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MiningPremiumRinehart windfall takes Creasy’s profit past $100m

Mark Creasy’s role as the kingmaker for Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting and Chile’s SQM to snare a WA battery metals explorer has paid handsomely. 

Adrian Rauso

MiningCommentsNo Greenbushes lithium dividend cheque for IGO

The lithium market’s disintegration has been laid bare with a gushing stream of dividends from Greenbushes drying up.

Adrian Rauso

MiningCommentsPremiumGold miner strikes deal to buy nickel castaway

A junior gold miner chaired by the ‘King of Kalgoorlie’ will absorb a struggling nickel minnow that was left in the lurch by Mineral Resources.

Adrian Rauso

BoardsCommentsPremiumASA calls for IGO board sackings over deal shocker

The ASA is recommending its members vote against the re-election of Mr Nossal, former Santos chief Keith Spence and Xiaoping Xang, saying they need to take responsibility for the Western Areas takeover.

Sean Smith

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Chalice’s Toodyay mine wins major Fed project nod

The Federal Government has deemed Chalice Mining’s Gonneville mixed metals project north east of Perth to be of national significance, and will help the company navigate ‘complex’ regulatory approvals. 

Simone Grogan

ContractingCommentsPremium$157m for Barminco to see sun set on IGO’s super Nova

Barminco will keep on shovelling at the Nova nickel mine — and will likely still be there when it gives up its last load — after securing a $157 million contract extension with owner IGO.

Daniel Newell

MiningCommentsPremiumBHP redeploys hundreds of Nickel West workers

BHP says it has made redeployment offers to hundreds of workers following the suspension of its Nickel West arm.

Cheyanne Enciso

MiningPremiumCourt ruling paves the way for Panoramic revival

A bid to pull Panoramic Resources from administration has cleared a huge hurdle after the WA Supreme Court dashed Barminco’s hopes of jumping the payment queue.

Adrian Rauso

MiningPremiumBid to revive collapsed nickel miner Panoramic Resources

Shareholders will receive nothing and unsecured creditors 10¢ on the dollar under a recommended rescue proposal for Panoramic Resources tabled by an ASX-listed investment fund.

Adrian Rauso

MiningPremiumMacquarie bullish on nickel rebound

The millionaire’s factory believes the value of nickel will rise about 40 per cent over the next four years thanks to problems in China and Indonesia.

Adrian Rauso

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Major mining overhaul at WA’s final nickel hope

Glencore has cut ties with the inaugural mining services provider at Murrin Murrin to streamline WA’s last remaining long-life nickel operation in the face of severe market headwinds. 

Adrian Rauso

MiningCommentsPremiumChalice sells up housing in Toodyay with metals in a rut

Explorer Chalice Mining has lauded the State Government’s call not to ‘sterilise’ Julimar Forest’s mineral potential, as it dials back drilling and sells up staff housing in the thick of a battery metals rut.

Simone Grogan

MiningCommentsPremiumWelcome to mining’s 2024 game of thrones

The dust has now settled on reporting season, leaving a trail of winners and losers from the ASX’s mining contingent.

Adrian Rauso

MiningPremium‘Your crystal ball’s as good as mine’: IGO chief on lithium

IGO has scraped through 2024 as a profitable business after a litany of writedowns on its nickel and exploration assets, forcing the company to halve its dividend payout for the year.

Simone Grogan

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Union action could block BHP’s huge WA iron ore expansion

An ongoing union incursion into BHP’s powerhouse Pilbara iron ore operations might stop a multi-billion-dollar expansion from going ahead, warns the company’s chief Mike Henry.

Adrian Rauso

BusinessBHP holds Indonesian talks after WA nickel collapse

Australia’s biggest mining company is holding talks about Indonesia’s nickel industry following the shut down of its vast nickel operations in Western Australia.

Duncan Evans

MiningCommentsIGO enters talks to offload Forrestania nickel mine

IGO has revealed it is shopping around its troubled Forrestania nickel mine and may have already landed a buyer.

Daniel Newell

MiningPremiumWeak WA supply chains strangling downstream lithium: Vella

IGO’s leader, Ivan Vella, says a more efficient supply chain in China has helped their lithium refiners avoid the same technical problems that have plagued Western Australia’s producers.

Adrian Rauso

MiningPremiumIt’s gold, gold, gold all the way at Diggers

Gold stocks were the standout performers among WA’s listed companies in the past year, a period which saw new energy minerals businesses plummet by $23 billion.

Matt Mckenzie

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IGO flags job cuts, Greenbushes solid but Kwinana not ‘good’

More nickel headaches and a perennially misfiring lithium plant in Kwinana overshadowed the massive Greenbushes mine in WA’s South West defying a market downturn.

Adrian Rauso and Daniel Newell

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BHP drifts away from Seahorse hunt in WA

A trawl for two metals of contrasting popularity across a landholding nearly 700 times the size of Rottnest Island has come up dry.

Adrian Rauso

CopperCommentsPremiumFirst Quantum in standstill deal with Chinese shareholder

First Quantum Minerals reached an agreement with Jiangxi Copper, its second-largest shareholder, that limits the Chinese firm’s ownership of the Canadian copper producer.

Bloomberg

MiningPremiumPerenti trims nickel exposure and bolsters gold

Perenti has secured $160m worth of contracts, including at Spartan Resources’ Dalgaranga project, and enjoyed a lifted share price on the back of reduced impact from its nickel exposure.

Simone Grogan

MiningPremiumIGO stuck in bad areas with new major nickel impairment

The disastrous acquisition of Western Areas remains a thorn in the side of IGO, as the Ivan Vella-led miner cauterises a cash-draining nickel search.

Adrian Rauso