Yesterday
New Hope mounts bid for Anglo American coal mines
New Hope has warned the UK-listed miner that its asking price will need to be lower due to a devastating fire at one of the flagship mines.
- Elouise Fowler
This Month
US Supreme Court may consider appeal against Rio-BHP copper mine
Rio Tinto’s handling of the Juukan Gorge affair has been cited by Native Americans and other groups opposed to the development of a copper deposit in Arizona.
- Matthew Cranston
High Court blow to Australia-backed coal mine in UK
Mining entrepreneur Owen Hegarty has spent a decade backing West Cumbria Mining’s controversial plan to mine coking coal in England. His bet is looking shaky.
- Hans van Leeuwen
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
IGO boss rides lithium rollercoaster with the EV faithful
Large cap miner IGO is one of the faces of the critical metals rout. It’s hit its new CEO harder than most.
- Anthony Macdonald
Lithium will be a rollercoaster for the next 10 years, says IGO boss
Ivan Vella says his company will capitalise on extremely volatile prices for the battery material over the next decade and add a new mineral to its portfolio.
- Peter Ker
- Exclusive
- ACCC
Union wants BHP to pay $10,000 annual bonuses to iron ore workers
The $10,000 retention bonus is part of a log of claims presented to BHP on Wednesday as unions seek to retake the Pilbara.
- Brad Thompson
MinRes calls bottom on lithium as price pain spreads to China
Lithium stocks have bounced as rock-bottom prices finally take their toll on one of China’s biggest integrated miners and battery makers.
- Brad Thompson, Elouise Fowler and Alex Gluyas
MinRes slashes worker conditions as it pockets $1.1b from asset sale
FIRB approval clears way for MinRes to sell down its stake in Onslow Iron haul road as it cuts costs with big changes to worker rosters.
- Brad Thompson
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
ASX investors are stuck between a rock, CBA at $143, and a hard place
CBA shares above $140 and China’s wobbles have sent investors heading towards the ASX’s third bucket: industrials. That puts their management teams under pressure.
- Anthony Macdonald
- Opinion
- ALP
Why Australia’s miners are so alarmed by Albanese
The powerhouse industry is aghast at the government’s policies on industrial relations and environmental changes and has broken diplomatic cover to say so.
- Jennifer Hewett
Global Lithium directors quit board averting fiery vote
Global Lithium directors Greg Lilleyman and Hayley Lawrance will resign as non-executive directors ahead of a contested shareholder vote to oust them.
- Brad Thompson
- Opinion
- Opinion
Labor’s derailing the mining engine of Australia’s economic growth
The McPhillamys gold mine cancellation highlights the disconnect between the government’s agenda and the real world confronting the Australian resources sector.
- Patrick Gibbons
MinRes investigates jumbo iron ore road train rollovers
Chris Ellison’s Mineral Resources has been hit by two rollovers of fully loaded iron ore road trains as it races to finish a dedicated haul road.
- Brad Thompson
You can compete with better wages and conditions, Albanese to tell miners
The prime minister will take a veiled swipe at the nation’s top mining executives in an address to the minerals industry at Parliament House on Monday.
- Ronald Mizen
WA vows to keep heat on PM over green laws
WA Premier Roger Cook says his state won’t stop lobbying Canberra to water down environmental protection laws.
- Tom Rabe
ASX-listed gold miner places near $100 million bet on African project
Australia’s largest African-focused gold miner has increased its bet on a Guinean project, giving the company the option to lob a takeover.
- Elouise Fowler
Uranium mine shareholders try to delay Rio Tinto capital raise
The Takeovers Panel confirmed two of the uranium miner’s shareholders are trying to delay an $880 million capital raise backed by major shareholder, Rio Tinto.
- Elouise Fowler
Arcadium to mothball Mt Cattlin amid low lithium prices
The collapse in lithium prices has claimed its first major victim in Western Australia.
- Elouise Fowler
The only profitable lithium mine in Australia revealed
Every Australian lithium mine is losing money except for the famously low-cost Greenbushes, which could withstand a deeper commodity price rout.
- Elouise Fowler
Miners sense ‘notable shift’ from Albanese during trip west
West Australian miners say Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s 23rd visit to Perth has coincided with a major shift in attitude towards the state’s biggest industry.
- Tom Rabe
