Local gold miners are making the annual pilgrimage to their mecca with piggy banks bursting at the seams.
Adrian Rauso
BUILDING BILLIONS: Their offices were walking distance apart. Yet Tony Rovira had never met Gina Rinehart when Australia’s richest woman and her Chilean partner lobbed a takeover bid for Azure Minerals in 2023.
Mark Drummond
Wildcat Resources has been accused of counting a mining tenement it does not control in plans for one of WA’s last remaining lithium developments.
The conglomerate’s Covalent Lithium joint venture with Chile’s SQM has completed construction of its lithium hydroxide plant in Kwinana, refocusing investor attention on the all-important commissioning.
Sean Smith
The annual poll of the world’s best mining destinations by Canada’s Fraser Institute has the State falling from 4th to 17th place in 2024 on regulatory and policy concerns cited by respondents.
IGO has effectively determined there is no value left in a troubled lithium hydroxide plant at Kwinana, but division at the top of the business is delaying a call on what should be done with it next.
Simone Grogan
The boss of Australia’s largest lithium miner thinks the Albanese Government should not prioritise purchasing lithium for its $1.2 billion critical minerals stockpile.
Mineral Resources capped off a tumultuous financial year by reaching revised iron and lithium targets, but a mountain of debt still casts a shadow over the Chris Ellison-led company.
Daniel Newell and Adrian Rauso
Liontown Resources expects FY26 will be a ‘transition year’ as it moves underground at Kathleen Valley in the northern Goldfields and awaits a sustained rebound in prices for the key battery material.
Daniel Newell
Mineral Resources, PLS, Liontown Resources and IGO have recovered $6 billion of value since speculation of production cutbacks in China lifted lithium prices off last month’s lows.
A bee scientist called upon by a State Government appeals office has taken the sting out of claims against Rio Tinto’s lithium waste processing plans.
Acquisitions are on the cards, Liontown Resources has revealed, spectacularly turning the table on suggestions its burdened lithium mine could soon be ceded to Gina Rinehart or mothballed.
Presentation notes to be used by new chair Malcolm Bundey in meetings with investors and proxy advisers this week say Mr Ellison’s planned exit timeline is being ‘reviewed’.
The man running Wesfarmers’ new lithium operations will shift to a recently-vacated chief operating officer role at Liontown Resources, which is also on the hunt to replace its exiting finance chief.
A restructure has been foreshadowed at the boardroom of IGO, following a shift led by ex-Rio Tinto executive Ivan Vella to make the price battered battery metals miner “leaner and more agile”.
The corporate cop has confirmed Kali Metals’ emergence on the stock market last year is going to be in the thick of its investigation into Mineral Resources.
One of Chris Ellison’s children and her husband have been on Kali Metals’ share register, it can be revealed.
The chief of PLS keeps buying millions of dollars worth of his company’s stock amid a share price slide showing no signs of abating.
A further delay suggests a decision may now not be made until 2026.
Mineral Resources and Ganfeng in November poured in $300 million of cash to keep the ailing Mt Marion lithium mine afloat and now another $300m could soon be on the way.
More lithium has been added to Pilgangoora’s mineral inventory as PLS pushes ahead with expansion plans at the Pilbara mine despite a torrid market.
The uphill battle WA’s six operating lithium mines face to keep the lights on is becoming more arduous with the battery commodity’s value tumbling down a cliff.
The chief financial officer of PLS who had shifted across from a career in the buy now, pay later sector to the then-red hot lithium market has handed in his resignation.
The likes of Rio Tinto, Mineral Resources and Gold Fields have condemned an ‘exorbitant’ council rate increase, with a warning the issue is festering throughout WA.
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