Friendly Creek
Town of Port Hedland
Friendly Creek is a gold, lithium and tin exploration project in the Town of Port Hedland, Western Australia. Its 22 WAMEX reports were lodged by 9 companies between 1972 and 2025, most recently Sayona Mining Limited in 2025.
Reports
22
Operators
9
companies on record
Worked
54yrs
1972 to 2025, 1 year ago
Main target
Gold
6 commodities on record
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Friendly Creek in the Town of Port Hedland
Ground extent16 × 13 km
Report areas mapped5
Who has explored here
Companies that lodged reports over Friendly Creek, most active first.
Who controls this ground today
Today 15 live and pending tenements sit over the Friendly Creek ground, held under 10 names.
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- The main holders here, by number of titles
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Exploration record on Friendly Creek
- Local government
- Town of Port Hedland
- Commodities targeted
- Gold 22 · Lithium 5 · Tin 3 · Base Metals 1 · Cassiterite 1 · Tantalum 1
- Work on record
- Land access 5 · Geophysical data processing 4 · Rock chip sampling 4 · Metal detecting 3 · Geological mapping 2 · Geological reconnaissance 2 · Geophysical interpretation 2 · GIS 2
- Resource declared
- Never on this record
- Downloadable data
- 10 of 22 reports include a digital package
- Reports with no exploration
- 1 of 22 record no work done
- Report types
- Annual 21 · Non-statutory 1
Reports by decade
11970s
1980s
1990s
82000s
42010s
62020s
Exploration reports
22 WAMEX reports filed over Friendly Creek.
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Most recent reports
| Report | Year | Operator | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| A146433 | 2025 | Sayona Mining Limited | E47/03802 Annual Technical Report on the Friendly Creek Litium and Gold Project,Pilbara Region, Western Austra |
| A128899 | 2021 | Sayona Mining Limited | Annual Technical Report on the Friendly Creek Project for the period ending 16/09/2021 |
| A127592 | 2021 | Pacton Pilbara Pty Ltd | C22/2001 Friendly Creek Project Annual Technical Report for the period 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020 |
| A126298 | 2021 | Sayona Mining Limited | Friendly Creek Annual Technical Report, E47/3802 for the period ending 16/09/2020 |
| A123284 | 2020 | Pacton Pilbara Pty Ltd | Friendly Creek Project Annual Technical Report, C22/2001, 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019 |
| A122559 | 2020 | Pacton Pilbara Pty Ltd | Annual Technical Report Friendly Creek E47/03385 for the period ended 26/10/2019 |
| A121878 | 2019 | Sayona Lithium Pty Ltd | Annual Technical Reprot 2018-2019 For the Friendly Creek Project E47/3802 for the period 17 September 2018 to |
| A119117 | 2019 | Pacton Pilbara Pty Ltd | Friendly Creek Project E47/03385 Annual Technical Report for the period 27 October 2017 to 26 October 2018 |
| A108398 | 2016 | White D | Friendly Creek C22/2001, M47/354, M47/374, M47/638, M47/373, M47/380 Annual Exploration Report for C22/2001 fr |
| A106210 | 2015 | White D | C22/2001, M47/354, M47/374, M47/638, M47/373, M47/380, Annual Exploration Report for the period 01/01/2014 to |
| A81671 | 2009 | De Grey Mining Ltd | ANNUAL EXPLORATION REPORT Combined Report Group C22/2001 FRIENDLY CREEK PROJECT, Tenements M47/354, M47/373, e |
| A74372 | 2007 | Chalice Gold Mines Ltd | Friendly Creek Project C22/2001 For M47/354, M47/373-374, etc. Annual Report for the Period 01/01/2006 to 31/1 |
| A71811 | 2006 | Bullion Minerals Ltd | Friendly Creek Project, Combined Annual Technical Report C22/2001, For M47/354,M47/373-374,M47/380,P47/1060 an |
| A70431 | 2005 | Bullion Minerals Ltd | Combined annual report for the period 01/01/04 - 31/12/04 Friendly Creek Project, C22/2001, M47/354, 373, 374, |
| A68352 | 2004 | Bullion Minerals Ltd | Annual report for the period 01/01/2003-31/12/2003 Friendly Creek Project(C22/2001), M47/354, M47/373-374, M47 |
| A65873 | 2003 | Farno Pty Ltd | Annual Report to 31/12/02 Friendly Creek Project C22/2001: M47/354, 380, 373, 374, P47/1082. |
| A64341 | 2002 | Farno Pty Ltd | Friendly Creek Project Annual Report To 31/12/01 M47/354,380 373,374,P47/1082 (Combined Mineral Exploration Re |
| A61976 | 2001 | Farno Pty Ltd | Friendly Creek Project Annual Report M47/354, 380, 373, 374, P47/1082 Annual Report to 30 November 2000. |
| A3803 | 1972 | Bamboo Creek Gold Mines Nl | Friendly Creek Project, Non-statutory Report: Brief Exploration Report for the period ending 30/06/1972, MC47/ |
| A130444 | Pacton Pilbara Pty Ltd | Friendly Creek Project Annual Technical Report C22/2001 for the period ending 31/12/2021. |
All 22 report numbers over Friendly Creek
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What does the exploration record say about Friendly Creek?
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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.