Balladonia
Balladonia is a nickel, copper and zinc exploration project in the Shire of Esperance, Western Australia. Its 10 WAMEX reports were lodged by 5 companies between 1981 and 2025, most recently Ausquest Limited in 2025.
Who has explored here
Companies that lodged reports over Balladonia, most active first.
Who controls this ground today
Today 18 live and pending tenements sit over the Balladonia ground, held under 8 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 Balladonia
- Local government
- Shire of Esperance
- Commodities targeted
- Copper 6 · Nickel 6 · Mineral Sands 2 · Lead 1 · Zinc 1 · Base Metals 1 · Gold 1 · Lignite 1
- Work on record
- Flora 3 · RC drilling 3 · Core library 2 · Diamond drilling 2 · Ground EM surveys 2 · Heritage survey 2 · Aircore drilling 1 · EM logging 1
- Resource declared
- Never on this record
- Downloadable data
- 4 of 10 reports include a digital package
- Report types
- Annual 6 · Final Surrender 3 · Core Library Drilling 1
Exploration reports
| Report | Year | Operator | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| A149036 | 2025 | Ausquest Limited | Balladonia Project Final Report For E69/3246 the period January 20th 2020 to June 10th 2025 |
| A119644 | 2019 | Ausquest Limited | C105/2015 Balladonia Project, E69/3246 & 3317 Combined Annual Report for the Year Ending January 19th 2019 |
| A120085 | 2018 | Ausquest Limited | Donated Drillcore 18BDDD0001, 18BDDD0002 and 18BDDD0003 |
| A116075 | 2018 | Ausquest Limited | Balladonia Project Exploration Licences E69/3246 & 3317 Combined Annual Report C105/2015 For the year ending 1 |
| A112704 | 2017 | Ausquest Limited | C105/2015 Balladonia Project, E69/3246 & 3317 Combined Annual Report for the Year Ending January 19th 2017 |
| A108403 | 2016 | Ausquest Limited | ANNUAL REPORT Annual Report For the Period 20 January 2015 to 19 January 2016 BALLADONIA COMBINED ANNUAL REP |
| A99078 | 2013 | Ligniteoil Pty Ltd | Final Surrender Report Balladonia Project E69/2760 Reporting period: 5th July 2011 to 11th July 2013 |
| A20595 | 1990 | Eucla Mining Nl | Balladonia Project, Annual Report for period ending 11th March 1990, E69/297. |
| A36039 | 1981 | The Griffin Coal Mining Co Ltd | Balladonia Project, Final Surrender Report, August 1981, TR8272H. |
| A75885 | Epsilon Energy Ltd | Annual Mineral Exploration Report 06 June 2006 to 05 June 2007 Balladonia Uranium Project Report Yalodinya Roc |
Other projects in the Shire of Esperance
What does the exploration record say about Balladonia?
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.