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Paladin Energy chief operating officer Paul Hemburrow during the 2025 Diggers & Dealers Mining Forum on Monday, August 4, 2025.

MiningCommentsPremiumPaladin raises $300m while uranium stocks glow

Uranium producer Paladin Energy has raked in $300 million to push ahead with building a $1.8 billion mine in Canada over the next six years.

Adrian Rauso and Jonathan Tirone

Boss Energy managing director Duncan Craib at this year’s Diggers and Dealers.

MiningCommentsBoss a no-show for media grilling as Paladin faces the music

The chief of Boss Energy has shied away from media scrutiny while his incoming counterpart Paladin Energy braved a press pack following a bruising month for both uranium majors.

Adrian Rauso

Delegates in the main exhibitors hall during the Diggers & Dealers Mining Forum.

Diggers and DealersGoldies hit WA’s biggest mining forum minted with $7.5b

Local gold miners are making the annual pilgrimage to their mecca with piggy banks bursting at the seams. 

Adrian Rauso

Departing Boss Energy managing director and chief executive Duncan Craib

MiningPremiumMore than $600m wiped out in Honeymoon bloodbath

Shares in uranium miner Boss Energy have been nuked just days after its boss resigned.

Adrian Rauso

Paladin Energy's flagship operation in Namibia.

MiningCommentsPaladin Energy shares slayed by disappointing guidance

Shares in the most shorted stock on the Australian Securities Exchange have plunged after output targets at its African uranium mine disappointed again.

Adrian Rauso

Etango: Bannerman’s U-project.

MiningSubiaco’s Bannerman seals $85m cash call for flagship

Bannerman Energy has secured $85 million from shareholders to raise cash for the build of a uranium project in Namibia due to start producing in 2028.

Simone Grogan

Paladin Energy's flagship uranium operation in Namibia.

MiningPerth uranium stocks rocket on Sprott spree

The likes of Paladin Energy, Boss Energy and Deep Yellow all gained at least 15 per cent on Monday following a deal that is set to lift uranium prices.

Adrian Rauso

Paladin Energy's flagship operation in Namibia.

MiningPremiumSecond suit looms for Paladin over Langer Heinrich downgrade

A second group of disgruntled shareholders are stalking Paladin Energy and are expected to file a class action.

Daniel Newell

Paladin Energy's flagship operation in Namibia.

MiningCommentsPremiumPaladin skewers shorts with Langer spike

Uranium producer Paladin Energy is flying high after quarterly production at its Langer Heinrich mine in Namibia defied expectations.

Adrian Rauso

John Borshoff - managing director of Deep Yellow.

UraniumCommentsPremiumDeep Yellow cans investment call on uranium flagship

A WA uranium hopeful has called off making a final investment decision on a project in Namibia after missing out on a nuclear-driven resurgence in prices.

Simone Grogan

Minerals Council of Australia Chief Executive Tania Constable addressed WA Mining Club.

MiningPremiumLobby boss fumes over Federal Government’s explorer snub

A lobby group representing Australia’s biggest and most influential resources operators has warned there will be explorers brandishing “brick bats” if the Federal Government doesn’t cough up tax incentives. 

Simone Grogan

Excess surface water, washed-out mine access and haul roads and saturated stockpiles are hampering a restart at Langer Heinrich.

MiningShares down the drain as Paladin pulls guidance after flood

A one-in-50-year downpour has forced uranium miner Paladin Energy to pull full-year guidance as it struggles to restart mining and processing activity at its Langer Heinrich project in Africa.

Daniel Newell

Paladin Energy's flagship operation in Namibia.

UraniumPremiumDeepSeek turmoil wipes nearly $1b off uranium stocks

WA uranium players were the unlikely victim of snowballing market damage started by the emergence of a Chinese artificial intelligence startup many fear could have outsmarted Silicon Valley.

Simone Grogan

The Langer Heinrich mine.

MiningPremiumShorts squeezed as WA uranium duo rocket

The ASX’s two most shorted stocks have clocked up double-digit gains as a new wave of uranium optimism swells.

Adrian Rauso

Ms Bishop said the Kvanefjeld project has the potential to be a “significant contributor to the Greenland economy”, while supporting EU aspirations to become more self-reliant on rare earth elements.

MiningPremiumTrump-fuelled rare earths play hires Julie Bishop

A junior miner buoyed by Donald Trump’s talk of a Greenland takeover has added Julie Bishop to its ranks.

Adrian Rauso

Larvotto's Hillgrove project in NSW.

MiningCommentsPremiumThe mining tiddlers that triumphed or got torn down in 2024

The world of looking for pay dirt can quickly build up fortunes and just as easily wipe them out. With the year drawing to a close we take a look at eight junior miners that exemplified this rollercoaster.

Adrian Rauso

Paladin Energy CEO Ian Purdy.

MiningPremiumPaladin’s delayed $1.25b uranium deal clears Canada hurdle

Paladin Energy has received approval from the Canadian Government to merge with Toronto-listed Fission Uranium after months of scrutiny regarding foreign ownership concerns. 

Simone Grogan

Paladin Energy CEO Ian Purdy.

UraniumPremium‘Good luck to them’: uranium boss shrugs off shorters

Paladin Energy chief Ian Purdy says uranium non-believers will be scrambling to unwind bets against the company once it closes off a deal being scrutinised by Canada’s foreign investment umpire.

Simone Grogan

Pilbara Minerals' Pilgangoora plant

MiningPremiumPilbara Minerals finally shakes off shorts

The unwanted crown of being the ASX’s most short sold stock sits on a new head as pressure eases on Pilbara Minerals.

Adrian Rauso

Paladin Energy CEO Ian Purdy.

MiningPremiumPaladin’s $1.25b deal for Canada’s Fission on a knife edge

Canada’s federal government is extending a national security review of Paladin Energy’s acquisition of Fission Uranium, further delaying a deal that was supposed to close in September. 

Daniel Newell

Pilbara Minerals' chief Dale Henderson at the company’s Pilgangoora plant

MiningPremiumShorters loosen grip on Pilbara Minerals, eye uranium stocks

Pilbara Minerals may soon be able to bequeath its unwanted crown as the most shorted stock on the ASX.

Adrian Rauso

The Langer Heinrich mine.

MiningCommentsPremiumPaladin Energy shares smashed on Langer Heinrich update

The restart of Paladin Energy’s flagship operation in Namibia is not going to plan, putting another thorn in the uranium miner’s side.

Adrian Rauso

Talk of nuclear power has given uranium investments a boost.

UraniumPremiumLotus calls for $110m amid uranium push

Explorer Lotus Resources is looking to latch on to the latest burst of investment interest in uranium and raise $110 million from investors to restart a project in Malawi.

Simone Grogan

Rio Tinto mined uranium at the Ranger mine in the Northern Territory.

MiningPremiumDeals umpire rejects Packer’s second go at Rio

The takeovers umpire has concluded that Rio Tinto’s proposed $880 million rights issue to Energy Resources of Australia is above board, clearing the way for the mining giant to buy out the company.

Simone Grogan