The Albanese Government is sticking out its hand to take back taxpayer funds poured into Fortescue’s fading clean energy ambitions.
Daniel Newell
A severe shortage of WA voices around the table at next month’s economic reform roundtable has the State’s mining industry on edge as the fight over new ‘same job, same pay’ laws revs up in the Pilbara.
Jessica Page
Shares in Bulletin Resources crashed 24 per cent in early trade on Thursday after the explorer announced its appeal against a decision not to grant it a native vegetation clearing permit had been dismissed.
Neil Watkinson
Northern Star Resources says the Super Pit and associated assets at KCGM will deliver 900,000 ounces by FY29 despite present production and cost challenges.
Alcoa’s new local chief Elsabe Muller insists the US bauxite giant is putting “all effort in” to win approvals to keep mining the State’s Jarrah Forest as the plans undergo lengthy public scrutiny.
Simone Grogan
Mark Clark’s Capricorn Metals has used its share price muscle to make a $188m move for an explorer with a large landholding in a gold and copper hotspot.
Adrian Rauso
Amanda Lacaze wants Lynas Rare Earths to be “the wife rather than the mistress” as the miner jostles for favour as the western supplier of choice amid growing competition for the geopolitically charged mineral.
Iron ore is flowing from Fortescue’s Pilbara mines at record rates but the green energy side of the global business continues its rout in part due to Donald Trump.
Inflationary pressures across Northern Star Resources’ assets in WA and Alaska will add about $100 an ounce to the precious metal miner’s cost of production.
Regis Resources has maintained its production sights on annual output of 350,000 ounces to 380,000 ounces after output of 373,000oz in FY25
Westgold Resources has finished FY25 below its revised production and cost guidance even though the June quarter returned the best result for the company during the financial year
Pantoro Gold is having another crack at an annual output target of 100,000 ounces from its Norseman gold project after falling short in the 2024-25 financial year.
The 25-year-old died of blood loss six hours after the incident.
Sarah Crawford
Shares in the most shorted stock on the Australian Securities Exchange have plunged after output targets at its African uranium mine disappointed again.
Iluka Resources has yanked guidance for one of its mineral sands exports blaming tariffs, but is optimistic the Pentagon’s recent swoop on a major rare earths miner bodes well for its local ambitions.
Analysts are tipping ASX200 company profits to be released over the next five weeks will show an average fall of nearly 2 per cent off the back of a weak year for big miners and a sluggish national economy.
Sean Smith
Mining delivered more than 50 per cent of the gains in Australian living standards over the two decades to 2020, according to Westpac, but the big four bank warns the gravy train is coming to an end.
China’s mega dam build helped spark an iron ore price revival that has lifted shares in Australia’s largest mining company to a 2025 high, but a clampdown on steel mill cannibalisation is stoking uncertainty.
Financial crimes watchdog Austrac has given Perth Mint a clean bill of health, while warning the State-owned business that trading in gold remained high risk.
Cheyanne Enciso and Matt Mckenzie
Mineral sands extractor Iluka Resources has assured an upcoming project in New South Wales will start on time despite running into a scrap over delivery of a 164-person accommodation build.
The environmental group opposing the proposed Katanning gold mine is preparing it submission as public comments open.
Claire Middleton
The man who goaded the eventual acquirer of his hotshot gold explorer has formally locked in a stock windfall and redundancy payment currently worth more than $15 million.
Iron ore and steel climbed to a four-month high, as China’s plan for a mega dam in Tibet bolstered the outlook for demand.
Annie Lee
Shares in South32 rose after the multi-commodity miner posted production gains despite previous setbacks at its cyclone-damaged manganese and civil unrest-afflicted Mozambique aluminium operations.
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