Yesterday
Global Lithium chair rejects board revamp over foreign influence fears
Two directors have shut down an attempt by a rival to seize control of the WA critical minerals explorer, pledging to vote against proposals at its delayed AGM.
- Mark Wembridge
Julie Bishop hired to advise ASX-listed Greenland explorer
Energy Transition Minerals has become the latest mining client to join the former foreign minister’s consulting stable, which includes Mineral Resources.
- Elouise Fowler and Mark Wembridge
This Month
- Opinion
- WA election
This year’s election gives miners a chance to flex their muscle
With plenty of marginal seats up for grabs, the road to power for both Labor and the Coalition could run through Western Australia, rather than western Sydney.
- Mark Wembridge
The harsh economics of mining the Arctic
Donald Trump’s plan to purchase Greenland is just one symptom of the world’s lust for polar minerals. But who wants to work in a frozen wasteland?
- The Economist
Trump’s Greenland takeover talks sends ASX-listed explorer soaring
Among the unintended consequences of the President-elect’s desire for the Danish territory has been renewed investor interest in rare earths hopeful Energy Transition Minerals.
- Mark Wembridge and Elouise Fowler
Spotlight falls on outliers as miners embrace paid parental leave
Miners are sweetening benefits to attract female employees. Yet Macmahon, a major employer, is resisting paid time off for new parents.
- Elouise Fowler and Mark Wembridge
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
How AusSuper’s big critical minerals bet went belly up
It’s a wake-up call for the companies that think life’s easy when you’re backed by Australia’s most powerful investor. It isn’t.
- Anthony Macdonald
AustralianSuper takes $100m hit from collapse of cobalt miner Jervois
The battery minerals play, which was once valued at more than $1 billion, will delist from the ASX and be taken private, rendering its equity worthless.
- Updated
- Mark Wembridge and Peter Ker
December 2024
Gold miners see silver lining in big lithium and nickel layoffs
The mothballing of large West Australian critical minerals projects has come at the same time as a surge in demand for production of the precious metal.
- Mark Wembridge
Inside Rio Tinto’s all out war to unlock Serbia’s lithium riches
The mining giant has been trying to develop the resource rich Jadar Valley for two decades. So why is it persisting in the face of intense opposition?
- Updated
- Hans van Leeuwen
Australian graphite firms file US complaint against China
Novonix and Syrah Resources claim China is flooding the market with cheap graphite, and are urging US regulators to impose a 920 per cent tariff.
- Elouise Fowler
Tasmania’s huge Savage River project at risk as iron ore prices fall
Grange Resources, which is developing the mine near Burnie, said it could not fund the expansion at current and forecast prices for the commodity.
- Elouise Fowler, Mark Wembridge and Peter Ker
- Opinion
- Opinion
Critical minerals manufacturing dream tempered by harsh reality
Falling prices mean Australia’s ambitions to develop the industry and downstream processing are on pause. Is this a waiting game, or is it all over?
- Jennifer Hewett
Mining rivals join forces on green iron project
BHP, Rio Tinto and BlueScope have all agreed to develop Australia’s largest iron-making electric smelting furnace, the NeoSmelt pilot facility, in Western Australia.
- Tom Rabe and Peter Ker
- Exclusive
- White collar crime
Pump and dumper behind NSW mining application wave
Gabriel Govinda denies his companies are spruiking stock they receive for selling exploration licences. Residents and politicians are concerned about the convicted pump-and-dumper’s involvement in mining projects along the NSW north coast.
- Max Mason
Investors sue US lithium miner over Rio Tinto’s $6.7b takeover
Three shareholders in Rio Tinto’s $6.7 billion takeover target Arcadium Lithium are suing the US company ahead of the transaction meeting next week.
- Elouise Fowler
- Exclusive
- Metro Mining
Humble rock eclipses iron ore price as aluminium smelters shop around
Bauxite, which is essential to aluminium production, has hit a record price and surpassed the value of Australia’s number-one export for the first time.
- Elouise Fowler
- Exclusive
- Chanticleer CEO poll
‘Australia is falling behind’: 55 CEOs demand election action
Top chief executives say the next federal government must make the nation’s crippling regulatory burden and housing supply top priorities.
- Updated
- James Thomson and Anthony Macdonald
Iron ore to average 10pc less in 2025: Goldman
Goldman Sachs’ Aurelia Waltham sees two years of declines ahead for iron ore, with the steel-making material potentially averaging below $US80 a tonne in 2026.
- Timothy Moore
- Exclusive
- Workplace disputes
MinRes lawyer claims she was forced out for raising ‘cultural issues’
Former legal counsel claims she was retrenched in May because Chris Ellison believed she would make a whistleblower complaint.
- David Marin-Guzman