Mining in the Sandy 60's and 70's. Pole found marked RCH 2/1015/6

Equinox,

Hesperien Press here in Perth (Ozzie Park?) usually have a printed copy of all old expired mining leases from Dept Mines WA.
If you don't want to buy a black and white print copy tolook it up - reeds prospecting supplies in Maida vale have a copy they might let you view in the shop.

If it were a still current lease - then the WA dept Mines website has a "tengraph" section where you can look up current mining leases / pegged claims online - but you have to register and get issued a password etc first to be able to access the database.

You might even require a miners right number as well I think...but don't quote me on that, if so they are only about $25 and last a lifetime.

There was / is a period where large companys now peg VAST exploration leases, just in the hope that if something is found on it - they can claim ownership (those with a miners right can explore on an existing mining tenement as long as they have permission fo the tenement holder. Some Tenement holders allow prospectors with miners rights to explore their tenements for minerals - on an agreemet that any finds a are shared & notified - this then saves paying geologists and drilling rigs to extensively sample...for tenement holders short of cash it sometimes helps define areas worthy of later closer scrutiny/research and investement in a drilling program).

Hopefully those leads might get you started on the trail of discovery...

I'm recently hearing rumours of gold discoveries outside the well known "Yilgarn formation" (that gold bearing formation that runs basically south east to North west from just west of Esperance thru to the Pilbara and includes most of the known goldfields in WA with the exception of the Kimberley) - out into the central deserts, into areas just such as you describe.

Legends of Lasster drew a LOT of early and even later exploration out into the red centre, people might be surprised how many mining tenements cover this vast state of ours - theres hardly a square inch that someone hasn't got a tenement over these days.

Cheers & good luck chasing it down.

No idea sorry, but you certainly were out with the camels up there. Looks to recent for the Hunt Oil people, and they were south a long way of course.
Was that the only old track in that area, or was there one bearing WSW I wonder ? I can't seem to pick up any tracks in this area on G Earth?

Hi Alan,

I suspect it's oil related rather than minerals eg gold.

Like you I have come across a number of welded markers in various designs in the deserts and all so far have been oil related.

As for this one I don't know of it sorry.

There was one on the top track over the Kennedy Range, did you spot it?

cheers
Phil

Thats a very lonely area Alan, what were you looking for out there.

30 September-3 October, 1996 (ed RCH Shepherd). Weed Science Society of Victoria ... Leeuwen S (1996). Biological survey of the southern Little Sandy Desert: