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Downs East

Shire of Meekatharra

Downs East is an uranium and limesand exploration project in the Shire of Meekatharra, Western Australia. Its 5 WAMEX reports were lodged by 2 companies between 2008 and 2011, most recently Desert Energy Ltd in 2011.

Reports
5
Operators
2
companies on record
Worked
4yrs
2008 to 2011, 15 years ago
Main target
Uranium
2 commodities on record
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Downs East in the Shire of Meekatharra
Ground extent50 × 18 km
Report areas mapped2

Who has explored here

Companies that lodged reports over Downs East, most active first.

Desert Energy Ltd 3Aurora Minerals Ltd 2

Who controls this ground today

Today 3 live and pending tenements sit over the Downs East ground, held under 2 names.

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Exploration record on Downs East

Local government
Shire of Meekatharra
Commodities targeted
Uranium 5 · Limesand 1
Work on record
Aerial magnetic surveys 2 · Aerial radioactivity surveys 2 · Aeromagnetic interpretation 2 · Aircore drilling 2 · Calcrete sampling 2 · Geological reconnaissance 2 · Soil sampling 2 · Spectroscopy 2
Resource declared
Never on this record
Downloadable data
4 of 5 reports include a digital package
Reports with no exploration
1 of 5 record no work done
Report types
Annual 3 · Final Surrender 2
Reports by decade
32000s
12010s

Exploration reports

5 WAMEX reports filed over Downs East.
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Most recent reports
ReportYearOperatorTitle
A89344 2011 Desert Energy Ltd Surrender Report for the Downs East Project, E51/1264 for the period 21 September 2008-31 August 2010
A86020 2009 Desert Energy Ltd Annual Report for the Downs East Project, E51/1172 for the period 7 May 2008-6 May 2009
A80876 2009 Desert Energy Ltd ANNUAL TECHNICAL REPORT DOWNS EAST E51/1172, For the period 7 May 2008-6 May 2009
A78490 2008 Aurora Minerals Ltd Annual Report for the Downs East Project, E51/1172 for the period 7 May 2007-6 May 2008
A89576 Aurora Minerals Ltd Surrender Report for the Downs East Project, E51/1172 for the period 7 May 2007-12 May 2010

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What does the exploration record say about Downs East?

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.