The Goldfields
WA sets new exploration record as hunt for gold ramps up
According to new figures, WA companies spent $743.3 million on mineral exploration last quarter – and one precious metal keeps drawing miners west, 140 years after it was first discovered here.
- Michael Philipps
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‘Win, win, win’: Renewables booming in the Goldfields as net zero debate drags on
While the Coalition has been tearing itself apart over the push to net zero, Goldfields miners have been toiling away in the desert, building massive renewables projects that could power small towns.
- Hamish Hastie
Australia’s biggest gold miner tops up childcare workers’ salaries to keep them out of the Super Pit
The company in WA’s Goldfields is crying out for workers, but it can’t attract and retain families if there are no daycare options for their children.
- Hamish Hastie
Hungry for gold: Inside an 800kg heist
The squad Detective Sergeant Graham Baylor works for was first formed in 1907. Thieves’ appetite for gold may have endured, but their methods have modernised.
- Hamish Hastie
The surging commodity that now accounts for a quarter of WA’s mining workforce
With the price of gold surging to a record high of US$4000 per ounce earlier this month, WAtoday looks at the vital role the precious metal continues to play within the WA economy.
- Michael Philipps
When Mother Nature created this part of Australia, she went all out
A splatter of blue – no: two, three, four shades – for the water, a drizzle of pure white for the sand, and a deep red for the soil. And why not some lakes of pink?
- Julie Miller
The abandoned Aussie ghost town that lasted less than 20 years
Big Bell never had a chance to decline slowly. Its residents all swiftly departed, just 19 years after it was founded.
- Julia D'Orazio
State had two-year heads-up on Kalgoorlie’s weak turbines: opposition
The state could have acted in advance to avoid much of the suffering thousands of people are now suffering for days on end, says the opposition energy spokesman.
- Hamish Hastie
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- Weather
‘Look out for each other’: Third night without power for thousands across WA
Premier Roger Cook said on Friday that the storms were unprecedented in both ferocity and focus, and had crumpled 50-metre transmission towers “like tinfoil.”
- Holly Thompson
Gina Rinehart bolsters Liontown stake as $6.6bn takeover looms
The billionaire mining magnate has dropped another $132 million to bolster her stake, wrangling more power ahead of Albemarle’s planned $6.6 billion takeover.
- Jesinta Burton
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