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BHP’s Tim Day.

CopperCommentsPremiumAmbiguity more of a headache than tariffs for BHP’s Tim Day

BHP’s top executive in WA is less concerned with the financial fallout of US President Donald Trump’s latest copper tariff threats than the frustration of trying to do business in an ‘uncertain world’.

Simone Grogan, Jessica Page and Adrian Rauso

BHP Billiton. Copper - Escondida

MiningRio, BHP roped in as copper nation sweats details of tariffs

Chile, by far the biggest shipper of copper into the US and home of BHP and Rio Tinto’s Escondida mine, is waiting for details to emerge following President’s Donald Trump’s bombshell comments on tariffs.

James Attwood, Valentina Fuentes and Simone Grogan

Rio Tinto’s Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold mine in Mongolia.

MiningCommentsPremiumRio pays $215m to settle Mongolian mine dispute

Rio Tinto has agreed to pay $215 million to settle a lawsuit that accused the miner of hiding problems from investors at its giant copper mine in Mongolia.

Thomas Biesheuvel

Andrew Forrest in 2000 when his Anaconda Nickel owned the Murrin Murrin mine. Anaconda Nickel would end up bankrupt and Murrin Murrin would eventually end up in Glencore’s hands.

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Fortescue treads on Glencore’s toes in secretive land grab

An exploration campaign shrouded in mystery has pitted Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue against the owner of Western Australia’s last nickel hope.

Adrian Rauso

Infrastructure from the historic Antler mine

MiningPremiumIt’s a new world for Subi junior after $185m deal

The board of Subiaco-based copper explorer New World Resources has accepted a $185 million takeover offer from London-listed Central Asia Metals.

Adrian Rauso

Teck Resources CEO Jonathan Price

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Sleeping Canadian giant awakes for copper hunt

A $27 billion company heavily rumoured to be in the sights of Rio Tinto is pegging ground across WA’s outback in search of copper.

Adrian Rauso

Sandfire CEO Brendan Harris.

MiningCommentsPremiumSandfire offloads Old Highway down the road from DeGrussa

The depleted De Grussa copper mine failed to find a new owner but Sandfire Resources has capitalised on the gold boom to sell a nearby deposit.

Adrian Rauso

Barminco — Perenti’s underground mining division — started the original five-year, $800 million Khoemacau contract in December 2019. 

MiningPremiumPerenti to pull up stumps at African copper mine

Working at a massive underground copper mine in southern Africa has not met the mining service provider’s ‘internal performance hurdles’.

Adrian Rauso

BHP CEO Mike Henry

MiningBHP dodges tariffs blow but watching China for slowdown

Mining giant BHP says it expects to see little fallout on its operations from Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs but is more concerned by whether it could pull the handbrake on economic growth.

Daniel Newell

Wyloo chief executive Luca Giacovazzi.

MiningCommentsForrest’s Canadian nickel dream picks up steam

The $1 billion-plus Ring of Fire project being developed by Andrew and Nicola Forrest’s private mining company is picking up steam as Canadians warm up to the development.

Adrian Rauso

Copper’s surge is just one part of the turmoil unleashed by Trump’s bid to reshape global trade and bolster defences for some parts of the US economy.

CopperCommentsPremiumCopper rockets in rally fuelled by Trump tariff threats

Copper marched past its key threshold of $US10,000 a tonne after weeks of global trade dislocation triggered by US President Donald Trump’s push for tariffs on the crucial industrial metal.

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Jakob Stausholm said he would be spending the week meeting with US senators, congressmen and others.

MiningCommentsPremiumRio CEO goes to Washington as profit takes a tumble

Rio Tinto’s CEO took the unusual step of hosting the company’s earnings from Washington, as part of a whirlwind trip to understand what Trump intends to accomplish with his expanding trade war. 

Joe Deaux

Iron ore in Port Hedland

MiningCommentsPremiumBHP slashes dividend as iron ore decline bites

Falling iron ore prices has cut the payout BHP shareholders will receive, with increased earnings from a growing copper portfolio not enough to pick up the slack.

Adrian Rauso

Chalice is working on a pre-feasibility study for Gonneville, which could potentially turn out a rare mix of critical and strategic minerals such as nickel, copper, cobalt, palladium and platinum. 

MiningCommentsPremiumChalice shares rocket on Gonneville ‘breakthrough’

Chalice Mining believes it has found a more efficient way to extract and separate the cluster of commodities from its proposed mixed metal mine on farmland near Toodyay.

Adrian Rauso

The Worsley Alumina operation.

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S32’s WA ops protected from Trump tariffs

Donald Trump’s war on free trade is not expected to cut into the WA arm of South32, which saw half-year profit more than sextuple on the back of rising commodity prices.

Adrian Rauso

Mike Henry, chief executive of BHP Group.

MiningPremiumBHP cools on having another crack at Anglo

Anglo American’s surging value since fending off a BHP takeover assault is reportedly stopping the Big Australian from having a fourth bite of the cherry.

Adrian Rauso

Iron ore currently makes up about two-thirds of Rio’s underlying earnings.

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Rio Tinto and Glencore merger rumours a worrying sign

Rio Tinto supposedly entertaining a tricky $255 billion deal shows how keen it is to wean itself off WA’s iron ore.

Adrian Rauso

Glencore's Murrin Murrin operation in WA.

MiningPremiumRio and Glencore tight-lipped on $255b merger rumours

The mining world will be drastically altered if whispers of a tie-up between Rio Tinto and Glencore are true.

Adrian Rauso

Larvotto's Hillgrove project in NSW.

MiningCommentsPremiumThe mining tiddlers that triumphed or got torn down in 2024

The world of looking for pay dirt can quickly build up fortunes and just as easily wipe them out. With the year drawing to a close we take a look at eight junior miners that exemplified this rollercoaster.

Adrian Rauso

It comes amid a renewed focus on the Paterson province spurred in recent months by Greatland Gold’s purchase of the region’s famed Telfer gold mine, pictured.

GoldCommentsPremiumExplorers angling for Paterson action

Battery metals miner IGO has firmed up its stake in a copper exploration patch in WA’s bustling Paterson region in the Pilbara, where red and yellow metals are all the rage. 

Simone Grogan

Rio Tinto Australia chief executive Kellie Parker.

MiningPNG mine abandoned by Rio 35 years ago at risk of collapse

‘This is a defining moment for Rio Tinto’s social license to operate.’

Paul-Alain Hunt

Jakob Stausholm, chief executive of Rio Tinto.

MiningCommentsPremium‘Unmitigated failure’: Pressure on Rio to cut London ties

The call for Rio Tinto to abandon its primary London listing doesn’t make economic sense, chief executive Jakob Stausholm says, after an activist shareholder urged the miner to relocate to Australia. 

Paul-Alain Hunt and Adrian Rauso

The Winu copper-gold project.

MiningCommentsPremiumRio gets $615m to take on a Japanese partner at Winu

The mining arm of a Japanese behemoth will hand over a hefty sum to join Rio Tinto in unlocking a new WA copper province.

Adrian Rauso

BHP Australia boss Geraldine Slattery says great leaders, particularly in mining, are able to provide great clarity of purpose and strategy.

LeadershipCommentsHow BHP’s Slattery stays one step ahead of the game

Resources companies must prepare like Olympians to stay ahead in a changing sector, says BHP executive Geraldine Slattery

Adrian Rauso