Mining

Another ASX-listed uranium company is raising cash to step up its project amid revived interest in the commodity.

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.

At least seven potash plays plan to produce the fertiliser from sun-dried brine or solar-dried ponds.

Unsecured creditors of Avid Resources are likely to receive nothing, but liquidators have said they will consider an insolvent trading claim.

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.

A US company associated with Bill Beament and Nev Power is set to purchase Glencore’s CSA copper mine for $US1.1 billion ($A1.5 billion).

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.

Boss Energy is hoping to garner $125 million from investors to bring the company’s Honeymoon uranium project into production.

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.

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Subiaco-based software business K2fly has won work to roll out its resource governance solution across NYSE-listed Freeport-McMoRan’s global operations.

Western Areas and its independent expert are reviewing terms for a planned takeover from IGO in light of volatile nickel pricing.

Sam Walsh has resigned from the board of Saudi Arabian mining company Ma’aden, less than half way through a planned three-year term.

Global Lithium secured new investment from Mineral Resources, Pantoro is set to bank $45 million ahead of planned first gold production, while Westgold raised $100 million to step up output.

Engineering services company DRA Global has emerged out of a week-long break from trading advising its chief executive of three years will step down.

Salt Lake Potash’s Lake Way project, which was predicted to be one of the first producing potash assets in the state before its collapse last year, has been put on the market by receivers.

Mining industry veteran Nathan McMahon has passed away at the age of 51, just days after leaving the board of the company he founded, Cazaly Resources.

Western Areas co-founder and former managing director Julian Hanna said he was excited to return to a promising nickel and base metals exploration story.

Shares in the Subiaco-based company were up as much as 20 per cent in early trade after adding substantial tonnage to its core manganese asset in East Pilbara.

Vimy Resources has completed a deeply discounted capital raising to fund work on its two uranium projects, one week after a strategic review failed to unearth a new partner.

The state government will draft a framework for local carbon capture and storage, while it works on its own plans for a 2030 emissions target.

John Van Der Wielen, Ivy Chen and Larry Lopez will head up a $100 million state government program launched to attract investments to potential growth industries.

Kerry Stokes-backed BCI Minerals has lodged significant amendments with the environmental watchdog to expand its $1.2 billion Mardie Project in a bid to increase production capacity.

Paladin Energy chair Cliff Lawrenson and non-executive director Peter Watson offloaded a combined 4.5 million shares in the uranium company last week.

Pharmacist and entrepreneur Emma Hanh Ma and Koori woman and mining boss Amanda Healy have been inducted into the WA Women’s Hall of Fame under the business category.

Dundee Corporation has upped its stake in Ausgold under a 4 cents per share capital raising, under which the explorer gained a new institutional investor.

The state’s tax collection agency has lodged a winding up order against AvidSys, three months after related Avid entities entered administration.

Ronald McDonald House Charities WA, a new Rare Care Centre at Perth Children’s Hospital and the Perth Lynx are the beneficiaries of three recent sponsorship agreements.

Santos chief executive Kevin Gallagher has scrapped his short-lived plan to join the board of Mineral Resources, leaving him with a dented reputation.