BHP stock is hovering near its priciest valuation in four years amid a resurgence in Australian material shares and a shift away from banks.
Carmeli Argana
The rare earths play finished 2900 per cent higher at $1.04 after hitting $3.18 in an unexplained rally that catapulted its market worth from $6 million at the start of the day to as high as $462m.
Sean Smith
Jake Klein has sold more than $36 million of his Evolution Mining shares less than two months after stepping down as boss of the high-flying Australian gold major.
Adrian Rauso
Madeleine King believes the Resources Technology Showcase will help bridge the gap between kids playing Minecraft and the future of Australia’s most important industry.
The progress of a gold project north-east of Kalgoorlie-Boulder has suffered a setback, with the company tasked with completing a feasibility study placed into administration.
Neil Watkinson
Users of another WA port have been whacked with fee increases following on from big hikes ushered in at the Port of Fremantle.
Simone Grogan
A Russian miner that harboured convicted spies in Western Australia controls a West Perth shell company inexplicably spending hundreds of thousands of dollars each year.
Miners seeking to develop new Pilbara projects will get faster decisions with a traffic light system built into a new regional environmental plan, as the economic roundtable looks at how to speed up approvals.
Katina Curtis
Researchers have come up with a bold plan to extract rare earth metals, critical to defence, technology and renewables, using coal mining waste.
William Ton
Covalent confirmed on Thursday it had met Wesfarmers’ mid-year guidance for the plant, an important part of WA’s rocky path towards expanding its State-supporting mining industry into secondary processing.
South32 will start standing down contractors and prepare to shutter its Mozal aluminium plant, saying it has little confidence it can reach a deal to secure affordable electricity to run the operations.
Daniel Newell
Evolution Mining has recalibrated the gold production target for Mungari following the completion of a $228 million mill expansion at the operation west of Kalgoorlie-Boulder.
Global Lithium Resources has signed a native title agreement as it advances toward a definitive feasibility study at the Manna project east of Kalgoorlie-Boulder.
Have you ever wanted to know what it would be like to operate a haul truck on one of WA’s iron ore mines? Well, here’s your chance.
Shannon Hampton
Evolution Mining will shower investors with the spoils of a record profit that more than doubles last year’s, in a roaring result that could set the scene for a bumper goldie reporting season.
WA’s powerful resources sector is leading the pack with its cutting-edge technologies and inspiring the next generation of budding entrepreneurs and innovators.
Cheyanne Enciso
Murray Watt says he’s ‘going flat out’ to land an overhaul of environmental laws and has a pledge from Premier Roger Cook to do whatever he can to help.
A sharp rebound in Mineral Resources’ share price has seen the company’s top shareholder, besides Chris Ellison, cash out over the past week to the tune of $71 million.
BHP’s Tim Day has succeeded London-bound Simon Trott as the new president of the Chamber of Minerals and Energy WA.
SGH is heading towards $1 billion of annual net profit. To reach this remarkable milestone, the conglomerate has bet big on Australia’s growing economy and its need for more infrastructure and housing.
Roger Cook has thrown his support behind a major facelift for Perth’s convention centre amid concerns about the cost and only days after Treasurer Rita Saffioti called the project ‘hypothetical.’
Jessica Page
Shares in local lithium majors have been turbocharged by news a chunk of the battery commodity’s supply is set to come out of the global market.
Treasurer Rita Saffioti insists she remains ‘very keen’ to redevelop Perth’s much-maligned convention centre, but won’t be rushed into signing a potential billion dollar cheque.
The South Australian refinery which scored a huge taxpayer-funded bailout is at the centre of a years-long probe by European regulators into allegations its parent company misled investors.
Matt Mckenzie
