A Supreme Court judge has ordered Clive Palmer’s Mineralogy and CITIC Pacific to have one last crack at mediation as they continue to fight over expansion delays at the Sino Iron project.
Neale Prior
The superannuation fund has bailed out of Mineral Resources over persistent ‘serious governance concerns’, but shares in the embattled miner have risen.
Adrian Rauso
Graham Kerr is leaving South32 sometime next year and his successor stands to rake in more than $7m of cash and stock options for quitting his current job, on top of a multi-million-dollar annual salary.
The acquisition of the Spargoville gold project in the takeover of Maximus Resources has boosted Astral Resources’ mineral resource estimate as it prepares to release a key study for its flagship project.
Neil Watkinson
A mining lobby group has lashed rare earths chief Amanda Lacaze’s brusque comments about Australian manufacturing ambitions and plans to stockpile critical minerals as ‘negativity” and “insulting’.
Simone Grogan
The voracious appetite for WA’s gold-rich land shows no signs of being subdued with seven miners jumping in the data room of a $400 million company.
Disaster has been narrowly averted for a busy FIFO accommodation complex near Newman following a major fuel accident.
A first-of-its-kind Australian study is researching how even small design choices at mining camps can have an impact on fly-in, fly-out workers’ wellbeing.
Claire Sadler
Genesis Minerals boss Raleigh Finlayson reckons a cooler labour market in WA’s mining sector could ease the competition for experienced underground miners, despite reporting huge turnout for a recent job ad.
Plans to produce more road building materials from lithium waste is bringing a spurt of activity to an idle mining operation on Ravensthorpe’s doorstep.
The depleted De Grussa copper mine failed to find a new owner but Sandfire Resources has capitalised on the gold boom to sell a nearby deposit.
Stranded shareholders of AVZ Minerals have been thrown a lifeline after the delisted West Perth outfit inked a sale deal for its Congolese lithium project before Chinese interests could seize control.
May is shaping up as a big month for Nimy Resources as it carries out multiple activities to define its high-grade gallium resource near Southern Cross.
Medallion Metals is exploring the opportunity of acquiring IGO’s Forrestania tenements for future gold mining opportunities on top of buying the former nickel operation’s processing plant.
Clive Palmer’s Mineralogy continues to face a huge damages claim after the royalties billionaire finally approved an extension proposal for the $20 billion Sino Iron project.
The State Government and WA’s two most prominent universities are looking to develop a Perth-based trading hub in hopes local miners fetch higher prices for their wares.
Lithium ‘must be close’ to hitting an inflection point and breaking through the latest glut, PLS boss Dale Henderson has wagered, as falling prices brutally cull the wheat from the chaff.
Lynas chief Amanda Lacaze has been frank about Australia’s goal of becoming a global rare earths player, chiding handouts for ‘uneconomic’ projects and standing by criticisms of plans to hoard the commodity.
Australia’s newest lithium producer, backed by Gina Rinehart, has been given a boost by the Cook Government with a $15 million interest-free loan and temporary waiver on mining fees.
Clive Palmer’s Mineralogy wins access to sensitive Citic Pacific documents halfway into a hearing over the future of Sino Iron project.
Another metal could soon be ‘unexpectedly’ added to the mix of Chalice Mining’s proposed mixed metals mine on farmland near Toodyay.
Peru's government has imposed a curfew in the remote Andean district of Pataz, following the killing of 13 workers at the Poderosa gold mine.
Staff Writers
Goldfields explorer WIN Metals says it will “vigorously” defend itself against “frivolous” Supreme Court action launched by Estrella Resources.
The man who spearheaded a campaign to stop a 12km iron ore mine in Albany says although he is pleased the proponent has pulled the pin on the project, he doesn’t “believe this is the end”.
Melissa Sheil
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