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Clive Palmer is trying to pin the blame on the collapse of Queensland Nickel on CITIC Pacific.

MiningCommentsClive says CITIC left nickel play without dime

Clive Palmer begins campaign to blame Cape Preston iron ore miner CITIC Pacific for $1 billion loss in Queensland Nickel collapse.

Neale Prior

Evolution Mining Mungari expansion project.

MiningPremiumGold price peak warning and Evolution gets caught short

The ‘global authority on gold’ believes the price of the precious metal may have hit a ceiling, while short sellers train their sights on the second-largest gold miner domiciled in Australia.

Adrian Rauso

Australian gold mines produced 73 tonnes in the March quarter.

More is lessHigher gold prices mean less production during March quarter

An Australian dollar gold price heading towards $5000 an ounce has actually driven a reduction in production of the precious metal, Melbourne-based industry analysts Surbiton Associates say.

Neil Watkinson

Dewatering taking place at Matsa Resources’ Devon Pit gold mine in May.

Payoff on wayMatsa Resources looks to finally reap rewards of Devon Pit

Matsa Resources is eagerly anticipating the start of gold mining at Devon Pit this month after years of false starts at the mine in the northern Goldfields.

Neil Watkinson

Ora Banda Mining managing director Luke Creagh.

Agonisingly closeOra Banda Mining to fall short of 100,000oz full-year goal

Ora Banda Mining’s surge towards becoming a 100,000-ounces-a-year producer looks likely to just fall short this financial year.

Neil Watkinson

World Gold Council chief strategy officer Terry Heymann, right, with Minerals Council of Australia executive director of WA David Parker and Gold Industry Group chief executive Kristy Reilly.

Stark situationGold council to lure miners away from ‘illicit actors’

The World Gold Council is working to ensure “artisanal” miners across the globe are not exploited by “illicit actors” such as terrorists and mercenary organisations, including the notorious Wagner Group.

Neil Watkinson

Rio Tinto CEO Jakob Stausholm at the opening of Western Range.

MiningCommentsPremiumRio Tinto CEO breaks silence on shock resignation

Jakob Stausholm has broken his silence on his shock resignation as Rio Tinto’s chief, while Mr Stausholm’s potential successor has claimed a victory against union infiltration in the Pilbara.

Adrian Rauso

Rio Tinto’s $3.1 billion iron ore mine in the Pilbara.

MiningCommentsPremiumRio Tinto opens $3.1b mine as part of $20b WA cash splash

The ribbon has been cut on a $US2 billion ($3.1 billion) mine that Rio Tinto hopes will help curb the dwindling quality of its iron ore. 

Adrian Rauso

Clive Palmer

MiningCommentsPremiumPalmer blasted for bid to call PwC partner in $1b CITIC case

Clive Palmer’s legal team has been blasted for a last-minute bid call PricewaterhouseCoopers boffin in $1b Queensland Nickel case.

Neale Prior

Premier Roger Cook delivers opening comments at the Trade and Economic Resilience Roundtable at ANZAC House, Perth.

WA NewsPremium‘For sure’: WA’s captains of industry keen on Albo meeting

Local fertiliser kingpin Vikas Rambal wants to see Anthony Albanese replicate a snap business roundtable convened by Roger Cook this week amid the fallout of US President Donald Trump’s tariff regime.

Simone Grogan, Adrian Rauso and Dylan Caporn

Gina Rinehart

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Rinehart gets a little richer following Euro carmaker woes

Australia’s richest person added about $137 million to her net worth in less than 24 hours from rare earth companies that stand to capitalise on carmakers feeling the pinch of Chinese export restrictions. 

Adrian Rauso

The Shire of Coolgardie has adopted a significant mining rates rise for 2025-26.

MORE CRITICISMMinerals Council of Australia criticises shire’s rates hike

The Minerals Council of Australia has joined the chorus of criticism about the Shire of Coolgardie’s huge mining rates hike, saying a high-cost local government area is “not a welcoming jurisdiction”.

Neil Watkinson

Minerals Council of Australia executive director of WA David Parker, Gold Industry Group chief executive Kristy Reilly, and World Gold Council chief strategy officer Terry Heymann on Hannan Street on Wednesday.

COMMUNITY FOCUSShort film on WA Goldfields aims to tell mining like it is

The World Gold Council’s short film focusing on WA’s Goldfields is the latest in a series which aims to update people’s perceptions and understanding of modern-day mining.

Neil Watkinson

Minerals Council of Australia executive director of WA David Parker, Gold Industry Group chief executive Kristy Reilly, and World Gold Council chief strategy officer Terry Heymann outside the Museum of the Goldfields on Wednesday.

ON BIG SCREENGoldfields focus for World Gold Council’s latest film

The World Gold Council’s latest short film to premiere on Thursday focuses on activities in WA’s Goldfields, with particular emphasis on an Indigenous company’s partnership with a global mining giant.

Neil Watkinson

The Greenbushes lithium mine.

MiningCommentsPremiumLithium recession accelerates, threatens thousands of jobs

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.

Adrian Rauso

Burkina Fasoâs new coup leader Captain Ibrahim Traore gives a news conference.

MiningPremiumSubi’s WAF hands Burkina Faso a bigger slice of golden pie

The $3.1 billion gold producer has ceded a larger stake in three mines to Burkina Faso’s rulers amid a broader trend of resource nationalism sweeping through West Africa.

Adrian Rauso

AMEC chief executive officer Warren Pearce, pictured in West Perth.

MiningPremiumSkint explorers bemoan red tape and funding shortages

Exploration pursuits have fallen across the country and most dramatically in WA in new data that Australia’s junior miners say spells out the funding and bureaucratic struggles they are dealing with. 

Simone Grogan

Pilbara Minerals CFO Luke Bortoli

LithiumPremiumLithium miner’s ex-Afterpay CFO makes exit

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.

Simone Grogan

(L-R) RTIO Chief Executive Simon Trott and Pinikura Traditional Owner and Chairperson of PKKP Aboriginal Corporation, Terry Drage (1)

MiningCommentsPremiumRio, PKKP lock in landmark deal five years on from Juukan

Rio Tinto and the PKKP Aboriginal Corporation have inked their own rules of engagement five years after the mining giant destroyed rockshelters at Juukan Gorge, in a turning point for corporate responsibility. 

Simone Grogan

Sino Iron magnetite mine in the Pilbara

MiningCommentsPremiumSqueezed CITIC’s Sino Iron profit shrinks by two-thirds

Clive Palmer’s royalty cheque from China’s biggest mine in Australia has eclipsed the profit the operation generated for its owner.

Adrian Rauso

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NEWSHistoric deal following sacred site destruction

An Australian mining giant has inked a deal with traditional owners after the 2020 destruction of historic and sacred land.

Blair Jackson

Local Government Minister Hannah Beazley.

MiningPremiumMinister mulls veto on council’s mega mining rate hike

A regional council’s controversial decision to slug mining companies with a 98 per cent rate increase has caught the attention of the Local Government Minister.

Adrian Rauso

Barrenjoey board, from left, former assistant treasurer of Australia Kelly O’Dwyer, independent chair David Gonski, non-executive director Fiona Hick and former RBA governor Philip Lowe

BoardsCommentsPremiumEx-FMG boss Fiona Hick joins Australian investment bank

Former resources executive Fiona Hick has closed the book on her career in the C-suite and added a non-executive directorship with investment bank Barrenjoey to her post-Fortescue resume. 

Simone Grogan

A senior minister said she believes there is a “pathway” for Australia to secure a tariff exemption on steel after Donald Trump doubled the levee on Saturday. Christian Gilles/ NewsWire

FINANCEBig call after Trump’s tariff blow

Donald Trump has stoked outrage after doubling the levy on Australia’s steel exports – but there still might be a “pathway” for an exemption.

Jessica Wang