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Spinaway

Shire of East Pilbara

Spinaway is a copper, zinc and nickel exploration project in the Shire of East Pilbara, Western Australia. Its 5 WAMEX reports were lodged by 2 companies between 1965 and 1975, most recently Esso Australia Ltd in 1975.

Reports
5
Operators
2
companies on record
Worked
11yrs
1965 to 1975, 51 years ago
Main target
Copper
3 commodities on record
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Spinaway in the Shire of East Pilbara
Ground extent93 × 57 km
Report areas mapped3

Who has explored here

Companies that lodged reports over Spinaway, most active first.

Cra Exploration Pty Ltd 4Esso Australia Ltd 1

Who controls this ground today

Today 13 live and pending tenements sit over the Spinaway ground, held under 9 names.

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Exploration record on Spinaway

Local government
Shire of East Pilbara
Commodities targeted
Copper 5 · Zinc 5 · Nickel 1
Work on record
Geological mapping 3 · IP surveys 3 · Ground magnetic surveys 2 · Petrology 2 · Rock chip sampling 2 · Aerial magnetic surveys 1 · Costeaning 1 · Diamond drilling 1
Resource declared
Never on this record
Report types
Non-statutory 4 · Annual 1
Reports by decade
31960s
21970s

Exploration reports

5 WAMEX reports filed over Spinaway.
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Most recent reports
ReportYearOperatorTitle
A5594 1975 Esso Australia Ltd Spinaway, Annual report for period ending March 1975, MC45/7723-7730, 46/2349-2373
A3007 1972 Cra Exploration Pty Ltd Spinaway Project, Non-statutory Report: Resume of Exploration for the period 1965-1966, TR70/3484H.
A352 1967 Cra Exploration Pty Ltd Spinaway Project, Non-statutory Report: Notes on Induced Polarisation Survey, May 1967. TR70/3796H.
A3006 1966 Cra Exploration Pty Ltd Spinaway Project, Non-statutory Report: Reconnaissance Survey, March 1966, TR70/3484H.
A3005 1965 Cra Exploration Pty Ltd Spinaway Project, Non-statutory Report: Notes on Magnetic Reconnaissance, Spinaway Gossans, September 1965, TR

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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.