A Victorian startup promising to underpin cost-effective green steel production has secured land in the Pilbara to operate a third-party commercial iron ore smelter.
WA's Aboriginal affairs minister has refused a section 18 application for a proposed iron ore mine at the centre of a spat between its backer and traditional owners.
This week's Bulls N' Bears Runner of the Week is … MRG Metals. Its shares jumped 400 per cent on the back of it signing a binding joint venture agreement for its Corridor Sands project in Mozambique to see it join fellow movers and shakers NeuRizer, Reach Resources and Pearl Gull Iron.
Our weekly appointments wrap includes Kylie Maj, Steve Formica, Adam Handley, Shane Hartwig, Alwyn Vorster, Kellie Davis, Zac Komur and Jennifer Purdie.
In the first of Bulls N' Bears' new weekly series, “Doug Bright's Greatest Hits”, our senior analyst gets the dirt under his well-worn fingernails to pull apart some of last week's most intriguing ASX finds. The column will run the rule each week over a range of commodities, geological successes, oddities and matters of processing and metallurgical interest.
Gold Mountain has kicked off a new thrust into rare earths exploration at its Down Under project after amassing a giant land position of some 970 square kilometres in the prospective Jequie province in Brazil. The company has pegged its ground largely based on areas of anomalous thorium and uranium geochemistry, which is known to be associated with rare earths mineralisation in the province.
Native title holders opposing an iron ore mine bordering Karijini hold a swag of tenements next to the park they say have been pegged to ensure “culturally safe” mining.
Our weekly appointments wrap includes Jamie Allardice, Zac Komur, Gail Bowman, Marten Tieleman, Alison Xamon, Kate O'Hara, Rebecca Smith, David Flanagan, Chris Ellison, Josh Thurlow, Neale Fong, Gary Dreibergs, Darren Foster, Fabian Ross and Jennifer McGrath.
Equinox Resources boss Daniel Taylor has resigned a week after the iron ore junior's non-executive chair and non-executive director announced their departure.
Our board moves wrap includes Will Burbury, Hayden Leary, Martin Lackner, Robert Martin, Agha Shahzad Pervez, Rodney Baxter, Hugh Callaghan, Ira Gibbs, and Peter Ruttledge.
A joint venture between WA companies Pathfinder Resources and Cazaly Resources is set to list on the ASX in October, having launched an initial public offering to raise $9 million.
