Exactly 10 years ago, David Flanagan was watching the first of many iron ore loaded ships leave Port Hedland for China as Atlas Iron merged as the hottest stock rising on the ASX.
The World Bank has endorsed Zimbabwe's efforts in reintegrating with the global community and welcoming foreign investment into the country.
The innate connection of animal and land meant that the grazing cattle had a sense Mother Nature had something freakish brewing. What transpired was WA's second largest earthquake at a magnitude of 6.1 on the Richter scale.
Rather than lambast China as an emerging hub for electric vehicle and battery manufacturing, the panel assembled to close this year's Battery Minerals Conference praised the efforts of the country for being ahead of the game.
A private West Australian company is looking to do good with a copper asset in the Eastern Goldfields formerly held by Fortescue Metals Group Ltd. Martin Holland, who founded Chilean-focused Lithium Power International Ltd, is now steering Cobre P/L which is getting cracking on 350sq km of pure copper tenure, north-west of Leonora.
Operating at an elevation of 4,800m in Chile's Atacama desert is not easy, but the rewards far outweigh the challenges.
The market has reacted overwhelmingly in favour of Hot Chili Ltd's latest acquisition - Cortadera - in Chile.
In starting as Mincor Resources NL managing director on February 1, David Southam fulfilled a career ambition of being the figurehead of a company.
There appeared to be a spring in the step of Queensland's Minister for Natural Resources Anthony Lynham when he spoke with Paydirt last month.
Phase two drilling at Cerro de Fierro is likely to start in the second half of this year under the AusQuest Ltd/South32 Ltd strategic alliance (SAA) in Peru.
Since release of the report A lithium industry in Australia: A value chain analysis for downstreaming Australia's lithium resources by Future Smart Strategies for AMEC member companies in January in 2018, industry and government have upped the ante in realising Australia's battery minerals opportunity.
Tropicana JV partners - AngloGold Ashanti Ltd (70%) and Independence Group NL (30%) - are expected to bring on production from the Boston Shaker underground mine in the September 2020 quarter.
Winmar Resources Ltd chairman Jason Brewer has taken a thinly veiled swipe at the ASX over the company's prolonged suspension from trade.
A bearish outlook for iron ore in last month's Federal Budget has failed to deter Fortescue Metals Group Ltd from pressing ahead with plans to develop the next phase of Australia's largest magnetite resource.
To put 220% onto the share price in a flat market could be considered impressive but to do it on the back of a suite of early-stage Latin America exploration projects is truly market-defying.
Social and environmental solutions will be as vital as economic resolutions if the world's largest undeveloped copper orebodies are to be brought into production, research from the University of Queensland has shown
Celamin Holdings Ltd is more thankful than most to be starting initial feasibility work on the Chaketma phosphate project in Tunisia while a protracted legal battle over the ownership of the asset reaches its final stages.
Ghanaian President Nana Afuko-Addo has urged the mining sector to redress centuries of exploitation and work with African governments and communities to build more equitable contracts and fiscal regimes.
