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Simon Trott, flanked by Jakob Staustholm, at Rio Tinto’s Western Range mine in June.

Australian mining giant backs hometown hero for top job

WA-born Simon Trott’s promotion to Rio Tinto chief executive has won plaudits across the board, billionaire iron ore magnate Gina Rinehart urging the new boss to transfer its headquarters from London to Australia.

  • Simon Johanson

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Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers has launched legal action to tackle Chinese influence over Australian mining companies.

Chalmers hits China-linked companies with landmark lawsuit over crucial military minerals

The US and its allies are increasingly alarmed over China’s control of the global trade in minerals needed for military hardware such as warplanes and missiles.

  • Mike Foley and Nick Bonyhady
Larvotto Resources managing director Ron Heeks. The company has tabled a DFS forecasting a net present value of $694M and an EBITDA of $251M per year across an 8.2-year mine life.

Larvotto study signals huge $694M earn for NSW gold-antimony mine

Larvotto Resources’ DFS on its NSW Hillgrove gold-antimony mine has dished out a huge net present value of $694M for an annual EBITDA of $250m and an 11-month payback.

  • James Pearson
An F-35 fighter jet.

How China is controlling Australia’s – and the world’s – rare earths trade

China is threatening to land a knockout blow in its trade war with Donald Trump, targeting a vulnerability in the United States’ most crucial military infrastructure with a strike that was decades in the making.

  • Simon Johanson and Colin Kruger
Latitude 66 will participate in a comprehensive European Union-funded geophysical and geological survey of its flagship KSB critical minerals project in Finland, which will include a huge area of magneto-telluric measurement.

Latitude 66 preps for EU-funded, deep-rock critical minerals hunt

Latitude 66’s flagship KSB project in Finland is a key part of a wide-scale, $9M EU-funded geophysical and geological exploration and innovation program hunting for new critical mineral resources in deep rock.

  • Doug Bright
Footage online appears to show an Optimus model talking to an attendee at the event and having a discussion about where it lives and where it was trained.

Elon Musk warns rare earth magnet shortage may delay Tesla’s robots

China’s halt this month on exports of magnets containing heavy rare earth metals has affected Tesla’s plans to manufacture Optimus robots.

  • Keith Bradsher
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One thing that has kept Australia in Trump’s good books has been the fact we have a trade deficit with the US.

Trump wants them. China needs them. So Albanese has a $1b scheme to stockpile them

Labor has pledged to create a stockpile for critical minerals, which are coveted by US president Donald Trump while supply is controlled by China.

  • Mike Foley and Nick Toscano
US President Donald Trump.

The two Australian giants winning from Trump’s fast track

President Donald Trump’s administration is speeding up approvals for critical mineral projects in its trade war with China.

  • Simon Johanson and Paul-Alain Hunt
WA opposition leader Mia Davies.

Nationals’ WA hopeful backs Labor’s ‘billions for billionaires’ mining policy

The Nationals candidate for one of the most-watched seats in the country in the upcoming federal election is making a move that may raise eyebrows.

  • Hamish Hastie
The heavy rare earth metals covered by the export suspension are used in magnets essential for many kinds of electric motors, including EVs.

China halts critical mineral, magnet exports as trade war intensifies

The move threatens to choke off supplies of components central to car makers, aerospace manufacturers, semiconductor companies and military contractors around the world.

  • Keith Bradsher

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