Gold soars on Iran attacks

GOLD peaked to a near seven-year high of US$1579.72 after the US launched a deadly attack against Iranian military leader Major General Qassem Soleimani.The...

A mighty find for Thor

THOR Mining (ASX:THR) has announced pleasing results at its wholly-owned Pilbara Goldfield tenement, with gold, nickel and chromium assays from preliminary geochemistry reconnaissance.After strong...

Critical minerals office opens

THE opening of The Critical Minerals Facilitation Office, announced by Resources and Northern Australia Minister Matt Canavan last week, aims to untap Australia’s rich...

Lynas’ new Malaysian challenge

LYNAS Corporation (ASX: LYC) is facing a new wave of judicial proceedings in Malaysia over its subsidiary, Lynas Malaysia’s rare earths processing facility.In a...

Milestone for Nigerian steel project

POSITIVE steps towards progressing Kogi Iron’s Agbaja steel project in Nigeria have been announced, including a recent $3.2m fundraising toward the financial completion of...

Rio Tinto forecasts higher iron production

AUSTRALIAN miner Rio Tinto is expecting to achieve iron ore production of between 330m and 343mt for the 2020 year after its production for...

Enter Sandman

METALLICA Minerals (ASX: MLM) has confirmed the presence of high-purity silica sands at its 100pc-owned Cape Flattery silica sands project in Northern Queensland after...

World class NT lithium find

AUSTRALIAN lithium developer, Core Lithium, has announced a world-class, high-grade lithium intersection of 107m at 1.70pc Li2O at the BP33 Prospect within its wholly...

Major vanadium project advances

THE renewable battery energy market continues to make significant moves in WA as the quality and applications of battery storage becomes ever more sophisticated...

BlackRock blacklists thermal coal

BLACKROCK is the latest investor firm to call it quits on thermal coal.In a letter to its clients, the world’s biggest fund manager stated...