WA Mining Map

A free, live map of mining in Western Australia. Every mining, exploration and prospecting tenement in the state, every mine and deposit on MINEDEX, layered over geology, geophysics, satellite mineral maps and the open-file exploration archive, and rebuilt from the departmental registers every night.

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The NextMaps WA mining map showing live tenement boundaries over geology near Leonora, Western Australia

Coverage at a glance

Tenements mapped: 30,394 mining, exploration, prospecting and miscellaneous licences
Local government areas: 115 shires and cities across Western Australia
Register last synced: 28 Aug 2026
What it costs: Browsing WA tenure on the map is free and needs no account. A free account adds geology, geophysics, mines, WAMEX and land access; geochemistry and mineral mapping are Premium; Sentinel-2 imagery, Tenure Packs and Data Rooms are Pro.

What is on the map

Most WA mining maps show one thing: tenure, or geology, or a printed overview of operating mines. This one layers them together, because the question that actually gets asked is what is on this ground, and can I get it.

Mining tenureFree: Every live, pending and recently dead mining lease, exploration licence, prospecting licence, retention licence and miscellaneous licence in WA, with holder, grant date, expiry and area. No account needed to browse it.
GeologyFree account: GSWA bedrock, Cenozoic, regolith and the 100k and 250k geological series maps, so structure and tenure sit in one view instead of two browser tabs.
GeophysicsFree account: Gravity at 400m and magnetics at 80m in TMI, RTP and 1VD, for reading structure under cover.
Mines and depositsFree account: MINEDEX mine and deposit locations, operating and abandoned mines, and mineral fields, so producing ground reads at a glance alongside the tenure around it.
WAMEX exploration reportsFree account: The open-file exploration archive footprinted over the ground it covers, so you can see who has worked an area and what they were chasing before you peg it. Filtering by date or report content is a Premium tool.
DrillholesFree account: Open-file drillhole collars across the state, searchable by hole ID.
GeochemistryPremium: 10.2 million surface geochemistry points across more than 70 elements, and the drillhole assay samples behind them, filterable by commodity and by element.
Constraints and land accessFree account: Native title determinations, ILUAs and NNTT claims, Aboriginal heritage from DPLH, pastoral stations and DBCA conservation areas: the overlays that decide whether ground is workable in practice.
Satellite mineral mappingPremium: ASTER mineral maps and fourteen EnMAP hyperspectral mineral-group products covering the state: alteration mapped for you rather than band ratios written by hand in QGIS. Coverage footprints are free to browse.
Sentinel-2 imageryPro: Timestamped, cloud-free Sentinel-2 over any ground in WA at any date, with mineral-ratio composites for gossan, ferric iron and clay alteration alongside true colour and SWIR.

The layer tree open on the WA mining map, with geology and geophysics switched on beneath the tenement boundaries

The map reads the register for you

Tenure on its own tells you who holds what. The same records, read daily, also say who is under pressure and where ground is about to come free. Those readings are colourable layers on the map, and every flagged tenement shows its working rather than a black-box score. These are paid layers, unlike everything above.

Distressed tenements: Forfeiture applications, overdue rent, severe underspend, expiring with no renewal.
Ground release zones: Where supply is opening up, lapsing or being surrendered, ahead of formal gazettal.
Before the Warden: Tenements with a matter listed in the Warden's Court, including ballots for contested ground.
Expenditure compliance: Actual spend against the minimum obligation, so underspend is visible before it becomes forfeiture.

The WA mining map coloured by a Tenement Intelligence layer, flagging tenements under expenditure and forfeiture pressure

All the Tenement Intelligence layers, including expiry timeline, recent transfers, ownership age, encumbrances and exploration intensity.

What you can take away from it

Looking is one job; producing something a board, a financier or a vendor will accept is another. These are the outputs the map feeds, and the part neither government viewer attempts.

Tenure PacksPro: The full due-diligence record for a tenement or a whole portfolio: register detail, tenure history, dealings, conditions, expenditure and the spatial data, compiled into one pack instead of a week of compiling. Regenerate any pack on demand as the register moves.
Prospectivity Data RoomsPro: Point at a tenement or an area and get a referenced desk study read out of the WAMEX archive: drillhole collars, assays, geology logs and surface geochemistry compiled, with the original A-file PDFs it was built from. Grounded in the record; the judgement stays with you.
Sentinel-2 imageryPro: Cloud-free, timestamped imagery over any ground in WA at any date, with mineral-ratio composites for gossan, ferric iron and clay alteration. No download, no reprojection, no band math.
Exports and live embedsPremium and Pro: ASX-announcement-quality map images and PDFs on Premium. On Pro, a live map locked to a view you choose, embedded on your own site.

Where the data comes from

Every layer is traceable to a public source, and the tenure layers are rebuilt from them on a schedule rather than snapshotted once. Freshness is the whole point of a live map: ground that opened yesterday is no use to you next month.

DMPE mineral titles register: Holders, status, grant and expiry dates, expenditure and encumbrances. Synced nightly.
DASC spatial download: Tenement boundaries for live and pending ground, rebuilt nightly from the departmental shapefiles.
DMIRS notices feed: Surrenders, withdrawals and status changes, polled roughly every ten minutes. The daily batch of surrenders and withdrawals lands around 4:30pm, which is why consultants check the feed then, and why ground shows as open here before it moves on the slower spatial services.
Warden's Court cause list: Forfeiture applications, plaints and ballots for contested ground, checked every fifteen minutes.
SLIP (Landgate), GSWA, DBCA and DPLH: The state spatial services behind the geoscience, tenure, conservation and heritage layers.

NextMaps is an independent product and is not affiliated with the Department of Mines, Petroleum and Exploration. The departmental registers remain the record of truth; always verify against them before you act on tenure.

How this differs from TENGRAPH and GeoVIEW

Western Australia is unusually well served by free government mapping. TENGRAPH Web is the department's own tenure viewer and the authoritative source for what is granted to whom. GeoVIEW.WA is the Geological Survey's viewer for geoscience datasets. Both are free, and neither is going anywhere.

	TENGRAPH Web	GeoVIEW.WA	NextMaps
Tenure boundaries and holders	Yes, authoritative	No	Yes
Newly lodged applications, first day or so	Yes, the only live source	No	Next day
Geology and geophysics	No	Yes	Yes
Mines and deposits	No	Yes	Yes
Tenure and geoscience in one view	No	No	Yes
WAMEX reports footprinted on the map	No	Yes	Yes
Hyperspectral mineral products	No	No	Yes
Register signals scored on the map	No	No	Yes
Email alerts on new pegging and expiries	No	No	Yes
Timestamped satellite imagery over your ground	No	No	Yes
Due-diligence pack for a tenement	No	No	Yes
Referenced desk study from the WAMEX archive	No	No	Yes
A page per tenement, indexed and linkable	No	No	Yes

Both government tools are free in full. In the NextMaps column, tenure, geology, tenure is free to browse and a free account covers geology, geophysics, mines, WAMEX and land access. Geochemistry and mineral mapping are Premium; imagery, packs and data rooms are Pro.

One row there deserves saying out loud, because the forums are right about it: a brand-new application exists only inside TENGRAPH until the department publishes its geometry. Every external map, this one included, is a day or so behind on freshly pegged ground. If you are about to peg over someone, check TENGRAPH. The honest guide to TENGRAPH goes through what it does well and where it leaves you.

So if all you need is to confirm who holds a licence, TENGRAPH does it and does it properly. This map exists for the next question: what is over that ground, who has already looked at it, and what is about to come free.

Mining map by region

Ground is easiest to find by local government area. Each one lists every live and pending tenement inside it, with the holder and expiry, and opens straight onto that part of the map.

City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder 3,709 Shire of East Pilbara 3,376 Shire of Leonora 3,038 Shire of Coolgardie 2,913 Shire of Menzies 1,976 Shire of Ashburton 1,914 Shire of Meekatharra 1,721 Shire of Laverton 1,647 Shire of Wiluna 1,189 Shire of Yilgarn 972 Town of Port Hedland 899 Shire of Dundas 798 City of Karratha 773 Shire of Cue 709 Shire of Yalgoo 690 Shire of Mount Magnet 502 Shire of Halls Creek 430 Shire of Upper Gascoyne 417 Shire of Sandstone 364 Shire of Derby-West Kimberley 267 Shire of Perenjori 177 Shire of Wyndham-East Kimberley 173 Shire of Esperance 148 Shire of Kondinin 146

Show all 115 local government areas

Shire of Ravensthorpe 137 Shire of Collie 124 Shire of Carnarvon 121 Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku 121 Shire of Boddington 120 Shire of Dandaragan 112 Shire of Murchison 103 Shire of Broome 90 City of Wanneroo 84 Shire of Bridgetown-Greenbushes 69 Shire of Gingin 67 Shire of Capel 65 Shire of Lake Grace 63 City of Busselton 59 Shire of Irwin 59 City of Swan 57 Shire of Morawa 55 Shire of Toodyay 54 Shire of Northampton 53 City of Greater Geraldton 46 Shire of Westonia 43 Shire of Dalwallinu 40 Shire of Three Springs 40 Shire of Donnybrook-Balingup 38 Shire of Victoria Plains 38 Shire of Exmouth 36 Shire of Shark Bay 36 Shire of Coorow 35 Shire of Northam 35 Shire of Merredin 34 Shire of Harvey 31 Shire of Narembeen 30 Shire of Carnamah 29 Shire of Chittering 29 Shire of Goomalling 29 Shire of Kent 28 Shire of Dumbleyung 27 Shire of Katanning 27 Shire of Moora 27 Shire of Nungarin 27 Shire of Kulin 26 Shire of Nannup 26 Shire of Boyup Brook 25 Shire of Waroona 23 Shire of Mount Marshall 22 Shire of State Waters - (Wa) Offshore Minerals Act 22 City of Albany 20 Shire of Jerramungup 20 Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale 20 Town of Kwinana 19 Shire of Murray 19 Shire of Wongan-Ballidu 19 Shire of Mingenew 17 Shire of Mukinbudin 17 Shire of Manjimup 15 Shire of Wyalkatchem 15 Shire of Dardanup 14 Shire of York 14 Shire of Cunderdin 13 Shire of Augusta-Margaret River 12 Shire of Dowerin 12 Shire of Gnowangerup 12 Shire of Koorda 12 Shire of Wickepin 12 Shire of Christmas Island 11 Shire of Mundaring 11 Shire of Plantagenet 10 Shire of Chapman Valley 8 Shire of Wandering 8 Shire of Williams 8 Shire of Broomehill-Tambellup 7 City of Rockingham 7 Shire of West Arthur 7 Shire of Beverley 6 Shire of Brookton 6 Shire of Corrigin 6 Shire of Wagin 6 Shire of Cranbrook 5 Shire of Bruce Rock 4 Shire of Trayning 4 Shire of Woodanilling 4 City of Bunbury 3 City of Cockburn 3 Shire of Kellerberrin 3 Shire of Quairading 3 Shire of Denmark 2 Shire of Kalamunda 2 Shire of Narrogin 2 City of Armadale 1 Shire of Cuballing 1 Shire of Pingelly 1

Open the map over your ground

Pan to the area you care about and switch on the layers that matter: tenure, geology, hyperspectral alteration, WAMEX coverage. Set an alert over an area of interest and you will hear the morning a neighbouring tenement is surrendered or an application lands. No account is needed to browse the map.

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Tenure data sourced from the DMPE public registers and SLIP WA (© Government of Western Australia, CC BY 4.0), as at 2026-08-28. Compiled by NextMaps. Verify against primary sources before reliance.