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General view of the Steels works In Whyalla, South Australia.

Administration and liquidationCommentsGupta set to claim $500m from Whyalla steel wreck

Sanjeev Gupta says his GFG Alliance is owed $500m from the collapsed Whyalla steelworks, while more than 200 creditors are set to to claim cash.

Matt Mckenzie

Mineral Resources managing director Chris Ellison pictured at their offices in Osborne Park.

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Chris Ellison makes up to $22.4m selling MinRes-linked sites

REVEALED: The Mineral Resources boss is set to bank more than $22 million following the recent sale of three industrial properties that are either currently or formerly tenanted by the company.

Adrian Rauso

Chris Ellison has put his luxury yacht up for sale.

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Chris Ellison puts his luxury yacht on the market

The embattled Mineral Resources chief is selling his prized yacht, which has hosted a slew of celebs, and was scandalously crewed by employees of the mining giant.

Adrian Rauso

Nimy Resources managing director Luke Hampson.

Resource definitionPremiumNimy Resources seeks to establish maiden gallium resource

Nimy Resources will seek to establish a maiden resource for the critical metal gallium at its tenements north-west of Southern Cross after raising more than $1 million.

Neil Watkinson

Ora Banda Mining managing director Luke Creagh.

Star risingPremiumOra Banda Mining reaps big rewards in latest half-year

Another Goldfields miner has reaped the benefits of record-high gold prices in the latest half-year, with Ora Banda Mining unveiling a massive rise in profit, revenue, and cash flow on Wednesday.

Neil Watkinson

Horizon Minerals chairman Ashok Parekh.

Golden timePremiumHorizon Minerals pours first gold at Phillips Find

Newly expanded Horizon Minerals has poured first gold from its Phillips Find project north-west of Coolgardie.

Neil Watkinson

Peter Tinker is one of many Newman locals living in squalor.

REGIONAL WAPremiumSqualor and dysfunction behind Pilbara’s economic powerhouse

The cavernous iron ore mines that surround Newman are printing money but the regional town is broken. 

Ben Harvey

BHP is struggling to make good on a pledge to renovate the boarded-up homes in a part of Newman so run-down locals refer to it as East Timor.

PilbaraCommentsPremiumThe Pilbara housing crisis with no shortage of houses

An Australian mining giant and the State Government are at the centre of a political storm with both sitting on hundreds of empty houses they own in a Pilbara town in the grip of an accommodation crisis.

Ben Harvey

Fortescue's Andrew Forrest has made the cover of Time magazine.

MiningCommentsTwiggy’s climate fight makes cover of Time magazine

WA mining magnate Andrew Forrest now has another feather in his cap after making the cover of Time magazine.

Daniel Newell

Lynas Rare Earth’s Mt Weld mine about 30km south of Laverton.

MiningCommentsPremiumLynas profit pummelled by Chinese market muscle

China’s supremacy over the rare earths supply chain gutted the profitability of Australia’s premier producer, and Beijing plans to tighten its grip on the market further.

Adrian Rauso

NRW has won a contract for infrastructure work at at East Pilbara minesite.

ContractingCommentsPremiumWA contractor caught in Whyalla collapse owed $113m

NRW has been left short $113 million for work completed at the now-collapsed Whyalla Steelworks operations, with no firm guarantee as to how much cash it can claw back from the wreckage.

Simone Grogan

CZR Resources CEO Stefan Murphy Andrew Ritchie

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ASIC ‘aware’ of ‘unusual’ price spike before iron ore deal

A share price spike before Fenix Resources announced it would absorb a Mark Creasy-controlled iron ore junior has caught the attention of Australia’s corporate cop.

Adrian Rauso

Westgold Resources managing director and chief executive Wayne Bramwell.

Mill saleCommentsPremiumBlack Cat to buy Lakewood mill from Westgold Resources

Westgold Resources is selling the Lakewood gold processing facility south-east of Kalgoorlie-Boulder for $85 million as it moves to consolidate expanded Beta Hunt production at a bigger Higginsville mill.

Neil Watkinson

Auric Mining managing director Mark English and director John Utley.

Raking it inPremiumAuric Mining’s Jeffreys Find passes $100m revenue mark

Jeffreys Find continues to be a cash cow for Auric Mining, with the company on Monday saying the gold mine near Norseman had broken through the $100 million revenue mark in less than two years.

Neil Watkinson

Beacon Minerals’ Jaurdi gold project mill.

prefeasibility studyPremiumBeacon Minerals likes potential of Iguana at Lady Ida

Beacon Minerals estimates it can spend $4 million establishing a gold mine at its Iguana deposit that will generate $177m in pre-tax cash flow across 53 months.

Neil Watkinson

Mineral Resources managing director Chris Ellison pictured at their offices in Osborne Park.

MiningPremiumASX grills MinRes over dire financials

The share market operator has taken the unusual step of asking Mineral Resources why it failed to warn investors its half-year financial results would be as bad as they were.

Adrian Rauso

BHP workers about to board a flight to the miner’s Newman operations. (Richard Wainwright/AAP PHOTOS)

MiningPremiumBHP wins and loses battles in its war against unions

Good news in the west but bad news in the east for the Big Australian has marked the latest leg of an escalating war with the unions.

Adrian Rauso

Perenti managing director Mark Norwell. Sharon Smith 27/06/2018

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Perenti boss defiant as cash crunch squashes stock price

The market believes Perenti has lost too much ground to meet its full-year financial forecasts, yet the boss of the mining services contractor reckons it can comfortably play catch-up.

Adrian Rauso

Coburn mineral sands project.

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Taxpayer money at risk as mineral sands miner collapses

Almost $150 million of Federal Government funds are tied up with a local mineral sands miner that is now insolvent.

Adrian Rauso & Matt Mckenzie

Gold Fields chief executive Mike Fraser during the 2024 Diggers & Dealers Mining Forum in Kalgoorlie-Boulder.

‘A year of two halves’PremiumProduction declines at three Gold Fields WA mines

Production declined at three of Gold Fields’ four WA mines last year, reflecting an overall fall in output across the South African mining giant’s operations.

Neil Watkinson

Gold Road Resources managing director and chief executive Duncan Gibbs.

Records brokenPremiumGold Road Resources makes record profit for 2024

The owner of the Gruyere gold mine in the remote northern Goldfields has cashed in on the record price for the precious metal, making its best-ever net profit after tax in the 2024 calendar year.

Neil Watkinson

Zoran Bebic

MiningCommentsPremiumRio Tinto and Shell among $400m Monadelphous wins

Monadelphous has added approximately $400 million to its project pipeline just three days after warning investors that the pace of new work being awarded was showing signs of slowing.

Adrian Rauso

Dr Andrew Forrest at Fortescue's annual general meeting

MiningPremiumFMG jousts its own energy supplier in messy wind farm war

A mix up between two local energy heavyweights in the wake of a $1.8 billion deal has enabled Fortescue to stake ground across WA’s north after a ‘torturous’ legal fight.

Adrian Rauso

As the global demand for uranium surges, fuelled in large part by the global push for decarbonised energy and emissions reduction, we are stuck with a policy position that no longer makes any sense.

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Supporting nuclear subs but not uranium mining is hypocrisy

WA supports uranium exploration. So surely we must support uranium mining right?

Warren Pearce