This Month
The winners and losers in this year’s wild commodity markets
Some investors are celebrating a remarkable first-half for precious metals, while others have been wrong-footed by a reality check in alumina and coal.
June
Traders pile into commodity markets as returns rival 2022 boom
The US bombing of nuclear sites in Iran has turbocharged a rally in energy prices, extending the best returns for commodities since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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This metal has overtaken gold as commodity market’s hottest trade
Platinum has surged more than 30 per cent this year, outpacing gold’s 26 per cent gain and sending a small cohort of ASX-listed mining stocks on a tear.
December 2023
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.
August 2023
Goyder says markets should ‘get real’ about Chalice’s long-term value
The largest shareholder in the critical minerals hopeful says a slump in its share price is an overreaction and he expects shares to recover within six months.
Chalice confident it can fund $2b critical minerals jackpot
Market darling Chalice Mining reckons it will have no trouble finding the billions needed to build a critical minerals mine on the outskirts of Perth
February 2023
At $1400 each, here’s why thieves are after your (car’s) ‘cat’
Thefts of catalytic converters, the precious-metal-filled exhaust additions on most cars, have surged 1000 per cent in the US, thanks partly to the war in Ukraine.
Standard Chartered gets golden ticket at Chalice Mining
Tim Goyder’s battery metals tearaway Chalice Mining has called in Standard Chartered’s metals and mining bankers, as it heads towards firming up the resource at its headline-grabbing Gonneville deposit in Western Australia.
May 2022
Chalice wins permission to drill in WA state forest
One of Australia’s most anticipated critical minerals targets will finally be drilled, after the WA government gave Chalice permission to work in a state forest.
Chalice asks opponents to see the forest for the trees
An Australian critical minerals discovery is at the centre of debate over whether pursuit of metals for decarbonisation can justify local environmental damage.
April 2022
Chalice on the slow tracks at Julimar
The global trend for critical minerals projects to be hampered by community opposition is slowing work at one of Australia’s best modern mineral discoveries.
January 2022
War tensions another tailwind for commodities
Any military conflict in Ukraine could tighten several commodities markets as further sanctions on major producer Russia crimp supply, analysts say.
Why Australia’s best companies were built in the 1980s
Some mark the ’80s as the era of the corporate cowboys, but it also heralded the arrival of Australia’s most successful global finance house, major hi-tech success stories, and ‘ocker’ advertising.
How the takeover king of the 1980s came undone
John Spalvins controlled the biggest industrial group in Australia at the end of the decade but it all came crashing down.
November 2021
Why Australia is about to go platinum
Hydrogen and clean transport at are the heart of future demand for the six metals known as platinum group elements and Australia may soon get a piece of the pie.
Critical minerals cluster makes Goyder a billionaire
Discovery of a jackpot near Perth sparked a rally in two of Tim Goyder’s companies this week and a third will make a big splash on Thursday.
Chalice soars on ‘best ever’ platinum discovery
Analysts say Chalice Mining has made one of the world’s best finds of the metal, useful in hydrogen applications, outside Perth, making it a takeover target.
June 2015
Taking the long view on Anglo American's discount disadvantage
Mark Cutifani's overhaul of Anglo American aims to hoist its return on capital employed to 15 per cent in the next two years, from just over half that now. It's a long road.