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Lithium leader Pilbara posts electrifying $2.4b profit

Lithium leader Pilbara posts electrifying $2.4b profit

Pilbara Minerals reports a 326 per cent surge in net profit to $2.4 billion as the world rapidly electrifies and demands a secure supply of sustainable lithium.

WA lab to accelerate battery minerals manufacturing hub

WA lab to accelerate battery minerals manufacturing hub

WA lab to accelerate battery minerals manufacturing hub

WA lab to accelerate battery minerals manufacturing hub

A battery materials demonstration plant opened in Western Australian industrial heartland is another milestone to being a global hub, the premier says.

Iluka Resources to pause production after profit slump

Iluka Resources to pause production after profit slump

Iluka Resources to pause production after profit slump

Iluka Resources to pause production after profit slump

Iluka Resources has reported a slump in first-half profit and will shutter a major kiln as global economic uncertainty depresses demand for some commodities.

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BHP warns on tax, productivity after plunge in profits

BHP warns on tax, productivity after plunge in profits

Profits and dividends are down at BHP on lower commodity prices, but the mining giant says it is managing inflationary pressures better than its rivals.

'Use it or lose it': Qld treasurer warns BHP on leases

'Use it or lose it': Qld treasurer warns BHP on leases

BHP has been warned to "use or lose" its Queensland mining leases as the treasurer continues his stoush with miners over the government's royalties regime.

Lithium mega-trend drives Allkem to record $525m profit

Lithium mega-trend drives Allkem to record $525m profit

Lithium producer Allkem credits hard-rock production in Australia and brine ponds in Argentina for an "outstanding" FY23 result as the world races for supplies.

Japan's industrial giants lead charge for Aussie nickel

Japan's industrial giants lead charge for Aussie nickel

A nickel explorer has industrial giants from Japan queuing for future supplies from under the red dirt out west as the battery minerals race accelerates.

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Legal challenge to Woodside's offshore seismic testing

Legal challenge to Woodside's offshore seismic testing

Legal challenge to Woodside's offshore seismic testing

Legal challenge to Woodside's offshore seismic testing

Traditional owners have mounted legal action against Woodside, claiming it failed to consult before beginning seismic testing for its Scarborough gas project.

Rinehart's row with son: 'throw him under the bus'

Rinehart's row with son: 'throw him under the bus'

Rinehart's row with son: 'throw him under the bus'

Rinehart's row with son: 'throw him under the bus'

Australia's richest person Gina Rinehart has been accused of making threats, intimidation and lying during a bitter family dispute over Lang Hancock's legacy.

Alleged Rinehart plan to boost wealth at kids' expense

Alleged Rinehart plan to boost wealth at kids' expense

Alleged Rinehart plan to boost wealth at kids' expense

Alleged Rinehart plan to boost wealth at kids' expense

Gina Rinehart allegedly tasked the forerunner to PricewaterhouseCoopers with a "special project" to undo her father's legacy at the expense of her children.

Push for green tariffs ushers in 'proxy carbon price'

Push for green tariffs ushers in 'proxy carbon price'

Push for green tariffs ushers in 'proxy carbon price'

Push for green tariffs ushers in 'proxy carbon price'

Commodity-rich Australia is pushing the world closer to a 'proxy carbon price' as it moves to level the playing field for big emitters and keep jobs onshore.

Dad's letter to Rinehart: 'please leave me in peace'

Dad's letter to Rinehart: 'please leave me in peace'

Dad's letter to Rinehart: 'please leave me in peace'

Dad's letter to Rinehart: 'please leave me in peace'

Gina Rinehart's father, mining pioneer Lang Hancock, wrote to his daughter in a bid to sever their ties amid a bitter dispute in the years before he died.

Rinehart accuses media of ignoring truth about family

Rinehart accuses media of ignoring truth about family

Rinehart accuses media of ignoring truth about family

Rinehart accuses media of ignoring truth about family

Gina Rinehart says she and her father were close before he died as a court hears the pair had a "major rift" over racial slurs about his wife Rose Porteous.

Gina Rinehart defrauded her children, lawyer alleges

Gina Rinehart defrauded her children, lawyer alleges

Gina Rinehart defrauded her children, lawyer alleges

Gina Rinehart defrauded her children, lawyer alleges

Billionaire Gina Rinehart committed fraud with iron ore mining tenements now worth billions of dollars, a lawyer for her two eldest children has told a court.

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Rinehart backs plan for wealth to return to regions

Mining magnate Gina Rinehart says economic gains from regional communities should be returned to the area from which they were generated.

Early days for lithium as colts vie for talent, ports

Australia is urged to be bold in the race for high-purity lithium for electric cars and clean energy, as veterans and newcomers jostle for capital and ports.

Oz Minerals fined but dodges prosecution over bribes

BHP-owned Oz Minerals has agreed to pay $9.3 million in fines after self-reporting employees bribed foreign officials to obtain mining rights in Cambodia.

Newcrest Mining pays out last, golden dividend count

Newcrest Mining will pay its biggest-ever dividends in fiscal 2023, in what is likely to be the big goldminer's last months as an Australian company.

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Rinehart's rift with dad over his lover heard at trial

Gina Rinehart's lawyers have argued Lang Hancock's corporate breaches before he died extinguish a competing mining dynasty's claim for a stake in her riches.

Yindjibarndi entitled but questions remain over compo

The Fortescue Metals Group says the native title holders of land it's mining in WA's Pilbara are entitled to compensation, but questions how and how much.

Miner rejects traditional owners' dust, noise claims

Claims of dust and noise emissions have sparked a complaint about Queensland's Carmichael coalmine, but the allegations are denied.

Mines minister fronts industry after backflip on law

Trust has not been broken between Western Australians and the government on heritage laws, nor is the Perth Mint a money launderer, the mining minister insists.

Vanadium could be the next lithium for big battery tech

Australia holds a third of the world's vanadium, an element that's key to a kind of battery that may be the answer to the long-term storage of energy.

Miners at odds with farmers on cultural heritage laws

A key mining figure has urged the industry to embrace the voice, at a forum where there was also surprise at WA's scrapping of cultural heritage laws.

First mover or fast follower, mining in a race to adapt

Australian battery minerals and base metals producers are determined to move up the value chain, whether on team US or for China and its mega-factories.

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