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Rainbow Dam

City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder

Rainbow Dam is a gold, nickel and copper exploration project in the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Western Australia. Its 6 WAMEX reports were lodged by 2 companies between 1976 and 2008, most recently Pioneer Nickel Ltd in 2008.

Reports
6
Operators
2
companies on record
Worked
33yrs
1976 to 2008, 18 years ago
Main target
Gold
Nickel most reported overall
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Rainbow Dam in the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder
Ground extent30 × 35 km
Report areas mapped3

Who has explored here

Companies that lodged reports over Rainbow Dam, most active first.

Pioneer Nickel Ltd 4Western Mining Corporation Ltd 2

Who controls this ground today

Today 63 live and pending tenements sit over the Rainbow Dam ground, held under 26 names.

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Exploration record on Rainbow Dam

Local government
City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder
Commodities targeted
Nickel 6 · Gold 4 · Copper 3 · Zinc 1
Work on record
Soil sampling 4 · Grab sampling 2 · Multielement analysis 2 · Aeromagnetic interpretation 1 · Diamond drilling 1 · Geological interpretation 1 · Geological mapping 1 · Ground magnetic surveys 1
Resource declared
Never on this record
Downloadable data
4 of 6 reports include a digital package
Report types
Annual 4 · Partial Surrender 1 · Non-statutory 1
Reports by decade
21970s
1980s
1990s
42000s

Exploration reports

6 WAMEX reports filed over Rainbow Dam.
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Most recent reports
ReportYearOperatorTitle
A78418 2008 Pioneer Nickel Ltd Exploration Licence 27/300 'Rainbow Dam' Partial Surrender Report For the Period 24th April 2005 to 23rd April
A77586 2008 Pioneer Nickel Ltd Silver Swan North West Project Annual Technical Report Exploration Licence 27/335 and 27/336 For the period 9t
A76888 2008 Pioneer Nickel Ltd Exploration Licence 27/300 'Rainbow Dam' Annual Technical Report For the Period 24th April 2006 to 23rd April
A73218 2006 Pioneer Nickel Ltd Rainbow Dam E27/300, Annual Technical Report, For the Period 23 March 2005 to 22 March 2006, (Kalgoorlie).
A9521 1979 Western Mining Corporation Ltd Rainbow Dam Project, Annual Report for the period 1st July 1976 to 13th December 1977, MC27/1679-1686.
A6768 1976 Western Mining Corporation Ltd Rainbow Dam Project, Non-statutory Report: Progress Report for the period 01/02/1976 to 30/06/1976, MC27/1679

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What does the exploration record say about Rainbow Dam?

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.