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There is an armchair on the beach of a closed pit lake and the gates are locked. Which tells you much of what you need to know about mine water safety

Mine water safety conversations default to tailings dams, but Dr Cherie McCullough spent an hour explaining why the larger risk is day to day exposure to as little as 1.

Africa proved it can move the cobalt price, then lost a third of the quota to paperwork, which is the part Australian operations should read twice

Africa's critical mineral producers are shifting from hosting resources to setting terms, and a recent intelligence briefing shows the leverage is real, the value capture is not yet, and the read-through for Australian operations is sharper than the geopolitics suggests.

WA mining’s half-trillion-dollar year proves preparation pays when commodity markets turn

WA-listed companies added almost A$131 billion in market value during FY26, but the strongest performers did more than catch a commodity upswing.

Free rare earths with every tonne, and other reasons Australia lost half the lithium market but kept all the money

Australia's share of China's lithium concentrate imports has almost halved since 2022, but the interesting question is not who took it – it is why they are being paid so much less for it.

No country for old haul trucks

The WA Mining Club wanted Aaron Morey’s last word on Four Corners – what it got was a more revealing argument about mining, technology and the dangerous appeal of simple answers.

There is an armchair on the beach of a closed pit lake and the gates are locked. Which tells you much of what you need to know about mine water safety

Mine water safety conversations default to tailings dams, but Dr Cherie McCullough spent an hour explaining why the larger risk is day to day exposure to as little as 1.

Africa proved it can move the cobalt price, then lost a third of the quota to paperwork, which is the part Australian operations should read twice

There is an armchair on the beach of a closed pit lake and the gates are locked. Which tells you much of what you need to know about mine water safety

Mine water safety conversations default to tailings dams, but Dr Cherie McCullough spent an hour explaining why the larger risk is day to day exposure to as little as 1.

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There is an armchair on the beach of a closed pit lake and the gates are locked. Which tells you much of what you need to know about mine water safety

Africa proved it can move the cobalt price, then lost a third of the quota to paperwork, which is the part Australian operations should read twice

WA mining’s half-trillion-dollar year proves preparation pays when commodity markets turn

Free rare earths with every tonne, and other reasons Australia lost half the lithium market but kept all the money

No country for old haul trucks

There is an armchair on the beach of a closed pit lake and the gates are locked. Which tells you much of what you need to know about mine water safety

Africa proved it can move the cobalt price, then lost a third of the quota to paperwork, which is the part Australian operations should read twice

WA mining’s half-trillion-dollar year proves preparation pays when commodity markets turn

Free rare earths with every tonne, and other reasons Australia lost half the lithium market but kept all the money

No country for old haul trucks

Africa proved it can move the cobalt price, then lost a third of the quota to paperwork, which is the part Australian operations should read twice

There is an armchair on the beach of a closed pit lake and the gates are locked. Which tells you much of what you need to know about mine water safety