Coal mining across Coronado Global Resources’ Curragh complex in Queensland was halted after a worker was killed, adding to woes for the company that’s already dealing with slumping prices.
Jason Gale and Paul-Alain Hunt
Government backing for critical minerals should focus on rare earths vital for clean energy and national security and emulate an existing scheme underpinning renewable projects, the sector has told ministers.
Katina Curtis
A bout of plant failures and operational hiccups at Northern Star Resources’ WA operations in recent months has forced the heavyweight gold miner to cut back expected output for the year.
Simone Grogan
Mining executive and former WA Labor secretary Tim Picton remains in an induced coma in hospital, a week after an alleged one-punch attack in Northbridge.
Jessica Page
Among the hundreds of active or idle mines dotted across the State, there are five facing a monumental year. Thousands of jobs and vast sums of taxpayer money are at stake.
Adrian Rauso
One small team of geologists, flanked by two paramedics, were desperately searching for water after driving three days from Port Hedland to uncharted ground in the desert.
WA gold miners and a surprise lithium revival story have played a star role for mum and dad investors during a tumultuous year on the Aussie share market.
Almost 100 employees of Iluka Resources have been made redundant, with the wave of white and blue-collar job cuts linked to a recent mine suspension near Perth.
Australian shares posted a modest rise through 2025, despite an April bloodbath when US President Donald Trump took a baseball bat to the world economy.
Matt Mckenzie & Simone Grogan
Gold edged lower in the last trading day of 2025, but remained on track for its best annual performance since 1979 as a banner year for precious metals draws to a close.
Yihui Xie
Nickel has hit the highest since March after top producer Indonesia flagged plans to cut supply in order to boost prices.
Bloomberg
Silver’s exceptional volatility in recent days has captured the zeitgeist — with even the likes of Elon Musk drawing attention to the metal’s ferocious rally to all-time highs.
Jack Ryan
Develop Global’s chairman Michael Blakiston has sold more than $700,000 of stock and the company made a mea culpa for failing to disclose share purchases by a different director.
Chile’s Codelco and SQM completed a landmark deal aimed at boosting lithium extraction from the South American country’s Atacama Desert.
Maria Clara Cobo
After a year where iron ore defied gloom, gold boomed, rare earths emerged and lithium resurged, what does 2026 hold for Australia’s most important industry?
Potential risks posed by dust from the massive Greenbushes lithium operation are ‘high’, but the State Government’s regulator believes it can be managed.
Gold and silver soared to all-time highs, as escalating geopolitical tensions and bets on further US rate cuts added momentum to the best annual performance in more than four decades.
Robin Paxton and Preeti Soni
Shares in the mining-focused engineering company jumped after it won a $250 million contract at a Rio Tinto iron ore development.
China’s exports of rare-earth magnets to the US fell 11 per cent in November from a month earlier, with no immediate rebound seen after a trade truce between the world’s two biggest economies.
Jessica Zhou
WA gold stocks have dominated the share market’s best performers in 2025, delivering outsized gains off the back of bullion’s golden year.
Sean Smith
A billionaire-backed company with big plans hitch a ride on the Guinea iron ore train is ready to start construction on another Pilbara rival after clinching Government rail and port approval.
The owners of an ailing mineral sands operation in the Kimberley have been allowed to defer repayments on a $160 million Federal Government loan.
Economists are encouraged by a rosier than expected picture of Australia’s mining and energy exports after iron ore defied forecasts and the country’s arsenal of upcoming projects settled at $62 billion.
Great Boulder Resources has updated the mineral resource estimate for its Side Well project east of Meekatharra, pushing it past one million ounces.
Neil Watkinson
