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Big Sur

Shire of East Pilbara

Big Sur is a gold and base metals exploration project in the Shire of East Pilbara, Western Australia. Its 8 WAMEX reports were lodged by 2 companies between 1994 and 2000, most recently Newcrest Mining Ltd in 2000.

Reports
8
Operators
2
companies on record
Worked
7yrs
1994 to 2000, 26 years ago
Main target
Gold
2 commodities on record
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Big Sur in the Shire of East Pilbara
Ground extent5.2 × 3.6 km

Who has explored here

Companies that lodged reports over Big Sur, most active first.

Newcrest Mining Ltd 5Mim Exploration Pty Ltd 3

Who controls this ground today

Today 7 live and pending tenements sit over the Big Sur ground, held under 3 names.

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Exploration record on Big Sur

Local government
Shire of East Pilbara
Commodities targeted
Gold 8 · Base Metals 1
Work on record
RC drilling 3 · Rotary drilling 1
Resource declared
Never on this record
Reports with no exploration
2 of 8 record no work done
Report types
Annual 7 · Partial Surrender 1
Reports by decade
71990s
12000s

Exploration reports

8 WAMEX reports filed over Big Sur.
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Most recent reports
ReportYearOperatorTitle
A61108 2000 Newcrest Mining Ltd E45/1308, Big Sur (JV) Project, Partial Surrender Report for the period ending 26th November 1997.
A59305 1999 Newcrest Mining Ltd Big Sur (JV) Project, E45/1308, Annual Technical Report to the Department of Minerals and Energy, Period Endi
A57052 1999 Newcrest Mining Ltd Big Sur (JV) Project, E45/1308, Annual Report for the period 01/11/1997 to 10/11/1998.
A53713 1998 Newcrest Mining Ltd Big Sur Project, - EL45/1308 Period Ending: 26/11/1997 Annual Technical Report
A50033 1997 Newcrest Mining Ltd Annual Technical Report period ending 26 November 1996 E45/1308 Big Sur Newcrest Report No 30/1166
A47884 1996 Mim Exploration Pty Ltd Annual Report on Exploration carried out from November 27, 1994 to November 26, 1995 on EL45/1308. Big Sur Pro
A43175 1995 Mim Exploration Pty Ltd Annual Progress Report on Exploration carried out from November 27 1993 to November 26 1994 on EL 45/1308 'Big
A40538 1994 Mim Exploration Pty Ltd Annual report for the period 27/11/92-26/11/93 Big Sur Project E45/1308

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What does the exploration record say about Big Sur?

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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.