Range Creek
Range Creek is a copper, rare earth elements and manganese exploration project in the Shire of Meekatharra, Western Australia. Its 6 WAMEX reports were lodged by 4 companies between 1981 and 2023, most recently Dreadnought Exploration Pty Ltd in 2023.
Who has explored here
Companies that lodged reports over Range Creek, most active first.
Who controls this ground today
Today 20 live and pending tenements sit over the Range Creek ground, held under 7 names.
- 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
- Whether that ground is meeting its expenditure commitments
- Dormant tenements and active forfeitures
- Mortgages, caveats and the expiry profile
Exploration record on Range Creek
- Local government
- Shire of Meekatharra
- Commodities targeted
- Copper 5 · Base Metals 4 · Manganese 2 · Rare Earth Elements 2 · Zinc 2 · Gold 1 · Lead 1 · Molybdenum 1
- Work on record
- Rock chip sampling 4 · Stream sediment sampling 3 · Geological reconnaissance 2 · Aerial colour photography 1 · Geological interpretation 1 · Geological mapping 1 · Ground radioactivity surveys 1 · Soil sampling 1
- Resource declared
- Never on this record
- Downloadable data
- 1 of 6 reports include a digital package
- Reports with no exploration
- 2 of 6 record no work done
- Report types
- Final Surrender 3 · Partial Surrender 1 · Annual 1 · Non-statutory 1
Exploration reports
| Report | Year | Operator | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| A133657 | 2023 | Dreadnought Exploration Pty Ltd | Range Creek E52/4138 Final Surrender Report for the period ending 28/01/2023 |
| A133656 | 2023 | Dreadnought Exploration Pty Ltd | Range Creek E52/4140 Final Surrender Report 28 October 2022 to 28 January 2023 |
| A59411 | 1999 | Rio Tinto Exploration Pty Ltd | Surrender Report on Exploration Completed Within E52/1345 Range Creek 6, Mount Egerton SG50-03, Collier SG50-4 |
| A54656 | 1998 | Rio Tinto Exploration Pty Ltd | Partial surrender report for the year ending 11 March 1998 on exploration completed within E52/827 Range Creek |
| A47808 | 1996 | Cra Exploration Pty Ltd | Annual Report for the year ending 10 March 1996 , E52/827 and E52/982, Range Creek 1 and 2. |
| A9549 | 1981 | Anjin Prospecting Co Pty Ltd | Range Creek Project, Non-statutory Report: Geological Assessment. October 1980, TR70/7219H |
Other projects in the Shire of Meekatharra
What does the exploration record say about Range Creek?
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.
Get the free report Open this ground on the mapTenure 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.