The union infiltration of BHP is spreading from mine to port after the iron ore giant was hit with a bargaining application covering more than 300 workers.
Adrian Rauso
Rare earth players are in pole position for the Federal Government’s $1.2 billion mining splash, while battered lithium and nickel miners and refiners wait to see if they will get a look-in.
Simone Grogan and Adrian Rauso
The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors has questioned how shareholders can be assured Chris Ellison will abide by plans to step down by mid-2026 when questions over board exits go unanswered.
Sean Smith
Anthony Albanese says Labor’s promised critical minerals reserve would form an “element” of negotiations with the Trump administration.
Danielle Le Messurier and Katina Curtis
Salvation from a higher power would be the only this to ‘save’ Australia should Labor and the Greens control parliament after the election, the Leader of the Nationals says.
Blair Jackson
Liontown’s lithium mine is yet to be submerged by the commodity’s price rout after spitting out $14.2 million of cash during the March quarter.
The $3.5 million quarry is expected to provide about 1.1 million cubic metres of sand for use in surrounding land development projects.
Liam Murphy
Officials from the scandal-plagued CFMEU, a union the Albanese Government is trying to sideline, are spearheading the push to re-unionise the Pilbara.
Ben Harvey
The Albanese government will invest $1.2bn into Australia’s critical minerals supply, which will likely play a major role in negotiating a tariff carveout from the Trump administration.
Jessica Wang
Clive Palmer has claimed he will allow CITIC Pacific to keep mining at the Sino Iron project less than a week out from a courtroom showdown that was to settle a standoff over the operation’s future.
Simone Grogan
Denise McComish has quit with immediate effect, leaving the miner’s new ethics and governance committee without any members.
Sean Smith and Simone Grogan
Uranium producer Paladin Energy is flying high after quarterly production at its Langer Heinrich mine in Namibia defied expectations.
BHP is preparing to begin looking for a new chief executive in the coming months, with key lieutenants already jostling for position to succeed boss Mike Henry at the top of the world’s biggest miner.
Paul-Alain Hunt, Thomas Biesheuvel and Archie Hunter
Mining giant BHP is again being threatened by a union, with its two flagship iron ore mines increasingly the target of unions trying to muscle into the mineral-rich Pilbara.
The chief executive of $4.4 billion West Perth-based gold miner Capricorn Metals is on leave after being charged with aggravated assault.
Working at a massive underground copper mine in southern Africa has not met the mining service provider’s ‘internal performance hurdles’.
Two Chinese foreign nationals were among a group of people detained over the weekend after they were allegedly found at the site of Lindian Resources’ rare earths project in Malawi.
Daniel Newell
Black Cat Syndicate has quickly put its newly acquired Lakewood mill to good use, producing first gold just two weeks after completing its $85 million purchase.
Neil Watkinson
A WA explorer says its niobium rare-earth elements project in Brazil can help feed US supply chains as China restricts the export of magnets in retaliation for tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump.
A Pilbara Traditional Owner group is adamant Rio Tinto is not moving quickly enough to reduce abstraction from Bungaroo Creek, despite the miner’s promise to build a bigger desalination plant.
BHP and Rio Tinto have secured a big win for a major copper mine planned in Arizona.
One of the world’s largest investment banks believes gold will soon crack $US3,500/oz, spelling more good news for local miners who are already printing cash.
An Australian oil and gas services company ran a cartel, trying to pull suppliers into illegal contracts, a court has found.
Mining magnate Clive Palmer has added more kindling to an already fiery legal tussle against Chinese iron ore miner Citic, which has dismissed his new claims as a “distraction”.
