The union crusade to seize Western Australia’s iron ore heartland continues to ramp up with a massive BHP mining hub being the latest target.
Adrian Rauso
Gold Fields should cough up at least another $1 billion to buy Gold Road Resources, according to the man that brought the two companies together at their shared gold mine.
Chris Ellison declared the ‘naysayers’ will ‘once again’ be proved wrong less than 24 hours after a Mineral Resources bear predicted another downgrade to the Onslow shipping forecasts.
Australian mining billionaire Andrew Forrest was ordered to sit for a seven-hour deposition as his US legal battle intensifies with hedge fund mogul Paul Tudor Jones II over a soured green energy partnership.
Chris Dolmetsch and Ava Benny-Morrison
Gold rose to a fresh record high as worries about the impact of tariffs on the global economy continued pushing investors to seek safety in the precious metal even after easing US inflation data.
Daniel Newell
Global mining giant AngloGold Ashanti has received Foreign Investment Review Board permission to buy the Lake Carey gold project in the northern Goldfields.
Neil Watkinson
WA looms as an electoral battleground. It also looms, once again, as the nation’s best hope of containing the fallout from US tariffs that risk snowballing into a full-blown trade war.
Rebecca Tomkinson
Peter Dutton will reaffirm a commitment to a multi-billion exploration program, among a suite of mining-focused measures, while in Perth on Friday.
Amber Lilley
Andrew Forrest was in Perth on Thursday, the morning after Donald Trump put a 90-day pause on his sweeping global tariffs that sent global markets into meltdown.
Simone Grogan
It comes as Mr Dutton is set to arrive in WA to speak at The West Australian’s Leadership Matters event.
Caitlyn Rintoul and Amber Lilley
More than 1000 people - including some of the country’s top business and political leaders - came together on Thursday to hear the success story of mining billionaire Andrew Forrest. SEE THE PICTURES.
Danielle Le Messurier
Africa looms as a ‘massive threat’ to Western Australia’s ‘low-grade’ iron ore, Andrew Forrest warns, but the billionaire says he has the solution.
Gold Road Resources on Wednesday retracted the cost estimates for establishing an underground mine at the Gruyere operation — one day after issuing the information.
Donald Trump has signed a series of executive orders aimed at boosting the “beautiful, clean” coal industry and says he wants to compete with Australia on production of the fossil fuel.
Danielle Le Messurier & Seung Min Kim
WorkSafe said in January 2023, a drill operator was helping repair and service a Sandvik twin-boom jumbo drill at a Carosue Dam workshop.
Mineral Resources was among the miners spearheading ASX losses today, with the Chris Ellison-led company now worth 79 per cent less than this time last year.
A new mining study is paving the way for Gold Road to demand a better takeover price from Gold Fields as the feud between mine partners rages on.
Flash flooding looks to have sunk Rio Tinto’s quarterly iron ore shipments to the lowest level since 2019 and dampened hopes of WA’s most prolific miner reaching its annual production target.
Andrew and Nicola Forrest head the list of WA casualties burnt in the share market’s savage downturn, with more than $1 billion wiped from the value of their Fortescue Metals stake inside a week.
Sean Smith
Local stock pickers are expecting blue chip companies to lead the rebound once the share market carnage subsides, but there is a lot of uncertainty over when that may be.
Adrian Rauso and Sean Smith
WA exploration company Estrella Resources is poised to break new ground in Timor-Leste by undertaking the small nation’s first-ever minerals drilling campaign.
Trump’s global tariffs have bombed the Australian share market and thrown up new affronts for WA, which now has to assert its place in a new world left alienated politically and commercially by Uncle Sam.
Simone Grogan, Caitlyn Rintoul, Joe Spagnolo & Bloomberg
The gold miner is in the sights of WA’s safety regulator after an explosion, which has come to light while the company’s shareholders nervously wait on a flagged production downgrade.
Ongoing talks between Mines Minister David Michael and Glencore over mining royalties could determine the fate of WA’s last nickel hope and the 1000-plus jobs it sustains.
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