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Bowen Tennis Association President Walter Morris and Bowen Rail Safety Coordinator Mandy Evans rally together at Bowen Tennis.

Game, set, match: Bowen Rail Company serves up a win for the community

Game, set, match: Bowen Rail Company serves up a win for the community Bowen Tennis Association has scored big with a Bowen Rail Company (BRC) grant to support the development of the region’s next generation of tennis stars. The 95-year-old club was one of four recent grant recipients of Bowen Rail Company’s Community Partnership Program, which supports local not-for-profit organisations and community groups with the purchase of small assets that can make a big difference. Bowen Tennis Association president Walter Morris says the Bowen Rail Company’s...

Juniors warm up inside Bravus Arena.

Bravus Mining & Rockhampton Basketball gear up for season 2024

Bravus Mining & Rockhampton Basketball gear up for season 2024 Bravus Mining and Resources will be cheering up a storm when the Rockhampton Cyclones and Rockets take to Bravus Arena on Saturday (13 April) for the start of the 2024 NBL1 North Season. The owner and operator of the Carmichael mine near Clermont in central Queensland has been a Major Partner of Rockhampton Basketball since 2018. Bravus Mining and Resources head of community Kate Campbell says a ticket to round one against the Townsville Flames and Heat is hot property in the business’ Victoria Parade office. Rockhampton and Townsville are the primary FIFO hubs for the more than 1,200 regional...

Queens Beach State School teacher Bec Trask (back left) with Bowen Rail Company’s Lienca Nell (back right) and students with a haul from their kitchen garden.

Bravus blooms little green thumbs in Bowen community

Bravus blooms little green thumbs in Bowen community The Bowen Rail Company (BRC) is supporting the Queensland region’s littlest green thumbs through a grant to the Queens Beach State School kitchen garden program. The Bowen state school was one of four recipients of the latest round of funding from BRC’s Community Partnership Program, designed to assist not-for-profit organisations and community groups with the purchase of small assets that can make a big difference. Queens Beach is part of the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program and teacher Bec Trask says the...

Regarded as one of the most comprehensive dedicated software businesses in the mining industry, Micromine brings complementary domain expertise to Weir.

Weir to acquire Micromine

Weir to acquire Micromine Weir is accelerating its strategy for sustainable digital mining after entering a binding agreement to acquire Mining Software Holdings (Micromine) for $1.3b (£657m). Micromine is a top-tier global software provider to the mining industry, with comprehensive solutions across the upstream mining value chain. It supports critical mining operations from exploration through mine design and planning, operational scheduling and mining operations in hard ore, soft ore and underground applications. Weir chief executive Jon Stanton says the combined force of Micromine and Weir will create a sector-leading globally scaled platform to optimise performance...

Good early nickel and copper results boost gold project’s prospects

Good early nickel and copper results boost gold project’s prospects

ENCOURAGING preliminary results for nickel and copper indicators have been returned from exploration on a “small portion” of Thor Mining’s tenement holding at the Dundas gold project in southern WA, according to a recent announcement from the company. Thor reported that analysis of surface geochemical cross sections of calcrete samples from a 25 square kilometre area of exploration tenement had been completed, as part of exploration being conducted in conjunction with the ongoing gold exploration program at Dundas. According to the company, three areas of elevated nickel and one of copper, plus one site of coincident copper and nickel, were revealed in the analysis. “This is an encouraging start in assessing the nickel prospectivity of the Dundas project,” Thor executive...

Rare earth element dysprosium highlighted on the periodic table.

Ionic Rare Earths partners with Ford, LCM and BGS to create UK rare earth supply chain

Ionic Rare Earths partners with Ford, LCM and BGS to create UK rare earth supply chain Ionic Rare Earths (ASX:IXR) has partnered with Ford Technologies, Less Common Metals (LCM) and British Geological Survey (BGS) to create a UK rare earth supply chain. Ionic Technologies International, Ionic’s UK-based subsidiary, will develop a UK supply chain for recycled magnet rare earths to magnets and will complete a feasibility study and supply chain analysis for a UK magnet recycling facility. The UK Government will support the partnership via a $1.95m (£1m) project with Ionic Technologies announced as the major beneficiary and lead collaborator. The UK Government is also supporting an...

Australian resources companies draw $1.15b

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Australian resources companies draw $1.15b

Australian resources companies draw $1.15b AUSTRALIAN resources and energy companies attracted $1.15b of investment funding in the October-December 2019 quarter, the highest amount since April-June 2018, according to an analysis by Austex Resource Opportunities. Austex principal consultant Rob Murdoch said the trend for increased investment funding to ASX-listed metals and energy companies had carried over into early 2020. Australian gold, copper and oil and gas companies listed on the ASX all did well in terms of attracting funds, including from small investors in Australia, he said. “The large capital raisings in Q4 2019 are a result of recent exploration success for copper-gold porphyries in the Lachlan Fold belt of NSW and the Paterson province in WA, along with new gold...

Pilgan plant at the Pilgangoora lithium operation.

Pilbara Minerals and Yahua sign three-year offtake agreement

Pilbara Minerals and Yahua sign three-year offtake agreement Pilbara Minerals (ASX: PLS) and Sichuan Yahua Industrial group have signed a three-year offtake agreement for the supply of spodumene concentrate from the Pilgangoora lithium operation in WA. Leading lithium chemicals company, Yahua is one of the largest lithium hydroxide producers in the world. The company has strong connections across the lithium supply chain with customers including Tesla, Contemporary Amperex Technology Co, LG Energy Solutions and LG Chem. The first year of the agreement will see Pilbara Minerals supply 20kt of spodumene concentrate, with an option to supply an additional 60kt, for a total supply of 20kt to 80kt in 2024....