The likes of Mineral Resources and Liontown could partner with their WA lithium rival on processing technology if all goes to plan.
Adrian Rauso
Stuart Macnaughton will join the lithium joint venture next month and take its helm when Wesfarmers veteran Ross Martelli retires at the end of the year.
Sean Smith
Greatland Resources chair Mark Barnaba and lithium kingpin Dale Henderson have joined this year’s mining cash rush, selling big licks of stocks into their companies’ galloping share prices.
Adrian Rauso and Sean Smith
Chris Ellison’s Mineral Resources is heading underground at the Mt Marion lithium mine in the Goldfields as part of a $490 million expansion it says will deliver customers a higher-grade product.
Daniel Newell
Mineral Resources is looking to boost its headcount by about 370 after pressing the restart button for its Bald Hill lithium mine in the Goldfields.
Chris Ellison has offloaded a massive slice of his stake in Mineral Resources to pocket more than $122 million and kick-start a family office.
WA’s environmental watchdog has given its blessing for a lithium mine expansion to go ahead, provided feral cats and foxes are killed to offset vegetation clearing.
Mineral Resources will ride the full upside of high lithium prices for longer after its finalisation of a sale deal with POSCO was pushed back.
Liontown is eager to expand its Kathleen Valley mine amid a lithium price run that appears to still have legs following a rumoured spot cargo sale by one of its rivals.
Chris Ellison’s Mineral Resources whittled down a mountain of debt and boosted its production targets after successfully weathering Pilbara storms.
A WA lithium miner has sensationally parted ways with its chief financial officer after he was in the job for less than a month.
Greenbushes is at risk of losing its status as the world’s best hard rock lithium mine after IGO lifted the lid on ‘systemic’ operational issues.
Australia’s biggest lithium pure-play is back to printing money, boosting its bank balance by $501 million during the first three months of 2026.
Australia’s largest conglomerate and a Chinese firm under tax scrutiny are the two major beneficiaries of a WA taxpayer-funded lithium support package.
Rio Tinto is yet to feel the effects of a global oil crisis fuelled by war in the Middle East but concedes it does not know how the ongoing conflict will hit supply chains in the second half of this year.
The Gina Rinehart-backed company has been granted a five-year royalty holiday for future lithium production at its Lionheart project.
Electric vehicle sales in Australia are booming as the global oil supply crisis rages on, yet WA’s lithium producers should temper expectations of an imminent bonanza.
US chemicals giant Albemarle says it has “largely completed” sacking roughly 250 WA workers after making the call to idle the Kemerton lithium hydroxide refinery in February.
Simone Grogan
NRW Holdings is back on the tools at Core Lithium’s Finniss mine in the Northern Territory after securing a surface mining services contract worth about $50 million.
Revelations of an ongoing audit by the taxman overshadowed a net profit of more than $600 million from Australia’s most lucrative lithium mine.
One of the first lithium mines to call it quits during Australia’s battery minerals glut wants to restart operations as soon as September off the back of a price resurgence and backing from Glencore.
The lithium miner’s bottom line was dealt a big blow by its substantial share price rebound, while a shift to renewable energy has so far shielded it from an Iran War shock.
Adrian Rauso and Daniel Newell
Rio Tinto will receive $US275 million ($383m) from the Australian taxpayer for a lithium project in Argentina while its WA lithium mine remains closed despite resurgent prices.
The Federal Government will throw millions more dollars into research hoped to rally Australia’s mineral refining skills against the backdrop of an invigorated new mining mateship with Canada.
