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Desert Exploration Pty Ltd

Holds ground today
Reports lodged
9
Tenements held
1
301 ha
Holding since
2004
Active
9yrs
1996 to 2004
Areas worked
2
most in Shire of Laverton
Owner
Brightstar Resources
ASX:BTR
Last reported
2004
22 years ago
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Where Desert Exploration Pty Ltd has reported

Who owns Desert Exploration?

Desert Exploration is a subsidiary of Brightstar Resources (ASX:BTR). The group is named as a holder on 188 live Western Australian tenements.

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

Brightstar Resources Limited 50Montague Gold Project Pty Ltd 30Menzies Operational and Mining Pty Ltd 29Sandstone Exploration Pty Ltd 18Aurumin Sandstone Pty Ltd 15Goongarrie Operational and Mining Pty Ltd 12Second Fortune Gold Project Pty Ltd 11Lord Byron Mining Pty Ltd 10Sandstone Operations Pty Ltd 8Aurumin Gidgee Pty Ltd 4Aurumin Australia Pty Ltd

From Brightstar Resources' consolidated entity disclosure statement, as at 2026-06-30.

Exploration record

Commodities targeted
Gold 9
Where they worked
Shire of Laverton 7, Shire of Menzies 2
Programs on record
3 drilling · 1 geochemistry
Resource declared
Never on this record
Downloadable data
4 of 9 reports include a digital package
Report types
Annual 8 · Final Surrender 1
Reports by decade
11990s
82000s

Reports filed

9 WAMEX exploration reports lodged by Desert Exploration Pty Ltd.
Most recent reports
ReportYearProjectTitle
A69224 2004 Merolia Annual report for the period 05/08/2003-04/08/2004 Merolia Project E38/970
A67617 2003 Mount Weld Surrender Report E39/636 Lands End. Mt Margaret Mineral Field, W.A. Exploration To 4 August 2003.
A67187 2003 Brightstar - Merolia Annual Report for the period 5 August 2002 to 4 August 2003 Bright Star Project (Merolia) E38/970
A65179 2002 Merolia Annual Report 5th August 2001 - 4th August 2002 Merolia Project Exploration Licence E38/970 ( Laverton, SH 51-
A65178 2002 Mount Weld Annual Report On Exploration Lands End E39/636. Mt Margaret Mineral Field, W.A. For The Period 5 August 2001
A64855 2002 Surprise Annual Report 19th April 2001 - 20th April 2002 Surprise Project Exploration Licence E39/785 (Minigwal, SH 51-
A63842 2001 Merolia Annual Report on exploration licence E38/970 for the period 05 August 2000 to 04 August 2001.
A63841 2001 Mount Weld Annual Report on exploration licence E39/636 for the period 05 August 2000 to 04 August 2001.
A50016 1996 Ethel Hill Ethel Hill Project, E39/485, Annual Report for the year ending 30/10/1996.

Named projects

Project names Desert Exploration Pty Ltd used in their reports, with the shire each sits in.

Merolia 2Mount Weld 2Brightstar - Merolia 1Surprise 1Merolia 1Mount Weld 1Ethel Hill 1
Following this company's ground? The record above is what they have explored and reported. The checks below are what they hold now: which tenements are in their name, what they have bought and sold, and whether that ground is meeting its expenditure commitments.

Current tenure & dealings Free account

Holds WA ground today
Yes · on the current register
Tenements held today
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Tenure data sourced from the DMPE public registers and SLIP WA (© Government of Western Australia, CC BY 4.0), as at . Compiled by NextMaps. Verify against primary sources before reliance.