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Former WA opposition leader Mia Davies is now spokeswoman for the DomGas Alliance.

Oil & GasCommentsPremiumBig WA energy users say Feds’ reservation plan has strengths

Major gas users hope a proposed national reservation scheme will add pressure to reform WA’s 20-year-old rules.

Matt Mckenzie

Australia’s largest company has put a bargaining agreement covering about 1600 workers at its conjoined Mining Area C and South Flank mines in front of unions.

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BHP close to deal with unions for 1600 WA workers

The Big Australian is on the verge of a massive enterprise agreement at key iron ore mines, marking a historic power-shift back to militant unions in the Pilbara.

Adrian Rauso

Fortescue chief executive Dino Otranto.

MiningCommentsPremiumOtranto admits he was angered by CME’s BHP defence

The Fortescue chief executive admits getting ‘hot under the collar’ over the CME’s defence of BHP’s decarbonisation efforts and blames the media for miners’ weaker appetite for risk.

Sean Smith

Iron ore transport at the Port of Rizhao in Rizhao city, east China's Shandong province.

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More China pain in store for WA iron ore: BHP and Fortescue

BHP’s WA iron ore boss Tim Day has foreshadowed another round of bruising negotiations with China’s state run commodities buyer next year in a warning for Australia’s most lucrative export industry.

Adrian Rauso

Brightstar Resources managing director Alex Rovira.

Full steam aheadPremiumBrightstar Resources approves Goldfields project development

Brightstar Resources has approved a final investment decision to develop its Goldfields project, including the building of a $110 million gold processing plant near Laverton.

Neil Watkinson

Departing Lynas chief executive Amanda Lacaze.

MiningPremiumLacaze pips McGowan for top mining lobby job

Departing Lynas chief executive gazumped the former WA Premier to oversee Australia’s most prominent mining lobby group.

Adrian Rauso

Dino Otranto aid the company was ‘not attacking competition’ and he lashed out at CMEWA chief executive Aaron Morey.

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‘Look in own backyard’: Minister’s dig at FMG’s green push

Resources Minister Madeleine King took a thinly-veiled swipe at Andrew Forrest’s efforts to champion Fortescue’s green credentials and suggested where the billionaire should instead focus his energies.

Daniel Newell and Adrian Rauso

Sheffield Resources' Thunderbird mineral sands mine.

MiningCommentsPremiumTaxpayer-backed mine has one last roll of the dice

A key contractor at the Thunderbird mineral sands mine is out the door, with the WA operation teetering on the brink of financial collapse.

Adrian Rauso

The Mt Marion lithium mine south of Kalgoorlie.

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$490m spend to take MinRes underground at Mt Marion

Chris Ellison’s Mineral Resources is heading underground at the Mt Marion lithium mine in the Goldfields as part of a $490 million expansion it says will deliver customers a higher-grade product.

Daniel Newell

BHP says the new partnership is key to unlocking the next phase of decarbonisation in the Pilbara.

MiningCommentsPremiumBHP inks deal to ‘unlock’ next phase of decarbonisation

BHP and the Yindjibarndi Energy Corporation have inked a new partnership the mining giant says is key to ‘unlocking’ the next phase of decarbonisation in the Pilbara.

Cheyanne Enciso

The Shire of Coolgardie is proposing a 4 per cent rate-in-the-dollar increase for the local mining industry in the 2026-27 financial year.

Not the grim reaperPremiumShire proposing 4 per cent rise in mining rates for 2026-27

The Shire of Coolgardie is proposing a 4 per cent rate-in-the-dollar increase for the local mining industry in the next financial year — a far cry from the 119 per cent rise it initially sought last year.

Neil Watkinson

Victory Metals chief executive and executive director Brendan Clark and Curtin University Professor Mark Buntine.

rare earthsPremiumVictory Metals part of US Defense Industrial Base Consortium

Victory Metals’ acceptance into a key US defence industry program is a strong external validation of its heavy rare earths project’s relevance to western defence supply chains, the company says.

Neil Watkinson

Chalice Mining managing director and chief executive Alex Dorsch.

MiningPremiumExplorers choke on excessive regulation, delaying discovery

WA is becoming less competitive for mining exploration due to Aboriginal cultural heritage compliance processes being allowed to balloon ‘unchecked’ in cost and time.

Rebecca Le May

Elizabeth Gaines finished as Fortescue chief executive in September 2022.

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Twiggy's global green advocate quits Fortescue board

One of Andrew Forrest’s closest allies has quit the board of his mining empire, just weeks after selling off a $5.5 million stake in the company.

Daniel Newell

At the mineral exploration tenure issuance ceremony in Timor-Leste in 2024 were Estrella Resources exploration manager Timor-Leste Beau Nicholls, ESR RP senior geologist Edwin Fragga, Estrella Resources managing director Chris Daws, Timor-Leste Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao, ESR RP community liaison and logistics manager Ajio Xavier, and ESR RP junior geologist Kharol Anjos.

New leaderPremiumEstrella Resources completes leadership transition

Timor Leste-focused limestone and manganese explorer Estrella Resources has completed its leadership transition, with Robert Mencel now managing director and long-time boss Chris Daws a non-executive director.

Neil Watkinson

Lefroy Exploration’s Chris Hesford, Graeme Gribbin, and Kristel Sarak with one of Lucky Strike’s first gold dore bars at the FMR Investments’ Greenfields mill near Coolgardie in February.

Gold studyPremiumLefroy Exploration raising $3.6m to fund Mt Martin study

Lefroy Exploration is raising $3.6 million for a scoping study of its Mt Martin gold deposit south-east of Kalgoorlie-Boulder that has a mineral resource estimate of 460,000 ounces.

Neil Watkinson

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NATIONALPremiumSix-figure job with no experience needed

This one job is proving to be in significant demand as it offers a lucrative salary with no previous experience needed, but there’s a catch.

Ike Morris

Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation chief executive Michael Woodley and Andrew Forrest

MiningCommentsPremiumSuper funds blast Fortescue for Indigenous destruction

Fortescue has been blasted for its continuous disregard of Aboriginal cultural heritage, with one major super fund hinting at the potential of a protest vote at the mining giant’s annual general meeting.

Adrian Rauso

Fortescue’s Cloudbreak iron ore mine.

MiningPremiumFortescue emissions rise, fall for rivals BHP and Rio Tinto

BHP and Rio Tinto have notched up an emissions win against Fortescue after years of being raked over the coals by Andrew Forrest’s company for supposedly not doing enough to decarbonise.

Adrian Rauso

Gina Rinehart is diving deeper into rare earths.

MiningCommentsPremiumRinehart cornerstones $375m Arafura capital raise

Australia’s richest person has poured more of her money into Arafura Rare Earths, a day after the Federal Government agreed to buy some of the company’s future output in a landmark deal.

Adrian Rauso

The Perth Mint refines about 70 per cent of all gold mined.

GoldCommentsPremiumGoing for gold: Perth Mint shatters export record

The Perth Mint has sold an eye-watering sum of bullion and minted products to customers overseas for the first time in a financial year, thanks to a world full of uncertainty. 

Adrian Rauso

Treasurer Jim Chalmers at a Chamber of Minerals and Energy WA event on Thursday.

MiningPremiumRare earths miner investor purge ‘not taken lightly’

The Albanese Government’s fourth intervention to purge Northern Minerals’ share register of mysterious Chinese entities has been defended by Treasurer Jim Chalmers.

Rebecca Le May

Treasurer Jim Chalmers speaking at the Chamber of Minerals and Energy WA event on Thursday.

MiningPremiumMiners wary on CGT shake up after Chalmers’ charm offensive

WA’s mining sector remains worried about the Federal Government’s capital gains tax shake-up despite an in-person charm offensive by Treasurer Jim Chalmers.

Rebecca Le May

Pauline Hanson has proposed a Norway-style government stake in new gas ventures. NewsWire / Martin Ollman.

POLITICSPremiumPauline’s Norway-style bet on ‘miracle’ gas

The federal government would acquire a 30 per cent equity stake in new gas ventures under One Nation, in a Norway-inspired proposal.

Nathan Schmidt