The bitter court battle over Australia’s largest ever native title payout has taken yet another twist.
David Hannant
A bizarre sideshow has popped up in the battle for WA exploration company Canyon Resources after a prominent mining fund manager apparently launched an extraordinary tirade on an activist shareholder.
Adrian Rauso
Mining billionaire Andrew Forrest is wading back into a long-running legal feud with Traditional Owners over a patch of Fortescue’s vast iron ore empire in the Pilbara.
Daniel Newell
Global accounting firm RSM has warned that investment risks moving overseas in the wake of the Albanese Government’s tax changes for junior miners.
Ambition to break China’s stranglehold on rare earths and critical minerals gets shot in the arm after court clears way for takeover central to audacious mining project in Greenland.
Ben Harvey
An errant X post has caused a bit of a headache at this critical minerals junior after the ASX’s fearsome compliance team came knocking.
Unions and BHP have officially reached a stalemate at the miner’s sole Pilbara iron ore port, with the national workplace umpire asked to pick a side.
In the aftermath of the war in the Middle East, coal from Australia seems a safer bet than gas from other sources, a major producer of the fossil fuel says.
Derek Rose
Australia’s richest person boosted her bet on copper by snapping up a major stake in Perth junior White Cliff Minerals, where her son John Hancock sits on the board.
NRW Holdings continues to beef up its order book, with $313 million worth of contracts secured across mining and civil projects.
Mine financing giant Franco-Nevada has doubled down on Tim Goyder’s Bullabulling project as Minerals 260 lines up about $450m to push the WA gold mine towards construction.
Ryan Johnson
A Laverton gold miner has appointed administrators to two subsidiaries following a fight with a contractor.
Matt Mckenzie
Ben Wyatt’s chair prospects enhanced as former Anglo American board Mark Cutifani quits Woodside Energy for gold miner’s board amid disclosure concerns.
Sean Smith
WA Mines Minister Daniel Pastorelli has urged his Labor counterparts in Canberra to rethink a tax change that is expected to leave junior miners hamstrung.
The State’s key mining lobby group has estimated that extracting WA’s known deposits of minerals, metals and fuels would easily fetch $8 trillion.
The Bull reveals who is set to make bank on the Terrace as Wiluna Mining finally lodges plans for a $500 million IPO. Plus: Top WA prospector hunts for geologists with an adventurous streak.
The Albanese Government’s decision not to spare junior miners from its capital gains tax overhaul ‘is beyond disappointing’ and comes after it ‘already murdered’ a key investment program.
A wealthy Indian family seeking to buy out Canyon Resources at a deep discount has declared its offer ‘best and final’, putting the pressure back on nearly 1500 WA shareholders.
Elliott Investment Management has upped the ante in its push for a radical shake-up of Super Pit owner Northern Star Resources.
Ora Banda Mining has begun operations at Waihi, its third underground mine at the Davyhurst gold project north-west of Kalgoorlie-Boulder.
Neil Watkinson
If you’ve ever wanted to own an unmanned oil platform off WA’s Mid West coast then boy, do we have good news for you. Plus: One Nation’s new kid on the block picks a familiar name as chief advisor.
Nearly 30 staff-owners have shared $20.9m in dividends after the broker and corporate adviser more than doubled net profit to a record $38.3m, as revenue leapt 84 per cent to $118.9m.
Labor has watered down a key pillar of its gas reforms, which it promises will protect buyers from price shock.
Nathan Schmidt
Shares in St Barbara have jumped after it sold its leftover stake in a Papua New Guinea gold mine for $453 million plus royalties.
