McKay Range
McKay Range is a copper, zinc and lead exploration project in the Shire of East Pilbara, Western Australia. Its 9 WAMEX reports were lodged by 5 companies between 1991 and 2023, most recently Fortescue Metals Group Ltd in 2023.
Who has explored here
Companies that lodged reports over McKay Range, most active first.
Who controls this ground today
Today 10 live and pending tenements sit over the McKay Range ground, held under 5 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 McKay Range
- Local government
- Shire of East Pilbara
- Commodities targeted
- Copper 8 · Lead 6 · Zinc 6 · Gold 3 · Base Metals 2 · Manganese 1 · Cobalt 1 · Uranium 1
- Work on record
- Geological mapping 6 · Rock chip sampling 5 · Soil sampling 5 · Surface geochemistry 5 · Lag sampling 4 · Aerial EM surveys 3 · Heritage 3 · Petrology 3
- Resource declared
- Never on this record
- Downloadable data
- 5 of 9 reports include a digital package
- Report types
- Annual 6 · Final Surrender 2 · Partial Surrender 1
Exploration reports
| Report | Year | Operator | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| A136349 | 2023 | Fortescue Metals Group Ltd | C121/2019 Combined Final Surrender Report McKay Range for the period ending 25/07/2023. |
| A132629 | 2022 | Fortescue Metals Group Ltd | C121/2019 McKay Range Annual Mineral Exploration Report for the period ending 20/08/2022 |
| A132091 | 2022 | Fortescue Metals Group Ltd | C121/2019 McKay Range Combined Partial Surrender Report for the period 21/08/2019 to 14/07/2022 |
| A129340 | 2022 | Firefly Operations Pty Ltd | McKay Range E45/5407 Annual Tenement Report for the period ending 17/08/2021 |
| A128612 | 2021 | Fortescue Metals Group Ltd; Beau Resources Pty Ltd | E45/5345 (East Pilbara) Annual Report for the period 2 September 2020 to 1 September 2021 |
| A128507 | 2021 | Fortescue Metals Group Ltd | C121/2019 McKay Range Annual Report for the period ending 20/08/2021 |
| A125211 | 2020 | Fortescue Metals Group Ltd | McKay Range C121/2019 Annual Report for the period ending 20/08/2020 |
| A122270 | 2020 | Hobbs R; Maynard A J | McKay Range Annual Exploration Report, E45/5112, 22 November 2018 to 21 November 2019 |
| A33827 | 1991 | Idemitsu Minerals Aust Pty Ltd | McKay Range Project, Surrender Report 10/05/90 to 07/05/91. |
Other projects in the Shire of East Pilbara
What does the exploration record say about McKay Range?
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.