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Allkem chairman Peter Coleman previously ran Woodside.

Allkem’s Peter Coleman says short-selling shouldn’t be banned

The resources executive’s comments come as Chalice Minerals boss Alex Dorsch calls for the government to follow South Korea’s lead and ban the practice.

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  • Elouise Fowler

Yesterday

Liontown lithium royalty dispute headed for courts

Royalties worth up to $533 million will be at the centre of a court battle between lithium developer Liontown and a private prospector.

  • Peter Ker

This Month

Orica CEO Sanjeev Gandhi says the new firm  will help double down on infrastructure

Orica prepares for end of thermal coal with $559m software firm buy

The explosives and mining services group is pivoting its business to focus on new mines needed to the transition away from fossil fuels, and on infrastructure.

  • Elouise Fowler

Billionaire taps into couples workforce with iron ore ‘love shacks’

Minerals Resources boss Chris Ellison says the company’s on-site accommodation for couples is as good as anything at a beachside resort in Broome.

  • Brad Thompson
Chalice managing director Alex Dorsch.

Ban short-selling in the ‘national interest’, Chalice boss pleads

Hedge funds targeting pre-revenue companies holds back Australia’s objectives in critical minerals, according to aspirant Chalice.

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  • Peter Ker
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Mineral Resources boss Chris Ellison.

Ellison backs legal fight linked to Bald Hill lithium mine

Mineral Resources boss Chris Ellison has put his hand up to join the board of Singapore-listed Alita Resources if a push to dump McGrathNicol as liquidators succeeds.

  • Brad Thompson
Peter Coleman Allkem Chairman

Allkem shareholders green-light $9.7b Livent merger

The merged group will have the capacity to produce and process lithium in Argentina, Canada, the US, Australia, Japan, and China.

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  • Elouise Fowler

BHP rules out return to Broken Hill as it passes on copper project buy

The miner inherited an option to acquire Havilah Resources’ Kalkaroo asset through its $9.6 billion purchase of OZ Minerals. It won’t take up those rights.

  • Peter Ker
Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting has had a busy year of deals.

Rinehart walks the talk with $1.7b lithium buy

Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting has been in a few lithium scraps, but has invested more in the sector than most this year. Azure Minerals is significant.

  • Anthony Macdonald
Gina Rinehart has joined forces with SQM in a $1.7 billion takeover bid for Azure Minerals.

Rinehart joins forces with lithium giant SQM in $1.7b Azure bid

Gina Rinehart has thrashed out a partnership that delivers part of her ambitions to become a major lithium player in her home state of Western Australia.

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  • Brad Thompson
A lithium mine in Western Australia.

Lithium heavyweights on cusp of sealing Azure partnership

The battle for control of lithium explorer Azure Minerals is expected to become clearer this week as major investors get close to a cooperation pact.

  • Peter Ker

Allkem lithium merger splits pension funds

An $11 billion merger of Livent and Allkem is on track to secure the requisite shareholder support on Tuesday even though AustralianSuper is expected to oppose.

  • Peter Ker and Joanne Tran

Struggling nickel sector ‘disappointed’ by critical minerals snub

Nickel bosses are dismayed at being left off the Albanese government’s critical minerals list when low prices have imperilled hundreds of jobs.

  • Peter Ker and Brad Thompson

Gina Rinehart lived up to her outsider status when accepting The Australian Financial Review’s Business Person of the Year award

Rinehart’s common sense crucial to green mining transition

Policy-makers need to heed the calls by two prominent female resource sector leaders not to hobble the upstream mining sector on which the nation’s prosperity rests.

  • The AFR View
BHP’s Nickel West asset president Jessica Farrell .

BHP issues dire warning on nickel mines

The Albanese government is overhauling its critical minerals strategy but the teetering nickel sector remains on the outer, with BHP and Forrest-owned mines at risk.

  • Brad Thompson and Peter Ker
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Blowouts hit taxpayer-backed rare earths refinery

Taxpayers may have to lend more than the $1.25b already pledged towards the WA refinery that aims to break China’s stranglehold on the supply of rare earths

  • Peter Ker
Livent chief executive Paul Graves and  Allkem boss Martin Perez de Solay last month.

We’re voting against Allkem’s $16b merger with Livent, Ausbil says

The major fund management has made it clear that it believes the proposed ownership ratio doesn’t reflect the nature and the size of the ASX-listed group.

  • Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Panoramic looks like it is in the right place at the right time, but it has not turned out that way.

Battery metals sound good, they just don’t always work out that way

We need more nickel to fuel the energy transition, so why has one of the ASX’s pure play nickel mainstays gone under?

  • Anthony Macdonald

Eyes on Forrest, IGO as nickel’s nightmare year claims Panoramic

A surfeit of Indonesian nickel and weather disruptions have forced a former takeover target into administration. Will a fire sale lure IGO or Andrew Forrest?

  • Peter Ker and Brad Thompson

Sacked CEO sues SolGold after boardroom stoush

BHP and Newmont’s struggling Ecuadorian copper play has hit more trouble, with former CEO Darryl Cuzzubbo filing a multimillion-dollar breach of contract claim.

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  • Peter Ker