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Challa

Shire of Mount Magnet

Challa is a gold, nickel and copper exploration project in the Shire of Mount Magnet, Western Australia. Its 9 WAMEX reports were lodged by 6 companies between 1970 and 2025, most recently Platina Resources Limited in 2025.

Reports
9
Operators
6
companies on record
Worked
56yrs
1970 to 2025, 1 year ago
Main target
Gold
6 commodities on record
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Challa in the Shire of Mount Magnet
Ground extent39 × 40 km
Report areas mapped6

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Today 42 live and pending tenements sit over the Challa ground, held under 21 names.

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Exploration record on Challa

Local government
Shire of Mount Magnet
Commodities targeted
Gold 7 · Copper 2 · Nickel 2 · Platinum Group Elements 1 · Base Metals 1 · Platinum 1
Work on record
Soil sampling 4 · Aircore drilling 3 · Rock chip sampling 3 · Surface geochemistry 3 · Geological interpretation 2 · Geological reconnaissance 2 · Geophysical interpretation 2 · Heritage 2
Resource declared
Never on this record
Downloadable data
5 of 9 reports include a digital package
Reports with no exploration
1 of 9 record no work done
Report types
Annual 5 · Final Surrender 3 · Non-statutory 1
Reports by decade
11970s
11980s
1990s
2000s
12010s
62020s

Exploration reports

9 WAMEX reports filed over Challa.
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Most recent reports
ReportYearOperatorTitle
A150203 2025 Platina Resources Limited Final Surrender Report for E58/552 & E58/553 Challa Project for the period ending 14/07/2025. C242/2021
A144560 2024 Platina Resources Limited Combined Annual Report C242/2021 Challa Project for the period ending 14/07/2024. E 58/552,E 58/553
A140615 2024 Crc Minerals Pty Ltd Challa E58/616 Surrender Report for the period ending 27/02/2024
A136714 2023 Platina Resources Limited Challa Project C242/2021 Annual Report for the period ending 14 July 2023
A134243 2023 Aam Resources Pty Ltd Challa Project E58/00562 Annual Technical and Surrender Report for the Period Ending 13 January 2023
A132104 2022 Platina Resources Limited Challa Project C242/2021 Annual Report for the period 15 July 2021 to 14 July 2022. E 58/552,E 58/553
A114873 2017 Pegmatite Holdings Pty Ltd First Annual Report - E58/502 Challa Project for the period 01/09/2016 - 31/08/2017
A26311 1989 Pancontinental Mining Ltd Challa, Second Annual Report, E58/50, Feb 1988 to Feb 1989,
A12718 1970 Kia Ora Gold Corp Nl Challa Project, Non-statutory Report: Brief Exploration Report, August 1970, MC58/601-618 & 708-752.

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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.