Australia’s biggest company has just made a big call on its ambitions and it could influence corporates everywhere.
Duncan Evans
This month’s heavy rain has forced mining to be suspended at the Tropicana gold mine 330km north-east of Kalgoorlie-Boulder.
Neil Watkinson
Ahead of the Reserve Bank’s second meeting for the year, the share market edged higher on Monday even as property stocks lost ground.
Jack Quail
Perseus has implied Silvercorp is deceiving investors, while moving another step closer to wresting control of OreCorp away from the rival suitor.
Adrian Rauso
Iron ore hit the lowest level since last May on Monday morning to trade well below $US100 a tonne ahead of data from China that may point to further weakness across its vast steel industry.
Jake Lloyd-Smith
Australia’s far north is bracing for destructive winds and intense rainfall as severe tropical cyclone Megan moves closer to the coastline, prompting evacuations and the closure of a major manganese mine.
Keira Wright
While BHP’s nickel pain deepens Chris Ellison’s Mineral Resources has pounced on the looming collapse of the industry to double down on its long-term prospects for lithium and open a third WA processing hub.
Daniel Newell and Adrian Rauso
WA’s powerhouse resources sector pumped a record $77 billion into the State economy last year and accounted for one-fifth of company tax paid across the entire country.
Josh Zimmerman
BHP, the world’s largest miner, has reportedly stood down around a quarter of the workers constructing its West Musgrave nickel and copper project in WA.
Georgina McKay
The chief executive of a uranium explorer fighting to overturn a State ban on the contentious commodity has lambasted Premier Roger Cook for saying mines wouldn’t be profitable at current prices.
Simone Grogan
After complaining for years about WA’s share of the GST carve-up, Victoria has remained strangely silent after cashing in on the hard work of other resource-rich States.
Paul Murray
Aussie equities fell on Friday, as iron ore dragged and investors grappled with hotter-than-expected US inflation data.
The father was found dead in a Ghanaian hotel room with poison in his system, leaving loved ones to believe a giant Perth-based mining contractor is involved in a cover-up.
Coal contracts are raining down on NRW Holdings in the Sunshine State, as the Jules Pemberton-led mining services business adds $270 million to its orderbook.
The world’s biggest lithium producer, Albemarle, plans to sell some of its metal in auctions, which it says will help make an opaque market more transparent.
Yvonne Yue Li, Annie Lee and Mark Burton
A union boss has claimed the two miners who became trapped underground should not have been “doing that task in that mine”.
Clareese Packer and Madeleine Achenza
While it may be an inconvenient truth for the ideologues of the Cook Labor Government, it is an inescapable fact that the wealth of our State is built on mining.
Libby Mettam
The State’s Environmental Protection Authority is about to be headed by a former lawyer of the under-fire Environmental Defenders Office, it can be revealed.
This month’s heavy rain has forced Gold Road Resources to temporarily suspend mining operations at the Gruyere gold mine north-east of Laverton.
Pilbara Minerals has sold a cargo of the battery metal before a scheduled auction next week, just as market prices show signs of a rebound following a year-long rout.
Annie Lee
Snapping a two-day winning streak, Australian shares sank on Thursday.
Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan promises she did not get all her views on nuclear power from The Simpsons and Mr Burns’ radioactive power plant.
Blair Jackson
As the dust settles on Liontown’s new debt deal analysts are split over how the shrunken package will shape the future of Australia’s next major lithium producer.
Liberal leader Libby Mettam has vowed to overturn WA’s ban on new uranium mines if her party wins government at the 2025 election.
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