BCI Minerals has lured Covalent Lithium chair Ian Hansen to the board as harvesting gets under way at the company’s massive Mardie Salt project near Karratha.
Daniel Newell
The value of the Manna lithium project has doubled, according to a new study which examined the integration of the ex-IGO Nova-Bollinger processing facility into the project east of Kalgoorlie-Boulder.
Neil Watkinson
Hawk Resources will start an exploration program next Monday after exercising its option to acquire 80 per cent of the Olympus scandium project in the remote northern Goldfields.
The merging of two gold exploration companies will create a new entity with four projects boasting about 350,000 ounces in the Eastern Goldfields.
The bitter court battle over Australia’s largest ever native title payout has taken yet another twist.
David Hannant
A bizarre sideshow has popped up in the battle for WA exploration company Canyon Resources after a prominent mining fund manager apparently launched an extraordinary tirade on an activist shareholder.
Adrian Rauso
Mining billionaire Andrew Forrest is wading back into a long-running legal feud with Traditional Owners over a patch of Fortescue’s vast iron ore empire in the Pilbara.
Global accounting firm RSM has warned that investment risks moving overseas in the wake of the Albanese Government’s tax changes for junior miners.
Ambition to break China’s stranglehold on rare earths and critical minerals gets shot in the arm after court clears way for takeover central to audacious mining project in Greenland.
Ben Harvey
An errant X post has caused a bit of a headache at this critical minerals junior after the ASX’s fearsome compliance team came knocking.
Unions and BHP have officially reached a stalemate at the miner’s sole Pilbara iron ore port, with the national workplace umpire asked to pick a side.
In the aftermath of the war in the Middle East, coal from Australia seems a safer bet than gas from other sources, a major producer of the fossil fuel says.
Derek Rose
Australia’s richest person boosted her bet on copper by snapping up a major stake in Perth junior White Cliff Minerals, where her son John Hancock sits on the board.
NRW Holdings continues to beef up its order book, with $313 million worth of contracts secured across mining and civil projects.
Mine financing giant Franco-Nevada has doubled down on Tim Goyder’s Bullabulling project as Minerals 260 lines up about $450m to push the WA gold mine towards construction.
Ryan Johnson
A Laverton gold miner has appointed administrators to two subsidiaries following a fight with a contractor.
Matt Mckenzie
Ben Wyatt’s chair prospects enhanced as former Anglo American board Mark Cutifani quits Woodside Energy for gold miner’s board amid disclosure concerns.
Sean Smith
WA Mines Minister Daniel Pastorelli has urged his Labor counterparts in Canberra to rethink a tax change that is expected to leave junior miners hamstrung.
The State’s key mining lobby group has estimated that extracting WA’s known deposits of minerals, metals and fuels would easily fetch $8 trillion.
The Bull reveals who is set to make bank on the Terrace as Wiluna Mining finally lodges plans for a $500 million IPO. Plus: Top WA prospector hunts for geologists with an adventurous streak.
The Albanese Government’s decision not to spare junior miners from its capital gains tax overhaul ‘is beyond disappointing’ and comes after it ‘already murdered’ a key investment program.
A wealthy Indian family seeking to buy out Canyon Resources at a deep discount has declared its offer ‘best and final’, putting the pressure back on nearly 1500 WA shareholders.
Elliott Investment Management has upped the ante in its push for a radical shake-up of Super Pit owner Northern Star Resources.
Ora Banda Mining has begun operations at Waihi, its third underground mine at the Davyhurst gold project north-west of Kalgoorlie-Boulder.
