Kalgoorlie-Boulder’s mayor says he is confident the city is the “ideal home” for Diggers & Dealers and the local government will continue supporting the organisers’ vision of the event’s future.
Neil Watkinson
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton – both of whom spent part of last week in WA – were invited to a dinner celebrating Woodside’s 70th anniversary but neither was able to attend.
Katina Curtis
The WA junior explorer seeking to commercialise a new type of critical metals processing technology has appointed a chief executive after the company’s founding leader resigned in July.
A delayed Government report into airborne dust levels in the area near Pinjarra’s Alcoa refinery has finally been handed down, revealing the dust does not pose a public health risk.
Kasey Gratton
Arcadium Lithium’s Mt Cattlin mine in Ravensthorpe is in a “good position to ride out” suppressed prices and will stay open “for the foreseeable future”, according to the company’s Australian lead.
Simone Grogan
The dust has settled on Diggers and Dealers for 2024 and across gold, lithium, rare earths, niobium and uranium there were some big takeaways.
Adrian Rauso
A top WA fund manager has reignited calls for Diggers & Dealers to move to Perth and turn the annual mining bonanza into a more family friendly event and welcoming environment for women.
A mining company has been fined for failures in its safety management system after the death of a worker who became trapped under a bulldozer in 2018.
Cheryl Goodenough
Mining giant Gold Fields has signed a native title agreement that will deliver “significant” benefits to the traditional owners of the land the St Ives gold mine near Kambalda sits on.
The boss of the newly expanded Westgold Resources has added another string to his bow — he is now independent non-executive chairman of Esperance-focused rare earths explorer OD6 Metals.
Going greener and deeper below the soil are the key trends that suppliers of WA mining’s biggest toys are honing their sights on.
A mining group is pushing the Opposition to pick a side on a popular critical minerals credit after Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor and Peter Dutton took different lines on the incentive in the same week.
Fortescue fights claims that it misled court ahead of raiding home, former senior executive Michael Masterman’s rival new venture.
Neale Prior
IGO has revealed it is shopping around its troubled Forrestania nickel mine and may have already landed a buyer.
Daniel Newell
Glencore has abandoned plans to spin off its coal unit just nine months after saying it would exit the profitable but polluting business, following discussions with its shareholders.
Thomas Biesheuvel
Kalgoorlie-Boulder mining contractor BML Ventures has another gold project on its books — Horizon Minerals’ Phillips Find mine north-west of Coolgardie.
Fortescue claims two of its former scientists could not have made such quick progress at their rival new iron ore processing venture without using the big miner’s technology.
An under the radar gold producer with a Cambodian mine has taken out the coveted Digger of the Year award at Wednesday night’s WesTrac Gala Dinner in Kalgoorlie.
ERA will take a shock rejection from the Federal Government over its Jabiluka uranium lease to court, amid claims Resources Minister Madeleine King took two days to consider her advice.
The future of the Mt Cattlin mine in Ravensthorpe looks to be on shaky ground as New York Stock Exchange-listed owner Arcadium Lithium cuts costs amid languishing prices for the battery mineral.
WA Mines Minister David Michael has seemingly shut the door on near-term potential for WA’s struggling lithium miners to receive tax breaks.
Mark Zeptner has taken a swipe at the tardiness of the Takeovers Panel, while more details emerge about his spicy back-and-forth with Spartan Resources chief Simon Lawson.
WA critical minerals explorer St George Mining has latched on to an advanced niobium project in Brazil, which it hopes to bring into production in about three years.
The transition to tech-driven automated mining will inevitably see fewer jobs available while mines used cheap power, attendees at an industry breakfast panel discussion were told on Tuesday morning.
Anneke de Boer