Great Sandy Desert
Great Sandy Desert is a gold, copper and zinc exploration project in the Shire of East Pilbara, Western Australia. Its 7 WAMEX reports were lodged by 3 companies between 1993 and 2024, most recently Artemis Resources Ltd in 2024.
Who has explored here
Companies that lodged reports over Great Sandy Desert, most active first.
Who controls this ground today
Today 10 live and pending tenements sit over the Great Sandy Desert ground, held under 7 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 Great Sandy Desert
- Local government
- Shire of East Pilbara
- Commodities targeted
- Copper 6 · Gold 6 · Lead 5 · Silver 5 · Zinc 5 · Diamond 1
- Work on record
- Diamond drilling 3 · Aerial magnetic surveys 2 · Geological logging 2 · Geophysical data processing 2 · Geophysical interpretation 2 · Ground gravity surveys 2 · Downhole directional surveys 1 · Geological reconnaissance 1
- Resource declared
- Never on this record
- Downloadable data
- 5 of 7 reports include a digital package
- Reports with no exploration
- 1 of 7 record no work done
- Report types
- Annual 5 · Final Surrender 2
Exploration reports
| Report | Year | Operator | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| A139536 | 2024 | Artemis Resources Ltd | Annual Report for the Great Sandy Desert Project E45/5276 for the period ending 13/04/2024. |
| A136525 | 2023 | St George Mining Limited | Great Sandy Desert Project - Final Surrender Report E45/5422 for the period ending 07/07/2023. |
| A135545 | 2023 | Artemis Resources Limited | Annual Report for the Great Sandy Desert Project, E45/5276, for the period 14 February 2022 to 13 February 202 |
| A130943 | 2022 | Artemis Resources Limited | Annual report for the Great Sandy Desert Project, E45/5276, for the period 14 February 2021 to 13 February 202 |
| A126757 | 2021 | Artemis Resources Limited | Annual report for the Great Sandy Desert Project, E45/5276, for the period 14 February 2020 to 13 February 202 |
| A123429 | 2020 | Artemis Resources Limited | Annual report for the Great Sandy Desert Project, E45/5276, for the period 14 February 2019 to 13 February 202 |
| A38745 | 1993 | Stockdale Prospecting Ltd | Final Report Exploration Licences 45/1198 and 80/1462 Great Sandy Desert Area WA July 1993 |
Other projects in the Shire of East Pilbara
What does the exploration record say about Great Sandy Desert?
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.