Wellington
Wellington is a zinc, lead and silver exploration project in the Shire of Wiluna, Western Australia, earlier explored for nickel. Its 8 WAMEX reports were lodged by 3 companies between 2008 and 2025, most recently Great Boulder Resources Ltd in 2025.
Who has explored here
Companies that lodged reports over Wellington, most active first.
Who controls this ground today
Today 19 live and pending tenements sit over the Wellington ground, held under 4 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 Wellington
- Local government
- Shire of Wiluna
- Commodities targeted
- Nickel 6 · Lead 2 · Silver 2 · Zinc 2 · Copper 1
- Work on record
- Soil sampling 3 · Aerial magnetic surveys 2 · Aerial radioactivity surveys 2 · Diamond drilling 2 · Surface geochemistry 2 · Aeromagnetic interpretation 1 · EM logging 1 · Geochemical interpretation 1
- Resource declared
- Never on this record
- Downloadable data
- 5 of 8 reports include a digital package
- Reports with no exploration
- 1 of 8 record no work done
- Report types
- Annual 4 · Final Surrender 2 · Partial Surrender 2
Exploration reports
| Report | Year | Operator | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| A149752 | 2025 | Great Boulder Resources Ltd | Final Surrender Report Wellington Project C65/2023 for the period ending 01/05/2025. E38/03622,E38/03751,E38/0 |
| A143427 | 2024 | Great Boulder Resources Ltd. | Annual Technical Report for E38/3622, part of the Wellington Project, for the period ending 15/05/2024 |
| A92216 | 2011 | Bhp Billiton Nickel West Pty Ltd | Final Surrender Mineral Exploration Report – Wellington E53/1095 |
| A91323 | 2011 | Bhp Billiton Nickel West Pty Ltd | Wellington, E53/01095 Annual Mineral Exploration Report, 1 January 2011 – 4 July 2011 |
| A86471 | 2010 | Bhp Billiton Nickel West P/L | Wellington Annual Mineral Exploration Report, Period: 1 January 2009 – 31 December 2009 |
| A84072 | 2009 | Bhp Billiton Nickel West Pty Ltd | Wellington C149/2007, E53/1094, E53/1095, Second Compulsory Partial Surrender 5th July 2005 – 12th June 2009 |
| A81619 | 2009 | Bhp Billiton Nickel West P/L | Wellington Annual Mineral Exploration Report C149/2007 E53/1094, E53/1095 and E36/570, 1 January 2008 – 31 Dec |
| A79160 | 2008 | Bhp Billiton Nickel West Pty Ltd | Nickel West - Wellington Exploration Project PARTIAL SURRENDER REPORT FOR THE PERIOD 5 JULY 2005 TO 4 JULY 200 |
Other projects in the Shire of Wiluna
What does the exploration record say about Wellington?
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.