WA’s main mining lobby group has derided the Productivity Commission’s GST carve-up proposal, claiming it would leave ‘every Australian worse off’.
Adrian Rauso
One state premier has slammed a report into the GST carve-up as an “attack” and lashed “whingers” and “clowns” in other states.
Ria Pandey and Nathan Schmidt
The activist investor agitating for change at Northern Star has flung mud back at the gold miner’s board.
Surging prices are squeezing WA’s critical mineral processors to breaking point, with one major lithium refinery operator branding the cost crunch as unsustainable.
A multi-billion-dollar rescue package will be paid for by the federal and NSW governments to keep the nation's biggest aluminium smelter from going under.
Tess Ikonomou
Michael Chaney chastised Northern Star’s noisy activist investor after shunning the US hedge fund’s board wish-list by appointing former Wesfarmers executive and BHP director Terry Bowen.
Adrian Rauso and Daniel Newell
AI-focused small caps, miners, and technology businesses could outperform businesses hit by slumping consumer confidence and falling house prices, professional investors say.
Tom Richardson
St George Mining continues to grow its rare earths and niobium mineral resource estimates at the Araxa project in Brazil, saying it now has the “world’s largest undeveloped measured niobium resource”.
Neil Watkinson
Redcastle Resources has signed a native title agreement with the Nyalpa Pirniku people as it continues to advance its northern Goldfields gold project towards production.
Medallion Metals has picked a subsidiary of Perth’s Macmahon Holdings as the preferred underground mining contractor for its Ravensthorpe gold project, with first gold targeted for the third quarter of 2027.
The bailout of Australia's largest aluminium smelter has saved thousands of jobs, with union officials calling the move a win for the working class.
Noah Secomb, Allanah Sciberras and Lucinda Garbutt-Young
Unions claim their weekend strike at BHP’s sole WA iron ore port wiped out about $US20 million of export income, but the company insists operations weren’t materially disrupted.
Mark Cutifani and former Arcadium Lithium boss Paul Graves are among a list of six willing potential directors proposed by Elliott to help right the gold miner.
Sean Smith
The Albanese and WA Governments are ‘aligned’ on the issue of skilled migration, WA’s most senior minister in the Federal Cabinet says, ahead of looming changes aimed at cutting net inflows.
Rebecca Le May
Australia has lost out on a huge amount of investment thanks to “increasingly hostile” government policies that have forced the resources sector into decline, new research claims.
Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers now has to approve the buyers of the shares held by two of the dissident Chinese-linked investors in the strategically important rare earths play.
Mining giant BHP has played down the impact of industrial action at WA’s crucial export hub in Port Hedland over the weekend as a make-or-break negotiation looms within days.
Matt Mckenzie
WA researchers are taking their inventions out of the lab and pitching them to miners, farmers, manufacturers and investors as part of a new tech accelerator.
Ryan Johnson
Mining giant BHP says product is still making its way onto boats despite 48-hours of industrial action from a group of unions beginning on Saturday with a day’s ban on loading ships.
Oliver Lane
A gold bar generated a selfie storm in Kalgoorlie this week but The Bull was a little more wary of Perth Mint’s latest $100 million side-quest.
BHP has slashed jobs at its diversity-focused academy in Perth and issued a broad apology amid accusations of sexual harassment against one of its trainers.
Top executives from WA’s big two iron ore miners and a Gina Rinehart-backed rare earths producer have been summoned for a meeting with US President Donald Trump.
Adrian Rauso and Joe Deaux
Gold miners are turning to low-cost revamps while sounding the alarm over capital gains changes. Beyond the precious metal, debate over a potential clean energy source was reignited.
Tributes have flowed for a beloved father who died in a workplace mining tragedy, with the community rallying around his children.
David Hannant
