De Beers will ditch a controversial experiment to sell lab grown diamond jewellery, ending a six-year program that broke one of its oldest taboos. While the company long held the technology to make synthetic gems, it always refused to sell them as jewellery,...
Days after BHP Group failed to secure the $49-billion takeover of smaller rival Anglo American, investors have one message for CEO Mike Henry — keep your cool. BHP argues it showed restraint in the battle for Anglo, a welcome attribute in a sector notorious for...
Rio Tinto has celebrated seven decades of work at its aluminium smelter in British Columbia, Canada. The major miner boasts the only aluminium smelter in BC, establishing Rio Tinto as a cornerstone of the local economy. Rio Tinto BC Works general manager Simon Pascoe...
Mineral Resources (MinRes) is set to buy 30 per cent of Galileo Mining’s lithium rights in a new joint venture agreement. The 30 per cent will be sold from Galileo’s Norseman lithium project in Western Australia for a price of $7.5 million. A total of $5 million is to...
WA1 Resources has revealed high-grade intercepts from its Luni carbonatite within the West Arunta project in Western Australia. Located 490km south of Halls Creek, Luni was discovered in November 2022 in WA1’s first drilling program in West Arunta. To date,...
