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Spearhole Creek

Shire of East Pilbara

Spearhole Creek is an iron ore exploration project in the Shire of East Pilbara, Western Australia. Its 3 WAMEX reports were lodged by 2 companies between 1996 and 2015, most recently Fortescue Metals Group Ltd in 2015.

Reports
3
Operators
2
companies on record
Worked
20yrs
1996 to 2015, 11 years ago
Main target
Iron
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Spearhole Creek in the Shire of East Pilbara
Ground extent42 × 15 km
Report areas mapped2

Who has explored here

Companies that lodged reports over Spearhole Creek, most active first.

Hamersley Iron Pty Ltd 2Fortescue Metals Group Ltd 1

Who controls this ground today

Today 10 live and pending tenements sit over the Spearhole Creek ground, held under 5 names.

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Exploration record on Spearhole Creek

Local government
Shire of East Pilbara
Commodities targeted
Iron 3
Work on record
Aboriginal site surveys 1 · Aerial magnetic surveys 1 · Geological reconnaissance 1 · Magnetic susceptibility 1 · Radioactivity logging 1 · RC drilling 1
Resource declared
Never on this record
Downloadable data
2 of 3 reports include a digital package
Reports with no exploration
1 of 3 record no work done
Report types
Annual 3
Reports by decade
21990s
2000s
12010s

Exploration reports

3 WAMEX reports filed over Spearhole Creek.
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Most recent reports
ReportYearOperatorTitle
A105544 2015 Fortescue Metals Group Ltd Annual Mineral Exploration Report: E52/2933 Prairie Downs Project for the period 25 February 2014 to 24 Februa
A50403 1997 Hamersley Iron Pty Ltd Spearhole Creek Project, Annual Report for the Period 9/01/1996 to 08/01/1997, Exploration Licence E47/719.
A47176 1996 Hamersley Iron Pty Ltd Spearhole Creek Project, Annual Geological Progress Report March 1996, E47/719.

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What does the exploration record say about Spearhole Creek?

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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.