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.
Sean Smith
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.
Simone Grogan
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.
Adrian Rauso
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.
Neil Watkinson
Resource Development Group has collapsed into administration after parent company Mineral Resources decided to stop extending an interest-free line of credit totalling more than $135 million.
Shares in uranium miner Boss Energy have been nuked just days after its boss resigned.
Saturn Metals says using the heap leach method will produce more ounces at a lower cost at its Apollo Hill gold project in the northern Goldfields.
A Chinese businessman’s plans to breathe new life into a dinky iron ore mine in the North West are at risk of being blocked by the local arm of a Chinese contractor.
A new report shows the Northern Australian Infrastructure Facility and other creditors of Strandline Resources and its Coburn mineral sands mine face a $300m wipeout.
The single Perth mother was immediately stood down following the incident.
Caitlin Vinci
Mineral Resources, PLS, Liontown Resources and IGO have recovered $6 billion of value since speculation of production cutbacks in China lifted lithium prices off last month’s lows.
Fortescue has agreed to pay back taxpayer funds that were poured into a nixed green hydrogen project “where required”, following pressure from the Albanese Government.
A severe shortage of WA voices around the table at next month’s economic reform roundtable has the State’s mining industry on edge as the fight over new ‘same job, same pay’ laws revs up in the Pilbara.
Jessica Page
Shares in Bulletin Resources crashed 24 per cent in early trade on Thursday after the explorer announced its appeal against a decision not to grant it a native vegetation clearing permit had been dismissed.
Northern Star Resources says the Super Pit and associated assets at KCGM will deliver 900,000 ounces by FY29 despite present production and cost challenges.
Alcoa’s new local chief Elsabe Muller insists the US bauxite giant is putting “all effort in” to win approvals to keep mining the State’s Jarrah Forest as the plans undergo lengthy public scrutiny.
Mark Clark’s Capricorn Metals has used its share price muscle to make a $188m move for an explorer with a large landholding in a gold and copper hotspot.
Amanda Lacaze wants Lynas Rare Earths to be “the wife rather than the mistress” as the miner jostles for favour as the western supplier of choice amid growing competition for the geopolitically charged mineral.
