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S&P Global’s June quarter market review shows the pressure on Australian operations shifting from what miners sell to what they spend.
Will Kendall has a line that lands with the quiet force of something everyone in the room already knew but hadn’t quite said out loud: "Base case is cost overruns of over 20 per cent," Will says, "That’s your base case.
Henkel has moved production of its high impact wearing compound to Victoria and cut lead times by two thirds.
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-listed companies added almost A$131 billion in market value during FY26, but the strongest performers did more than catch a commodity upswing.
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.
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 are two stories inside Grant Thornton's latest mining contractors report, and the one getting most of the attention is the wrong one.
If you still think “energy recovery” belongs in the sustainability chapter of the annual report, Rockwell Automation would like a quiet word – preferably from inside a control tower humming with AI, digital twins and enough conveyor simulations to make your GPU blush.
Australia’s contract mining sector is undergoing a quiet revolution—one that could fundamentally reshape the relationship between contractors and mine owners.
