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The rare earths processing plant will be the first integrated project of its kind in Australia. (James Ross/AAP PHOTOS)

MiningCommentsPremiumRinehart’s rare earths project gets fast-track approval

In a move to fast track development of a rare earths mine and processing plant it has been declared a project of profound economic significance.

Lloyd Jones

The port is Australia’s most crucial export hub.

MiningCommentsPremiumBHP braces for next wave of union ‘blitz’ in Pilbara

A fresh industrial dispute is looming for BHP in the Pilbara with a union promising a ‘blitz’ of site visits to judge the mood for a strike.

CME CEO Aaron Morey is arguing junior explorers should be exempt from CGT changes.

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Mining lobby pushes CGT exemption for junior explorers

WA’s powerful mining lobby has weighed in on the Albanese Government’s tax changes warning exploration of new resources projects could be on the line if there is no carve-out for junior explorers. 

Joe Spagnolo

Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation chief executive Michael Woodley and Andrew Forrest

MiningPremiumLike ‘death of a child’: Judge reveals reasons in FMG case

A Federal Court Justice has likened the destruction and loss of land by mining giant Fortescue to Yindjibarndi traditional owners to ‘the death of a child’.

Hannah Cross

Perth is apparently running out of land.

Herd on the TerraceCommentsPremiumRecord profits are developers’ promised land

Are Peet, Stockland and other WA land developers about to shut their doors forever? Plus: Fortescue boss reveals his passion for V8s.

CME WA CEO Aaron Morey.

MiningCommentsPremiumStrikes at BHP port would cost 50 nurse salaries daily: CME

WA will miss out on mining royalties equivalent to the annual salaries of 50 senior nurses for each day unions shut down BHP’s only Pilbara port, the State’s peak industry lobby group warns.

Adrian Rauso

PLS boss Dale Henderson.

MiningCommentsPremiumMining heavyweights pocket $17m from share sales

Greatland Gold 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

Bauxite mining at South32’s Worsley Alumina operations.

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South32 truckie airlifted to Perth after rollover

A South32 worker was rushed to hospital after a truck rolled over at the company’s bauxite mine in the Peel region.

Adrian Rauso

The port of Port Hedland.

MiningPremiumUnions threaten to choke BHP’s only port

Exports from WA’s busiest iron ore port could soon be throttled in a spectacular escalation of a union campaign to seize the State’s most important industry.

Adrian Rauso

Iron ore led the way again, with sales valued at $126 billion.

MiningCommentsPremiumWA resources sector investment at decade-high

The staggering contribution WA’s powerhouse mining and energy industries makes to the State’s economy has been laid bare with fresh figures.

Adrian Rauso

West Cobar Metals’ Salazar critical minerals project is 120km north-east of Esperance.

Critical mineralsPremiumWest Cobar Metals uncovers scandium potential of Salazar

Subiaco-headquartered West Cobar Metals says it has highly encouraging scandium metallurgical results from the Salazar critical minerals project north-east of Esperance.

Neil Watkinson

Underground at Westgold Resources’ Beta Hunt gold mine near Kambalda.

Celebration of MiningPremiumMerger lessons spark Westgold’s new ‘co-opertition’ approach

The lessons learnt from integrating the assets of Karora Resources since 2024 have prompted Westgold Resources to embrace the approach of “co-opertition” in building value in the current high price environment.

Neil Watkinson

Maritana Minerals managing director and chief executive Grant Haywood at the Black Swan processing plant 50km north-east of Kalgoorlie-Boulder.

Celebration of MiningPremiumMaritana Minerals’ solution — less capital for more gold

Converting the Black Swan nickel processing plant to produce gold means a lower capital investment for Maritana Minerals to establish its own gold production capacity.

Neil Watkinson

Roger Cook has echoed industry concerns that Anthony Albanese’s sweeping changes to capital gains tax could deter foreign investment in WA’s mining industry.

state politicsCommentsPremiumCook latest Labor figure to speak out over PM’s tax overhaul

Roger Cook has echoed industry concerns that Anthony Albanese’s sweeping changes to capital gains tax could deter foreign investment in WA’s mining industry.

Jessica Page

Former WA opposition leader Mia Davies is now spokeswoman for the DomGas Alliance.

Oil & GasCommentsPremiumBig WA energy users say Feds’ reservation plan has strengths

Major gas users hope a proposed national reservation scheme will add pressure to reform WA’s 20-year-old rules.

Matt Mckenzie

Australia’s largest company has put a bargaining agreement covering about 1600 workers at its conjoined Mining Area C and South Flank mines in front of unions.

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BHP close to deal with unions for 1600 WA workers

The Big Australian is on the verge of a massive enterprise agreement at key iron ore mines, marking a historic power-shift back to militant unions in the Pilbara.

Adrian Rauso

Fortescue chief executive Dino Otranto.

MiningCommentsPremiumOtranto admits he was angered by CME’s BHP defence

The Fortescue chief executive admits getting ‘hot under the collar’ over the CME’s defence of BHP’s decarbonisation efforts and blames the media for miners’ weaker appetite for risk.

Sean Smith

Iron ore transport at the Port of Rizhao in Rizhao city, east China's Shandong province.

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More China pain in store for WA iron ore: BHP and Fortescue

BHP’s WA iron ore boss Tim Day has foreshadowed another round of bruising negotiations with China’s state run commodities buyer next year in a warning for Australia’s most lucrative export industry.

Adrian Rauso

Brightstar Resources managing director Alex Rovira.

Full steam aheadPremiumBrightstar Resources approves Goldfields project development

Brightstar Resources has approved a final investment decision to develop its Goldfields project, including the building of a $110 million gold processing plant near Laverton.

Neil Watkinson

Departing Lynas chief executive Amanda Lacaze.

MiningPremiumLacaze pips McGowan for top mining lobby job

Departing Lynas chief executive gazumped the former WA Premier to oversee Australia’s most prominent mining lobby group.

Adrian Rauso

Dino Otranto aid the company was ‘not attacking competition’ and he lashed out at CMEWA chief executive Aaron Morey.

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‘Look in own backyard’: Minister’s dig at FMG’s green push

Resources Minister Madeleine King took a thinly-veiled swipe at Andrew Forrest’s efforts to champion Fortescue’s green credentials and suggested where the billionaire should instead focus his energies.

Daniel Newell and Adrian Rauso

Sheffield Resources' Thunderbird mineral sands mine.

MiningCommentsPremiumTaxpayer-backed mine has one last roll of the dice

A key contractor at the Thunderbird mineral sands mine is out the door, with the WA operation teetering on the brink of financial collapse.

Adrian Rauso

The Mt Marion lithium mine south of Kalgoorlie.

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$490m spend to take MinRes underground at Mt Marion

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

BHP says the new partnership is key to unlocking the next phase of decarbonisation in the Pilbara.

MiningCommentsPremiumBHP inks deal to ‘unlock’ next phase of decarbonisation

BHP and the Yindjibarndi Energy Corporation have inked a new partnership the mining giant says is key to ‘unlocking’ the next phase of decarbonisation in the Pilbara.

Cheyanne Enciso