Category: Projects & Operations

AIC Mines (ASX: A1M) has entered into binding agreements to acquire Materra Metals and its Mt Cuthbert copper project in Queensland for $120m, consisting of $100m in AIC Mines shares and $20m in cash.

The Queensland Government has declared three major steel industry projects as prescribed projects, supporting more than $1.9b in private investment.

Geoscience Australia will today host the inaugural meeting of its new First Nations Advisory Group, which aims to strengthen Traditional Owner engagement in national geoscience.

BHP (ASX: BHP) and China Baowu Steel have renewed their steel decarbonisation partnership, building on five years of collaboration and multiple joint initiatives.

Ramelius Resources (ASX: RMS) has outlined a medium-term outlook, forecasting a 205% increase in production from FY26 levels to 560-610koz gold by FY30.

BCI Minerals (ASX: BCI) has announced the appointment of current Covalent Lithium chair Ian Hansen as a non-executive director, effective November 1.

Terrain Minerals (ASX: TMX) has achieved gold recoveries of up to 93.7% using a conventional gravity and cyanide leach flowsheet at its Lightning gold project in WA.

Gina Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting has agreed to invest $8.8m in White Cliff Minerals (ASX: WCN), where her estranged son John Hancock sits on the board and was previously the company's largest shareholder.

About 500 employees and 100 labour-hire workers at the Whyalla steelworks are expected to lose their jobs after administrator KordaMentha confirmed that efforts to restart the site’s blast furnace had been unsuccessful.

WA’s known mineral and energy resources could generate more than $1.3t in royalties and company taxes in the coming decades, according to a new report.

Rio Tinto (ASX: RIO) has signed a project agreement for the proposed Winu copper-gold mine, located 300km south of Broome, WA, with the Nyangumarta Warrarn Aboriginal Corporation (NWAC).