Vulcan,which is backed by mining billionaire Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting,plans to extract lithium from underground reservoirs of hot brine from Germany’s Upper Rhine Valley.
Nickel was a rising star of Australia’s battery-driven green energy mining boom,but then events in Indonesia changed everything.
Battery minerals specialist IGO will close its Cosmos nickel mine in WA’s Goldfields before it is fully complete,slashing 400 jobs.
WA’s troubled nickel sector is pleading for government help to withstand a price slump caused by booming production from Indonesia.
Novo Resources will partner with lithium mega-miner SQM who will pay $10m to pick up 75 per cent of Novo’s promising lithium/nickel ground in WA’s Pilbara region.
A submersible buoy to harvest wave energy,superheated graphite alloy blocks,vanadium flow batteries,and compressed air generators are trying to solve the problem of storing renewable energy in the grid.
Normally,the saying is you need money to make money,but in WA it seems you need ore to make more – and keep a close watch on China,costs and the energy transition.
Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting has joined forces with a Chilean mining giant in a $1.7 billion bid to takeover Australian lithium miner Azure Minerals.
Secret documents reveal an ASX-listed company’s legal advisers recommended an overhaul of its anti-corruption processes in the wake of a controversial payment.
When is a summit not a summit? When everything has been decided beforehand. Welcome to WA’s pitch to be treated differently from the rest of the country to save the rest of the world.
Chris Ellison’s Mineral Resources wants a five-year exemption from a Western Australian ban on the export of onshore gas,arguing it would help shore up domestic supply in years to come.