Mineral Commodities will hand over more than $1.5 million to former boss Mark Caruso as part of a secret settlement, after he launched three court actions against the company.
Comet Resources is raising $50 million to cover restart and acquisition costs for Glencore’s Queensland Mt Margaret Copper project, which has been out of action since 2014.
Iluka Resources plans to proceed with construction of Australia’s first fully-integrated rare earths refinery at Eneabba, with the federal government to provide most of the funding.
Caravel Minerals has delivered a maiden ore reserve for its namesake project in WA’s Wheatbelt, appraising the outfit as one of Australia’s largest undeveloped copper deposits.
Paladin Energy is calling for $215 million to restart the Langer Heinrich mine in Namibia and has lined up another taker for its product, evidence of what it says is a strengthening uranium market.
Pilbara Minerals and Calix have agreed to undertake further work on a $50 million-plus mid-stream lithium processing plant after completing a scoping study.
John Borshoff’s Deep Yellow and WA uranium play Vimy Resources have agreed to terms for a proposed $658 million merger, some four months after Vimy first put Mulga Rock on the market.
The state government has been criticised for continuing to approve a large number of section 18 applications under the Aboriginal Heritage Act – the same mechanism that led to the Juukan Gorge controversy.
Perth-based Tietto Minerals has received commitments to the tune of $130 million for its Abujar gold project in Côte d’Ivoire ahead of first gold planned later this year.
New data has revealed more than half of WA’s full-time mining and resources workforce is based in the Perth metro area, illustrating the dominance of the state’s fly-in, fly-out workforce.
BCI boss Alwyn Vorster has hinted the salt and potash play entertained buying Salt Lake Potash’s flagship after the asset was put up for sale by receivers this month.
BHP contracts lead Sepideh Nicholson, who came to Australia as a refugee when she was a teenager, is calling on employers to create inclusive workplaces or risk losing diversity.
A plan hatched by a consortium of senior managers at DRA Global to remove the engineering company’s chair and chief executive last month has been elevated to the takeovers panel.
Iron ore miner Karara Mining has taken to the state’s environmental watchdog pushing to expand its mammoth magnetite project in the Mid West and ensure it operates until 2050.
Ardea Resources’ Kalgoorlie nickel project has been granted major project status by the federal government amid a heightened period of activity for the commodity.
ANALYSIS: The $243 million critical minerals package announced today adds to a seemingly neverending flow of federal government grants and cheap loans for commercial projects.
Western Australian companies have won the lion's share of a $243 million critical minerals funding initiative from the federal government hoped to bolster domestic manufacturing.
St George Mining is understood to be conducting a $6.5 million equity raise to fund further nickel-copper exploration efforts at the Mt Alexander project in WA’s Yilgarn Craton.
Battery anode materials company EcoGraf has laid plans to demerge and list its Tanzanian nickel exploration assets on the ASX, with the metal in the middle of a significant price spike.
Subiaco-based software business K2fly has won work to roll out its resource governance solution across NYSE-listed Freeport-McMoRan’s global operations.
