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Huge honourPremiumTianqi engineer wins top Women in Resources award

Tianqi Lithium’s Kathy Lewi has been named Outstanding Woman in Resources at the WA Chamber of Minerals and Energy’s 13th annual Women in Resources awards on Friday night.

Stuart McKinnon

Climbing higherPremiumGalileo on a gallop again with rhodium find

The discovery of a highly rare and valuable metal has sent shares in Galileo Mining surging again, representing another windfall for the company’s founder and billionaire WA prospector Mark Creasy.

Stuart McKinnon

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opinion
Nascent industryCommentsPremium
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Rethink on royalty may help diversify economy

Miners moaning about excessive royalty payments is nothing new in WA. But maybe the State’s crop of aspiring sulphate of potash producers have a point.

Stuart McKinnon

Mill acquisitionPremiumKarora Resources to buy Lakewood Mill for $80 million

The Canadian company which operates the Beta Hunt gold mine near Kambalda will buy the Lakewood Mill processing facility for $80 million in what it calls a ‘transformational’ acquisition.

Neil Watkinson

Ringing endorsementPremiumOklo nods to big premium offer from B2 Gold

Oklo Resources has agreed to a $90 million cash and scrip takeover offer from Canada’s B2Gold, representing a 127 per cent premium to the Mali-focused gold play’s last traded price.

Stuart McKinnon

Spending plansCommentsPremiumWA bucks surprising fall in business investment

More than a third of businesses expect to hike their prices by more than usual over the next three months, while almost one in five plan to invest over the same period amid worsening supply chain disruptions. 

Danielle Le Messurier

On a tearCommentsPremiumCallisto hits stoke raging fire under Creasy’s Galileo

Shares in Galileo have hit new record highs off the back of new drill results that show significant zones of mineralisation at its Callisto palladium-platinum-copper-nickel discovery.

Daniel Newell

Tepid receptionPremiumTG Metals makes soft debut on the ASX

Nickel, lithium and gold explorer TG Metals has had a soft debut on the ASX after raising $6 million in an initial public offering.

Stuart McKinnon

Support appealCommentsPremiumAMEC weighs into potash royalty fight

A national mining lobby group says the successful development of a new potash industry in WA is being put at risk by the State Government’s intransigent stance on royalties.

Stuart McKinnon

Consequences of failureCommentsPremium‘Asleep at the wheel’: The trouble with lithium

Lithium, the wonder metal at the heart of the global shift to electric cars, is in a full-blown crisis. Demand has outstripped supply and hindered the world’s most successful effort yet to halt global warming.

Annie Lee

Eyeing quick cashflowPremiumNickel resurgence sees Estrella rethink Spargoville

The resurgence of the nickel price has encouraged Estrella Resources to embark on a journey to become a producer by developing its Spargoville 5A resource as a cash flow source for its other Goldfields assets.

Neil Watkinson

Mining restartPremiumFocus on way forward at Coolgardie gold project

Focus Minerals expects to award the Three Mile Hill processing plant refurbishment contract by July-August, with a 12-month timeline estimated for the Coolgardie project

Neil Watkinson

Up and upPremiumPilbara achieves another record lithium price at auction

Pilbara Minerals has achieved another record price for a cargo of its lithium concentrate in an auction, confirming managing director Ken Brinsden’s declaration last month that prices would go higher.

Stuart McKinnon

Good startCommentsPremiumBig-name Bellavista makes strong ASX debut

A battery metals explorer backed by some big-name identities in the WA mining industry has defied volatile equity markets to make a strong debut on ASX.

Stuart McKinnon

Fresh startCommentsPremiumDecmil looks to hit re-set button with new CEO

Embattled construction and engineering group Decmil is hoping for a reset of its operational performance after appointing Rod Heale as its new chief executive.

Stuart McKinnon

Serious allegationsCommentsPremiumRio told to get quacking on $106m rail row

A Supreme Court judge is pressing iron ore giant Rio Tinto to start defending a $106 million action over allegedly dodgy conduct on a Pilbara rail construction project.

Neale Prior

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COVID measures put FIFO workers into lockdown

FIFO workers at Roy Hill have been banned from visiting South Hedland and Port Hedland, under some of the strictest COVID measures in the industry.

Caitlyn Rintoul

Inclusivity drivePremiumImdex reveals sector-leading DV help for workers

A sector-leading domestic violence support policy and a pledge to end the gender pay gap are among the entitlements Imdex has introduced to attract and retain workers amid WA’s skills crunch.

Stuart McKinnon

Full chargePremiumWesfarmers’ lithium project could be worth $5.60 a share

Wesfarmers’ Mt Holland lithium project is tipped to deliver $6 a share to investors, helping offset the conglomerate’s reliance on its retail businesses amid strengthening consumer headwinds.

Sean Smith

Bureaucratic jittersPremiumQuigley steps into mess over mining tenement applications

The State Government is belatedly helping courts and some of WA’s biggest miners - including Fortescue, BHP and Roy Hill - to fix a legal tangle around processes to exclude parts of tenements from licenses.

Neale Prior

Changing rolesCommentsPremiumFullarton’s shock exit from Westgold

Westgold Resources executive director Wayne Bramwell will assume the chief executive role following the sudden departure of Debbie Fullarton.

Stuart McKinnon

Top upCommentsChalice in market for another $100m

Chalice Mining is understood to be rattling the tin for $100m in top-up cash as it looks to expand its exploration activities to the north of its celebrated Gonneville polymetallic discovery near Toodyay.

Stuart McKinnon

ProhibitionCommentsPremiumCalls for booze ban to extend to mine site execs

When it comes to booze bans on mining and gas sites, what is good for the workers should also be good for the rule-makers.

Steve Butler

Tapping investorsPremiumWiluna Mining seeks $84.5m for namesake gold mine

The gold miner has blamed COVID-19, labour shortages and the war in Ukraine for having to raise a big lick of cash to support its mine.

Sean Smith