Whundo
City of Karratha
Whundo is a copper and zinc exploration project in the City of Karratha, Western Australia. Its 14 WAMEX reports were lodged by 6 companies between 1972 and 1989, most recently Pioneer Minerals Aust Ltd in 1989.
Reports
14
Operators
6
companies on record
Worked
18yrs
1972 to 1989, 37 years ago
Main target
Copper
2 commodities on record
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Whundo in the City of Karratha
Ground extent17 × 14 km
Report areas mapped7
Who has explored here
Companies that lodged reports over Whundo, most active first.
Who controls this ground today
Today 51 live and pending tenements sit over the Whundo ground, held under 31 names.
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- Which tenements sit over this ground, and who holds each
- The area they cover and when they expire
- The main holders here, by number of titles
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- Whether that ground is meeting its expenditure commitments
- Dormant tenements and active forfeitures
- Mortgages, caveats and the expiry profile
Exploration record on Whundo
- Local government
- City of Karratha
- Commodities targeted
- Copper 14 · Zinc 12
- Work on record
- Geological mapping 8 · Diamond drilling 5 · Rock chip sampling 5 · Ground magnetic surveys 4 · Leaching 4 · Metallurgy 4 · Soil sampling 4 · Mineragraphy 3
- Resource declared
- Never on this record
- Downloadable data
- 2 of 14 reports include a digital package
- Report types
- Annual 11 · Non-statutory 3
Reports by decade
81970s
51980s
Exploration reports
14 WAMEX reports filed over Whundo.
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Most recent reports
| Report | Year | Operator | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| A31263 | 1989 | Pioneer Minerals Aust Ltd | Report on a geophysical downhole survey Whundo prospect near Karratha, WA, on behalf of Pioneer Minerals Austr |
| A31262 | 1989 | Pioneer Minerals Aust Ltd | Project 534: Whundo JV Report on Down Hole Geophysics & Diamond Drilling. May & October 1989 West Pilbara Mine |
| A27237 | 1989 | Pioneer Minerals Aust Ltd | Whundo J.V. Pilbara Region W.A. 02/1989 Mining leases 47/7 and 47/9 Technical Report No:222 |
| A13118 | 1983 | Noranda Australia Ltd | Whundo Project, Annual Report for the period ending 31/12/1983, MC47/388-389, 456, 516, 580-582, 3432-3433; ML |
| A12490 | 1983 | Noranda Australia Ltd | Whundo (JV) Project, Annual Report for the period ending 31/12/1982, MC47/388-389, 456, 516, 580-582 & 3432-34 |
| A8143 | 1979 | Whim Creek Consolidated Nl | Whundo Project, Annual Report for the year ending 31/12/1978, MC47/388-389, 456, 516, 580-582, 819-820, 822, 8 |
| A7463 | 1978 | Whim Creek Consolidated Nl | Whundo Project, Annual Report for the year ending 31/12/1977, MC47/ 388-389, 456-457, 516, 580-582, 819-820, 8 |
| A6803 | 1977 | Whim Creek Consolidated Nl | Whundo Project, Annual Report for the year ending 31/12/1976, MC47/3239-3242, 388-389, 456-457, 516, 580-584, |
| A6128 | 1976 | Whim Creek Consolidated Nl | Whundo Project, Annual Report for the period ending 31/12/1975, MC47/388-389,456-457, 516, 580-584, 656, 817-8 |
| A5519 | 1975 | Westfield Minerals Nl | Whundo, 1974 Annual Report, MC47/388 ... 47/3244 |
| A4420 | 1974 | Westfield Minerals Nl | Whundo Project, Annual Report for the period ending 31/12/1973, MC47/388-389, 456-457, 498-499, 507-508, 516, |
| A3665 | 1973 | Consolidated Gold Fields Aust Ltd | Whundo (JV) Project, Annual Report for the year ending 31/12/1972, MC47/493-499, 507-515, 618-625, 626-632, 81 |
| A3187 | 1972 | Consolidated Gold Fields Aust Ltd | Whundo Project, Annual Report for the period ending 31/12/1971. |
| A44856 | Matlock Mining Nl | Annual Technical Report for M47/7 Whundo for the period 11 May 1994 to 10 May 1995 |
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What does the exploration record say about Whundo?
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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.