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Coongan Belt

Shire of East Pilbara

Coongan Belt is a gold and diamond exploration project in the Shire of East Pilbara, Western Australia. Its 6 WAMEX reports were lodged by 3 companies between 1969 and 1985, most recently Tern Minerals Nl in 1985.

Reports
6
Operators
3
companies on record
Worked
17yrs
1969 to 1985, 41 years ago
Main target
Gold
4 commodities on record
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Coongan Belt in the Shire of East Pilbara
Ground extent79 × 42 km
Report areas mapped3

Who has explored here

Companies that lodged reports over Coongan Belt, most active first.

Tern Minerals Nl 4Asarco Australia Ltd 1Pickands Mather & Co Int 1

Who controls this ground today

Today 7 live and pending tenements sit over the Coongan Belt ground, held under 5 names.

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Exploration record on Coongan Belt

Local government
Shire of East Pilbara
Commodities targeted
Diamond 4 · Gold 4 · Copper 2 · Nickel 2
Work on record
Rock chip sampling 4 · Geological mapping 3 · Stream sediment sampling 3 · Gossan sampling 1 · Grab sampling 1 · Soil sampling 1 · Surface geochemistry 1
Resource declared
Never on this record
Downloadable data
1 of 6 reports include a digital package
Report types
Non-statutory 5 · Final Surrender 1
Reports by decade
11960s
11970s
41980s

Exploration reports

6 WAMEX reports filed over Coongan Belt.
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Most recent reports
ReportYearOperatorTitle
A17905 1985 Tern Minerals Nl Final Exploration Report for 1984-85 Coongan Belt Prospects E46/74, P45/453-460, 828-838.
A17908 1984 Tern Minerals Nl Third Quarterly Report - March 1984.
A17907 1984 Tern Minerals Nl Second Quarterly Report - March 1984.
A17906 1983 Tern Minerals Nl First Quarterly Report - December 1983.
A3356 1973 Asarco Australia Ltd Coongan Belt Project, Non-statutory Report: Exploration Report, January 1973, MC46/1825-1829.
A8626 1969 Pickands Mather & Co Int Coongan Belt Project, Non-statutory Report: Exploration Report, December 1969, MC45/1149-1163, 1185, 1364-1365

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What does the exploration record say about Coongan Belt?

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.

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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.