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Brad ThompsonMining reporter

Brad Thompson is The Australian’s mining reporter, covering all aspects of the resources industry and based in Perth.

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MiningMining & Energy

LAVERTON, AUSTRALIA - AUGUST 04: Gold Road Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director Duncan Gibbs poses in front of the processing plant at the Gruyere Gold Mine on August 04, 2019 200km north-east of Laverton, Australia. The $621 million Gruyere gold mine is situated 200km north-east of Laverton in Western Australia's Great Victoria Desert. Discovered in October 2013, it is Australia's most recent major gold discovery and is expected to produce between 75,000 and 100,000 ounces in 2019. (Photo by Paul Kane/Getty Images)

Gold Road blasts South African suitor in $3.3bn takeover tussle

The takeover target has let fly at South African mining heavyweight after rejecting a $3.3bn all-cash offer.

Brad Thompson

DefenceBusiness

Austal chief executive Paddy Gregg in front of the first steel-hulled vessel Austal has built for the US Navy. Picture: Tad Denson

Aussie shipbuilder Austal moulded by its US ambition

South Korea’s Hanwha wants a bigger piece of Austal as it carries out top-secret work for the US Navy and emerges as a key player in AUKUS.

Brad Thompson

MiningMining & Energy

LAVERTON, AUSTRALIA - AUGUST 04: An ore dump truck returns from a stock pile at the Gruyere Gold Mine on August 04, 2019 200km north-east of Laverton, Australia. The $621 million Gruyere gold mine is situated 200km north-east of Laverton in Western Australia's Great Victoria Desert. Discovered in October 2013, it is Australia's most recent major gold discovery and is expected to produce between 75,000 and 100,000 ounces in 2019. (Photo by Paul Kane/Getty Images)

Gold Fields makes $3.3bn bid for its mine partner

South Africa’s Gold Fields has revealed a takeover bid for Gold Road after running out of patience with its partner in a West Australian gold mine.

Brad Thompson

ResourcesMining & Energy

How two iron ore heiresses sealed a $5bn mining windfall

Two Perth sisters quietly pulled off one of the biggest deals in Australian mining industry history and pocketed $5bn. Here’s the story of how it happened.

Brad Thompson

TakeoversCompanies

Austal chairman Richard Spencer at the company's Henderson shipyards, south of Perth. Picture: supplied

Austal fires broadside at Hanwha

Chairman Richard Spencer has ruled out caving in to Hanwha’s demands for a seat on the Austal board and described his number one shareholder Andrew Forrest ‘as an Australian patriot’.

Brad Thompson

TakeoversBusiness

3/6/2020Austal generic in the plant .Pic Colin Murty The Australian

Hanwha seeks Austal board seat

The billionaire Forrests could be matched to the dollar by shareholder Hanwha on the register of the company described as the “sovereign champion for Australia”.

Brad Thompson

Questions remainIndigenous

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. APRIL 17, 2024: High Court of Australia in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

States grapple with native title fallout

A landmark High Court ruling that native title is property has left state governments and miners grappling with the consequences.

Paige Taylor and Brad Thompson

MiningMining & Energy

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - February 26 2025:Senator Linda Reynolds during the Community Affairs Estimates at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

China is a manipulator of critical minerals, Linda Reynolds says

Northern Minerals’ experience trying to get Chinese-linked investors off its register gives weight to Senator Linda Reynolds’ claim the company is caught in a proxy war between Australia and China.

Brad Thompson

MiningMining & Energy

Northern Minerals' Browns Range heavy rare earths project. Picture - Supplied

Rare earths group’s Chinese investors defy Chalmers order

China-linked investors are defying orders from the Albanese government to sell shares in Northern Minerals’ strategically important rare earths project.

Brad Thompson

MiningMining & Energy

Demand for lithium has skyrocketed with the rise of lithium-ion batteries, putting it at the center of a global scramble. Shown, an aerial view of the brine pools and processing plant at the SQM lithium mine on the Chile’s Atacama salt flat in 2013. PHOTO: IVAN ALVARADO/REUTERS

AVZ breaks silence over US talks on Congo lithium project

Perth-based AVZ Minerals has revealed more detail over its legal victory on controversial lithium project claimed by China in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Brad Thompson

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