Today
Chalice Mining stitches up $100m equity deal
Exploration tearaway Chalice Mining is offering shares at an 11 per cent discount to the last close.
- Anthony Macdonald, Sarah Thompson and Kanika Sood
Yesterday
Mine emitted lead but no epidemic broke out, court hears
A trial about whether lead emissions from a mine, now owned by Glencore, was responsible for a baby’s brain damage, is under way.
- Liam Walsh
This Month
Chalice wins permission to drill in WA state forest
One of Australia’s most anticipated critical minerals targets will finally be drilled, after the WA government gave Chalice permission to work in a state forest.
- Peter Ker
Forrest in charge until Fortescue reaches green goal
Billionaire Andrew Forrest says his mining company needs him to be “executive chairman” until it has delivered on its dream of becoming a clean energy giant.
- Peter Ker and Hans van Leeuwen
- Analysis
- Executive shake-up
Executive chairman Forrest? He always was
Corporate governance boffins may fume at Andrew Forrest assuming even more power at Fortescue. But it’s a more honest reflection of the way the company is run.
- Updated
- Peter Ker
Why electric vehicle prices are rising
After declining since at least 2013, the price of battery packs used in EVs are set to rise, spurring manufacturers to pass on the pain to automakers.
- Michael Bennet
Ukraine war spurs BHP to crunch the gears on Jansen potash project
Sanctions on Russia and Belarus, which account for 40 per cent of the resource’s global output, have widened the opportunity for the miner’s biggest plant.
- Hans van Leeuwen
Miners bring in Amazon for decarbonisation data sharing platform
A consortium of mining companies, including Newcrest and South32, is working with Amazon to build a data sharing platform capturing decarbonisation actions.
- Michael Bennet
IGO’s ‘unfair but reasonable’ nickel bid approved by proxies
IGO’s $1.26 billion offer for nickel miner Western Areas might be frugal, but one proxy advisor has told clients they should accept it at a meeting on June 1.
- Peter Ker
Battered Chrysos in partial rebound on $109m in contracts
The gold mining testing disrupter had a partial ASX recovery with five new contracts for its big machines, after a torrid debut on May 6.
- Updated
- Simon Evans
- Analysis
- Due diligence
Is Jupiter Mines the one flower yet to bloom in this mining boom?
One small corner of the commodities’ galaxy has remained strangely unaided by the extraordinary set of circumstances that have lifted most mining companies to record profits over the past year.
- Peter Ker
SolGold’s new broom finds historic funds ‘misappropriation’
Millions of dollars were allegedly misappropriated over the past five years within the ranks of BHP and Newcrest’s Ecuadorian copper punt.
- Updated
- Peter Ker
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Iron ore slide shows China’s COVID conundrum
Iron ore quietly slid to four month lows last week as China’s COVID-zero policy bites. Stimulating steel demand in a locked-down economy isn’t proving easy.
- James Thomson
Northern Star’s Stuart Tonkin seeks to build a new gold dream
Nursing a sharply lower share price since its biggest M&A deal, Northern Star Resources still divides the market as its MD tries to reclaim prior golden highs.
- Michael Bennet
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
AVZ’s salutary lesson for lithium boom
Unlocking the value sitting in the world’s biggest lithium resource in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is proving problematic for AVZ Minerals.
- Tony Boyd
WA peak mining body appoints CEO with no industry experience
WA’s peak resources lobby group has appointed Rebecca Tomkinson its next CEO, again shunning direct prior mining industry experience.
- Updated
- Michael Bennet
Daughter became homebound, mum tells court in Glencore trial
An 11-year civil case about alleged lead poisoning has heard testimony from Sharnelle Seeto about how life changed after alleged lead poisoning in Mt Isa.
- Liam Walsh
Mining industry titan Ron Sayers dies
Ausdrill founder and mining services industry titan Ron Sayers has died aged 70, sparking a wave of tributes from across the sector.
- Michael Bennet
Lithium frenzy can’t last: BHP says it’s staying out
As prices of lithium soar, the world’s biggest mining company says the boom will be short-lived at best.
- James Attwood
Gold testing disrupter Chrysos crashes in ASX debut
The chairman had a sense of foreboding after Wall Street dived overnight, but says Chrysos has its sights on a long-term scoreboard.
- Simon Evans
