Lynas Rare Earths’ chief says geopolitical tumult engulfing the commodity is “up in the air like a pack of cards”, as the miner asks the US Government for support with a stalled Texas project.
Simone Grogan
Nyanzaga will be the WA miner’s fourth mine in Africa and Tanzania’s first major gold producer in nearly 20 years, coming on stream in 2027.
Sean Smith
The Greens will demand Labor block any new coal or gas projects if they hold the balance of power in the event of a hung parliament, the leader of the minor party has revealed.
Nicola Smith
Clive Palmer’s Mineralogy wants a new permit for something “secret” on mining tenements where the billionaire’s company has repeatedly failed to pay its dues.
Adrian Rauso
The former boss of Worx Group says he deeply regrets the company’s collapse as creditors look set to send the equipment hire business to liquidation.
Matt Mckenzie
A London subsidiary of Mineral Resources has written off more than $60 million after shutting a Chinese lithium marketing operation that ran for less than two years and employed five people.
Simone Grogan and Adrian Rauso
A red hot gold market has buoyed Argonaut to beef up its mergers and acquisitions team with the hire of a former Rothschild & Co banker.
The union infiltration of BHP is spreading from mine to port after the iron ore giant was hit with a bargaining application covering more than 300 workers.
Rare earth players are in pole position for the Federal Government’s $1.2 billion mining splash, while battered lithium and nickel miners and refiners wait to see if they will get a look-in.
The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors has questioned how shareholders can be assured Chris Ellison will abide by plans to step down by mid-2026 when questions over board exits go unanswered.
Anthony Albanese says Labor’s promised critical minerals reserve would form an “element” of negotiations with the Trump administration.
Danielle Le Messurier and Katina Curtis
Salvation from a higher power would be the only this to ‘save’ Australia should Labor and the Greens control parliament after the election, the Leader of the Nationals says.
Blair Jackson
Liontown’s lithium mine is yet to be submerged by the commodity’s price rout after spitting out $14.2 million of cash during the March quarter.
The $3.5 million quarry is expected to provide about 1.1 million cubic metres of sand for use in surrounding land development projects.
Liam Murphy
Officials from the scandal-plagued CFMEU, a union the Albanese Government is trying to sideline, are spearheading the push to re-unionise the Pilbara.
Ben Harvey
The Albanese government will invest $1.2bn into Australia’s critical minerals supply, which will likely play a major role in negotiating a tariff carveout from the Trump administration.
Jessica Wang
Clive Palmer has claimed he will allow CITIC Pacific to keep mining at the Sino Iron project less than a week out from a courtroom showdown that was to settle a standoff over the operation’s future.
Denise McComish has quit with immediate effect, leaving the miner’s new ethics and governance committee without any members.
Sean Smith and Simone Grogan
Uranium producer Paladin Energy is flying high after quarterly production at its Langer Heinrich mine in Namibia defied expectations.
BHP is preparing to begin looking for a new chief executive in the coming months, with key lieutenants already jostling for position to succeed boss Mike Henry at the top of the world’s biggest miner.
Paul-Alain Hunt, Thomas Biesheuvel and Archie Hunter
Mining giant BHP is again being threatened by a union, with its two flagship iron ore mines increasingly the target of unions trying to muscle into the mineral-rich Pilbara.
The chief executive of $4.4 billion West Perth-based gold miner Capricorn Metals is on leave after being charged with aggravated assault.
Working at a massive underground copper mine in southern Africa has not met the mining service provider’s ‘internal performance hurdles’.
Two Chinese foreign nationals were among a group of people detained over the weekend after they were allegedly found at the site of Lindian Resources’ rare earths project in Malawi.
Daniel Newell
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