Pilbara Minerals chases lithium sweet spot after ‘cracking year’

Pilbara Minerals chases lithium sweet spot after ‘cracking year’

Pilbara Minerals shares jumped 5.2 per cent after the lithium producer finished its financial year with production of a vital battery ingredient surging by 64 per cent.

  • byPeter Milne

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The 50,000-year-old ‘drop-in centre’ that was nearly demolished

The 50,000-year-old ‘drop-in centre’ that was nearly demolished

Yirra cave is the oldest-known site in the Pilbara and brims with ancient artefacts. So,how did it come so perilously close to being destroyed?

  • byVictoria Laurie
Andrew Forrest foe Yindjibarndi joins Pilbara green energy race

Andrew Forrest foe Yindjibarndi joins Pilbara green energy race

Pilbara native title holders’ new partnership promises quick construction of badly needed wind and solar farms to help iron ore producers meet their promises.

  • byPeter Milne
WA regulator draws fire as it sticks to its guns on Woodside gas plant

WA regulator draws fire as it sticks to its guns on Woodside gas plant

The environmental regulator’s commitment to let Australia’s largest gas export plant stay open until 2070 has prompted calls for the federal government to step in.

  • byPeter Milne
Problem dingo believed responsible for child attacks at Karijini

Problem dingo believed responsible for child attacks at Karijini

In the latest attack,a four-year-old boy was bitten on the leg on Saturday.

  • byMichael Ramsey
Mark McGowan is exhausted. It’s from keeping a straight face
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Mark McGowan is exhausted. It’s from keeping a straight face

West Australian Premier Mark McGowan is quitting politics because he says he’s exhausted. But exhausted from what,exactly?

  • byTony Wright
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Three years on,Rio Tinto says Juukan disaster remains a ‘deep stain’

Three years on,Rio Tinto says Juukan disaster remains a ‘deep stain’

Rio Tinto chairman Dominic Barton has described the destruction of the 46,000-year-old Juukan Gorge rock shelters three years ago as a stain on the miner’s history.

  • byNick Toscano
‘A big sigh of relief’:How Ilsa wobbled but got back on track

‘A big sigh of relief’:How Ilsa wobbled but got back on track

Ilsa crossed the coast at about midnight on Thursday,the first Category 5 system to do so in WA since 2009.

  • byDaile Cross andRebecca Peppiatt
Tropical cyclone ‘Ilsa’ could hit parts of WA coast

Tropical cyclone ‘Ilsa’ could hit parts of WA coast

West Australians are warned a tropical cyclone is forming off the state’s coast and could severely hit coastal areas of the east Pilbara or west Kimberley.

Santos accused of covering up killing dolphins in an oil spill

Santos accused of covering up killing dolphins in an oil spill

The oil and gas giant has been accused of covering up details of an oil spill off the WA coast where at least three dolphins were found dead.

  • byPeter Milne
Ancient West Australian rock art up for World Heritage nomination

Ancient West Australian rock art up for World Heritage nomination

The Burrup Peninsula in WA - home of more than one million Indigenous rock engravings up to 40,000 years old - is understood to have been nominated for World heritage listing.

  • byPeter Milne