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Copperhead

Shire of Upper Gascoyne

Copperhead is a copper, zinc and silver exploration project in the Shire of Upper Gascoyne, Western Australia. Its 11 WAMEX reports were lodged by 3 companies between 1978 and 2025, most recently Argent Minerals Limited in 2025.

Reports
11
Operators
3
companies on record
Worked
48yrs
1978 to 2025, 1 year ago
Main target
Copper
5 commodities on record
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Copperhead in the Shire of Upper Gascoyne
Ground extent41 × 110 km
Report areas mapped6

Who has explored here

Companies that lodged reports over Copperhead , most active first.

Argent Minerals Limited 9Agip Australia Pty Ltd 1Agip Nucleare Aust Pty Ltd 1

Who controls this ground today

Today 11 live and pending tenements sit over the Copperhead ground, held under 6 names.

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Exploration record on Copperhead

Local government
Shire of Upper Gascoyne
Commodities targeted
Copper 11 · Silver 9 · Zinc 9 · Uranium 2 · Lead 1
Work on record
Rock chip sampling 7 · Surface geochemistry 5 · Multielement analysis 3 · Geological reconnaissance 2 · Geophysical interpretation 2 · Barite 1 · Geological mapping 1 · Geophysical data processing 1
Resource declared
Never on this record
Downloadable data
8 of 11 reports include a digital package
Reports with no exploration
1 of 11 record no work done
Report types
Annual 5 · Final Surrender 3 · Partial Surrender 2 · Non-statutory 1
Reports by decade
21970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
92020s

Exploration reports

11 WAMEX reports filed over Copperhead .
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Most recent reports
ReportYearOperatorTitle
A149309 2025 Argent Minerals Limited Final Surrender Report on the Copperhead Project, E09/2683 for the period ending 26/03/2025.
A149308 2025 Argent Minerals Limited Final Surrender Report on the Copperhead Project, E09/2625 for the period ending 26/03/2025.
A149306 2025 Argent Minerals Limited Final Surrender Report on the Copperhead Project, E09/2622 for the period ending 26/03/2025.
A149208 2025 Argent Minerals Limited Partial Surrender Report on the Copperhead Project, E09/2532 for the period ending 26/03/2025.
A149207 2025 Argent Minerals Limited 2025 Partial Surrender Report on the Copperhead Project E09/2517 for the period ending 26/03/2025
A147567 2025 Argent Minerals Limited Annual Report on the Copperhead Project E09/2683 For the Period 1 November 2023 to 31 October 2024
A144752 2024 Argent Minerals Limited 2024 Annual Report on the Copperhead Project, E09/2625 for the period ending 28/07/2024.
A137711 2023 Argent Minerals Limited 2023 Annual Report on the Copperhead Project, E09/2683 for the period ending 31/10/2023.
A136909 2023 Argent Minerals Limited Annual Report on the Copperhead Project E09/2625 for the period ending 28/07/2023
A8285 1979 Agip Australia Pty Ltd Copperhead Project, Non-statutory Report: Final Report, March 1979, MC09/2122.
A7752 1978 Agip Nucleare Aust Pty Ltd Copperhead Project, Annual Report for the year ending 31/12/1977, MC09/2122.

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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.