Paynes Find North
Paynes Find North is a lithium, gold and base metals exploration project in the Shire of Yalgoo, Western Australia. Its 8 WAMEX reports were lodged by 3 companies between 2012 and 2025, most recently Golden State Mining in 2025.
Who has explored here
Companies that lodged reports over Paynes Find North, most active first.
Who controls this ground today
Today 39 live and pending tenements sit over the Paynes Find North ground, held under 20 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 Paynes Find North
- Local government
- Shire of Yalgoo
- Commodities targeted
- Gold 6 · Lithium 5 · Base Metals 3 · Copper 1
- Work on record
- Surface geochemistry 6 · Rock chip sampling 5 · Geological reconnaissance 4 · Soil sampling 4 · Geological mapping 3 · Regolith interpretation 3 · Geochemical interpretation 2 · Lag sampling 1
- Resource declared
- Never on this record
- Downloadable data
- 8 of 8 reports include a digital package
- Report types
- Final Surrender 4 · Annual 4
Exploration reports
| Report | Year | Operator | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| A148734 | 2025 | Golden State Mining | Paynes Find North Final Surrender Combined Report C71/2023 for the period ending 29/04/2025. E 59/2662,E 59/28 |
| A145788 | 2024 | Golden State Mining | Final and Partial Surrender Tenement Report Paynes Find North C71/2023 for the period ending 31/10/2024 |
| A143549 | 2024 | Golden State Mining | Paynes Find North E59/2701 Final Surrender Report for the period ending 16/5/2024 |
| A142915 | 2024 | Golden State Mining Limited | Paynes Find North Combined Report C71/2023 for the period ending 28/02/2024 |
| A135564 | 2023 | Golden State Mining Limited | Paynes Find North Combined Report C71/2023 for the period ending 28/02/2023 |
| A120435 | 2019 | Bruce Legendre | Paynes Find North (E59/2312) Annual Report for the period 31 May 2018 to 30 May 2019 |
| A97397 | 2013 | Grigson Pty Ltd | Paynes Find North Project, Final Surrender Report for the period 25th March 2012 to 16th November 2012, E59/16 |
| A93756 | 2012 | Grigson Pty Ltd | Annual report for the period 25 March 2011 to 24 March 2012, Exploration Licence 59/1647, Yalgoo Mineral Field |
Other projects in the Shire of Yalgoo
What does the exploration record say about Paynes Find North?
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.