Ongoing talks between Mines Minister David Michael and Glencore over mining royalties could determine the fate of WA’s last nickel hope and the 1000-plus jobs it sustains.
Adrian Rauso
Canadian energy giant TransAlta has won the approval of the regulator for a new gas power plant that would support a restart of BHP‘s mothballed WA nickel operations.
Sean Smith
The $1 billion-plus Ring of Fire project being developed by Andrew and Nicola Forrest’s private mining company is picking up steam as Canadians warm up to the development.
WA is well-placed to weather global headwinds triggered by US President Donald Trump’s erratic policies, but easing population and softer commodity prices will weigh on the State’s economic growth.
Cheyanne Enciso
An Australian company benefiting from the Indonesian nickel boom that has decimated WA’s industry is pushing back on speculation a royalty hike in the Asian country will gut its bottom line.
IGO is unsure how badly its Kwinana lithium refinery will be stung by a Chinese ban that threatens to induce more pain at a misfiring processing plant already decimating the miner’s bottom line.
Chalice Mining believes it has found a more efficient way to extract and separate the cluster of commodities from its proposed mixed metal mine on farmland near Toodyay.
The State and Federal Governments will spend $3 million looking into building a shared pilot plant for downstream producers of critical minerals.
IGO is bearing the brunt of a battery metals slump, plunging into substantial negative earnings for the December quarter as it hashes out the future of its financially ailing Kwinana lithium refinery.
Simone Grogan
An ‘unusual’ shipment from the remnants of a major mining operation will set sail from Esperance Port on Wednesday.
About 800 of the 3000 workers left in limbo by the shuttering of BHP Nickel West have been given another job at the Big Australian, which has lifted iron ore production in the face of sinking prices.
The mining world will be drastically altered if whispers of a tie-up between Rio Tinto and Glencore are true.
Potential cuts to Indonesian nickel mine output could remove more than a third of global supply from the market, according to Macquarie, presenting a significant upside risk to prices.
Eddie Spence
Newly released Cabinet papers reveal the Howard government feared providing taxpayer funding to BHP’s ill-fated Ravensthorpe nickel project would open the mine funding floodgates.
The world of looking for pay dirt can quickly build up fortunes and just as easily wipe them out. With the year drawing to a close we take a look at eight junior miners that exemplified this rollercoaster.
Listed junior Alliance Nickel has laid blueprints for a mine in the Goldfields that would cost $1.65 billion to build, in a long bet on the battery commodity’s return to life.
Mark Creasy’s role as the kingmaker for Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting and Chile’s SQM to snare a WA battery metals explorer has paid handsomely.
The lithium market’s disintegration has been laid bare with a gushing stream of dividends from Greenbushes drying up.
A junior gold miner chaired by the ‘King of Kalgoorlie’ will absorb a struggling nickel minnow that was left in the lurch by Mineral Resources.
The ASA is recommending its members vote against the re-election of Mr Nossal, former Santos chief Keith Spence and Xiaoping Xang, saying they need to take responsibility for the Western Areas takeover.
The Federal Government has deemed Chalice Mining’s Gonneville mixed metals project north east of Perth to be of national significance, and will help the company navigate ‘complex’ regulatory approvals.
Barminco will keep on shovelling at the Nova nickel mine — and will likely still be there when it gives up its last load — after securing a $157 million contract extension with owner IGO.
Daniel Newell
BHP says it has made redeployment offers to hundreds of workers following the suspension of its Nickel West arm.
A bid to pull Panoramic Resources from administration has cleared a huge hurdle after the WA Supreme Court dashed Barminco’s hopes of jumping the payment queue.
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