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McKays

Shire of East Pilbara

McKays is a gold and silver exploration project in the Shire of East Pilbara, Western Australia. Its 3 WAMEX reports were lodged by Newmont Australia Ltd between 1988 and 1990.

Reports
3
Operators
1
Newmont Australia Ltd
Worked
3yrs
1988 to 1990, 36 years ago
Main target
Gold
2 commodities on record
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McKays in the Shire of East Pilbara
Ground extent3.9 × 3.9 km

Who has explored here

Companies that lodged reports over McKays, most active first.

Newmont Australia Ltd 3

Who controls this ground today

Today 13 live and pending tenements sit over the McKays ground, held under 5 names.

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Exploration record on McKays

Local government
Shire of East Pilbara
Commodities targeted
Gold 3 · Silver 1
Work on record
Geological mapping 2 · Diamond drilling 1 · Petrology 1 · Rock chip sampling 1 · Rotary drilling 1
Resource declared
Never on this record
Report types
Annual 3
Reports by decade
21980s
11990s

Exploration reports

3 WAMEX reports filed over McKays.
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Most recent reports
ReportYearOperatorTitle
A31461 1990 Newmont Australia Ltd Annual report for period ending 08/07/90 Mining Lease 45/253 McKays Prospect
A28658 1989 Newmont Australia Ltd Annual Report; Period Ended 08/07/89 Mining Lease 45/253; McKays Prospect
A24969 1988 Newmont Australia Ltd Newmont Australia Ltd. Annual report period ended 8 July 1988 Mining Lease M45/253 McKays Prospect, East Pilba

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What does the exploration record say about McKays?

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.