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Cape Range

Shire of Exmouth

Cape Range is a limestone exploration project in the Shire of Exmouth, Western Australia. Its 5 WAMEX reports were lodged by 3 companies between 1963 and 2007, most recently Alcoa Of Australia Ltd in 2007. Of those, 3 declare a resource.

Reports
5
Operators
3
companies on record
Worked
45yrs
1963 to 2007, 19 years ago
Main target
Limestone
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Cape Range in the Shire of Exmouth
Ground extent20 × 38 km
Report areas mapped3

Who has explored here

Companies that lodged reports over Cape Range, most active first.

Broken Hill Pty Co Ltd 3Alcoa Of Australia Ltd 1Whitecrest Enterprises Pty Ltd 1

Who controls this ground today

Today 6 live and pending tenements sit over the Cape Range ground, held under 5 names.

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Exploration record on Cape Range

Local government
Shire of Exmouth
Commodities targeted
Limestone 5
Work on record
Rock chip sampling 4 · Mineral resource estimate 3 · Core library 2 · Palaeontology 2 · Channel sampling 1 · Diamond drilling 1 · Geological mapping 1 · Rotary drilling 1
Resource declared
Yes, in 3 reports: A74830 (2007), A64945 (1991), A759 (1968)
Downloadable data
3 of 5 reports include a digital package
Report types
Non-statutory 4 · Annual 1
Reports by decade
31960s
1970s
1980s
11990s
12000s

Exploration reports

5 WAMEX reports filed over Cape Range.
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Most recent reports
ReportYearOperatorTitle
A74830 2007 Alcoa Of Australia Ltd M08/6 Limestone Mining Lease - Cape Range (Annual Report for the Period Aug 2005 - Aug 2006)
A64945 1991 Whitecrest Enterprises Pty Ltd Non-statutory Report: Interim Report on M08/6 and E08/593 Cape Range Project, December 1991.
A759 1968 Broken Hill Pty Co Ltd Cape Range Project, Non-statutory Report: 1967 Drilling Programme , January 1968, TR70/2356H.
A2194 1964 Broken Hill Pty Co Ltd Cape Range Project, Non-statutory Report:Results of the 1964 Testing Programme, December 1964, TR70/2356H.
A758 1963 Broken Hill Pty Co Ltd Cape Range Project, Non-statutory Report: Summary Report for the Month & Year ending 31st December 1962, TR70/

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What does the exploration record say about Cape 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.

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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.