WA gold miners and a surprise lithium revival story have played a star role for mum and dad investors during a tumultuous year on the Aussie share market.
Simone Grogan
Almost 100 employees of Iluka Resources have been made redundant, with the wave of white and blue-collar job cuts linked to a recent mine suspension near Perth.
Adrian Rauso
Australian shares posted a modest rise through 2025, despite an April bloodbath when US President Donald Trump took a baseball bat to the world economy.
Matt Mckenzie & Simone Grogan
Gold edged lower in the last trading day of 2025, but remained on track for its best annual performance since 1979 as a banner year for precious metals draws to a close.
Yihui Xie
Nickel has hit the highest since March after top producer Indonesia flagged plans to cut supply in order to boost prices.
Bloomberg
Silver’s exceptional volatility in recent days has captured the zeitgeist — with even the likes of Elon Musk drawing attention to the metal’s ferocious rally to all-time highs.
Jack Ryan
Develop Global’s chairman Michael Blakiston has sold more than $700,000 of stock and the company made a mea culpa for failing to disclose share purchases by a different director.
Chile’s Codelco and SQM completed a landmark deal aimed at boosting lithium extraction from the South American country’s Atacama Desert.
Maria Clara Cobo
After a year where iron ore defied gloom, gold boomed, rare earths emerged and lithium resurged, what does 2026 hold for Australia’s most important industry?
Potential risks posed by dust from the massive Greenbushes lithium operation are ‘high’, but the State Government’s regulator believes it can be managed.
Gold and silver soared to all-time highs, as escalating geopolitical tensions and bets on further US rate cuts added momentum to the best annual performance in more than four decades.
Robin Paxton and Preeti Soni
Shares in the mining-focused engineering company jumped after it won a $250 million contract at a Rio Tinto iron ore development.
China’s exports of rare-earth magnets to the US fell 11 per cent in November from a month earlier, with no immediate rebound seen after a trade truce between the world’s two biggest economies.
Jessica Zhou
WA gold stocks have dominated the share market’s best performers in 2025, delivering outsized gains off the back of bullion’s golden year.
Sean Smith
A billionaire-backed company with big plans hitch a ride on the Guinea iron ore train is ready to start construction on another Pilbara rival after clinching Government rail and port approval.
The owners of an ailing mineral sands operation in the Kimberley have been allowed to defer repayments on a $160 million Federal Government loan.
Economists are encouraged by a rosier than expected picture of Australia’s mining and energy exports after iron ore defied forecasts and the country’s arsenal of upcoming projects settled at $62 billion.
Great Boulder Resources has updated the mineral resource estimate for its Side Well project east of Meekatharra, pushing it past one million ounces.
Neil Watkinson
Private miner Gold Valley Group and its owner Yuzheng Xie have been fined more than $2 million for unlawful mining.
Cheyanne Enciso
Shares in Boss Energy have tanked more than 25 per cent after the most shorted company on the ASX conceded its Honeymoon uranium mine is not as good as originally spruiked.
Iron ore produced in the Yilgarn region of WA is once again being exported through Port of Esperance, with the first shipment departing the south coast at the weekend.
Perth company GeoMoby says its location technology is gaining traction internationally, with revenue expected to double this financial year after successful installation in Goldfields underground mines.
A pre-feasibility study estimates it will cost Saturn Metals $472 million to bring the Apollo Hill gold project south-east of Leonora into production.
Westgold Resources is selling the “non-core” Mt Henry gold project south of Norseman for $64.6 million but will retain a stake in its future via a 19.9 per cent shareholding in buyer Alicanto Minerals.
