Isabel Vieira

Canadian resources companies are increasingly eyeing the Australian stock market's investor base and capital pools after eight North American outfits listed in 2025.

Isabel Vieira and Elisha Newell discuss Business News' recent corporate finance feature.

Selective M&A and a reopening equity window reshaped the corporate finance market in late 2025.

The Federal Court's $14 million penalty against non-compliant Chinese shareholders in Northern Minerals comes as another board battle and foreign watchdog deliberation looms.

Pilbara lithium producer PLS is considering turning back on its Ngungaju processing plant and possibly expanding its production capacity as the price of the critical mineral defrosts.

Battery maker LG Energy Solutions is exchanging its US$250 million in convertible notes for a healthy stake in Liontown, as the underground lithium miner looks to capitalise on the price rebound.

Iluka Resources is preparing to record $565 million worth of charges against its mineral sands division after suspending its Cataby mine, sending its shares sliding.

Mineral Resources is mulling a potential restart of its mothballed Bald Hill lithium mine and has lifted its full-year spodumene volume guidance amid a rally in the battery metal's price.

Northern Minerals' biggest shareholder of Chinese origins has made an attempt to oust the chair of the rare earths aspirant amid ongoing concerns of foreign interference.

Alta Copper shareholders have approved Fortescue's move to acquire to remainder of the company, as the WA miner looks to bolster its base metals portfolio in Peru.

Gold miner Regis Resources is readying a formal capital management policy as its coffers near $1 billion off the back of surging gold prices, as it pours more funds into exploration.

Shares in BHP dipped in morning trade after its Canadian potash project's price tag again increased by US$1 billion, while its WA Iron Ore operations achieved record production.

Andrew and Nicola Forrest's almost $5 billion donation of Fortescue shares to Minderoo Foundation in 2023 has underpinned WA's mammoth leap in donations, KPMG shows.

Tom Zaunmayr and Isabel Vieira discuss how Michael Breckler is delivering on a strategic shift for retail outlet Betts.

Michael Breckler is delivering on the strategic shift that will redefine the national retailer.

Rare earths, gallium and antimony will receive top billing under the federal government's $1.2 billion critical minerals reserve designed to firm up Western supply chains.

Rare earths are tipped to turbocharge deal activity in 2026 as Western governments prepare to deploy an arsenal of critical minerals policy measures, Allens predicts.

BlueScope Steel's largest shareholder Australian Super says it would only support a "materially higher” bid from SGH and Steel Dynamics, while backing in the board's rejection of the $13.2 billion approach.

Troubled graphite and mineral sands miner Mineral Commodities has run aground and appointed administrators, owing creditors up to $20 million.

Nickel prices have climbed above US$18,700 a tonne after a major Indonesian miner halted production, as majority of Western Australia's battery metals mines remain on ice.

Ryan Stokes-steered SGH would carve out BlueScope's larger North American division under its $13.2 billion takeover proposal, after labelling the target's global operations as not strategically compatible.

Ten rare earths players have informed a leading lobby group's proposed framework for the federal government to deliver on its $1.2 billion critical minerals strategic reserve pledge.

Mark Pownall, Tom Zaunmayr and Isabel Vieira discuss Woodside boss Meg O'Neill's move to BP, the biggest mining deals. commercial property transactions and agricultural deals of 2025.

RM Capital Pty Ltd and its authorised representative have been penalised $925,000 over what the corporate watchdog has labelled a systemic failure to uphold consumer protection safeguards.

Listed mining services contractor and miner Develop Global has secured a $200 million contract from global miner OceanaGold at its project in New Zealand.

KPMG insolvency practitioners have been called in to take control of 54 pharmacies operated by a major Priceline franchisee, including four stores in Western Australia.

North West Shelf oil and gas developer Equus Energy has hit the boards, finishing its first day of trade up 25 per cent following a $15 million public offer.

Western Australia has again led the pack for national population growth, with overseas migration the primary driver pushing the state's population beyond three million.

Gold majors, iron ore heavyweights and offshore trading houses dominated WA's mining deals list in 2025, as cashed-up boards chased commodity booms.

Talison Lithium has crossed out recommissioning the abandoned Greenbushes to Bunbury rail line to cart spodumene from the mine to port, after concluding it was not economically feasible.

Canadian lithium explorers Li-FT Power and Winsome Resources are set to combine under a deal that values the latter, a Perth-based company, at $131 million.

Isabel Vieira and Tom Zaunmayr discuss the Koolyanobbing mine is living up to its 1947 billing as holding an almost inexhaustible deposit.