Operations at Australian gold mining companies have slumped in 2024 due to cyclones across swathes of the nation, according to a consultancy.
Holly Hales
A bold plan to funnel billions of dollars into critical minerals projects has turned into a political fight over the future of WA mining. Here’s the inside word on the plan.
Dan Jervis-Bardy
Anglo American’s decision to rebuff the Big Australian’s takeover play heaps pressure on Duncan Wanblad, who must now make good on a dramatic turnaround plan under the watch of rivals and anxious shareholders.
Bloomberg
A denial and a decline to comment. That is the murky situation that has overshadowed romance for an Australian bachelor after a Paris pash.
Max Corstorphan
While Westgold and Karora’s tie-up has hit a snag, the union of another WA mid-tier gold mining duo has crossed the finish line.
Adrian Rauso
The boss of WA miner Westgold Resources fronted a packed mining audience on Thursday unabashed about an upcoming deal with Karora despite just being hauled before the Takeovers Panel by Ramelius Resources.
Simone Grogan
The Australian sharemarket fell for its third straight session on Thursday, dragged down by Wall St, inflation fears and a tumble at BHP.
Duncan Evans
It’s clear there’s no love lost between gold rivals Westgold and Ramelius. Sources claim the genesis of the tension centres on an unassuming junior explorer.
BHP’s chief executive Mike Henry has implied Anglo American was never really serious about doing a deal.
Adrian Rauso and Bloomberg
Northern Goldfields-focused explorer Asra Minerals is snapping up a 70 per cent stake in the Kookynie East gold project, expanding their estimated mineral resources to 200,000 ounces.
Neil Watkinson
A small Goldfields miner is enjoying an upsurge in investor interest as it generates more cash at sky-high gold prices.
Australian shares slumped on Wednesday after hotter-than-expected CPI numbers renewed inflation fears and narrowed the likelihood of rate cuts this year.
A class action is being prepared against Rio Tinto on behalf of its Australian employees and contractors who were allegedly subjected to sexual discrimination and harassment.
Emma Kirk
Anglo American has rejected BHP’s plea for more time to negotiate on a potential deal in what spells the likely end of a $74 billion, five-week pursuit from the Big Australian.
Simone Grogan & Bloomberg
Lawyers are investigating if a class action can be launched on behalf of Rio Tinto workers subjected to sexual discrimination or harassment at Australian mines.
Aaron Bunch
Mining giant Rio Tinto is facing a class action brought by workers and contractors to find out whether it is liable for sexual harassment and discrimination alleged to have taken place at its mine sites.
Gold miner Ramelius Resources is preparing to rain on Westgold Resources’ $2.2 billion proposed merger parade with Canada’s Karora Resources after revealing the two WA mid-tiers were in deal talks themselves.
Simone Grogan and Daniel Newell
A Moroccan minister named as the mystery brunette spotted kissing Andrew Forrest in Paris has broken her silence and described articles linking her to him as ‘offensive’.
Georgina Noack
With less than one day left on the clock, advisers for BHP and Anglo American were still struggling to find a breakthrough to salvage BHP’s ambitious $74 billion takeover plan.
Thomas Biesheuve
The fate of a Pilbara iron ore development that could sustain nearly 500 jobs is being held up by the Foreign Investment Review Board missing its own deadline half a dozen times.
The Australian sharemarket fell lower on Tuesday after weak retail sales data hit discretionary stocks.
Australia and the European Union will look to forge new critical minerals links under a new partnership inked on Tuesday that’s hoped to open the door to new investment in local mining and energy projects.
Alcoa has confirmed an employee was found dead at its Pinjarra alumina refinery this morning. It is believed the death was not work-related.
Boss Energy has shed more than 10 per cent on Tuesday after the company’s boss and two of its three other board members sold the majority of their holdings.