Make WAMEX work for research.

WAMEX is the source, not the workspace

WAMEX is where serious WA exploration research starts. It holds the reports, maps, appendices, and historical disclosures that let you check what really happened on the ground.

But WAMEX is an archive. It is not a working exploration model.

That distinction matters. An archive helps you find evidence. A working layer helps you test it: where the holes were, what was assayed, which source report supports the claim, and whether the old work changes how you read a current ASX announcement.

Treat WAMEX as authority. Do not treat it as the finished view.

Start with a sharper question

Do not begin by downloading every report in the district. Start with the decision you need to make.

Ask one useful question first:

• Has this target been drilled before?

• Is the company extending known mineralisation or repeating old work?

• Did previous operators report assays near the new holes?

• Was the same structure tested, or only nearby ground?

• Is historical context being used as evidence or promotion?

The question tells you which reports matter. Without it, WAMEX research becomes PDF collecting.

Find the source report, then rebuild the context

A WAMEX report can be technically rich and still awkward to use. It may be scanned. Tables may sit in appendices. Coordinates may need checking. A collar file may exist without assays, surveys, or geology.

That does not weaken WAMEX. It is exactly what a historical archive should be: source material submitted by many companies over many years.

The mistake is expecting that source material to arrive as a clean project view.

Once the right report is found, the real work begins:

• plot the old collars and samples

• check the coordinate assumptions

• confirm which assays and surveys actually exist

• keep the original report close for verification

• compare the old evidence with current ASX drilling

That is where the insight appears.

Separate location from interpretation

Old reports often sound confident. They describe prospective trends, open mineralisation, structural targets, and follow-up potential.

Read that interpretation carefully, but place the evidence first.

Where was the hole? What did it test? What was actually assayed? Was it drilled into the same target the current company is promoting, or just somewhere nearby?

Location controls interpretation. Until the historical work is plotted against current drilling, tenements, geology, and source reports, the old narrative can easily carry more weight than it deserves.

Missing data is part of the signal

Historical data is often incomplete. That is not just friction; it is information about confidence.

A collar without assays can show that work happened. It cannot support the same conclusion as a collar with assays, down-hole surveys, geology, and a source report. A map may explain an old target. It may not validate the current interpretation.

Use the evidence at the confidence level it can support.

If a historical result matters, check the original report. If geometry matters, check survey data. If a coordinate looks decisive, check the datum and projection. If an assay drives the story, check how it was reported.

The rule is simple: do not make old data carry more certainty than the source allows.

Put old work beside current drilling

WAMEX research becomes useful when it changes how you read the present.

A new ASX drill result means more when you can see whether it steps beyond old drilling, repeats a known test, validates old anomalism, or reframes work that previous operators already understood.

That comparison needs a working view:

• historical holes beside new holes

• assays linked back to reports

• tenements, prospects, and regional layers in the same place

• source links available when something needs checking

• uncertainty visible instead of hidden

Without that view, the reader becomes the integration layer. That is where time disappears.

Where Canetoad fits

Canetoad is built for the work that starts after the source is found.

WAMEX remains the official archive. Canetoad is the working layer: a place to bring historical open-file context beside current ASX drilling, tenements, geophysics, company history, maps, timelines, and 3D geometry.

The goal is not to replace source checking. The goal is to make source-linked checking faster.

For investors, that means testing whether a current result is genuinely new, technically meaningful, or mostly a reframing of old work.

For geologists, it means spending less time rebuilding historical context and more time asking better questions: what was missed, what was tested, and which targets deserve another look.

A better WAMEX workflow

Use WAMEX for what it does best: recover Western Australia's exploration memory.

Then turn that memory into a working view.

Start with the question. Find the source. Plot the evidence. Check what data exists. Compare it with current drilling. Keep uncertainty visible.

That is how WAMEX stops being a slow archive search and becomes usable exploration intelligence.