WA’s best equipment operators will have the chance to cement their place as a world-leading machine operator when they compete at this year’s Caterpillar Global Operator Challenge.
Cheyanne Enciso
Rio Tinto has greenlit a $US1.8 billion ($2.84b) spend to extend a mine in the West Pilbara amid a cost-cutting drive across the mining giant’s sprawling iron ore network.
Adrian Rauso
Australia’s richest person just got a little richer overnight after United States President Donald Trump said he would ‘dramatically expand’ his country’s production of rare earth materials.
Subiaco-headquartered West African Resources has shaken off concerns its golden goose would be lost.
WA junior critical minerals explorer West Cobar Metals has snapped up a highly prospective gold tenement in the Fraser Range from IGO.
Neil Watkinson
Australia could reap the benefits of a market worth up to almost $300 billion, and cut emissions, if it takes the right steps toward a green iron industry.
Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson
The Australian sharemarket booked a second consecutive day in the red on Wednesday as escalating global trade tensions continued to rattle investors.
Duncan Evans
More problems have been piled onto Mineral Resources’ creaking balance sheet after credit ratings agency Fitch downgraded the miner’s repayment score.
Former Fortescue chief executive Liz Gaines to advise an Abu Dhabi-based group selling itself as a player in the global energy transition.
Neale Prior
The company says protracted Commonwealth scrutiny threatens to delay production from its Mardie salt project, described last year by Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek as a potential ‘game changer’.
Sean Smith
Administrators have revealed Whyalla steelworks was haemorrhaging $1.5m in losses per day before its forced administration.
Alexandra Feiam
Australian mining billionaire Gina Rinehart has hosted an annual birthday bash and celebration for long-serving staff members where dozens of $100,000 gifts were reportedly dished out.
The West Australian
A wild ride in corporate fortunes reminds us yet again that sentiment, not figures, moves the market.
Shares in NRW Holdings have been hammered in early trade after the civil and mining contractor delivered its half-year accounts after the market closed on Friday.
Mineral Resources was alerted to haulage risks on its troubled Onslow Iron road months before a spat of truck rollovers rang alarm bells about driver safety along the crucial 148km stretch of infrastructure.
Daniel Newell
A dispute over who is an ‘engine driver’ has sparked a dire warning from the resources peak body that the Mining and Energy Union is trying to bring militant east coast-style tactics to the Pilbara.
Katina Curtis
Booming lithium supply out of Africa is keeping a lid on the battery commodity’s price despite resurgent Chinese demand.
A Liontown Resources spin-out is looking for investment seven times larger than its current market value to buy one of Australia’s largest undeveloped gold projects.
Arts Minister David Templeman has condemned a jibe by rock icon, environmentalist and former politician Peter Garrett aimed at Gina Rinehart during his Perth concert on Friday night.
John Flint
The local stock market tanked on Friday on the back of a Wall St bloodbath and a new Trump tariff threat that sent the big miners into a tailspin.
The heavily indebted Mineral Resources has seen more money funnelled into a cash-burning garnet mine run by Chris Ellison’s brother.
Vault Minerals has made a solid start in its first half-year of operation, posting a net after-tax profit of $119.3 million.
WA critical minerals explorer St George Mining has completed its acquisition of the Araxa niobium-rare earth elements project in Brazil, and immediately started work on mine development studies.
Four names will be added to the Eastern Goldfields Miners Memorial wall during this Saturday’s annual service at the Museum of the Goldfields.
