Mount Deans.
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Most recent reports
ReportYearOperatorTitle
A125283 2020 Aruma Exploration Pty Ltd Annual Report for P63/2063 Mt Deans for the period ending 4/9/2020
A80269 2008 Heron Resources Ltd MOUNT DEANS PROJECT, C75/2008, P63/1430–1431, P63/1438–1439, DUNDAS MINERAL FIELD, ANNUAL REPORT 15 October 2
A69479 2004 Tantalum Australia Operations Pty Ltd Mount Deans Project, P63/758, P63/945, P63/946 P63/947, P63/948, P63/949, P63/950 Annual Report for the period
A65809 2002 Tantalum Australia Operations Pty Ltd Mt Deans Project P63/740, 741, 758, 945, 946, 947, 948, 949, 950, 1074 and 1075. Annual Report For The Period
A63898 2001 Tantalum Australia Pty Ltd Mt Deans Project P63/740, 741, 758, 945, 946, 947, 948, 949, 950, 1074 and 1075 Annual Report for the period 1
A54219 1998 Minair Exploration Pty Ltd Mount Deans project P63/962. Annual report from 15/04/97-14/04/98.
A12207 1982 Cra Exploration Pty Ltd Mount Deans Project, Annual Report for the period ending 31/12/1982, MC63/2986, 3170-3172, 3185, 3192-3193, 32
A10486 1982 Aust Tin & Tantalite Ltd Mt Deans Project, Annual Report for the period ending 31/12/1981, MC63/2986, 3170-3172, 3185, 3192-3193, 3202,
A6433 1966 Norseman Gold Mines Nl Mt Deans Project, Non-statutory Report: Drill Core Logs & Bore Hole Plan for theperiod ending 11/07/1966, MC63

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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.