Leading lithium producer Albemarle Corporation has expanded its footprint in the South West after acquiring a neighboring Greenbushes tenement under a $30 million deal.
Gina Rinehart’s company has struck a joint venture with two explorers focused on a new lithium development against the backdrop of the billionaire’s recent meeting with the Indian Prime Minister.
An advisory firm led by mining veteran Michael Fotios has been engaged by lithium hopeful GreenTech Metals, one week after Mr Fotios was appointed chief executive of Scorpion Minerals.
Renewable energy hopeful Infinite Green Energy and Samsung C&T Engineering & Construction Group have recruited a third partner to develop a proposed hydrogen project in Northam.
Agribusiness major Bunge will acquire Glencore-backed rival Viterra in a merger that could spell a noticeable shift at the top end of Western Australia’s largest grain exporters.
Security provider Intelligent Monitoring Group has furthered plans to expand its footprint with the $45 million purchase of sector peer Tyco Australia.
Burgundy Diamond Mines is working towards raising $203 million to fund what it has deemed a ‘transformational’ acquisition of an operating diamond mine in Canada once owned by BHP.
Rare earths hopeful Hastings Technology Metals has secured a potential offtake agreement with a Canadian magnet manufacturer for its Yangbiana project in the Gascoyne.
Costs at global salt producer K+S Group’s Ashburton project near Onslow have blown out by more than $400 million following revised costs and inflationary pressures.
Fortescue Future Industries and Tivan are among the five companies to secure land agreements with the Northern Territory government for its energy development precinct.
The developer of a new Broome port facility is seeking $90 million in equity, roughly half the value of the challenging project that was delayed by the pandemic.
A former director of media firm The Market Herald has been ordered to hand over some of his shares to the corporate regulator and pay costs to the company’s former managing director.
Westgold Resources has declared its intentions to make a $177 million scrip bid for gold junior Musgrave Minerals, with both companies occupying land in the busy Murchison gold province.
