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Auric Mining managing director Mark English and technical director John Utley.

Golden yearPremiumAuric Mining net profit after tax rises 92 per cent in 2025

Another Goldfields miner has reported stellar returns on the back of the sky-high gold price, with Auric Mining unveiling a 92 per cent lift in net profit after tax and 144 per cent rise in revenue in 2025.

Neil Watkinson

Norseman prospector David (Golly) Pascoe pictured in 2018.

Ready to drillPremiumLachlan Star to begin drilling at New Waverley

Lachlan Star will begin its maiden exploration of the New Waverley gold project at Norseman after acquiring a 90 per cent stake from renowned local prospector David (Golly) Pascoe.

Neil Watkinson

Mines and Petroleum Minister David Michael.

MiningCommentsPremiumCook Government offers battered nickel miners $15m sugar hit

Mines Minister David Michael is hoping a new pool of interest-free loans will be enough to spark a nickel revival.

Adrian Rauso

Fortescue claims the change could generate savings of up to $2.2b a year. 

MiningCommentsPremiumFMG volunteers iron ore giants to give up diesel rebates

Fortescue is calling on fellow big miners to help plug a $2.5 billion fuel excise hole in the Federal Government’s Budget by capping the amount they can claim in diesel subsidies.

Simone Grogan

Arafura Rare Earths’ Nolans project in the Northern Territory.

MiningCommentsPremiumTaxpayer funds for Rinehart-backed Arafura now tops $1.2b

The new investment lifts taxpayer support for the critical minerals play and its flagship Northern Territory project past $1.2 billion.

Sean Smith

Northern Minerals’ Browns Range project.

MiningCommentsPremiumTreasurer orders new ban on Northern Minerals investors

Jim Chalmers has now banned the Chinese-linked shareholders from voting their shares at the rare earth play’s next annual meeting.

Sean Smith

South 32's Vanessa Torres will take over as boss of Perenti.

MiningCommentsPremiumPerenti poaches South32 exec to succeed Norwell as CEO

Mining services contractor Perenti has poached a key South32 executive to be its new boss.

Adrian Rauso

Fenix Resources’ Shine iron ore mine open pit

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Miners facing fuel catastrophe in 10 days

WA iron ore mines supporting about 1000 jobs face catastrophic fuel shortages in as little as 10 days. One company boss said his team is hitting the phones every 10 minutes to secure supply.

Adrian Rauso

The Greenbushes lithium mine

MiningPremiumATO probes Greenbushes profit offshoring

Revelations of an ongoing audit by the taxman overshadowed a net profit of more than $600 million from Australia’s most lucrative lithium mine.

Adrian Rauso

IGO chief executive Ivan Vella.

CopperCommentsPremiumIGO takes hunt for red metal Stateside

Battery metals miner IGO has broadened its copper pursuit to the US after paying $6 million for a slice of what it believes is shaping up as a prospective district for the red metal.

Simone Grogan

A forklift passes the power plant at the Emirates Global Aluminium PJSC Al Taweelah plant in Abu Dhabi.

MiningCommentsPremiumAlcoa’s crucial WA alumina supplies face Hormuz deadlock

Deadlock in the Strait of Hormuz has upended trade between Alcoa’s cyclone-disrupted WA alumina operations and one of the world’s biggest aluminium producers, whose refinery was bombarded at the weekend. 

Simone Grogan

Rio Tinto’s Cape Lambert port, WA, Australia

MiningCommentsPremiumRio Tinto’s billion-dollar hit from cyclone

Cyclone Narelle knocked out one of Rio Tinto’s key iron ore jetties, with about eight million tonnes of iron ore expected to be lost this year.

Adrian Rauso

An ounce of gold has fallen about $940 in March to $6550 but remains up $4290 from five years ago. 

MiningCommentsPremiumAussies should buy the dip, World Gold Council says

The global gold industry’s key lobby group has specifically urged Australian investors not to abandon the precious metal.

Adrian Rauso

South Flank

MiningVideoCommentsPremiumMining giants call for COVID-era waivers amid energy crisis

Australia’s resources giants are making moves to shore up the nation’s economic engine by calling for the reintroduction of COVID-era waivers to share information as the war in the Gulf rages.

Caitlyn Rintoul

Donald Trump’s hand-picked critical minerals tsar Joshua Kroon, pictured right, has told Australia’s mining sector that critical minerals will become one of the central pillars of the US alliance as both nations work together to end their reliance on supply from China. 

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Trump’s man on ending reliance on China’s critical minerals

A senior Trump administration official has told Australia’s mining sector that critical minerals will become one of the pillars of the US alliance as both nations work together to end their reliance on China. 

Andrew Greene

Aaron Morey, Chief Economist of CCIWA.

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Industry’s ‘hard truth’ warning ahead of war-time Budget

The Albanese Government is being warned that billions of dollars and thousands of jobs are at stake, if a new gas tax is levelled at the war-time profits of Australian exporters. 

Jessica Page

Simon Mukwarami is remembered as a loving husband and father.

MiningPremiumLoving dad revealed as South32 worker who fell to death

A boilermaker who died earlier this month at South32’s Worsley Alumina operation is being remembered as a loving husband and father who wanted to build a better life for his family in Australia. 

Adrian Rauso

Westgold CEO Wayne Bramwell at WA Mining Club lunch at Optus Stadium.

MiningValiant ASX debut for Westgold spin-out

Westgold Resources spin-out Valiant Gold has defied souring sentiment for the precious metal with its strong start to life on the stock exchange.

Adrian Rauso

Kairos Minerals is a Pilbara-focused gold explorer.

MiningCommentsPremiumChinese gold goliath eyes Pilbara project

The corporate vehicle that China’s biggest gold miner uses for acquisitions has become a major shareholder in the Simon Lill-chaired Kairos Minerals.

Adrian Rauso

Not Supplied

WEATHERPremiumCyclone’s latest blow to global energy supply

Major gas mines off the WA coast have been evacuated and knocked offline by Tropical Cyclone Narelle, all while global supply is already constrained.

Blair Jackson

Westgold Resources’ Beta Hunt gold mine near Kambalda.

Home-away-from-homePremiumBluebush Village acquisition to support Beta Hunt expansion

Westgold Resources says the $22 million acquisition of Bluebush Village from the Shire of Coolgardie will support the future expansion of the company’s nearby Beta Hunt gold mine.

Neil Watkinson

Port Hedland harbour. Pilbara Ports Authority

MiningCommentsPremiumIron ore giants keep mining as vicious weather looms

WA’s iron ore giants have no plans to halt mining as cyclone Narelle menaces the State’s North West, while one major port even opted not to clear its harbour in a ‘highly unusual’ move.

Adrian Rauso

Lynas Rare Earths CEO Amanda Lacaze.

MiningCommentsPremiumLynas strikes deal to build metals plant in Vietnam

Lynas Rare Earths has linked up with Korea’s LS Eco Energy to work on developing a new factory in Vietnam that would turn the in-demand commodity into metals used in magnets. 

Simone Grogan

Electrical Trades Union Secretary Adam Woodage speaks to the media today outside BHP HQ. Yesterday, the union voted in favour of industrial action by electrical workers at BHP's Pilbara mining operations.

MiningCommentsPremiumBHP strike to be ‘the first of many’, union warns

The union spearheading strikes at BHP’s iron ore mines warns they will be ‘the first of many’ to sweep through WA’s resources heartland.

Adrian Rauso and Jessica Page