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BHP Nickel West Pty Ltd

Holds ground today

BHP Nickel West Pty Ltd holds 200 Western Australian tenements covering 246,652 ha. It is a subsidiary of BHP Group (ASX:BHP). It has lodged 11 open-file WAMEX reports between 2023 and 2026, mostly for nickel and copper.

Reports lodged
11
Tenements held
200
246,652 ha
Holding since
1966
Active
4yrs
2023 to 2026
Areas worked
3
most in Shire of Wiluna
Owner
BHP Group
ASX:BHP
Last reported
2026
this year
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Where BHP Nickel West Pty Ltd has reported

Who owns BHP Nickel West?

BHP Nickel West is a subsidiary of BHP Group (ASX:BHP). The group is named as a holder on 761 live Western Australian tenements.

The other companies BHP Group holds ground through, with the live tenements each is named on:

BHP Minerals Pty Ltd 525BHP Yakabindie Nickel Pty Ltd 27BHP Iron Ore (Jimblebar) Pty Ltd 11BHP Titanium Minerals Pty Ltd 2BHP Group Limited

From BHP Group's consolidated entity disclosure statement, as at 2026-06-30.

Who holds paper over BHP Group's ground?

BHP Nickel West is part of the BHP Group group, so these are the group's connections.

26 of BHP Group's live titles carry a caveat or mortgage held by another party. BHP Group holds caveats or mortgages over 72 live titles of other companies. It holds 496 live titles together with another holder.

Caveats and mortgages over its ground

Outokumpu Mining Australia Pty Limited 19Agnew Gold Mining Co. Pty Ltd 4Gold Fields 2Lightning Nickel Pty Ltd 1Alcrest Royalties 1

It holds caveats and mortgages over

Tec Desert Pty Ltd 35Tec Desert No.2 Pty Ltd 35Gold Fields 18Win Metals 11Golden Ridge North Kambalda Pty Ltd 3Capricorn Metals 2

and 3 more

Holds ground with

Itochu Minerals & Energy of Australia Pty Ltd 496Mitsui-Itochu Iron Pty Ltd 275Mitsui Iron Ore Corporation Pty Ltd 221

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From caveats, mortgages and joint holdings on the DMPE tenement register. A caveat protects an interest in a title, such as a royalty, an option or a loan; the register does not say which.

What BHP Nickel West holds today

BHP Nickel West holds 200 tenements across 246,652 ha. The register records at least 60 titles transferred in, the latest in May 2021.

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Exploration record

Commodities targeted
Nickel 11 · Copper 3
Where they worked
Shire of Wiluna 6, Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku 3, City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder 2
Work on record
Remote sensing and proximal sensing 8 · Satellite imagery 8 · Aerial geophysical surveys 3 · Aerial EM surveys 2 · Aerial gravity surveys 1 · Core library 1 · Core library sampling 1 · Gravity surveys 1
Resource declared
Never on this record
Downloadable data
9 of 11 reports include a digital package
Reports with no exploration
1 of 11 record no work done
Report types
Annual 7 · Partial Surrender 3 · Core Library Drilling 1

Reports filed

11 WAMEX exploration reports lodged by BHP Nickel West Pty Ltd.
Most recent reports
ReportYearProjectTitle
A154030 2026 Transformation Annual Report for the NTP Exploration Licence E53/2260 Transformation Project for the period ending 29/1/2026
A153988 2026 NiW Transformation Annual Report for the NTP Exploration Licence E53/2259 Transformation Project for the period ending 29/1/2026
A153758 2026 NiW Transformation Annual Report for the NiW Transformation Project E53/2258 for the period ending 18/1/2026
A150088 2025 West Musgraves Partial Surrender Report for E69/3157 West Musgraves for the period ending 22/08/2025
A148329 2025 West Musgraves Partial Surrender Report E69/3535 for the period ending 18/02/2025
A148279 2025 Partial Surrender Report E69/3536 for the period ending 28/02/2025.
A148137 2025 Transformation Annual Report for the Exploration Licence E53/2259 Transformation Project for theperiod ending 29/01/2025
A148081 2025 Transformation Annual Report for the Transformation Pproject Exploration Licence E53/2260 for the period ending 29/01/2025
A147882 2025 Transformation Annual Report for the Nickel West Transformation Project Exploration Licence E53/2258 for the period ending 1
A134516 2023 Seahorse EIS Drillhole Resampling E 69/3628,E 69/3630,E 69/3631 Seahorse for the period ending 31/03/2023 (P1501 and P1
A134028 2023 Seahorse North 2 Annual Report - Seahorse North 2 Project for the period ending 31/12/2022

Named projects

Project names BHP Nickel West Pty Ltd used in their reports, with the shire each sits in.

Transformation 4NiW Transformation 2West Musgraves 1West Musgraves 1Seahorse 1Seahorse North 2 1

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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.