Dowd's Hill
Dowd's Hill is an iron ore exploration project in the Shire of Yilgarn, Western Australia. Its 4 WAMEX reports were lodged by 2 companies between 1971 and 1975, most recently Dampier Mining Co Ltd in 1975. Of those, 1 declares a resource.
Who has explored here
Companies that lodged reports over Dowd's Hill, most active first.
Who controls this ground today
Today 50 live and pending tenements sit over the Dowd's Hill ground, held under 13 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 Dowd's Hill
- Local government
- Shire of Yilgarn
- Commodities targeted
- Iron 4
- Work on record
- Percussion drilling 3 · Diamond drilling 1 · Electron microprobes 1 · Grade control drilling 1 · Magnetic susceptibility 1 · Mineragraphy 1 · Mineral resource estimate 1 · Physical properties 1
- Resource declared
- Yes, in 1 report: A86534 (1974)
- Report types
- Non-statutory 4
Exploration reports
| Report | Year | Operator | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| A86535 | 1975 | Dampier Mining Co Ltd | Percussion drilling programme, Dowd's Hill, [Non-statutory report], October - December 1974, AML70/00002 |
| A86534 | 1974 | Dampier Mining Co Ltd | Exploratory drilling, Dowd's Hill, [Non-statutory report], 1973 -1974, AML70/00002, TR70/2045 |
| A35725 | 1973 | Broken Hill Pty Co Ltd | The mineralogical distribution of phosphorus in the Dowd's Hill iron orebody, Koolyanobbing W.A. |
| A86377 | 1971 | Dampier Mining Co Ltd | Development drilling programme, Dowd's Hill, [Non-statutory repor], AML70/00002 |
Other projects in the Shire of Yilgarn
What does the exploration record say about Dowd's Hill?
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.