Roger Cook has conceded today’s strike action in Port Hedland is ‘concerning’, but has played down the risk of a new wave of industrial action to the mining industry that underpins the State’s finances.
Jessica Page
Hundreds of BHP workers have gone on strike at one of the world’s largest iron ore ports at Port Hedland.
Emma Kirk
BHP has drawn its battlelines with bright green cones as the Port Hedland community braces for union-led strikes that could worsen the town’s ‘already exorbitant’ cost of doing business.
Adrian Rauso
Battle lines have been drawn as workers join unions and mining companies fiercely resist change. So what does BHP want, and what new terms are today’s striking workers fighting for?
Alexis Vassiley
Fleetwood is paying $22 million for Bechtel’s 2169-bed Red Dog village, adding to the 1500 beds it already has in Karratha’s Searipple village and the Osprey camp in Port Hedland.
Sean Smith
Strike action by BHP workers in the Pilbara today — the first in almost three decades — has marred revelations that the Big Australian has pulled in its biggest-ever haul of iron ore.
Daniel Newell
Evolution Mining’s Mungari operations west of Kalgoorlie-Boulder took a giant stride in the 2026 financial year toward becoming a 200,000 ounces-a-year producer.
Neil Watkinson
The Albanese Government will not stop tomorrow’s strike in the Pilbara - despite last minute pleas from WA business and resource groups for federal intervention to stop WA’s darkest hour, in years.
Joe Spagnolo
GenusPlus has won a $55m Rio Tinto contract to upgrade a key Pilbara substation ahead of more renewable power coming online.
Ryan Johnson
Global Lithium Resources will pay IGO $7 million in cash and scrip for the almost expired Nova nickel-copper-cobalt project so it can process pegmatite ore from its Manna project east of Kalgoorlie-Boulder.
MinRes has tapped Macmahon to restart underground mining at Mt Marion, signalling renewed confidence in the lithium market.
The new plant will produce gallium, a critical component for semiconductors, smart phones and electric vehicles.
Rio Tinto is keeping a watching brief on the latest flare up of tensions in the Middle East as it counts the cost of soaring diesel prices that drove up production expenses in the first half.
Daniel Newell and Adrian Rauso
A mill bearing failure has put Black Cat Syndicate’s Lakewood gold processing plant just south-east of Kalgoorlie-Boulder out of action for this week.
Kalgoorlie-Boulder mining services firm MLG Oz is hoping to improve operating margins and reduce emissions for itself and other companies by developing a unique hybrid and battery-electric road train.
The senior Labor figure spearheading historic strikes against BHP has told Premier Roger Cook and any other political colleagues hoping for an end to the militant industrial action to get stuffed.
Adrian Rauso and Oliver Lane
Mineral Resources and Rio Tinto led the pack as the Pilbara’s iron ore majors put cyclone season in the rear view mirror by ending the 2026 financial year strongly.
The Federal Government has moved to block three China-linked shareholders of rare earths miner Northern Minerals from voting or exercising other rights after defying earlier orders to sell their stock.
One local contractor lost a big chunk of work after Genesis Minerals and Vault Minerals officially shook hands on their $12.6 billion fusion.
Unions will not allow the workplace umpire to derail planned strikes at BHP’s sole WA iron ore port, launching a final recruitment drive ahead of the historic industrial action.
Adrian Rauso and Jessica Page
Clayton Utz has nabbed three Perth partners from rival Allens in a high-profile hiring spree aimed at muscling up in WA’s red-hot resources, corporate and infrastructure market.
An eleventh-hour bid by Raleigh Finlayson’s Genesis Minerals to prize Vault Minerals away from rival Regis Resources has done the job.
Torque Metals is eyeing a rapid increase in mineral resources at the Paris gold project 100km south-east of Kalgoorlie-Boulder to one million ounces in the next two years.
WA’s peak resources sector industry group has told the Albanese Government its new capital gains tax rules risk crippling the State’s pipeline of new mines.
