The Foreign Investment Review Board will want to ascertain the true underlying beneficial owners of the Zero Carbon Investek group before it recommends their deal to buy Clive Palmer’s Queensland nickel refinery.
Clive Palmer has sold the Yabulu refinery in Townsville to a Swiss company that plans to build a solar power plant on the site.
Geoscience Australia reported a magnitude 4 seismic event struck near Nickel West’s mine in the Goldfields’ region at 3.24pm on Wednesday at a depth of five kilometres.
BHP target Oz Minerals has hit go on its West Musgrave mine to produce copper and nickel mine,two commodities much sought after by the big Australian.
There has been a jump in mining activity in areas managed by the parks authority while environment groups also rally against exploration applications by two of the state’s biggest miners.
A controversial decision by the London Metals Exchange helped save a Chinese billionaire from losing a fortune. But a notoriously aggressive US investor is not happy.
More mining will be needed to build the infrastructure needed for a global energy transition,but there could be local environmental costs in the process.
BHP has bought the entire output of the first wind farm in WA’s South West farmlands to cut emissions from processing nickel for electric vehicle batteries.