Stuart has 23 years' print and online experience covering business and general news in roles as a reporter, sub-editor and editor.
It’s a joint venture that has withstood damaging cyclones, bitter industrial disputes and ownership changes over half a century.
Stuart McKinnon
BHP’s iron ore boss Brandon Craig says the company does not expect any material price impacts from grade variability experienced in the early stages of mining at its South Flank iron ore project in the Pilbara.
Shares in Azure Minerals soared after the company unveiled the highest-grade lithium to date from rock chip samples its Andover project near Roebourne.
Chalice Mining says it is considering a strategic minority partner for its Julimar polymetallic project, noting significant interest in its flagship asset following the Inflation Reduction Act in the US.
Rio Tinto is set to begin work on developing one of the biggest and highest grade iron ore deposits in the Pilbara after striking a breakthrough agreement with descendants of the late prospector Peter Wright.
Rio Tinto has painted a bearish outlook for the global economy and the commodities it produces after revealing full-year iron ore shipments from the Pilbara would land at the low end of guidance.
IGO boss Peter Bradford is being remembered as a pioneer of diversity in the WA mining sector and for working to drive out bullying and harassment.
The number of carbon capture and storage projects globally has grown 44 per cent over the past year to a record 196, according to the Global CCS Institute.
The driving force behind IGO’s transformation into an ASX-100 Australian battery metals producer, Peter Bradford, has died suddenly.
Fitch Solutions has lowered its gold price expectations for the rest of 2022 saying it is neutral to bearish on the precious metal.
Two workers killed in separate WA mine site incidents this week have been identified as Perth fly-in, fly-out men aged in their 30s and 50s.
Caitlyn Rintoul and Stuart McKinnon
The shuttered Norseman gold project has been brought back to life with the first pour of precious metal at the historic mine after an eight-year production hiatus.