The country’s resource and energy export earnings are expected to drop to $372 billion in the 2024-25 financial year, the latest quarterly results show.
Volkswagen will spend $77 million to acquire a stake in Ken Brinsden-steered Patriot Battery Metals and become the Canadian lithium aspirant’s first customer.
Vault Minerals will spend $80 million to expand the processing facility at its King of the Hills mine near Leonora by 20 per cent, to more than 6 million tonnes of ore per annum.
ANALYSIS: As MinRes prepares for a future without its founder, Gina Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting has moved on its gas business and countercyclically acted on an appetite for lithium.
Mining heavyweight BHP has told the market it’s been served with a class action over allegations of sexual harassment and discrimination at both its and Rio Tinto’s workplaces.
Falling commodity prices and growing budget deficits should provide the impetus for Australia to build a green iron industry, according to the boss of Fortescue Metals.
Alannah MacTiernan has stressed the importance of building supply chains outside of China’s grasp after lending her expertise to a deal executed with a Japanese heavyweight.
Chevron will supply 130 petajoules of gas over 10 years from 2028 to fuel Alcoa’s Western Australian alumina refineries, in a boost for the latter’s operational certainty.
BHP, Rio Tinto, Woodside Energy and BlueScope will partner on an electric smelter ironmaking pilot project at Kwinana, as part of the state’s green iron push.
Critical minerals miner IGO has taken up a majority stake in a copper project in northern Western Australia after pouring $15 million into exploration.
Lindian Resources has secured a non-binding term sheet for $US50 million funding and an offtake agreement with Gerald Group for its Kangankunde Project.
Mining heavyweight Rio Tinto is set to pour $2.5 billion into the expansion of its Rincon lithium project in Argentina as it builds on its battery metals portfolio.
Company director Rob Cole has retired from all of his board roles, including as chair of Iluka Resources and Perth Airport, a month after health issues forced a leave of absence.
Environment minister Reece Whitby has supported “extensive” changes to the conditions attached to a planned expansion of the Boddington bauxite mine in WA’s South West.
ANALYSIS: Bauxite is hardly the world’s sexiest commodity, but recent disruptions to the aluminium supply chain have put this rust-red ore in the spotlight.
The Supreme Court of WA has struck out parts of Mineral Resources' claims against Destec, in a dispute over the Chris Ellison-founded company's intellectual property.
Rio Tinto will trial blending renewable diesel with traditional fuel at its Pilbara iron ore operations as an interim measure to reduce its carbon footprint.
Brazil-focused Centaurus Metals has received a timely boost ahead of the festive season at its Jambreiro direct reduction pellet feed iron ore project.
Southern African-focused Askari Metals has terminated the contract of its managing director Gino D’Anna, although he will remain a non-executive director of the company.
Battery metals player Vulcan Energy Resources will tap investors for $164 million as it moves towards commencing work at its Phase One Lionheart project.
Gold producer Emerald Resources has secured a 20.5 per cent stake in West Perth-based Golden Horse Minerals, becoming the junior’s biggest shareholder.
Perth-based South32 has withdrawn production guidance for one of its major assets, the Mozal Aluminium smelter in Mozambique, after an outbreak of civil unrest.
Besieged lithium explorer AVZ Minerals has denied it has engaged in bribery days after its office was raided amid an ongoing investigation by the Australian Federal Police.
Gold aspirant Horizon Minerals has announced the first ore from its Boorara gold project in the Goldfields is being hauled to nearby Paddington Mill for first gold production.
A mining-focused private equity fund co-founded by James McClements has received a $117 million loan through the federal government’s renewable energy scheme.
