Mining

Paladin Energy chief executive Ian Purdy says the uranium producer is ideally placed to become a major producer in the sector.

There have been big shifts in the ranking of WA’s largest, and most profitable, private companies over the past year.

ANALYSIS: Fenix' bid for CZR Resources says a lot about investor confidence in the future of the Pilbara's iron ore industry.

Mader Group has reported a solid rise in half-year profit on the back of a 10 per cent lift in revenue, with its Australian operations offsetting a fall in overseas revenue.

Westgold Resources has sold its Goldfields-based Lakewood Mill to Black Cat Syndicate for $85 million.

Anax Metals has hatched a plan involving an historic Pilbara mine to crack open the region’s copper industry.

Mid West miner Fenix Resources plans to muscle in on the Pilbara’s iron ore industry via acquisition of billionaire prospector Mark Creasy’s CZR Resources.

Embattled miner Mineral Resources has answered another round of questioning from the Australian Securities Exchange scrutinising its latest financial reporting and share price tumble.

Mining services contractor Perenti has put a 13 per cent profit slide down to late debtors and a flat half for contract mining services.

The operator of the mammoth Greenbushes lithium mine is proposing to expand its footprint across South Western Highway and build an over or underpass to a new waste rock facility.

Restructuring specialists have been called in to sell or recapitalise taxpayer-backed Strandline Resources, after the mineral sands miner failed to secure a critical funding deal.

Windfall from Northern Star Resources’ move for De Grey Mining has pushed the value of Gold Road Resources’ listed investments to around $870,000.

The world’s largest goldminer expects to produce less and spend more at its sole Western Australian asset in 2025, as it gears up to increase production in the latter half of the decade.

High grades delivered Ramelius Resources a profit record in the first half of the financial year, with the company delivering 19 per cent more gold despite mining significantly less ore.

Sandfire boss Brendan Harris says safety is key to the copper miner’s productivity as it targets an injury-free workplace.

The state’s peak resources lobby group has welcomed the federal governments new green iron funding package but urged more focus on WA as the “sensible” choice for green iron industries.

Fortescue and its former employees have been urged to progress a dispute over alleged misuse of the Andrew Forrest-led company’s green iron technology information.

Rio Tinto has foreshadowed a tightening of the purse strings in the Pilbara to account for softening revenue out of its sprawling iron ore operations.

Wesfarmers has reported a small rise in interim profit from its diverse retail and industrial operations while maintaining plans to invest heavily in the depressed lithium sector.

Wyloo plans take a majority stake in the Yangibana rare earths project, in a move which would cancel out millions owed to it by Hastings Technology Metals.

Pilbara Minerals has reported a $69 million loss for the half-year as increasd production partially offsets the ongoing impact of diminished prices for the key battery material.

Fortescue’s half-yearly profit has more than halved to US$1.55 billion as lower iron ore prices eat into bumper revenues recorded this time last year.

IGO has gutted the value of its troubled Kwinana refinery after a recording a significant $525 million impairment against the ailing joint venture asset.

Outgoing Mineral Resources boss Chris Ellison says he won’t make a "very good ex-managing director" when questioned on whether he'll remain engaged with the company he founded.

Veolia has accused a US-based water company of breaching a contract over the design and installation of a water treatment plant to supply Talison Lithium’s Greenbushes project.

Engineering firm Lycopodium disappointed the market with its interim results today whereas Southern Cross Electrical Engineering enjoyed strong gains after its profit report.

Chris Ellison has insisted there was "no design fault" with the newly built haul road to MinRes Onslow Iron mine despite spending $230 million fixing the piece of private infrastructure.

Japanese trading house Mitsui & Co will take a US$5.3 billion stake in Rio Tinto’s 6.8 billion tonne Rhodes Ridge iron ore project in the Pilbara.

Westgold Resources is shopping around the Lakewood gold processing facility acquired last year in its $1.2 billion move for Karora Resources.

Despite overall external revenue regressing by 11 per cent from the prior corresponding period, Emeco Holdings posted strong profits during the first six months of the 2025 financial year.

Mineral sands miner Iluka Resources generated a full-year net profit of $231 million, down 33 per cent from $343 million in 2024, citing multiple factors.

Mineral Resources has posted a half-year loss of $807 million driven by a major impairment on its Bald Hill lithium mine as it prepares to resurface the entire cyclone-hampered Onslow Iron haul road.