Northern Drilling Pty Ltd
Northern Drilling Pty Ltd holds 4 Western Australian tenements covering 9,437 ha. It is a subsidiary of White Cliff Minerals (ASX:WCN). It has lodged 14 open-file WAMEX reports between 2012 and 2019, mostly for nickel, gold and cobalt.
Who owns Northern Drilling?
Northern Drilling is a subsidiary of White Cliff Minerals (ASX:WCN). The group is named as a holder on 4 live Western Australian tenements.
The other companies White Cliff Minerals holds ground through, with the live tenements each is named on:
From White Cliff Minerals' consolidated entity disclosure statement, as at 2025-06-30.
Who holds paper over White Cliff Minerals' ground?
Northern Drilling is part of the White Cliff Minerals group, so these are the group's connections.
4 of White Cliff Minerals' live titles carry a caveat or mortgage held by another party.
Caveats and mortgages over its ground
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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 Northern Drilling holds today
Northern Drilling holds 4 tenements across 9,437 ha. The register records 4 titles transferred in, the latest in March 2023.
- Which tenements they hold, by type and local government area
- Every title bought, sold or transferred, and who it was with
- Expenditure compliance across the portfolio
- Dormant ground and forfeiture exposure
- Mortgages, caveats and the expiry profile
Exploration record
- Commodities targeted
- Nickel 10 · Gold 9 · Cobalt 3 · Potash 2 · Uranium 2 · Thorium 1
- Where they worked
- Shire of Laverton 14
- Work on record
- Soil sampling 5 · Surface geochemistry 5 · Geophysical interpretation 3 · MMI technique 3 · Ground EM surveys 2 · Historical drilling data 2 · Moving loop EM surveys 2 · Portable XRF 2
- Resource declared
- Never on this record
- Downloadable data
- 14 of 14 reports include a digital package
- Reports with no exploration
- 1 of 14 record no work done
- Report types
- Annual 11 · Partial Surrender 2 · Final Surrender 1
Reports filed
| Report | Year | Project | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| A121385 | 2019 | Ironstone | Annual Report for Exploration at the Ironstone Gold Project E38/2552 for the period 21 July 2018 to 20 July 20 |
| A120864 | 2019 | Coglia | Coglia Cobalt-Nickel Project E38/02693 Exploration within surrendered blocks for the period 24/09/2013 to 30/0 |
| A119118 | 2019 | Merolia - Rotorua | Merolia Nickel Project - Rotorua E38/02690 (C165/2013) for the period 10 November 2011 to 3 November 2018 |
| A118571 | 2018 | Coglia | Coglia Cobalt-Nickel Project E38/02693 Annual Report for the period 24 September 2017 to 23 September 2018 |
| A117990 | 2018 | Coglia | Coglia Cobalt/Nickel Project E38/02693 Partial Surrender Report for the period 24 September 2013 to 23 Septemb |
| A117951 | 2018 | Ironstone | Exploration at Ironstone E38/02552 Ironstone Gold Project Annual Report for the period 21/07/2017 - 20/07/2018 |
| A115848 | 2018 | Merolia - Rotorua | Merolia Project - Rotorua E38/02690 (C165/2013) Annual Report for the period 1 November 2016 to 31 October 201 |
| A115502 | 2017 | Coglia | Work done in the fourth year of grant, E38/2693 Coglia Cobalt-Nickel Project for the period 24-09/2016 - 23/09 |
| A114778 | 2017 | Ironstone | Ironstone Gold Project E38/2552 Annual Report for the period For the Period 21 July 2016 to 20 July 2017 |
| A107810 | 2016 | Coglia | Annual Report E38/2693 Coglia Project for the period 24/09/2014 to 23/09/2015 |
| A107796 | 2016 | Merolia Project | Combined Annual Report C165/2013 MEROLIA PROJECT |
| A106953 | 2015 | Ironstone | Annual Report E38/2552 Ironstone Project for the period 21/07/2014 to 20/07/2015 |
| A99723 | 2013 | Ironstone Range | Annual Report E38/2552 Ironstone Range Project For the period 21st July 2012 to 20th July 2013 |
| A95770 | 2012 | Ironstone Range | Annual Report E38/2552 Ironstone Range Project for the period 21st July 2011 to 20th July 2012 |
Named projects
Project names Northern Drilling Pty Ltd used in their reports, with the shire each sits in.
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