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Horse Rocks

Shire of Coolgardie

Horse Rocks is a lithium, gold and nickel exploration project in the Shire of Coolgardie, Western Australia. Its 6 WAMEX reports were lodged by 2 companies between 2010 and 2025, most recently Essential Metals Pty Ltd in 2025.

Reports
6
Operators
2
companies on record
Worked
16yrs
2010 to 2025, 1 year ago
Main target
Lithium
Gold most reported overall
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Horse Rocks in the Shire of Coolgardie
Ground extent14 × 22 km
Report areas mapped4

Who has explored here

Companies that lodged reports over Horse Rocks, most active first.

Heron Resources Ltd 5Essential Metals Limited 1

Who controls this ground today

Today 44 live and pending tenements sit over the Horse Rocks ground, held under 19 names.

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Exploration record on Horse Rocks

Local government
Shire of Coolgardie
Commodities targeted
Gold 6 · Nickel 6 · Lithium 2 · Cesium 1 · Feldspar 1 · Tantalum 1
Work on record
RAB drilling 2 · Rock chip sampling 2 · Surface geochemistry 2 · Aeromagnetic interpretation 1 · Digital terrain modelling 1 · Geological reconnaissance 1 · Portable XRF 1 · Soil sampling 1
Resource declared
Never on this record
Downloadable data
3 of 6 reports include a digital package
Report types
Annual 5 · Partial Surrender 1
Reports by decade
52010s
12020s

Exploration reports

6 WAMEX reports filed over Horse Rocks.
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Most recent reports
ReportYearOperatorTitle
A152841 2025 Essential Metals Pty Ltd Partial Surrender for the Horse Rocks Project E15/1710 for the period ending 28/01/2025.
A103244 2014 Heron Resources Ltd Annual report for the period 8th August 2013 to 7th August 2014, Horse Rocks Project, C343/2011, E15/1119, E15
A99265 2013 Heron Resources Ltd Annual report for the period 8th August 2012 to 7th August 2013, Horse Rocks Project, C343/2012
A94800 2012 Heron Resources Ltd Annual report for the period 8th August 2011 to 7th August 2012, Horse Rocks Project, C343/2012, E15/1119, E15
A91791 2011 Heron Resources Ltd Annual report for the period 25 August 2010 to 24 August 2011, Horse Rocks Project, E15/1119
A87681 2010 Heron Resources Ltd Horse Rocks Project, E15/1119, Annual Report for the period 25 August 2009 to 24 August 2010,

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What does the exploration record say about Horse Rocks?

NextMaps reads the WAMEX reports over a chosen area into a referenced prospectivity assessment: the geology, the historical programs, the drill intercepts and geochemistry, and the untested gaps, with every claim cited back to its source report. New accounts include a free report. How the reports work.

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