Bonnie Rock
Bonnie Rock is a gold, rare earth elements and platinum group elements exploration project in the Shire of Mukinbudin, Western Australia, earlier explored for quartz and lead. Its 4 WAMEX reports were lodged by 3 companies between 1981 and 2025, most recently Cygnus Metals Limited in 2025. Of those, 1 declares a resource.
Who has explored here
Companies that lodged reports over Bonnie Rock, most active first.
Who controls this ground today
Today 5 live and pending tenements sit over the Bonnie Rock ground, held under 4 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 Bonnie Rock
- Local government
- Shire of Mukinbudin
- Commodities targeted
- Base Metals 2 · Gold 2 · Platinum Group Elements 2 · Rare Earth Elements 2 · Quartz 1 · Lead 1 · Silver 1 · Zinc 1
- Work on record
- Petrology 2 · Diamond drilling 1 · Electron microprobes 1 · Geological mapping 1 · Geological reconnaissance 1 · Gossan sampling 1 · Ground magnetic surveys 1 · Mineral resource estimate 1
- Resource declared
- Yes, in 1 report: A41605 (1994)
- Downloadable data
- 1 of 4 reports include a digital package
- Report types
- Partial Surrender 2 · Non-statutory 1 · Annual 1
Exploration reports
| Report | Year | Operator | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| A148615 | 2025 | Cygnus Metals Limited; Deneb Resources Pty Ltd | Partial Surrender Bonnie Rock E70/5196 for the period ending 04/04/2025. |
| A143553 | 2024 | Cygnus Metals Limited; Deneb Resources Pty Ltd | Partial Surrender Bonnie Rock E70/05196 for the period 8 March 2019 to 14 June 2024 |
| A41605 | 1994 | Mr Ogilvie Or | [ Bonnie Rock Quartz Exploration, Non-statutory report, M70/313, P70/525 ] |
| A10496 | 1981 | West Coast Holdings Ltd | Bonnie Rock (JV) Project, Annual Report , December 1981, MC70/19076, 19320-19322, 21335-21345. |
Other projects in the Shire of Mukinbudin
What does the exploration record say about Bonnie Rock?
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.