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...Kabil in 2022 also signed a memorandum of understanding with Australia’s Critical Mineral Office to identify and develop potential projects in the country....
...Altium, which designs tools for creating circuit boards, is one of Australia’s oldest technology companies. It is listed on the Australian stock exchange but is headquartered in La Jolla, California....
...First established as an oil trading company in 2004, Mercuria has diversified into gas, power, emissions and minerals....
...The strategic significance of Australia’s critical minerals strategy has come into focus as lithium and nickel prices have also suffered a sharp decline....
...Australia’s resources minister Madeleine King said critical minerals such as lithium and rare earths required more processing than coal and iron ore, which Australia has historically focused on....
...Australia-based BHP said on Thursday that it had made an all-stock proposal to acquire Anglo and become the world’s biggest producer of copper, a metal critical for the world’s efforts to decarbonise....
...Michael Ham, who had travelled 10 hours from rural Australia to get to the meeting, said the board had proposed selling off one of the country’s essential services to a foreign buyer and asked why Australia...
...Azure Minerals owns 60 per cent of the Andover lithium project in Western Australia’s Pilbara region, which is still in its exploration phase and will need several years to bring into production....
...Indonesia’s ministry for energy and mineral resources did not respond to a request for comment....
...Hancock Prospecting has a history of teaming up on projects, often with other members of the Perth mining elite such as Mineral Resources managing director Chris Ellison....
...to the refining of the mineral once it has been extracted....
...The moves by Rinehart come after Chris Ellison, managing director of mining group Mineral Resources and a collaborator with the Australian mining mogul on previous deals, restructured a joint venture with...
...Looking ahead, costs at Pilbara are expected to tick up due to “persistent labour and parts inflation in Western Australia”....
...Her departure came after a gala event held in the mineral-rich Pilbara region of Western Australia on Saturday to celebrate Fortescue’s 20-year anniversary....
...On Monday, US lithium miner Albemarle abandoned its A$6.6bn ($4.2bn) deal to buy Liontown, a miner of the lithium-rich mineral spodumene....
...Japan is also approaching its Pacific neighbour Australia....
...One of Australia’s biggest corporate success stories of the past two decades, Fortescue has transformed the former stockbroker into Australia’s richest man....
...The combined business will retain a secondary listing on Australia’s stock exchange....
...In contrast, investment and orders have been booming in Indonesia, Australia and the US, he added....
...Posco, which took a 30 per cent stake in Australia’s Ravensthorpe Nickel in 2021, told the Financial Times that “we are diversifying nickel sourcing to Australia and New Caledonia to reduce our dependence...
...At Manono in the DRC, an old tin mining area like Uis that could be Africa’s biggest untapped lithium deposit, Australia’s AVZ Minerals is locked in a legal battle with China’s state-backed Zijin Mining...
...The world’s largest miner and Australia’s biggest company, BHP bid A$8.4bn for OZ Minerals in August but was rebuffed....
...Regulators may still have a say, with four of Australia’s five largest gold mines set to be owned by the US company....
...He sounded a warning to Australia’s government that heavy-handed interventions and higher taxes could scupper the country’s ambitions to capitalise on investment in critical minerals....
...OZ Minerals, the south Australian nickel, copper and gold miner, is close to being acquired by BHP for $6.4bn, while Canada’s Yamana Gold is being broken up after Agnico Eagle and Pan American Silver paid...
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