This Month
- Analysis
- Mergers & acquisitions
Why the US wants BHP and Rio to get crazy rich in the Congo
BHP and Rio Tinto see just one problem with the big new copper mine Robert Friedland has built in the DRC. But the US government reckons it has the solution
- Peter Ker
November 2024
Craving copper? $502m miner Marimaca preps ASX listing
Sources said CEO Hayden Locke has been encouraged by TSX-listed $C7.5 billion Capstone Copper’s ASX listing earlier this year and sees it as a template for Marimaca.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
US mining legend Robert Friedland plots ASX listing
The billionaire businessman says he will list his iron ore assets in Australia next year and will use an IPO to fund acquisitions of local critical minerals projects.
- Peter Ker
August 2023
The surprising new player in global mining
Saudi Arabia is seeking to take minority stakes in global mining assets that will over time help provide access to supplies of strategic minerals.
- Updated
- Thomas Biesheuvel and Jacob Lorinc
October 2021
BHP discussing Congo copper deal in shift of strategy
The group, which has had a policy of shunning risky jurisdictions, is in talks about buying into a copper project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- Thomas Biesheuvel and James Attwood
July 2021
Two of the biggest names in Australian mining join SPAC frenzy
Bill Beament and Nev Power join a star-studded acquisition vehicle focused on the “once in a century”″ decarbonisation trend.
- Peter Ker
May 2020
Canadian billionaire Robert Friedland takes a sip of Chalice
A billionaire Canadian mining bigwig has raised an Aussie gold and nickel glass to his lips.
- Sarah Thompson, Anthony Macdonald and Tim Boyd
November 2019
Why this billionaire thinks the DRC is set for a copper boom
Ivanhoe founder Robert Friedland says social unrest in Chile makes it "terrible place to invest in mining" and praised the Democratic Republic of Congo as an attractive option.
- Elena Mazneva
September 2019
- Opinion
- Trade wars
We have entered a weird place in the aluminium trade
Australia’s un-tariffed extra tonnes are likely displacing imports from Canada rather than any level of US production.
- Matthew Stevens
- Opinion
- Mining
Union goes to war over BHP labour hire
The Big Australian's in-house contractor labelled a 'dodgy, deceptive con job' by CFMEU.
- Updated
- Matthew Stevens