OZ Minerals

BGC Australia has appointed three high profile independent non-executive directors to help advise the family-owned business empire as it enters a global sale process.

Cassini Resources and OZ Minerals have appointed GR Engineering Services to complete an engineering study for their joint venture West Musgrave copper-nickel project in Western Australia.

GR Engineering Services has secured an engineering, procurement and construction contract for a wellfield at OZ Minerals’ Carrapateena copper-gold project in South Australia.

Civil and mining contractor MACA has secured another contract with First Quantum Minerals, worth $20 million, and further contracts with VicRoads totalling $19.5 million, while also announcing the closure of its Brazil operations.

Oz Minerals and Cassini Resources believe their West Musgrave nickel-copper project in Western Australia can be a long-term, low-cost operation, following completion of a pre-feasibility study that found the mine's development cost would be about $995 million.

Veris’s technology and communications business has secured new work with BHP and Oz Minerals, as well as a contract with Cubic Defence Australia, totalling $4.3 million.

OZ Minerals is set to gain full control of the West Musgrave nickel-copper asset in Western Australia after announcing a friendly takeover of project partner Cassini Resources.

Veris subsidiary Aqura Technologies has signed $2.2 million in contracts including with BHP, which will use the company’s communications service across its Pilbara mine sites.

OZ Minerals has completed the purchase of Cassini Resources for what management hope will prove a long-life copper-nickel mine in Western Australia.

The spinout company of Cassini Resources is seeking to raise $6 million from its initial public offering, with an ASX listing targeted for November.

Adelaide’s OZ Minerals has upgraded the value of its recently acquired West Musgrave project in WA by $200 million, while also lifting the mine’s planned nickel and copper production.

Five large mining companies have separately launched initiatives this week to accelerate a move toward electrification of their mine sites.

The state’s peak environmental body will assess the social and environmental impacts of Oz Minerals’ $1 billion nickel project in the West Musgrave Ranges.

A Byrnecut underground worker has been fatally injured at OZ Minerals' Prominent Hill mine in South Australia.

The EPA has recommended approval of OZ Mineral’s proposal to mine nickel and copper in WA’s Musgrave Ranges in what could be a first for the region if fully approved.

OZ Minerals will have 18 months to assess Havilah Resource’s Kalkaroo project before deciding whether to acquire the South Australian copper outfit for up to $405 million.

Evolution Mining and Oz Minerals have foreshadowed lower-than-expected production and likely cost increases at their respective projects.

BHP has stepped up its pursuit of future-facing metals by launching a takeover proposal for Adelaide-based copper and nickel miner OZ Minerals.

BHP shareholders will receive a big payout after underlying profits soared during the financial year, though the mining major has braced for more inflationary pressures and expansion costs.

The shortage of workers in the resources and infrastructure sectors will peak at 84,000 in two years’ time and would be worse if not for project cancellations, Pit Crew has found.

OZ Minerals has pushed the button on the project despite a $600 million capital increase, proclaiming the asset’s enormous potential as a modern mine in an era of decarbonisation.

Matt Mckenzie and Jordan Murray discuss research which said Australia is the wealthiest country in the world.

Labour shortages and inflationary pressures have rocked even WA’s biggest resources companies.

Business News has updated its listing of WA’s biggest resources projects to incorporate a spate of new developments and analysed which projects are next.

OZ Minerals has placed its shares in a trading halt as it evaluates a “potential change of control transaction”.

Senior editor Mark Beyer discusses this year's changes to Data & Insights' accountants list and highlights some of the biggest issues affecting the sector.

BHP is poised to substantially increase its exposure to copper and nickel after the board of takeover target OZ Minerals backed an increased offer.

Mark Pownall and Mark Beyer discuss ABN, commercial builders, Perth City Deal, ACCIONA, Alcoa, BHP, OZ Minerals, startup funding, Betts Group and Wilson Parking.

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Australian miner OZ Minerals has produced a record amount of copper in the December quarter to meet its 2022 guidance but is bracing for higher electricity costs.

BHP’s $9.6 billion planned acquisition of Oz Minerals is one step closer after it received clearance from Brazil’s Administrative Council for Economic Defence.

Design and construction firm Kerman Contracting has won a $90 million contract from OZ Minerals to fit out the miner’s West Musgrave accommodation village.

GR Engineering has won $312 million worth of work from OZ Minerals a day after shareholders approved BHP’s $9.6 billion takeover of the company.

Bellevue Gold is set to join the list of top 200 ASX companies replacing takeover target OZ Minerals.

BHP has cleared the last hurdle to acquire OZ Minerals after securing final approvals for the $9.6 billion takeover.

The pipeline of big resources projects in WA increasingly features complex processing plants, despite a spate of large cost blowouts on projects currently under way.

BHP has laid out plans to bring together the copper assets it bought from OZ Minerals with its existing mines to boost Australia’s share of the global market.

WA produces a diverse array of minerals, yet one commodity dominates the sector.

Mining giant BHP has revealed nearly 30,000 current and former staff have lost leave and pay entitlements over the past 13 years in one of Australia’s largest case of employee underpayment.

BHP-owned Oz Minerals has agreed to pay $9.3 million in fines after self-reporting employees bribed foreign officials to obtain mining rights in Cambodia.