Local gold miners are making the annual pilgrimage to their mecca while carrying piggy banks bursting at the seams.
Adrian Rauso
WA’s mines minister is set to use a friendly audience to reiterate the Cook Government’s support for the all-important sector as it continues to play a crucial role in carrying out State Labor’s agenda.
Rebecca Le May
Local councils are up in arms over moves to shield miners from land rates, saying the Cook Government has put the sector ‘ahead of communities’.
A legal barney between the Shire of Mt Magnet and a local vanadium play over rates charges has escalated to the point where the State Government has to draw up new laws to fix the mess.
Simone Grogan
BUILDING BILLIONS: Their offices were walking distance apart. Yet Tony Rovira had never met Gina Rinehart when Australia’s richest woman and her Chilean partner lobbed a takeover bid for Azure Minerals in 2023.
Mark Drummond
Apprentice LinkedIn influencer Jonathan Fisher has gone from unsubtle to a tad ridiculous in his war on hydrogen. Plus: Rio Tinto boss Jakob Stausholm’s biggest regret.
The West Australian
Wildcat Resources has been accused of counting a mining tenement it does not control in plans for one of WA’s last remaining lithium developments.
The long-serving chief executive of Perseus Mining, who transformed the ‘struggling’ Subiaco outfit into an African gold mining powerhouse, is stepping down from the top job.
The so-called Lucky Country is being forced to confront the original irony of its nickname: a nation long-cushioned by resource windfalls, now facing the cost of prolonged complacency.
Katharine Gemmell and Paul-Alain Hunt
Mineral Resources is pushing to pry open a private agreement between Chevron and the State Government’s Pilbara Ports Authority as part of rolling stoush over disputed levies.
The conglomerate’s Covalent Lithium joint venture with Chile’s SQM has completed construction of its lithium hydroxide plant in Kwinana, refocusing investor attention on the all-important commissioning.
Sean Smith
Western Australia’s solitary manganese mining operation returned to profitability after capitalising on South32’s misfortune off the Northern Territory coast.
IGO’s Nova mine in the Fraser Range, which has only one more full year of operation left, has produced just more than 16,000 tonnes of nickel in the latest financial year.
Neil Watkinson
A new study estimates it will cost $375 million for Magnetic Resources to develop its Lady Julie gold project south-west of Laverton, which will have a nine-year mine life.
The annual poll of the world’s best mining destinations by Canada’s Fraser Institute has the State falling from 4th to 17th place in 2024 on regulatory and policy concerns cited by respondents.
Rio Tinto’s dividend payout has fallen to its lowest level in five years but the mining giant’s departing boss is optimistic about the future and has some words of advice for his successor.
Adrian Rauso and Simone Grogan
Hundreds of mining jobs are at risk after a Queensland coal miner appointed administrators after struggling to pay royalties and investors.
Emma Kirk
IGO has effectively determined there is no value left in a troubled lithium hydroxide plant at Kwinana, but division at the top of the business is delaying a call on what should be done with it next.
The boss of Australia’s largest lithium miner thinks the Albanese Government should not prioritise purchasing lithium for its $1.2 billion critical minerals stockpile.
Mineral Resources capped off a tumultuous financial year by reaching revised iron and lithium targets, but a mountain of debt still casts a shadow over the Chris Ellison-led company.
Daniel Newell and Adrian Rauso
Mineral Resources is potentially interested in picking up the pieces of Resource Development Group, the debt-laden garnet developer led by Chris Ellison’s younger brother Andrew Ellison.
Liontown Resources expects FY26 will be a ‘transition year’ as it moves underground at Kathleen Valley in the northern Goldfields and awaits a sustained rebound in prices for the key battery material.
Daniel Newell
The Nationals' push to abandon net-zero targets has been slammed as Australia grapples with its role as a major fossil fuel exporter.
Blair Jackson
Nimy Resources has become embroiled in a $3.75 million legal fight with a New York institutional fund that signed on as a cornerstone investor in 2023.
