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Mining heavyweight Rio Tinto has confirmed the shuttering of its newly acquired Mt Cattlin lithium mine is nearly complete but will continue to study a possible underground development.

Fenix Resources is yet to decide whether it will match a bid for Mark Creasy's CZR Resources before Easter, as it navigates a three-way bidding war for the Robe Mesa iron ore project.

Our weekly appointments wrap includes Rob Waugh, Shaun Duffy, Simon Trott, Brian Thomas and Jenna Smith.

Fortescue founder Andrew Forrest has highlighted the threats facing the Pilbara's iron ore industry, calling out those trying to “take the crown" away from Western Australia.

Rio Tinto iron ore boss Simon Trott has been re-elected president of the Chamber of Minerals and Energy of Western Australia, following Wednesday's annual general meeting.

The sizable grant will give not-for-profit leaders across the state access to Leadership WA's esteemed programs.

The rise of Karratha mining services provider KBSS Engineering is a testament to the importance of a local focus and willingness to take risks.

Pilbara miner Rio Tinto spent more than $10 billion with Western Australian suppliers last year as it ramped up work on its iron ore sustaining projects.

Galan Lithium has turned down a US$150 million (A$240M) cash offer from a Chinese-French combo to acquire its lithium brine projects in Argentina, labelling the proposal “opportunistic” and “undervalued”. The market responded swiftly, with Galan's shares soaring more than 50 per cent to a high of 16c per share - defying the broader ASX index and lithium market sentiment.

The first of 100 railcars built for Rio Tinto in Western Australia has rolled off the production line ready for its 1,500-kilometre journey north to the Pilbara.

Despite the development hype around green projects, the pipeline of traditional resources developments shows mining is still king.

OPINION: Investors are voting with their wallets with big spending agendas in the Pilbara

Leading mining executives have weighed in on the Pilbara unionisation battle, with bosses at BHP and Northern Star warning industrial relations policy settings could stifle investment.

The push by unions to gain coverage at Rio Tinto's Paraburdoo mine has gone up a notch after the Australian Workers Union lodged an application with the Fair Work Commission.

Rio Tinto-backed Sovereign Metals is using a capital raise to accelerate progress at its Kasiya project in Malawi.

There were few signs Fortescue’s decision in January to buy junior iron ore neighbour Red Hawk Mining signalled the start of a flurry of acquisitory behaviour in the sector. The deal

Iron giant Rio Tinto has upped the stakes in the bidding war for a Pilbara iron ore project backed by Rich Lister prospector Mark Creasy which sits on the miner's doorstep.

Rio Tinto is strongly defending its dual listing as an activist shareholder attempts to push the board to follow industry peer BHP in dropping its London listing in favour of the ASX.

Rio Tinto has proposed to extend its Robe Valley iron ore operations in the Pilbara, which would require clearing of up to 16,802 hectares of land.

The push by unions to lift their influence in the Pilbara has taken another step forward after a vote by workers at a Rio Tinto mine site.

Rio Tinto has announced a $US1.8 billion ($A2.8 billion) investment to extend its Brockman mine in the Pilbara, after receiving the green light for the project.

Business News has compiled a list of the state's largest pastoral leaseholders. It is a mix of rich-listers, cattle barons, family operations, miners, and indigenous enterprises.

A new national centre will champion unlocking of cash-flush charitable trusts and back entrepreneurism for youth in its pitch to build economic opportunities for Indigenous people.

A renewable fuel trial at Rio Tinto's iron ore operations has cut direct emissions in the Pilbara by 10 per cent over a four-week period.

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.

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.

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.

Unionisation of the Pilbara's iron ore industry could curtail BHP's plans to invest in new mines, according to the company's boss, Mike Henry.

WA's freight rail network is a major bugbear for business, Deputy Premier Rita Saffioti says, as the state government begins negotiations to buy it back.

Anthony Albanese says an exemption from the US' 25 per cent steel and aluminium import tariffs is “under consideration” by the Trump Administration, after the two leaders spoke.

The state government will begin building another desalination plant in the Pilbara by the end of the decade to ease pressure on the region's aquifers.

Concern is growing about water use in Australia's economic powerhouse, with another water-intensive industry on the way.

Rio Tinto will take its Pilbara arts exhibition across the seas to London for the first time to mark the 20th anniversary of the event.

Heavy rain flooded a railcar dumper, cut off access roads, and stopped trains on Rio Tinto's Pilbara iron ore network.

BHP has reiterated its appetite for copper after the completion of a US$4 billion deal for Toronto-listed Filo Corp, locking in a plan to pursue the metal in South America alongside Lundin Mining.

Rio Tinto expects inflation and lower production from its Pilbara iron ore mines to push costs to the upper end of 2024 guidance, as it navigates the impacts of rainfall and slow approvals.

ABx Group's 83 per cent owned subsidiary ALCORE is set to produce aluminium fluoride at the company's pilot plant, which will be established at a facility adjacent to Rio Tinto Aluminium's Bell Bay smelter in northern Tasmania. ALCORE plans to prove its world-first process to produce hydrogen fluoride from smelter waste, which will then be converted into aluminium fluoride, essential for the aluminium smelter industry.

The first biodiesel-fueled bulk carrier to make the voyage between China and the Pilbara has arrived at anchor outside the Port of Port Hedland.

WA's largest indigenous trust has reported a huge jump in annual revenue after recording $166 million in royalty payments from Rio Tinto but this was not enough to resolve a long-running dispute.

The Pilbara's iron ore miners have been left waiting longer than expected for their emissions-busting battery electric locomotives to arrive.