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Main Street, Busselton, is out the door for Rio Tinto boss Simon Trott.

Herd on the TerracePremiumTrott’s Rio Tinto cost surgery gets pretty forensic

A bit of community M&A shows mining giant Rio Tinto is leaving no stone unturned in Simon Trott’s campaign to slash costs by close to $1 billion. Plus: MinRes steps up in Freo’s hour of need.

Rio Tinto CEO Simon Trott at the company’s AGM.

MiningPremiumBold expansion plans key for Rio Tinto business

Rio Tinto plans to expand its marketing operations to trade more metal from other producers as well as derivatives as part of a drive by new CEO Simon Trott to make the business more agile.

Paul-Alain Hunt, Katharine Gemmell and Thomas Biesheuvel

Core Lithium CEO Paul Brown

MiningPremiumPay bump and new bonus dangled in front of lithium CEO

Core Lithium’s boss has been handed a $139,875 base salary increase plus a new bonus worth up $1.38 million over three years. 

Adrian Rauso

BHP ?operates the Escondida copper ?mine in Chile while Rio ?Tinto holds a 30 per cent ?stake. (EPA PHOTO)

MiningPremiumBHP halts work at world's largest copper mine after worker death

BHP says operations at the ‌world's largest copper mine in Chile have been halted following the death of a worker in an accident.

Staff Writers

Bellevue Gold managing director and chief executive Darren Stralow at the 998 underground level.

Gold MiningPremiumBellevue Gold to significantly expand exploration drilling

Bellevue Gold will significantly expand exploration drilling this financial year as it aims to define potential new mining areas to support future production growth at the company’s northern Goldfields project.

Neil Watkinson

Zenith Energy’s Emerson Hicks and Dominic Da Cruz, Marlinyu Ghoorlie Aboriginal Corporation’s Geoff Curtis, Zenith chief executive Hamish Moffat, MGAC chief executive Mark Champion and Zenith’s Michael Buzzard mark the signing of the formal project services agreement between the two organisations.

Native titlePremiumZenith Energy signs project agreement with Marlinyu Ghoorlie

Zenith Energy’s agreement with Marlinyu Ghoorlie Aboriginal Corporation creates a pathway for greater traditional owner and local business participation in major energy infrastructure across the Goldfields.

Neil Watkinson

Deputy Premier and Sports Minister Rita Saffioti is pinning hopes on a Dockers win on Saturday.

Herd on the TerracePremiumThe six senior WA pollies going to the ’G for Dockers’ D-Day

All aboard the Freo train! The Bull reveals WA’s six cabinet ministers travelling to Melbourne for the Dockers’ big day. Plus: Twiggy rubs shoulders with Hollywood at Dreamforce conference.

WA winners at the Women in Resources National Awards, Jemima Reid from Barminco and Marnie Finlayson from DevEx Resources.

MiningPremiumWA’s big winners at national mining awards

A rising star and an industry stalwart were the two WA winners of the Mineral Council of Australia’s Women in Resources National Awards in Melbourne.

Adrian Rauso

Max Cunningham, CEO of the National Stock Exchange

BusinessPremiumPerth mining boss hands NSX biggest listing in a decade

A Perth mining boss is taking his $259 million Canadian copper explorer to a stock exchange that managed just 667 trades last year, betting on its comeback as an alternative to the ASX.

Ryan Johnson

Global Lithium Resources' Manna project is 100km east of Kalgoorlie-Boulder.

MiningPremiumUAE firm makes $333m bid for WA lithium hopeful

Goldfields mine developer Global Lithium Resources is set to be bought out by a private Middle Eastern outfit for $333 million. 

Adrian Rauso

Critical Minerals CEO Tony Sage at the company’s rare earths deposit near Qaqortoq, Greenland

Herd on the TerracePremiumTrump card boosts Tony Sage’s arctic venture

There were two Aussies likely popping the champagne at the weekend in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s mooted Greenland deal with Denmark. Plus: Goldman Sachs, Ad Astra clip the ticket on freight rail buyback.

Ramelius Resources managing director Mark Zeptner.

MiningPremiumRamelius stunner with more gold than expected

Shares in Ramelius Resources jumped after the mid-tier gold miner boosted its long-term production outlook.

Adrian Rauso

BHP was the only Pilbara iron ore giant to have replenished the reserves it mined over the past decade, according to fresh analysis.

MiningPremiumBHP alone in replenishing Pilbara iron ore

BHP was the only Pilbara iron ore giant to have replenished the reserves it mined over the past decade, according to fresh analysis.

Adrian Rauso

BHP chief executive officer Brandon Craig.

MiningPremiumBHP CEO has a ‘request’ for China amid iron ore standoff

BHP boss Brandon Craig appealed to China’s steel industry bigwigs and political leaders to ‘protect’ an iron ore trade relationship that has created ‘shared success’.

Adrian Rauso

Northern Star Resources’ Super Pit at Kalgoorlie-Boulder produced 480,429 ounces of gold in the latest financial year, up from 405,415oz in FY25.

Gold miningPremiumAustralian gold output holds steady at 303 tonnes in FY26

Australian gold production has now averaged about 300 tonnes annually during the past decade, according to mining consultants Surbiton Associates.

Neil Watkinson

Wiluna Mining chair Martin Alciaturi and chief executive Victor Rajasooriar

MiningPremiumWiluna flips it around at WA’s most notorious gold mine

How do you handle a mine that bankrupted its previous two owners and torched hundreds of millions of dollars? According to its new leadership, the answer is simple: flip the playbook.

Adrian Rauso

Ian Hansen, formerly Wesfarmers' chemicals, energy and fertilisers boss, is chair of Covalent Lithium.

MiningPremiumBCI Minerals lures Covalent Lithium chair

BCI Minerals has lured Covalent Lithium chair Ian Hansen to the board as harvesting gets under way at the company’s massive Mardie Salt project near Karratha.

Daniel Newell

Global Lithium Resources’ Manna project is 110km east of Kalgoorlie-Boulder.

Critical mineralsPremiumLithium project’s value doubles, new study reveals

The value of the Manna lithium project has doubled, according to a new study which examined the integration of the ex-IGO Nova-Bollinger processing facility into the project east of Kalgoorlie-Boulder.

Neil Watkinson

The Olympus scandium project is 150km north-east of Warburton in the remote northern Goldfields.

Critical mineralsPremiumHawk Resources to start exploration at Olympus

Hawk Resources will start an exploration program next Monday after exercising its option to acquire 80 per cent of the Olympus scandium project in the remote northern Goldfields.

Neil Watkinson

FirstAU’s takeover of Javelin Minerals will create a new entity with four projects boasting about 350,000 ounces in the Eastern Goldfields.

Gold consolidationPremiumFirstAU in $46.5m takeover of Javelin Minerals

The merging of two gold exploration companies will create a new entity with four projects boasting about 350,000 ounces in the Eastern Goldfields.

Neil Watkinson

Mining billionaire Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest has lodged a bid to overturn Australia’s largest ever native title payout – despite having already paid it. NewsWire / Martin Ollman

NewsPremiumBillionaire bids to overturn native title compo

The bitter court battle over Australia’s largest ever native title payout has taken yet another twist.

David Hannant

Tribeca Investment Partners director Ben Cleary and activist shareholder Jeremy Raper.

MiningPremium ‘F**king loser’: Fundie’s tirade against activist investor

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

Yindjibarndi Group chief executive Michael Woodley and Fortescue chairman Andrew Forrest.

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Twiggy’s Fortescue reignites feud with native title holders

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

Minerals exploration

MiningPremiumJunior miners ‘will move money overseas’ under tax changes

Global accounting firm RSM has warned that investment risks moving overseas in the wake of the Albanese Government’s tax changes for junior miners.

Adrian Rauso