Mining

Gold and base metals producer Metals X has been given an environmental tick for the Wingellina nickel project east of Warburton, although with prices close to their lowest level since the financial crisis a new development may be some way off yet.

Five Perth-based junior miners and explorers have announced plans to raise a combined $29.8 million to fund ongoing work at their respective projects, with Excelsior Gold also attracting a new cornerstone investor.

A 32-year-old man has died on a Rio Tinto mine site in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

A Canadian gold miner has entered into an agreement to acquire Subiaco-based explorer Gryphon Minerals, in an all-scrip deal worth $86 million.

Mineral Resources chairman Peter Wade has sold down a majority of his shareholding in the mining and contracting group, pocketing about $8.04 million.

Local contractor NRW Holdings has been awarded a $30 million contract to provide its services to Rio Tinto’s Yandi Oxbow iron ore mine in the Pilbara, on the same day its long-serving director Ian Burston announced his retirement.

A stubbornly low market price and the growing focus on renewables have WA’s fledgling uranium sector on the ropes.

Shares in Mount Gibson Iron have soared on news the iron ore miner received an $86 million property damage insurance payment for the collapse of a seawall at its Koolan Island mine in 2014.

OZ Minerals has reached a $24 million settlement with Zinifex shareholders who received a stake in the company following its merger with Oxiana eight years ago.

Red Mountain Mining says it will cost $22 million to bring its flagship Batangas gold project in the Philippines into production.

IMX Resources chief executive Phil Hoskins has been replaced by former Focus Minerals boss Campbell Baird, while the company plans to restructure and rebrand itself under a new name.

Mining contractor Barminco has won a $275 million contract to provide its services to the Northern Star Resources-majority owned Kundana gold mines in the Goldfields.

Former Woodside Petroleum and Beach Energy executive Rob Cole has been appointed chair of the Southern Ports Authority.

Iron ore miner Mineral Resources has added another string to its bow, taking a 19.3 per cent stake in domestic gas supplier Empire Oil & Gas, a week after the company increased its slice of the Mt Marion lithium project.

More than 200 junior mining and exploration companies would fail to meet new listing requirements the Australian Securities Exchange plans to introduce later this year, a study has found.

Perth-based gold stocks Blackham Resources and Red 5 are a step closer to commencing major new developments after completing feasibility studies and receiving final approvals.

IMX Resources spin-off Graphex Mining has enjoyed a strong ASX debut, with its shares trading 80 per cent higher than its initial public offer raising price.

It's the end of the beginning for what had been Western Australia’s only remaining major iron ore project under construction, Citic Pacific’s Sino Iron, according to chief executive Chen Zeng, as the final two of six magnetite ore processing lines enter production.

The Chamber of Minerals and Energy of Western Australia has partnered with some of the state’s biggest resources players to launch a pilot training framework to improve safety in the workplace.

Prominent corporate adviser John Poynton, former mining executive Bill Turner, and Supreme Court judge Carmel McLure are among the Western Australian luminaries to receive honours as part of this year’s Queen’s Birthday awards.

Local explorers Cradle Resources and Ardiden have announced plans to raise a combined $5 million to fund ongoing work at their respective projects.

Julian Hanna has announced his retirement from the board of nickel miner Western Areas, after serving as its inaugural managing director for over a decade and then taking on a non-executive role.

BHP Billiton shares have fallen after Brazilian police completed their criminal investigation into last year's deadly dam burst at a mine co-owned by the Australian giant.

South Australia will put up $50 million and has called on the next federal government to commit $100 million to help save Arrium's troubled Whyalla steelworks.

Fortescue Metals Group has been fined $50,000 over an incident where a worker’s legs were crushed an amputated at the company’s Anderson Point facility in 2011.

Lithium hopeful Altura Mining has announced plans to raise $23 million to fund development of its Pilgangoora project, with construction targeted for later this year.

The majority of scoping studies presented by exploration companies to the ASX are of questionable quality, a new analysis has found, as industry players debate potential solutions to the controvers

Sandfire Resources has announced completion of a $40 million solar power facility at its DeGrussa copper-gold mine, with the plant achieving full generation capacity.

Perth-based concrete construction group Whittens has won a contract to provide its services to MMG’s Dugald River zinc project in Queensland.

BHP Billiton has agreed to sell its majority stake in the IndoMet coal project in Indonesia to its local joint venture partner, Adaro Energy.

Mineral Resources has upped its stake in the Mt Marion lithium project, one of the state’s few mining operations under construction, to see out a week that had a series of deals for the metal.

A new report has found listed exploration companies are focused increasingly on preserving their cash, as the sector grapples with regulatory rulings by the ASX and ASIC.