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Ida Valley

Shire of Leonora

Ida Valley is a lithium and nickel exploration project in the Shire of Leonora, Western Australia. Its 6 WAMEX reports were lodged by 3 companies between 2002 and 2025, most recently Igo Ltd in 2025.

Reports
6
Operators
3
companies on record
Worked
24yrs
2002 to 2025, 1 year ago
Main target
Lithium
Nickel most reported overall
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Ida Valley in the Shire of Leonora
Ground extent32 × 30 km
Report areas mapped3

Who has explored here

Companies that lodged reports over Ida Valley, most active first.

Wmc Resources Ltd 3Igo Limited 2Bhp Billiton Minerals Pty Ltd 1

Who controls this ground today

Today 14 live and pending tenements sit over the Ida Valley ground, held under 7 names.

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Exploration record on Ida Valley

Local government
Shire of Leonora
Commodities targeted
Nickel 6 · Lithium 2 · Gold 1
Work on record
Geological reconnaissance 3 · Wamex review 2 · Aboriginal site surveys 1 · RC drilling 1
Resource declared
Never on this record
Downloadable data
1 of 6 reports include a digital package
Report types
Final Surrender 3 · Annual 3
Reports by decade
42000s
2010s
22020s

Exploration reports

6 WAMEX reports filed over Ida Valley.
Rather than open these one by one on the DMPE site, have the record over this ground read into one cited report, free for new accounts.
Most recent reports
ReportYearOperatorTitle
A146053 2025 Igo Ltd Ida Valley - E29/1233 Final Surrender Report for the period ending 21/11/2024
A146047 2025 Igo Ltd Ida Valley - E36/1078 Final Surrender Report for the period ending 12/11/2024.
A72466 2006 Bhp Billiton Minerals Pty Ltd Relinquishment Report for the Period 24 October 2005 to 13 March 2006, Ida Valley Project E36/450, Leonora.
A70052 2005 Wmc Resources Ltd E36/450, Mineral Exploration Report for the period 24 October 2003 to 23 October 2004, Ida Valley Project, Le
A68016 2004 Wmc Resources Ltd E36/450, Mineral Exploration Report for the period 24/10/2002- 23/10/2003 (Ida Valley Project)
A65773 2002 Wmc Resources Ltd E36/450 Mineral Exploration Report. Volume One of One. For The Period 24th October 2001 To 23rd October 2002.

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What does the exploration record say about Ida Valley?

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.