15+ hour, 12+ min ago  (578+ words) June 17, 2026 " 5: 13pm Gina Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting has confirmed it is cutting jobs at its iron ore operations in Western Australia as the company looks to extend the life of its Roy Hill mine by a decade. The move comes less than…...

17+ hour, 12+ min ago  (741+ words) June 17, 2026 " 3: 14pm Golden Dragon Mining has made a strategic move to bolster its position in Western Australia's prolifically gold-productive Murchison goldfields, lodging a new exploration licence application adjacent to the northeastern margin of Westgold's revered 2. 3-million-ounce Big Bell gold mine, 26km northwest…...

18+ hour, 39+ min ago  (629+ words) June 17, 2026 " 1: 47pm Recently listed Barkly Rare Earths has pocketed its second government grant in as many weeks, this time securing up to A$115, 000 in co-funding from the Northern Territory Government to support expansion drilling at its namesake rare earths project in…...

22+ hour, 53+ min ago  (324+ words) Hundreds of jobs have been slashed at Hancock Iron Ore's Pilbara operations amid rising tensions with the unions. The decision comes a year after a merger between Roy Hill and Atlas Iron, which placed both under the unified banner of…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (831+ words) June 16, 2026 " 5: 00am Australia's richest woman wants to mine coal in the Rocky Mountains, and one of Canada's most famous country music singers has built a coalition of ranchers, fishermen and environmentalists to stop the project. A unit of billionaire Gina Rinehart's…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago  (569+ words) June 15, 2026 " 12: 28pm Eclipse Metals has breathed new life into a century-old mine, uncovering a suite of high-tech critical minerals alongside high-grade fluorite at its historic Ivigt't project in southern Greenland. New assay results from two diamond drill holes suggest the project…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago  (771+ words) June 15, 2026 " 5: 00am A previously jailed, struck-off lawyer and an ex-bankrupt son of a Chinese property tycoon have been battling in the Supreme Court over an alleged $3 million loan. On one side is former lawyer Ronglai "Martin" Zhang, 46, a bankrupt who has…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago  (877+ words) June 15, 2026 " 3: 00am The federal government should shut down the current Indigenous Procurement Policy if "black cladding" rorts that deny business to genuine Aboriginal enterprises are not addressed, according to former Aboriginal affairs minister Ken Wyatt. The former member for the WA…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago  (36+ words) Roosters forward Salesi Foketi is denied by the Bunker for a double movement. Updated June 12, 2026 " 8: 22pm, first published 8: 18pm...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago  (1423+ words) June 12, 2026 " 3: 59pm Project: Rouyn gold project, near Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, Canada. Hit: 5. 65m at 141. 29g/t gold from 148. 15m, including 0. 5m at 1580g/t gold. Lac Gold has burst into this week's Big Hits frame with a spectacular bonanza-grade gold result from the Astoria deposit at the…...