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Pilbara Minerals Limited

Holds ground today

Pilbara Minerals Limited holds 3 Western Australian tenements covering 24,356 ha. It is a subsidiary of PLS Group (ASX:PLS). It has lodged 51 open-file WAMEX reports between 1968 and 2025, mostly for lithium, tantalum and gold.

Reports lodged
51
Tenements held
3
24,356 ha
Holding since
2017
Active
58yrs
1968 to 2025
Areas worked
4
most in Shire of East Pilbara
Owner
PLS Group
ASX:PLS
Last reported
2025
1 year ago
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Where Pilbara Minerals Limited has reported

Who owns Pilbara Minerals?

Pilbara Minerals is a subsidiary of PLS Group (ASX:PLS). The group is named as a holder on 89 live Western Australian tenements.

The other companies PLS Group holds ground through, with the live tenements each is named on:

Pilgangoora Operations Pty Ltd 77Ngungaju Lithium Operations Pty Ltd 9PLS Group Limited

From PLS Group's consolidated entity disclosure statement, as at 2026-06-30.

Who holds paper over PLS Group's ground?

Pilbara Minerals is part of the PLS Group group, so these are the group's connections.

46 of PLS Group's live titles carry a caveat or mortgage held by another party. It holds 1 live title together with another holder.

Caveats and mortgages over its ground

BNP Paribas 45Mineral Resources 5Global Advanced Metals Greenbushes Pty Ltd 5Atlas Operations Pty Ltd 1

Holds ground with

Hancock Prospecting 1

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From caveats, mortgages and joint holdings on the DMPE tenement register. A caveat protects an interest in a title, such as a royalty, an option or a loan; the register does not say which.

What Pilbara Minerals holds today

Pilbara Minerals holds 3 tenements across 24,356 ha. The register records 2 titles transferred in, the latest in January 2019.

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Exploration record

Commodities targeted
Lithium 30 · Tantalum 29 · Gold 20 · Copper 18 · Nickel 18 · Platinum Group Elements 17 · Tin 15 · Titanium 2
Where they worked
Shire of East Pilbara 17, Town of Port Hedland 16, City of Karratha 14, Shire of Ashburton 4
Also filed as
Pilbara Minerals Limited · Pilbara Minerals Ltd · Pilbara Minerals Pty Ltd
Work on record
Rock chip sampling 17 · Aerial EM surveys 13 · Aerial magnetic surveys 13 · Geophysical interpretation 12 · Surface geochemistry 12 · RC drilling 8 · Diamond drilling 7 · Geological mapping 7
Resource declared
Yes, in 7 reports: A124011 (2020), A122927 (2020), A117065 (2018), A114103 (2017), A112767 (2017), A109405 (2016) and 1 more
Downloadable data
31 of 51 reports include a digital package
Reports with no exploration
7 of 51 record no work done
Report types
Annual 34 · Final Surrender 8 · Partial Surrender 5 · Co-Funded Drilling 2 · Non-statutory 1
Reports by decade
11960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
322010s
172020s

Reports filed

51 WAMEX exploration reports lodged by Pilbara Minerals Limited.
Most recent reports
ReportYearProjectTitle
A150732 2025 Pinnacle Hill Final Surrender Report Pinnacle Hill Project E45/03560 for the period ending 12/9/2025
A149976 2025 PILGANGOORA LITHIUM-TANTALUM PROJECT Co-Funded drilling campaign to test vertical and spatial relationship between spodumene and lepidolite mineral
A133621 2023 Pinga Final Surrender Report - Pinga Project E45/4648 for the period ending 28/11/2022.
A133613 2023 Strelley Final Surrender Report - Strelley Project E45/4961 for the period ending 28/11/2022
A133279 2022 Pilgangoora Lithium-Tantalum Project Co-Funded drilling campaign to test the depth extent of the Pilgangoora rare-metal pegmatite system (R24)
A132943 2022 Forrest Annual Technical Report for the Forrest Project E45/5137 for the period ending 14/10/2022.
A132147 2022 Pinga Annual Technical Report for the Pinga Project E45/4648 for the period ending 03/07/2022
A132001 2022 Strelley Annual Technical Report for the Strelley Project for the period ending 03/07/2022.
A128412 2021 Strelley Annual Technical Report Strelley Project (E45/4961) for the period ending 03/07/2021
A128086 2021 Pinga Pinga Project E45/04648 Annual Technical Report for the period 4 July 2020 to 3 July 2021
A124487 2020 Strelley Annual Technical Report - Strelley Project (E45/4961) for the period ending 03/07/2020
A124329 2020 Pinga Annual Technical Report - Pinga Project (E45/4648) for the period ending 03/07/2020
A124301 2020 Pilgangoora Annual Technical Report for tenement P45/3058 for the period 22 March 2019 to 21 March 2020
A124182 2020 Mount Francisco Partial Surrender Report - Mt Francisco Project E45/4270 for the period ending 16/06/2020
A124161 2020 Mount Francisco Annual Technical Report for the Mt Francisco Joint Venture for the period 17 June 2019 to 16 June 2020
A124011 2020 Pilgangoora Combined Annual Exploration Report C123/2002, Pilgangoora Lithium-Tantalum Project for the period ending 23/04
A122927 2020 Tabba Tabba Annual Report Tabba Tabba Mining Leases C311/1997, M45/354, M45/375, M45/376 & M45/377 1 December 2018 to 30 N
A120918 2019 Pinga Annual Technical Report - Pinga Project (E45/4648) for the period 4 July 2018 to 3 July 2019
A120916 2019 Strelley Annual Technical Report - Strelley Project (E45/4961) for the period 4 July 2018 to 3 July 2019
A120475 2019 Mount Francisco Mt Francisco E 4504270 Annual Technical Report for the period 17 June 2018 to 16 June 2019
Report numbers filed by Pilbara Minerals Limited
A150732 2025, A149976 2025, A133621 2023, A133613 2023, A133279 2022, A132943 2022, A132147 2022, A132001 2022, A128412 2021, A128086 2021, A124487 2020, A124329 2020, A124301 2020, A124182 2020, A124161 2020, A124011 2020, A122927 2020, A120918 2019, A120916 2019, A120475 2019, A117635 2018, A117229 2018, A117065 2018, A114562 2017, A114463 2017, A114103 2017, A112767 2017, A110686 2017, A109405 2016, A107829 2016, A106348 2015, A98325 2013, A98322 2013, A98321 2013, A98320 2013, A94797 2012, A94796 2012, A94795 2012, A91463 2011, A91462 2011, A91312 2011, A91311 2011, A91310 2011, A91179 2011, A91178 2011, A91177 2011, A87643 2010, A87642 2010, A87641 2010, A19067 1968

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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.