Shareholders in takeover target and lithium hopeful Azure Minerals have overwhelmingly voted in favour of Hancock Prospecting and SQM's $1.7 billion offer.
Hancock Prospecting has urged Azure Minerals shareholders to back the $1.7 billion takeover offer to “avoid future challenges and uncertainties” amid market volatility.
Western Australian artist Johannes Pannekoek has won the $30,000 Hancock Prospecting and Roy Hill Sculpture Award, kicking off the 20th year of Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe
The Workforce Gender Equality Agency has published gender pay gap data on more than 400 WA private sector companies, shedding a light on remuneration disparities.
Chris Ellison-chaired Delta Lithium has provided updates on its Yinnetharra and Mt Ida lithium projects, located in the Gascoyne and Goldfields regions.
Clive Palmer's Mineralogy was the nation's largest political donor last financial year, while a private WA company donated more than $1 million to the group behind the Voice to Parliament referendum's No campaign.
The annual Business News corporate finance survey has highlighted the top advisers in the WA market and the emergence of a new style of strategic investor.
Minerals exploration and development company GreenTech Metals has suddenly found itself next to a new power-play among lithium giants right next door to its own developing West Pilbara lithium project in Western Australia. Significant corporate activity is targeting the region, including global lithium giant SQM's joint venture (JV) with Novo Resources and separately, SQM and Hancock Prospecting's $1.7 billion bid for Azure Minerals.
Diversified miner Mineral Resources says its in-house operations model has allowed it to keep its lithium business profitable and cash flow positive, despite depressed market conditions.
Liontown Resources shares drifted to 88.5 cents per share today following an update of its $760 million debt funding package for the Kathleen Valley lithium project.
US company Albemarle has appointed brokers to sell its stake in Liontown Resources, three months after Hancock Prospecting effectively blocked its $6.6 billion takeover bid.
Atlas Iron has revealed it will sponsor a high-performance coach at Artistic Swimming WA, on the same day Gina Rinehart was nominated as the first life member of the organisation.
The complex litigation over iron ore royalties resumed in court with Hancock Prospecting's lawyer coming out swinging against claims made by Gina Rinehart's children.
Gina Rinehart's eldest children have shown up to observe the Supreme Court trial disputing the ownership of assets under their grandfather's mining empire.
Gina Rinehart's Atlas Iron has taken a swipe at the state government's environmental approval process over conditions for its delayed iron ore project.
The WA government will step in to fill a $300 million funding gap for regional road projects left by the federal government's exit from 50 funding partnerships nationwide.
Mineral Resources boss Chris Ellison has labelled SQM's takeover of Azure Minerals as “dead in the water” while also shedding light on his lithium acquisition strategy.
This week's Bulls N' Bears profiled ASX runner is … Imugene. Its share price jumped more than 212 per cent to join other impressive companies including Krakatoa Resources, TechGen Metals and GreenTech Metals.
Bookbuilds and Banter with Boz (aka Shaw and Partner's WA State manager Davide Bosio) draws on his years of capital-raising experience and deal-making in Perth to talk billionaires and battery metals as he laments the ultimate killer of the deal – time.
Global battery industry giant Shanghai Jayson New Energy Materials has become St George Mining's biggest shareholder after grabbing $3 million worth of the West Perth-based lithium explorer's shares. The company says the significant investment will enable it to better explore its portfolio of hard-rock lithium projects in Western Australia, with a priority focus on the flagship Mt Alexander operation.
Mineral Resources has bought a 12.3 per cent stake in Azure Minerals, adding to intrigue around the takeover target after Hancock Prospecting also bought a big stake.
In this podcast: Mark Beyer and Mark Pownall discuss opposition fracture; Perth house prices; RAC Insurance; Pioneer Credit; BGC stoppage; Hancock Prospecting; Azure Minerals, and private companies wrap.
New financials for Gina Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting have revealed the company made more than $5 billion after tax in 2023, as an ongoing royalties dispute lingers.
In this podcast, Mark Beyer and Simone Grogan discuss lithium takeover battles; the interest rate outlook; local government elections; and profit results from WA's biggest companies, including ABN Group, Perron Group, Roy Hill and Wright Prospecting.
Gina Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting has confirmed a strategic 18 per cent stake in lithium takeover target Azure Minerals, which has just agreed to a friendly $1.6 billion deal with SQM.
Mining heirs Michael Wright and Angela Bennett knew they already gave up their interests in mining tenements likely worth in the billions of dollars since the 1980s, the court was told.
Ousted Delta Lithium boss David Flanagan has taken a cheeky swipe at mining billionaires Gina Rinehart and Chris Ellison one month after leaving the junior company.
Mining magnate Gina Rinehart was kept in the dark when her father Lang Hancock transferred shares out of the family trust, a Hancock Prospecting lawyer told the court.
Gina Rinehart-owned Atlas Iron's $605 million McPhee Creek iron ore project has taken a leap towards fruition after it received support from the state's peak environmental body.
Gina Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting has continued what has become a near-daily acquisition of Liontown Resources shares, advancing its stake to 18.4 per cent.
Lawyers have disputed Hancock Prospecting's allegation that Wright Prospecting took more than 20 years to start its legal action, during a Supreme Court trial over mining royalties.
Wright Prospecting's claims over Pilbara mining tenements would trump any interests sought by Gina Rinehart's children, lawyers say during a Supreme Court trial over billions of dollars.
The mining billionaire has overtaken chairman Tim Goyder as Liontown Resources' biggest shareholder, spelling a potential headache for Albemarle's proposed acquisition.
