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Rio Tinto Winu Pty Limited

Holds ground today

Rio Tinto Winu Pty Limited holds 34 Western Australian tenements covering 206,993 ha. It is a subsidiary of Rio Tinto (ASX:RIO). It has lodged 10 open-file WAMEX reports between 2024 and 2026, mostly for copper, gold and water.

Reports lodged
10
Tenements held
34
206,993 ha
Holding since
2025
Active
3yrs
2024 to 2026
Areas worked
1
Shire of East Pilbara
Owner
Rio Tinto
ASX:RIO
Last reported
2026
this year
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Where Rio Tinto Winu Pty Limited has reported

Who owns Rio Tinto Winu?

Rio Tinto Winu is a subsidiary of Rio Tinto (ASX:RIO). The group is named as a holder on 522 live Western Australian tenements.

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

Hamersley Iron Pty. Limited 181Robe River Mining Co. Pty. Ltd. 174North Mining Limited 171Hamersley Resources Limited 28Rio Tinto Exploration Pty Limited 27Hamersley Exploration Pty Limited 23Galaxy Lithium Australia Pty Ltd 15Hamersley WA Pty Ltd 15Galaxy Resources Pty Ltd 10Hamersley Iron-Yandi Pty Limited 9Mount Bruce Mining Pty Limited 6Argyle Diamonds Pty Limited 5Allkem Financial Services Pty Ltd 1Kerrigup Resources Pty Limited Rio Tinto Limited

From Rio Tinto's consolidated entity disclosure statement, as at 2025-12-31.

Who holds paper over Rio Tinto's ground?

Rio Tinto Winu is part of the Rio Tinto group, so these are the group's connections.

55 of Rio Tinto's live titles carry a caveat or mortgage held by another party. Rio Tinto holds caveats or mortgages over 43 live titles of other companies. It holds 251 live titles together with another holder.

Caveats and mortgages over its ground

SMM Perth Pty Ltd 26Winu Services Pty Ltd 26Rhodes Ridge Management Services Pty Ltd 14SPC Blue Pty Ltd 14Rhodes Ridge Mining (No 1) Pty Ltd 14Greatland Resources 7

and 8 more

It holds caveats and mortgages over

SMM Perth Pty Ltd 26SPC Blue Pty Ltd 14Rhodes Ridge Mining (No 1) Pty Ltd 14High-Tech Metals Ltd 1Cannon Resources Pty Ltd 1FMR Investments Pty Ltd 1

Holds ground with

Mitsui Iron Ore Development Pty Ltd 171Cape Lambert Iron Associates 171Pannawonica Iron Associates 171SMM Perth Pty Ltd 27Rhodes Ridge Mining (No 1) Pty Ltd 23SPC Blue Pty Ltd 23

and 4 more

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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 Rio Tinto Winu holds today

Rio Tinto Winu holds 34 tenements across 206,993 ha. The register records at least 33 titles transferred in and 27 transferred out, the latest in December 2025.

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Exploration record

Commodities targeted
Copper 10 · Gold 10 · Water 1
Where they worked
Shire of East Pilbara 10
Work on record
Heritage 6 · Aerial gravity gradiometer survey 4 · Fauna 4 · Flora 4 · Aerial EM surveys 3 · RC drilling 2 · Aerial geophysical surveys 1 · Aerial gravity surveys 1
Resource declared
Never on this record
Downloadable data
2 of 10 reports include a digital package
Reports with no exploration
1 of 10 record no work done
Report types
Final Surrender 5 · Partial Surrender 5

Reports filed

10 WAMEX exploration reports lodged by Rio Tinto Winu Pty Limited.
Most recent reports
ReportYearProjectTitle
A154904 2026 Citadel Final Surrender Report E45/4213 & E45/4214 Citadel for the period ending 23/04/2026.(C58/2007)
A150421 2025 Paterson North Mineral Exploration Partial Relinquishment Report E45/05241 for the period ending 14/10/2025
A148554 2025 Camel Mineral Exploration Final Surrender Report for E45/5560 for the period ending 7/4/2025
A148549 2025 Winu Mineral Exploration Final Surrender Report for E45/5212 Winu Project for the period ending 07/04/2025
A146042 2025 Winu Mineral Exploration Partial Relinquishment Report for E45/5121 for the period 15 October 2019 to 10 October 20
A146040 2025 Winu Mineral Exploration Partial Relinquishment Report for E45/5120 Winu for the period ending 20/12/2024.
A145449 2024 Winu Mineral Exploration Final Surrender Report for E45/5454 Winu Project for the period ending 23/10/2024.
A144967 2024 Winu Mineral Exploration Partial Relinquishment Report for E45/5124 (Winu) for the period ending 15/08/2024
A144966 2024 Winu Mineral Exploration Partial Relinquishment Report for E45/5118 (Winu) for the period ending 15/08/2024
A138879 2024 Paterson Final Mineral Exploration Surrender Report for E45/5123 Paterson for the period ending 29/01/2024.

Named projects

Project names Rio Tinto Winu Pty Limited used in their reports, with the shire each sits in.

Winu 6Citadel 1Paterson North 1Camel 1Paterson 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.