Coondina
Coondina is a lithium, rare earth elements and gold exploration project in the Shire of East Pilbara, Western Australia. Its 14 WAMEX reports were lodged by 6 companies between 1983 and 2025, most recently Tambourah Metals Ltd in 2025.
Who has explored here
Companies that lodged reports over Coondina, most active first.
Who controls this ground today
Today 37 live and pending tenements sit over the Coondina ground, held under 25 names.
- Which tenements sit over this ground, and who holds each
- The area they cover and when they expire
- The main holders here, by number of titles
- Whether that ground is meeting its expenditure commitments
- Dormant tenements and active forfeitures
- Mortgages, caveats and the expiry profile
Exploration record on Coondina
- Local government
- Shire of East Pilbara
- Commodities targeted
- Lithium 10 · Rare Earth Elements 10 · Tin 7 · Copper 7 · Gold 7 · Zinc 6 · Tantalum 5 · Base Metals 5
- Work on record
- Surface geochemistry 10 · Rock chip sampling 9 · Remote sensing and proximal sensing 3 · Satellite imagery 3 · Stream sediment sampling 3 · Auger drilling 2 · Geological reconnaissance 2 · Grab sampling 2
- Resource declared
- Never on this record
- Downloadable data
- 11 of 14 reports include a digital package
- Report types
- Annual 10 · Final Surrender 4
Exploration reports
| Report | Year | Operator | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| A149347 | 2025 | Tambourah Metals Ltd | Final Surrender of Coondina (E45/5851) |
| A145244 | 2024 | Tambourah Metals Ltd | Coondina Project C132/2022 Annual Report for the period ending 31/10/2024 |
| A144490 | 2024 | Spark Battery Metals Pty Ltd | Final Surrender Report for Coondina E45/6109 for the period ending 16/7/2024 |
| A144489 | 2024 | Spark Battery Metals Pty Ltd | Final Surrender Report for E45/1610 Coondina Project for the period ending 17/07/2024 |
| A144482 | 2024 | Spark Battery Metals Pty Ltd | Final Surrender Report for E46/1424 Coondina for the period 20 July 2023 to 15 July 2024 |
| A137834 | 2023 | Tambourah Metals Ltd | 2023 ANNUAL REPORT ON C132/2022 (E 4504266, E 4505851) - COONDINA |
| A136729 | 2023 | Spark Battery Metals Pty Ltd | Annual Report For E46/1424 Coondina for the period ending 21/07/2023. |
| A136728 | 2023 | Spark Battery Metals Pty Ltd | Annual Report for E45/6109 Coondina for the period ending 22/07/2023. |
| A136726 | 2023 | Spark Battery Metals Pty Ltd | Annual Report for E46/1424 Coondina for the period ending 19/07/2023. |
| A133362 | 2022 | Minrex Resources Limited | 2022 Annual Report on the Coondina Project, C132/2022 for the period of 1 November 2021 to 31 October 2022 |
| A102122 | 2014 | Fortescue Metals Group Ltd | Annual Mineral Exploration Report: E45/4083 Coondina for the period 11 March 2013 to 10 March 2014 |
| A45244 | 1995 | Reynard Australia Pty Ltd | Coondina Project, Annual Report P45/2276 & P45/2278 , September 1995. |
| A42083 | 1994 | Reynard Australia Pty Ltd | Coondina Project, Annual Report for the period 17th August 1993 to 16th August 1994, P45/2276 & 2278. |
| A12795 | 1983 | Westralian Sands Ltd | Coondina Project, Annual Report, March 1983, P45/18-22. |
Other projects in the Shire of East Pilbara
What does the exploration record say about Coondina?
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.
Get the free report Open this ground on the mapTenure 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.