Mount Hale
Mount Hale is a gold and base metals exploration project in the Shire of Meekatharra, Western Australia, earlier explored for iron ore and copper. Its 9 WAMEX reports were lodged by 5 companies between 1970 and 2025, most recently Arabella Resources Pty Ltd in 2025.
Who has explored here
Companies that lodged reports over Mount Hale, most active first.
Who controls this ground today
Today 4 live and pending tenements sit over the Mount Hale ground, held under 2 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 Mount Hale
- Local government
- Shire of Meekatharra
- Commodities targeted
- Iron 5 · Gold 4 · Copper 2 · Nickel 2 · Base Metals 1 · Asbestos 1 · Chromium 1 · Cobalt 1
- Work on record
- Rock chip sampling 5 · Geological mapping 2 · Aerial colour photography 1 · Aerial magnetic surveys 1 · Heritage 1 · Ironstone sampling 1 · Prospectivity review 1 · Rotary drilling 1
- Resource declared
- Never on this record
- Downloadable data
- 3 of 9 reports include a digital package
- Reports with no exploration
- 1 of 9 record no work done
- Report types
- Annual 6 · Final Surrender 2 · Partial Surrender 1
Exploration reports
| Report | Year | Operator | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| A152903 | 2025 | Arabella Resources Pty Ltd | Partial Surrender Report for E51/2026 Mount Hale Project for the period ending 22/08/2025 |
| A90572 | 2011 | Cliffs Asia Pacific Iron Ore Pty Ltd | Final Surrender Report Mt Hale Project E51/1421 For the period 14 March 2011 to 27 June 2011 |
| A90571 | 2011 | Cliffs Asia Pacific Iron Ore Pty Ltd | Final Surrender Report Mt Hale Project E51/1292 For the period 25 March 2010 to 27 June 2011 |
| A72922 | 2006 | Midwest Corporation Ltd | Jack Hills Project Mount Matthew South E20/209, Annual Report, 27 April 2005 to 26 April 2006, (Belele). |
| A52360 | 1997 | Zygot Ltd | Mount Hale Project, E20/209 , for the period 27/04/96 - 26/04/97. |
| A44823 | 1995 | Zygot Ltd | Annual Report for the period 1st July 1994 to 30th July 1995 , Mt Hale Project, E20/209. |
| A41774 | 1994 | Zygot Ltd | Annual Report for the period 26/04/93-30/06/94, Mt Hale Project, E20/209. |
| A2864 | 1972 | Western Mining Corporation Ltd | Mount Hale Project, Annual Report for the year ending 30th June 1972, MC51/233-234, 289-293,373-377, 379-380, |
| A1850 | 1970 | Western Mining Corporation Ltd | Mount Hale Project, Annual Report for the year ending 30th June 1970, MC51/373-380. |
Other projects in the Shire of Meekatharra
What does the exploration record say about Mount Hale?
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.