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Mount Chester

Shire of Ravensthorpe

Mount Chester is a copper, base metals and gold exploration project in the Shire of Ravensthorpe, Western Australia. Its 6 WAMEX reports were lodged by 2 companies between 1988 and 1992, most recently Outokumpu Exp Aust Pty Ltd in 1992.

Reports
6
Operators
2
companies on record
Worked
5yrs
1988 to 1992, 34 years ago
Main target
Copper
Base Metals most reported overall
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Mount Chester in the Shire of Ravensthorpe
Ground extent20 × 19 km

Who has explored here

Companies that lodged reports over Mount Chester, most active first.

Outokumpu Exp Aust Pty Ltd 4Chevron Exploration Corp 2

Who controls this ground today

Today 37 live and pending tenements sit over the Mount Chester ground, held under 7 names.

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Exploration record on Mount Chester

Local government
Shire of Ravensthorpe
Commodities targeted
Base Metals 4 · Copper 3 · Gold 3 · Zinc 1 · Nickel 1
Work on record
Geological mapping 4 · Aerial colour photography 1 · Aerial magnetic surveys 1 · Diamond drilling 1 · Environmental management 1 · Ground EM surveys 1 · Ground magnetic surveys 1 · IP logging 1
Resource declared
Never on this record
Downloadable data
1 of 6 reports include a digital package
Report types
Annual 6
Reports by decade
21980s
21990s

Exploration reports

6 WAMEX reports filed over Mount Chester.
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Most recent reports
ReportYearOperatorTitle
A37119 1992 Outokumpu Exp Aust Pty Ltd Annual Report for the Period 16/09/91 - 15/09/92 Mt Chester Project E74/56
A32122 1990 Outokumpu Exp Aust Pty Ltd Annual Report 1989-1990 Mt Chester EL74/56 Report No:R81.10
A28858 1989 Outokumpu Exp Aust Pty Ltd Mount Chester. Ravensthorpe District - W.A. 14/09/1989 E74/56 Report No: R73.1
A25417 1988 Chevron Exploration Corp Mount Chester Project, Annual Report for the year ending 14th September 1988, E74/56.
A33754 Outokumpu Exp Aust Pty Ltd Mt Chester Project, Annual Report for the year ending 15th September 1991, E74/56.
A21768 Chevron Exploration Corp Annual Report on E74/56 'Mount Chester' Year ended 14th September 1987.

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What does the exploration record say about Mount Chester?

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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