Electricians helping to build a third chemical grade plant at the Greenbushes lithium mine in WA’s South West briefly downed tools last week after fearing they were at risk of electrocution.
Adrian Rauso
The Tropicana gold mine has finished 2024 as the biggest-producing operation in the Goldfields.
Neil Watkinson
Rio Tinto has scrapped plans to raise as much as $US5 billion in a share sale following pushback from investors, people with knowledge of the matter said.
Paul-Alain Hunt
The WA business world’s praise for Premier Roger Cook’s resounding election victory comes with calls for him to back the mining industry in Canberra and push back on “productivity-killing” bureaucracy.
Simone Grogan
A major Mineral Resources shareholder and Chris Ellison cheerleader is continuing to double down on its investment in the floundering miner and mining services provider.
A Mineral Resources subsidiary run by Chris Ellison’s brother is facing punishment for building solar evaporation ponds at its cash-draining garnet mine near Kalbarri.
WA’s best equipment operators will have the chance to cement their place as a world-leading machine operator when they compete at this year’s Caterpillar Global Operator Challenge.
Cheyanne Enciso
Rio Tinto has greenlit a $US1.8 billion ($2.84b) spend to extend a mine in the West Pilbara amid a cost-cutting drive across the mining giant’s sprawling iron ore network.
Australia’s richest person just got a little richer overnight after United States President Donald Trump said he would ‘dramatically expand’ his country’s production of rare earth materials.
Subiaco-headquartered West African Resources has shaken off concerns its golden goose would be lost.
WA junior critical minerals explorer West Cobar Metals has snapped up a highly prospective gold tenement in the Fraser Range from IGO.
Australia could reap the benefits of a market worth up to almost $300 billion, and cut emissions, if it takes the right steps toward a green iron industry.
Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson
The Australian sharemarket booked a second consecutive day in the red on Wednesday as escalating global trade tensions continued to rattle investors.
Duncan Evans
More problems have been piled onto Mineral Resources’ creaking balance sheet after credit ratings agency Fitch downgraded the miner’s repayment score.
Former Fortescue chief executive Liz Gaines to advise an Abu Dhabi-based group selling itself as a player in the global energy transition.
Neale Prior
The company says protracted Commonwealth scrutiny threatens to delay production from its Mardie salt project, described last year by Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek as a potential ‘game changer’.
Sean Smith
Administrators have revealed Whyalla steelworks was haemorrhaging $1.5m in losses per day before its forced administration.
Alexandra Feiam
Australian mining billionaire Gina Rinehart has hosted an annual birthday bash and celebration for long-serving staff members where dozens of $100,000 gifts were reportedly dished out.
The West Australian
A wild ride in corporate fortunes reminds us yet again that sentiment, not figures, moves the market.
Shares in NRW Holdings have been hammered in early trade after the civil and mining contractor delivered its half-year accounts after the market closed on Friday.
Mineral Resources was alerted to haulage risks on its troubled Onslow Iron road months before a spat of truck rollovers rang alarm bells about driver safety along the crucial 148km stretch of infrastructure.
Daniel Newell
A dispute over who is an ‘engine driver’ has sparked a dire warning from the resources peak body that the Mining and Energy Union is trying to bring militant east coast-style tactics to the Pilbara.
Katina Curtis
Booming lithium supply out of Africa is keeping a lid on the battery commodity’s price despite resurgent Chinese demand.
A Liontown Resources spin-out is looking for investment seven times larger than its current market value to buy one of Australia’s largest undeveloped gold projects.
