MCF Mining Approvals IndexData as at 18 October 2026 · from Western Australian Government registers and open data
Western Australian mining tenements
Every current Western Australian mining tenement: 30,545 mining leases, general purpose and miscellaneous licences, exploration, retention and prospecting licences (6,854 of them applications), with holder, parent group, MINEDEX project, dates, area, commodities, rehabilitation and approvals. Updated daily from DMPE open data.
1,225 of the 30,545 tenements have their own page here: the mining leases and other production titles of operating and developing projects first. Every tenement is on the map and in the MCF Mining Index.
By type
| Type | Tenements | Applications | Hectares |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mining leases | 7,190 | 912 | 5,644,227 |
| General purpose leases | 1,148 | 63 | 149,102 |
| Miscellaneous licences | 4,807 | 786 | 5,410,858 |
| Retention licences | 78 | 3 | 168,523 |
| Exploration licences | 10,312 | 3,443 | 69,446,679 |
| Prospecting licences and mineral claims | 7,010 | 1,647 | 813,730 |
Find a tenement
Each tenement with a page is at /wa/tenements/<tenement>/, written in lower case with hyphens: CML 12/774 is /wa/tenements/cml-12-774/.