Explorer reports mineralisation in all 26 holes drilled at its Chinook prospect and gets solid zinc-lead grades in assays for two so far.
Stuart McKinnon
Iron ore futures in Singapore surged on signs of robust demand from China’s steel sector, while market focus shifts to output reports from the top producers this week.
Annie Lee
Australia is leveraging off its strength as a mining powerhouse to become the go-to destination for initial public offerings in the resources sector.
James Thornhill
Auric Mining has expanded its interests in the Widgiemooltha area by snapping up the gold rights on a job-lot of tenements held by Neometals.
Galaxy Resources and Orocobre will merge to form a $4 billion lithium giant and a top five producer of the burgeoning battery metal.
EMR Capital insists interest in its WA mine in the Mid West remains strong — despite it looking at listing the asset on the Australian share market.
Australia’s sole traders served as a “pilot light” for entrepreneurship during the height of COVID-19 and helped drive the creation of new businesses during the pandemic, according to a new report.
Danielle Le Messurier
Scott Morrison told a Karratha business breakfast more jobs would be created as a result of the move to a more green industry and there was a bright future ahead as heavy industry decarbonised.
Lanai Scarr
The Chris Ellison-led miner has been forced to trim shipping guidance by millions of tonnes as output sits idle amid a shortage of truck drivers.
The contractor and Pilbara miner have reached an out-of-court settlement to cover the cost of damage caused by a fire that ripped through a port processing facilities two years ago.
Daniel Newell
The property market has been brutal to many people, but not to Mineral Resources executive Joshua Thurlow, who got the first home he put an offer on — a $3 million luxury City Beach property.
Kim MacDonald
Ampol has delivered a $175m profit in the first three months of the year, but that might not be enough to save Lytton.
JARED LYNCH
Hancock Prospecting’s lawyers said Lang Hancock had breached his fiduciary duty by moving the Hope Downs tenements away from the family flagship company.
Neale Prior
WA’s new Environment Minister has ‘recused herself’ from decision making regarding two major mining projects because of a potential conflict of interest involving her step-father.
Peter Law
The listing marks the first by a uranium explorer on the Australian Securities Exchange in more than a decade.
Newmont has reached a milestone in its ambitious plan to automate gold mining operations at Boddington, with first production delivered from its new fleet of Caterpillar driverless trucks.
Rejuvenated by a $6m incentive to remain with Santos until 2025, boss Kevin Gallagher has come out swinging against federal government ‘intervention’ challenging future energy supply in Australia.
Valerina Changarathil
Iron ore mogul Gina Rinehart has hired former senior State Liberal politician Dean Nalder to run media and public relations for her $30 billion empire.
However lithium miner says it has the means to develop stage one of the brine project in Argentina on its own.
Goldman Sachs expects the market to enter a surplus in the second half of the year on higher Brazilian exports.
Hancock Prospecting claims it could take years to prepare the Wright Prospecting and DFD Rhodes actions for trial if the court simultaneously deals with John Hancock and Bianca Rinehart’s claims.
Explorer joins the ASX after a heavily oversubscribed $20m initial public offering and is now planning an aggressive drilling program at its 14 Mile Well project.
Copper is so crucial in electrifying the global economy that finding enough of it has become a national security issue, according to mining magnate Robert Friedland.
James Attwood
China’s vast steel sector is the scene of a conflict between growth and a green agenda that points to wider challenges as President Xi Jinping tries to clean up the world’s top carbon emitter.
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