by Gordon Barratt | Sep 21, 2026 | News
Geoscience Australia has identified new exploration opportunities for critical minerals, copper and gold beneath a largely under-explored region spanning South Australia, New South Wales and Victoria. The findings come from the Delamerian project, the first deep-dive...
by Gordon Barratt | Sep 21, 2026 | News
Queensland tin production is set to gain a direct link to the US market, with Mount Garnet’s output to be supplied to a US refiner backed by the Department of Defence. Huntore Australia’s Mount Garnet polymetallic operation, about 100km south-west of Cairns, has...
by Gordon Barratt | Sep 17, 2026 | News
Lithium Argentina has announced the closing of a strategic $180-million investment from Ganfeng Lithium Group through the issue of a six-year unsecured convertible note. Lithium Argentina (44.8%) and Ganfeng (46.7%) jointly own the Cauchari-Olaroz project, in...
by Gordon Barratt | Sep 17, 2026 | News
Encounter Resources has reported its highest-grade niobium intersection yet at the Green deposit in Western Australia’s West Arunta region, with a 51m downhole interval grading 5.0 per cent niobium oxide (Nb2O5) from 63m. The hit, from aircore hole EAL1513 at the...
by Gordon Barratt | Sep 17, 2026 | News
During BHP’s recent environmental, social and governance roundtable, the miner put a number to electrifying its haul truck fleet: static charging could cost a battery-electric truck about 1000 operating hours a year compared with a diesel equivalent. Set out in BHP’s...
