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Hancock Energy bought the Lockyer gas field from Mineral Resources in 2024.

EnergyPremium$850m Hancock Mid-West gas supply project approved

Planning authorities have given Hancock Energy the green light for its Belisama gas project in WA’s Mid West after the Gina Rinehart-led company pitched the development’s big boost to domestic gas supply.

Rebecca Le May

Everywhere: The extent of flight tracking data for Fortescue’s private jet. Pictured is Fortescue executive chair Andrew Forrest at Scitech.

Herd on the TerracePremiumWhere in the world was Andrew Forrest?

It’s the beginning of a beautiful friendship for Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue in Morocco. Plus: Ben Wyatt’s GST slam dunk; and a new chapter in WA luxury builder’s insolvency intrigue.

Ben Wyatt AO in conversation after his Leadership Matters address.

Leadership MattersPremiumMiners must sell value and there’s undue pollie hate: Wyatt

Ben Wyatt believes Australia’s resources sector needs to get better at communicating its worth to society and that hostility towards politicians has veered into ‘dangerous territory’. 

Adrian Rauso

Iluka Resources' new rare earths refinery at Eneabba is how about 50 per cent complete.

MiningPremiumIluka tumbles to $24m loss on weaker prices, stronger dollar

Iluka Resources has slumped to a first-half net loss of $24 million as revenue from the sale of its mineral sands products plunged despite volumes increasing.

Daniel Newell

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POLITICSPremiumClive Palmer’s next move revealed

Clive Palmer is getting his ducks in a row for the next election, and a name many Aussies were uncomfortable with is gone.

Blair Jackson

Dozens of miners have been killed after a gold mine collapsed in the Central African Republic. (AP PHOTO)

MiningPremiumThirty dead in Central African Republic mine collapse

An artisanal gold mining site has collapsed in the western part of Central African Republic, killing at least 30 miners.

Jean Fernand Koena

BHP dislikes Queensland's royalties regime but has no plans to sell its coal operation in the state. (Dan Peled/AAP PHOTOS)

MiningPremiumBHP chief labels state's royalty regime unsustainable

A sliding scale royalty regime introduced by a state four years ago means investing there is unsustainable, the head of BHP says.

Derek Rose

Underground activity at Westgold Resources’ Beta Hunt gold mine near Kambalda.

Gold miningPremiumWestgold to assess bigger Higginsville mill expansion case

Westgold Resources will assess the case for an even bigger Higginsville mill expansion after announcing a maiden ore reserve and increasing the mineral resource estimate for the Fletcher zone at Beta Hunt.

Neil Watkinson

First hot metal poured at the Christmas Creek green iron plant

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Green iron finally flows for Fortescue

Fortescue’s Christmas Creek green iron pilot plant is in production, kicking off what the mining giant hopes will become Australia’s next major export industry.

Adrian Rauso

BHP’s Escondida copper mine in Chile

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Risks loom large as BHP chases global copper boom

Copper has overtaken iron ore as BHP’s biggest moneymaker but chasing more of the vaunted red metal could come with big headaches for the Big Australian.

Adrian Rauso

Drill rigs operating at the Katanning gold project, Badgebup.

Gold miningPremiumCanada’s OceanaGold in $776m deal with Ausgold

The development of the Katanning gold project in the Great Southern will likely take place under a new company, with Canada’s OceanaGold Corporation and WA’s Ausgold announcing a $776 million tie-up.

Neil Watkinson

BHP delivered full-year financial results to the ASX on Tuesday. NewsWire / Brenton Edwards

financePremium‘Standout’ reason for BHP’s $9.8bn profit

One of Australia’s largest companies will pay its highest dividends in four years off the back of a massive boom in one product.

Blair Jackson

18/08/2026 BHP chief executive officer Brandon Craig ahead of BHP's profit results.

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BHP delivers big profit and says it’s winning the union war

The Big Australian is riding high on a bumper profit from record copper prices and claimed victory over the unions which infiltrated its Pilbara iron ore empire.

Adrian Rauso

Macmahon chief executive Mick Finnegan

ContractingPremiumMacmahon lifts payout after another record year

Macmahon is powering ahead into “another strong year” after reporting record revenue and underlying earnings for the past financial year.

Daniel Newell

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MiningPremiumMillions of super accounts on ‘knife’s edge’ over coal expansion

Millions of Aussie super accounts are “on a knife’s edge” from a major coal company’s expansion plans, with activist investors warning the move will destroy shareholder value.

Blair Jackson

Mineral Resources has revealed it had started major construction of Onslow Iron Resort, the second FIFO camp at its flagship Onslow Iron project in the Pilbara.

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First look at MinRes’ new glitzy FIFO ‘resort’ in WA’s north

It’s the latest look at how big miners are hoping to lure in staff amid a chronic skills shortage — a new luxury seaside fly in, fly out accommodation complex complete with a plethora of recreational amenities.

Cheyanne Enciso

Evolution Mining’s Mungari gold operations are 20km west of Kalgoorlie-Boulder.

Mine accidentPremiumEvolution Mining fined $200,000 after worker’s arm crushed

Evolution Mining has been fined $200,000 and ordered to pay $15,392.20 in costs over an incident in which a worker for a contractor suffered a crush injury and a fractured left humerus.

Neil Watkinson

Bankwest singage being removed from their head office at Raine Square in the CBD.

Herd on the TerracePremiumBank less not a recipe for marketing success

The philosophy of being #justenoughbank has turned out to be not enough bank full stop for customers of WA’s financial stalwart Bankwest. Plus: Telstra’s orbital strike on Elon.

Gina Rinehart has reportedly lodged another complaint with the ABC after a radio guest claimed she wants Australians to “work for $2 a day”. Evan Morgan

UPDATEDPremiumABC backtracks on Rinehart wage remark

A second ABC piece involving Gina Rinehart has been removed in as many weeks, this time over an inaccurate wage claim.

Andrew Hedgman

Pictured is Blackburne MD Paul Blackburne.

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Business heavyweights lash plan to rein in WA’s GST deal

WA’s business community has derided the Productivity Commission’s GST carve-up proposal, warning it would harm Australia in the long term.

Adrian Rauso and Rebecca Le May

WA Premier Roger Cook has lobbied the federal government to protect the state’s 2018 deal. NewsWire / Colin Murty

UPDATEDPremium‘Whingers’: Premier rages over GST ‘attack’

One state premier has slammed a report into the GST carve-up as an “attack” and lashed “whingers” and “clowns” in other states.

Ria Pandey and Nathan Schmidt

Northern Star Resources' Jundee site.

MiningPremiumActivist fires back at Northern Star’s ‘entrenched’ board

The activist investor agitating for change at Northern Star has flung mud back at the gold miner’s board.

Adrian Rauso

TLEA’s Kwinana lithium plant.

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‘Unsustainable’: Shock cost surge burns WA refiners

Surging prices are squeezing WA’s critical mineral processors to breaking point, with one major lithium refinery operator branding the cost crunch as unsustainable.

Adrian Rauso

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says Australia "needs to be a country that makes things". (Darren Pateman/AAP PHOTOS)

MiningPremiumHere's why a key smelter will get multi-billion bailout

A multi-billion-dollar rescue package will be paid for by the federal and NSW governments to keep the nation's biggest aluminium smelter from going under.

Tess Ikonomou