Mining Billboard
Insights and analysis from leading industry commentators
(DEVELOPMENT)
Australian-based explorer is taking advantage of the improving economic outlook for metallurgical coal to commission an updated scoping study on its Lochinvar project in the UK straddling the England-Scotland border.
Tungsten producer welcomes confirmation of $50M government grants advancing Australian strategy to accelerate critical minerals production.
Leading international premium zircon producer PYX Resources has joined more than 15,000 companies and 3,000 non-business organisations committed to align their operations with human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption principles under the United Nations Global Compact.
(MINING THE MOON)
Scientists and engineers will undoubtedly resolve many technical challenges to achieve humanity’s return to the moon (even if a fuel leak has prevented its first two planned launches). However, the legal and political challenges of mining the moon may be more difficult.
(CORPORATE)
Independent directors of Turquoise Hill Resources have given their unanimous backing to a revised $3.3B bid that would result in Rio Tinto gaining a direct 66% stake in Mongolia’s Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold mine.
(LITIGATION)
Explorer Argonaut Resources is seeking urgent talks with the South Australian government after a native title group won a court order blocking its exploration of a potentially major copper-gold project in the centre of the state.
(CORPORATE)
Global miner Rio Tinto comes back to the table with an increased cash bid for full ownership of subsidiary Turquoise Hill and a direct 66% control of the Oyu Tolgoi project in Mongolia.
(DEVELOPMENT)
Three months after the Queensland state government hit them with a shock increase in coal royalty taxes to the highest global rates, it is coming under even more pressure from the outraged miners, developers and explorers in Australia’s premier coal jurisdiction.
(EXPLORATION)
Surprise move drives West Australian explorer Metalicity into the rapidly emerging battery materials sector, with agreement to acquire a significantly underexplored lithium-tantalum-rare earths prospect near Cairns in north Queensland.
(EXPLORATION)
Australian company New Age Exploration will be targeting the epicentre of New Zealand’s gold rush of the 1860s after gaining approval to explore an area in Marlborough encompassing four significant gold-tungsten occurrences.
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