The grants are split across 33 general applicants and three prospectors for projects to be drilled between December 2023 and November 2024.

More than half the successful applicants are searching for battery minerals including five projects exploring for lithium, six for rare earth elements and 13 for nickel.

The EIS will expand next year to include a co-funded geophysics program that will offer $2 million per year to co-fund greenfields exploration geophysics data acquisition.

That program will be open for applications in February along with Round 29 of the co-funded drilling program and Series 7 of the EAP.

WA mines minister Bill Johnston said the government understood that supporting exploration activity across WA was crucial to the state's economic success.

"The ongoing interest in the Exploration Incentive Scheme reflects the strength of WA's exploration sector and industry's confidence in our state's economic future," he said.

EAP Series 6 offers $120,000 in total to three successful applicants undertaking analysis and reprocessing projects in the Canning Basin and the Officer Basin.