Yesterday
Orica prepares for end of thermal coal with $559m software firm buy
The explosives and mining services group is pivoting its business to focus on new mines needed to the transition away from fossil fuels, and on infrastructure.
- Elouise Fowler
Billionaire taps into couples workforce with iron ore ‘love shacks’
Minerals Resources boss Chris Ellison says the company’s on-site accommodation for couples is as good as anything at a beachside resort in Broome.
- Brad Thompson
Ban short-selling in the ‘national interest’, Chalice boss pleads
Hedge funds targeting pre-revenue companies holds back Australia’s objectives in critical minerals, according to aspirant Chalice.
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- Peter Ker
This Month
Ellison backs legal fight linked to Bald Hill lithium mine
Mineral Resources boss Chris Ellison has put his hand up to join the board of Singapore-listed Alita Resources if a push to dump McGrathNicol as liquidators succeeds.
- Brad Thompson
Allkem shareholders green-light $9.7b Livent merger
The merged group will have the capacity to produce and process lithium in Argentina, Canada, the US, Australia, Japan, and China.
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- Elouise Fowler
BHP rules out return to Broken Hill as it passes on copper project buy
The miner inherited an option to acquire Havilah Resources’ Kalkaroo asset through its $9.6 billion purchase of OZ Minerals. It won’t take up those rights.
- Peter Ker
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Rinehart walks the talk with $1.7b lithium buy
Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting has been in a few lithium scraps, but has invested more in the sector than most this year. Azure Minerals is significant.
- Anthony Macdonald
Rinehart joins forces with lithium giant SQM in $1.7b Azure bid
Gina Rinehart has thrashed out a partnership that delivers part of her ambitions to become a major lithium player in her home state of Western Australia.
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- Brad Thompson
Lithium heavyweights on cusp of sealing Azure partnership
The battle for control of lithium explorer Azure Minerals is expected to become clearer this week as major investors get close to a cooperation pact.
- Peter Ker
Allkem lithium merger splits pension funds
An $11 billion merger of Livent and Allkem is on track to secure the requisite shareholder support on Tuesday even though AustralianSuper is expected to oppose.
- Peter Ker and Joanne Tran
Struggling nickel sector ‘disappointed’ by critical minerals snub
Nickel bosses are dismayed at being left off the Albanese government’s critical minerals list when low prices have imperilled hundreds of jobs.
- Peter Ker and Brad Thompson
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Rinehart’s common sense crucial to green mining transition
Policy-makers need to heed the calls by two prominent female resource sector leaders not to hobble the upstream mining sector on which the nation’s prosperity rests.
- The AFR View
BHP issues dire warning on nickel mines
The Albanese government is overhauling its critical minerals strategy but the teetering nickel sector remains on the outer, with BHP and Forrest-owned mines at risk.
- Brad Thompson and Peter Ker
Blowouts hit taxpayer-backed rare earths refinery
Taxpayers may have to lend more than the $1.25b already pledged towards the WA refinery that aims to break China’s stranglehold on the supply of rare earths
- Peter Ker
We’re voting against Allkem’s $16b merger with Livent, Ausbil says
The major fund management has made it clear that it believes the proposed ownership ratio doesn’t reflect the nature and the size of the ASX-listed group.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Battery metals sound good, they just don’t always work out that way
We need more nickel to fuel the energy transition, so why has one of the ASX’s pure play nickel mainstays gone under?
- Anthony Macdonald
Eyes on Forrest, IGO as nickel’s nightmare year claims Panoramic
A surfeit of Indonesian nickel and weather disruptions have forced a former takeover target into administration. Will a fire sale lure IGO or Andrew Forrest?
- Peter Ker and Brad Thompson
- Updated
- Critical minerals
Sacked CEO sues SolGold after boardroom stoush
BHP and Newmont’s struggling Ecuadorian copper play has hit more trouble, with former CEO Darryl Cuzzubbo filing a multimillion-dollar breach of contract claim.
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- Peter Ker
BHP boss Mike Henry sells $18.5m of shares in wake of divorce
The mining boss has sold down his shareholding as part of the reorganisation of assets after the end of his marriage.
- Brad Thompson
Big miner lauds WA reforms after premier cooks greenies
WA Premier Roger Cook has doubled down on comments that well-resourced environmental groups were working to split up Indigenous landowners.
- Tom Rabe
