Rio Tinto says it's already on course to be one of the leading suppliers of copper as the board keeps its powder dry on trumping BHP's tilt at Anglo American.
Marion Rae
Households in one Australian state will receive an upfront $1000 payment on their power bills come July 1.
Blair Jackson
Aussie shares slumped on the first day of the new month as anxieties mount about US inflation and interest rates.
Duncan Evans
Despite green shoots seemingly resurfacing in the lithium sector Pilbara Minerals’ legion of retail shareholders remain firmly in the crosshairs of short sellers.
Adrian Rauso
Former market darling AVZ Minerals is set to be removed from local trading boards this month in what will mark two years since shares in the lithium junior were plunged into a trading suspension.
Simone Grogan
Chris Ellison’s ambitious plan to open up a lithium processing front for Mineral Resources in the Goldfields could be headed for the rocks.
An environmental activist super fund that owns more than a quarter of a billion dollars in BHP stock says the mining giant expanding its coal portfolio through an Anglo American deal could be a good thing.
The head of a US law firm that has set up shop in Australia says more class actions against BHP and other miners are likely.
Katina Curtis
Aussie stocks edged higher on Tuesday after a slump in retail sales pushed back fears of impending rate hikes.
Glencore expects another bumper year of trading profits and is currently on track to hit the top of its guidance range as the trader-cum-miner cashes in on strong commodity prices and high interest rates.
Bloomberg
Market jitters that Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting and SQM would be blocked from getting their hands on Azure Minerals have been quelled.
The board of Tietto Minerals has finally caved in to Zhaojin Mining’s pursuit, despite still believing the Chinese giant’s buyout proposal is a lowball offer.
Shares in IGO are surging despite the battery metal price pinch dragging the miner’s quarterly earnings into the red for first time in well over a decade.
Adrian Rauso and Daniel Newell
Mining giants BHP Group and Vale offered to pay Brazil about $US25.7 billion ($39b) in total compensation for a 2015 tailings dam disaster at their joint-venture iron ore complex.
Archie Hunter and Mariana Durao
Goldfields gold miner Beacon Minerals’ focus in the South-East Asian nation of Timor-Leste will be on exploring polymetallic copper prospects.
Neil Watkinson
Premier Roger Cook is expecting the owners of the soon-to-be-shuttered Ravensthorpe nickel mine to reboot the unprofitable operation as soon as prices for the battery metal rebound.
Another WA nickel domino has fallen to the ongoing price bloodbath as 530 local roles from the Ravensthorpe mine get wiped out.
Adrian Rauso and Simone Grogan
The State’s nickel producers are falling apart at the seams but a junior explorer has managed to cut a potentially huge deal with two of Japan's industrial giants.
Marion Rae and Adrian Rauso
A nickel explorer has formed a joint venture with two of Japan's industrial giants as Australia's allies move to secure long-term supplies of battery minerals.
Liontown Resources has hit the home straight to bring online Australia’s next major lithium mine within the next few months.
BHP Group’s $US39-billion ($59.7b) bid to create a global copper giant risks irking its biggest customer China, where authorities have a history of intervening to stymie or water down international mergers.
The judge tasked with deciding the multibillion-dollar legal battle between the families of WA’s mining pioneers — and between Gina Rinehart and her children — has been given another year on the job.
Tim Clarke
The proposed $2.2 billion merger of Goldfields miners Silver Lake Resources and Red 5 has received the independent expert’s tick of approval.
WA’s nickel producers are not budging from their depressed state, despite a key benchmark for the battery metal flirting with the $US20,000 per tonne barrier.