Gladiator Metals debuts on NSX

By Samantha Bawden

Wednesday, 23 September 2026

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Canadian copper explorer Gladiator Metals commenced trading this morning on the National Stock Exchange of Australia (NSX), an alternative to the ASX for smaller companies.

The MOU supports Metallium’s plan to develop a national network of e-waste processing facilities, strategically located near major e-waste collection hubs, rapidly expanding U.S. data centre industrial parks and regional industrial corridors with strong logistics and waste generation.

Rinehart drops lithium stakes for rare earths

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Rinehart drops lithium stakes for rare earths

Gina Rinehart has become the majority shareholder in the US’s only rare earths producer, MP Materials, while majorly decreasing her US-listed lithium holdings.

Is Key Petroleum the best emerging energy play in the Perth Basin?

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Is Key Petroleum the best emerging energy play in the Perth Basin?

Key Petroleum Limited (ASX: KEY) is emerging as one of Western Australia’s brightest oil and gas explorers. The company has a well-established position in the Perth Basin, having focused on a new phase of activity centred on the L7 (R1) Mt Horner acquisition, and the adjacent Wye Knot-1 drilling program in EP 437. The Perth Basin has become a hot spot for oil and gas explorers on the back of corporate activity, exploration success and recognition of the promising supply demand dynamics that should support strong pricing in the coming years. Highlighting why there is interest in this region is Strike Energy (ASX: STX), which received an overnight five-fold share price increase after announcing a significant gas discovery in the...

Green light for Samarco

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Green light for Samarco

THE Samarco joint venture between Vale SA and BHP Group has been given approval to resume operations at the Germano iron ore plant in Brazil, four years after a fatal dam collapse there. It is understood that 10 of the 12 members of Minas Gerais state environmental council, known as Copam, voted in favour of an operational corrective licence for the mine. Samarco has had its operations halted since the 2015 Fundão waste dam collapse that killed 19 people and resulted in flooding across more than 600km in one of the worst environmental disasters in the country’s mining history. The mining dam failure had affected the downstream Santarem dam, causing a “significant release” of mine tailings to flood the nearby...

Fortescue to develop green iron technology with Chinese steelmaker

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Fortescue to develop green iron technology with Chinese steelmaker

Fortescue (ASX: FMG) will collaborate with Taiyuan Iron and Steel Group (TISCO), a subsidiary of China Baowu, to trial an emerging green ironmaking technology.

Sandvik grows Mongolian fleet

Sandvik grows Mongolian fleet

Sandvik grows Mongolian fleet Sandvik Mining has been contracted to supply 17 loaders and two trucks to Rio Tinto’s (ASX: Rio) Oyu Tolgoi copper-mine in the South Gobi Desert. The underground equipment supply includes eight Toro LH410 loaders, seven Toro LH515i loaders, two Toro LH517i loaders and two Toro TH551i trucks. Deliveries are expected to begin in October 2025 and continue through to late next year. Underground operations at the site, jointly owned by Rio (66%) and the Mongolia Government (34%), began in early 2023 and have continued to ramp...

Court rules for safer conditions for Queensland mines

Court rules for safer conditions for Queensland mines

Court rules for safer conditions for Queensland mines The Queensland Industrial Court has ruled in favour of the state's resources regulator to limit operations at Queensland open cut mines during severe lightning storms. Resources Safety and Health Queensland (RSHQ) has issued a safety alert following the outcome, which confirmed it was not safe for mine workers to operate heavy mobile equipment (HME) such as bulldozers and dump trucks, during nearby lightning storms. The court cases arose after RSHQ coal mines chief inspector Jacques le Roux first issued a directive...

AMEC calls for action amid exploration decline

AMEC calls for action amid exploration decline

AMEC calls for action amid exploration decline The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has released its Q1 CY25 mineral and exploration statistics which has highlighted a decline in exploration activity across the country. The data shows an 18.4% decrease in total exploration from the Q4 CY24, representing $181m decline in exploration expenditure. Year-on-year this shows an 11.5% drop or $105m decrease. There was a 21.9% drop in new exploration drilling and there was a 11.6% decline in total metres drilled. Association of Mining and Exploration Companies (AMEC) chief executive Warren Pearce says the data demonstrates what the association has...

Alcoa to boost Australia’s gallium supply

Alcoa to boost Australia’s gallium supply

Alcoa to boost Australia’s gallium supply Alcoa (ASX: AAI) has confirmed a joint development agreement (JDA) with Japan Australia Gallium Associates (JAGA) to explore the feasibility of a gallium project in WA. The project will be co-located at one of Alcoa’s operating alumina refineries. Subject to further commercial agreements and regulatory approvals, Alcoa and JAGA are targeting a final investment decision (FID) by the end of 2025 with production targeted for 2026. Gallium is recognised as a critical mineral by Australia and the US. Japan has also identified the mineral as one of the 35 minerals important...