Alerts Capability Statement

NextMaps watches the Western Australian mining register and tells you when ground moves. This is a plain account of what each alert will tell you, how quickly, and where it stops.

What you can watch
What a notice means
How fast
Where it stops
Sources

What you can watch

Three ways to describe the ground you care about

Each alert is one of three kinds. You can hold as many as you like, and they can overlap. Surrenders and withdrawals found in the same ten-minute check arrive together in one email, and the morning digest covers every alert you hold in one email.

An area you draw

Area of interest

Draw a polygon anywhere in WA, and tenure that starts or ends inside it reaches you.

InstantlySurrenders and withdrawals of any title whose ground overlaps the area.

In the digestNew applications, grants, expiries and forfeitures, plus any drop the notices did not carry. Partial surrenders, with how much of the ground given up is inside the area. Ground going to release inside the area, with the date anyone can apply from.

SpeedSurrenders and withdrawals within about ten minutes of DMPE publishing them. New applications in the first digest after DMPE's nightly boundary data includes them: most within two business days of lodgement, a few a week or more, and none skipped. Expiries and forfeitures in the first digest after they appear in that data.

DigestDaily at 5:30 am AWST, or weekly on Monday at 5:30 am. Your choice.

ShapeOne polygon, drawn on the map. To watch separate pieces of ground, make an alert for each.

If you tick themWarden's Court matters and exemption applications inside the area.

A company

Holder

Watch what a specific company does, wherever in the state it does it.

InstantlyEvery application they lodge. Every surrender and withdrawal on their titles, partial surrenders included.

In the digestTheir grants, transfers in and out, expiries and forfeitures, and ground from their titles going to release, with its release date. Daily at 5:30 am AWST.

SpeedNew applications within minutes. DMPE publishes those as they are lodged, and we read the feed every ten minutes. Surrenders and withdrawals arrive with DMPE's 4:30 pm batch.

MatchingExact, on the legal entity, and every party on a joint title counts. Pty Ltd and Pty Limited are the same company, because the register itself spells them both ways.

GroupsPick an ASX-listed company and every registered entity it holds ground through is added, each as its own name you can see and remove. The alert then follows the company's filings: when a new report names another subsidiary, it is added overnight and the alert says what it gained.

ReachEvery holder on the register, about 4,100, including roughly 2,000 who only ever appear as a second or later party on a joint title.

If you tick themWarden's Court matters and exemption applications on their ground.

A list of tenements

Tenement

Watch named tenure: your own, a neighbour's, or a portfolio you are tracking.

InstantlySurrenders, withdrawals and partial surrenders on any title in the list.

In the digestGrants of applications on your list, transfers, expiries and forfeitures, and ground from the listed titles going to release, with its release date. Daily at 5:30 am AWST.

SpeedNotices within about ten minutes of DMPE publishing them.

Loading itSearch the whole register, or paste or upload a list of up to 1,000. Any spelling works: E 9/2370 and E 09/2370 are the same tenement to us.

If you tick themWarden's Court matters and exemption applications on the listed titles.

Set an alert up from Alerts (the bell) on the map, or turn on Email me when anything here changes in the Watchlist tab, which keeps one holder alert and one tenement alert in step with your watchlist. Alerts are part of the Premium and Pro plans.

What a notice means

Each email says what you can do with it

A surrender or withdrawal passes through stages, and DMPE advertises each one. Different kinds of notice mean very different things for the ground, so every email says which one it is. Holder and tenement alerts are told at each stage; an area alert is always told at lodgement, when the ground opens.

LodgedSurrender or withdrawal

For a voluntary surrender or a withdrawal, the ground can be applied for from the lodgement time, which the email gives to the minute along with how long DMPE held the notice. The title still shows as live until an officer processes it, often a week or two. If the surrender then fails, an application over that ground would be asked to withdraw.

Processed

The department has caught up. A whole title leaves the register; for a partial surrender, the released portion is set and appears on the map with the next boundary release.

Rejected

The title stays on the register and the ground is not coming free.

Conditional surrender

Made in favour of the holder's own new title, usually a mining lease the licence is converting into. The ground passes to the new title, so the email marks it as not open to apply for.

Compulsory partial surrender

Goes into the release pool with a published release date, when everyone can apply at once. The email says so, so nobody chases it the same evening.

Ground going to releaseIn the digest

When compulsorily surrendered blocks enter the release pool, every alert whose area, company or titles they touch is told, once, with the release date and the area. DMPE sets that date at least fourteen days ahead, and anyone can apply from it, not before.

Exemption applicationIf you tick it

The holder is asking to be excused a year's minimum expenditure. Sent the day DMPE advertises it, with the date objections close, about five weeks after lodgement.

Warden's Court matterIf you tick it

Forfeiture applications, plaints and ballots, sent within fifteen minutes of the cause list being published, about six weeks before the hearing. Objections and administrative matters are left out.

How fast, precisely

The department's publishing day sets the pace

Two feeds, two very different rhythms. Applications appear the moment they are lodged. Surrenders and withdrawals are held all day and released together at half past four.

08:30 Department The registry opens. Applications appear on the notices feed as they are lodged.
all day NextMaps We read the feeds every ten minutes, so a new application by a company you watch reaches you within minutes of being lodged.
16:30 Department Every surrender and withdrawal for the day is published at once. Nothing is public before this, though ground surrendered that morning has been open to apply for since the moment it was lodged.
16:40 NextMaps Those reach you, naming the real lodgement time. That timestamp is the one that matters: for a voluntary surrender an application can be lodged from it.
night The window The office is shut. Online lodgement stays open, but anything lodged after 16:30 is stamped 08:30 the next working day. Marking out on the ground is not bound by that timetable, and for prospecting licences and mining leases it is marking out that sets priority, except on compulsorily surrendered ground.
05:30 NextMaps The digest: new applications, grants and mapped partial surrenders in your areas; grants, transfers, expiries and forfeitures for the companies and titles you watch; and ground going to release for all three.
08:45 Department For exploration licences, every application lodged between 16:30 and 08:45 counts as lodged at the same time, so competing applications over the same ground go to a ballot, run by the Warden.

Measured on 7 September 2026: at 16:16 the departmental feed carried none of that day's surrenders. At 16:37 it carried all of them, including ones lodged at 08:30, 10:47 and 13:34 that morning. Our alerts name the real lodgement time, so you can see how long a notice sat before it became public.

Where it stops

What this cannot do for you

Some of these are limits of the public record and some are simply not built yet. They are worth knowing before you rely on an alert for a decision.

It cannot tell you about a surrender before half past four

DMPE holds every surrender and withdrawal for a business day and publishes them together at 16:30 AWST, so that batch is the earliest we can tell you. We work from the published notices. A service holding a departmental account and querying the register directly may see some changes earlier in the day; we have not tested one, and make no claim about how much earlier.

It cannot get you ahead of a drop catch

For a voluntary surrender the ground can be applied for from the moment the surrender is lodged, hours before DMPE advertises it. Applications made in that gap are not visible until an officer enters them, so by the time a notice reaches you, someone may already be ahead of you on the same ground, and there was no public record you could have read to know.

An area alert hears about a partial surrender only once it is mapped

A partial surrender notice names the tenement but not the blocks being given up, so an area alert cannot tell from the notice whether they fall inside it. It waits for DMPE to publish the new boundary, usually within two days and nearly always inside a week, then reports how much of the ground given up is inside your area. Holder and tenement alerts hear at the notice, but are not sent the blocks.

An area alert hears about new applications a day or two late

An application notice carries no boundary, so an area alert waits for DMPE's nightly boundary data to place it. A holder alert on the applicant hears within minutes, if you know who to watch.

An area alert does not report transfers

A change of holder inside your area is not an area alert event. Watch the company, or list the titles, to hear about transfers.

It cannot watch a company that holds nothing in WA yet

Holder alerts are built from the register. A party lodging their very first application is not on it, so there is nothing to select until they hold something.

Corporate groups cover listed companies only

Groups are built from the subsidiaries ASX-listed companies disclose in their own reports. A private group, or a parent that is not listed, has to be added one entity at a time. An alert never matches a name it does not list: following a group adds its entities as names you can see.

A tenement alert cannot watch for new applications

A tenement identifier does not exist until somebody applies for it, so there is nothing to name in advance. Watch the area or the company instead.

It gives no forward warning of expiry

You are told when ground drops, not before. Expiry dates are on the map and in the register, but renewals are often recorded after the expiry date, so an "about to expire" alert would mostly report ground that is not coming free. The forward warnings it does give are Warden's Court forfeiture applications, about six weeks before the hearing, and exemption applications.

Email only

There is no SMS, push notification or webhook. Every alert arrives in your inbox.

Where the information comes from

Four official sources, each freshest for something different

Nothing here is scraped from a competitor or inferred. All of it is departmental data, read continuously and reconciled against itself.

DMPE notices

The fastest signal. Applications as they are lodged; surrenders, withdrawals and exemption applications in the daily batch. Read every ten minutes.

DASC spatial

The nightly release of every live and pending tenement in the state, and of the release pool. The source of every boundary we test an area against, of release dates, and of the grants, expiries and forfeitures the notices do not carry.

Tenement register

The full register extract: holders, dates, expenditure and dealings. What makes exact company matching possible, joint holders included.

Warden's Court

The cause list, read every fifteen minutes. Matters are usually listed about six weeks before the hearing.

In short: on new applications we are as fast as the published record allows, which is minutes. On surrenders and withdrawals the notices set the pace, and that pace is half past four in the afternoon, after the office has shut. For an exploration licence, everything lodged between then and 8:45 the next morning counts as lodged together, so the race is not for the first click. It is for knowing, that evening, which ground is worth applying for or putting someone on. That is the part we are for.