SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                              WASHINGTON, DC 20549

                                    FORM 6-K

                        REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER
                     PURSUANT TO RULE 13a-16 OR 15d-16 UNDER
                       THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934


                         For the month of MARCH , 2003 .
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                              IMA EXPLORATION INC.
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                 (Translation of registrant's name into English)

 #709 - 837 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6C 3N6, Canada
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                    (Address of principal executive offices)


Indicate by check mark whether the registrant  files or will file annual reports
under cover of Form 20-F or Form 40-F:

                        Form 20-F    X      Form 40-F
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Indicate by check mark if the  registrant is submitting the Form 6-K in paper as
permitted by Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(1): _______

Note:  Regulation  S-T Rule  101(b)(1) only permits the submission in paper of a
Form 6-K if submitted  solely to provide an attached  annual  report to security
holders.

Indicate by check mark if the  registrant is submitting the Form 6-K in paper as
permitted by Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(7): _______

Note:  Regulation  S-T Rule  101(b)(7) only permits the submission in paper of a
Form 6-K if submitted to furnish a report or other  document that the registrant
foreign  private  issuer  must  furnish  and make  public  under the laws of the
jurisdiction  in which the  registrant  is  incorporated,  domiciled  or legally
organized  (the  registrant's  "home  country"),  or under the rules of the home
country exchange on which the registrant's securities are traded, as long as the
report or other document is not a press  release,  is not required to be and has
not been distributed to the registrant's  security holders, and, if discussing a
material  event,  has already been the subject of a Form 6-K submission or other
Commission filing on EDGAR.









Indicate by check mark whether by furnishing the  information  contained in this
Form,  the  registrant  is  also  thereby  furnishing  the  information  to  the
Commission pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

                    Yes               No     X
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If "Yes" is marked, indicate below the file number assigned to the registrant in
connection with Rule 12g3- 2(b): 82-_____________


                                   SIGNATURES

Pursuant  to the  requirements  of the  Securities  Exchange  Act of  1934,  the
registrant  has duly  caused  this  report  to be  signed  on its  behalf of the
undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

                                       IMA Exploration Inc.
                                       (Registrant)

Date   March 13, 2003                  By  /s/ William Lee
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                                              (Signature)



William Lee, Director and Chief Financial Officer
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1 Print the name and title of the signing officer under his signature.






                                  FORM 45-102F2

                  CERTIFICATE UNDER SUBSECTION 2.7(2) OR (3) OF
               MULTILATERAL INSTRUMENT 45-102 RESALE OF SECURITIES



IMA Exploration  Inc. has  distributed  securities  under a provision  listed in
Appendix D or E to Multilateral  Instrument  45-102 or a provision of securities
legislation  that specifies that the first trade of the securities is subject to
section 2.5 or 2.6 of Multilateral  Instrument  45-102 and hereby certifies that
in respect of a  distribution  on March 11, 2003 of incentive  stock options for
the purchase of up to 223,500 common shares of the Company,  at a price of $0.84
per share,  until March 7, 2008, the Company was a qualifying  issuer within the
meaning  of  Multilateral   Instrument   45-102  Resale  of  Securities  at  the
distribution date.


DATED at Vancouver, BC, this 13th day of March, 2003.



By:  /s/ William Lee
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     William Lee
     Director