Isabel Vieira joined Business News in December 2022. She previously spent two years in the Great Southern, first at the independent Great Southern Weekender and then at SWM's Narrogin Observer and Albany Advertiser.
Nickel has been placed on Australia’s critical minerals list in a bid to aid the flailing industry, which federal Resources Minister Madeleine King says faces substantial structural challenges.
Wesfarmers is preparing to sell spodumene into the market but doesn’t expect to make a profit, as it continues to ramp up its Mt Holland lithium asset.
Delta Lithium boss James Croser says there’s some friendly tension in the lithium aspirant’s boardroom, as its major shareholders “keep each other in check”.
WA gold hopeful Horizon Minerals has reached a deal to acquire fellow explorer Greenstone Resources to consolidate the two companies’ assets in the Goldfields.
Azure Minerals boss Tony Rovira says it has been “incredibly humbling” to witness the growth of the company underpinned by its takeover offers and timely exploration discoveries in the past year.
Nutrien Ag Solutions is assessing the damage of the massive blaze that ripped through its bulk fertiliser site in Kwinana on Friday, of which a cause is still unknown.
Mining industry executive Rebecca Tomkinson has taken on a new role as chair of the Future Health Research and Innovation Fund, replacing John Van Der Wielen.
Multiplex has won a $165 million contract to deliver the second stage of the St John of God Subiaco Hospital major expansion project to modernise and upgrade the ageing campus.
Southern Ports boss Keith Wilks has welcomed the state government’s investment to identify potential development opportunities around Albany’s waterfront precinct.
Telecommunications and power infrastructure contractor GenusPlus Group has notched $40 million worth of work on ACCIONA’s major solar farm project in Queensland.