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Strong startPremiumLiontown spin-out Metals 260 shines on debut

Liontown Resources gold spin-out Minerals 260 has enjoyed a strong debut on the ASX, opening at close to a 50 per cent premium to its 50¢ issue price.

Stuart McKinnon

Yearlong rallyPremiumLithium prices surge as demand continues to rise

Lithium prices extended yearlong rally as surging demand spurs a shortfall of the key battery material.

Annie Lee

All-time highPremiumCash from resources set to hit record $349b

Australia’s booming resources and energy sector is set to deliver another record in export earnings for the country this financial year.

Stuart McKinnon

Another milestonePremiumVulcan secures site for ‘zero-carbon’ lithium plant

Market darling Vulcan Energy Resources has secured an industrial site in Germany for a processing plant as part of its broader project to develop zero-carbon lithium from geothermal brine.

Stuart McKinnon

Lithium lovePremiumRed Dirt red hot on lithium potential at Mt Ida

Former TNT Mines claims the Mt Ida gold project represents a new lithium province after it acquired the asset from Ora Banda Mining for $11m.

Stuart McKinnon

Lithium jobPremiumNRW’s Primero wins $40m Core contract

NRW Holdings’ subsidiary Primero has won a $40 million contract to build the processing plant at Core Lithium’s Finniss project in the Northern Territory.

Stuart McKinnon

Funding boostPremiumAVZ gets $US240m for Manono lithium project

AVZ Minerals will receive $US240m in cash from a Chinese company associated with the world’s biggest battery maker CATL to develop its Manono lithium project in the DRC.

Stuart McKinnon

Contract extensionPremiumMACA stays on at Pilbara Minerals amid lithium revival

MACA has received a 12-month contract extension at Pilbara Minerals’ Pilgangoora lithium project near Port Hedland.

Stuart McKinnon

Batteries boomPremiumPilbara’s lithium prices race higher in BMX auction

Pilbara Minerals has underlined the strength of the surging lithium market with an online auction of product revealing price gains of nearly 80 per cent in just seven weeks.

Stuart McKinnon

Big lickPremiumVulcan eyes $220m raising to pursue lithium dreams

Vulcan Energy will raise $200m in a placement and $20m in a share purchase plan as part of its hopes to produce zero-carbon lithium in Germany.

Stuart McKinnon

Welcome additionPremiumFirefinch up on inclusion in GDXJ

Shares in Mali-focused gold and lithium player jumped 10pc after it was included in the Van Eck Junior Gold Miners Exchange Traded Fund.

Stuart McKinnon

Big namesPremiumBHP joins Bezos, Gates in WA battery minerals hunt

BHP is joining forces to explore for metals crucial to the energy transition with a start-up backed by a group of tycoons including Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates.

BLOOMBERG

Timed exitPremiumMinRes nets $328m in Pilbara share sale

Chris Ellison will use the windfall profit from the sale of shares in Pilbara Minerals to fund his growing iron ore ambitions.

Stuart McKinnon

Once bittenPremiumWe will learn from mistakes at Kwinana: IGO boss

IGO managing director Peter Bradford says he is confident the company’s new joint venture with Tianqi will avoid the mistakes of the past with the Kwinana lithium hydroxide plant.

Stuart McKinnon

Deal donePremiumGalaxy collides with Orocobre in $4b lithium merger

The tie-up of Galaxy Resources and Orocobre will create Australia’s biggest pure play lithium player to be renamed Allkem.

Stuart McKinnon

First productionPremiumLandmark Kwinana lithium plant finally producing

Australia’s first lithium hydroxide processing plant has turned out its first chemicals but won’t be at full production of its battery-grade product until late-2022.

Sean Smith

New entityPremiumLiontown spin-out to raise $30m

Liontown Resources has revealed the terms of the spin-out of its non-lithium assets, with the new listed entity to be named Minerals 260.

Stuart McKinnon

Glitz & glamourPremiumNew look mining camps set for resort-style perks

Along with Olympic-sized swimming pools, wellness centres, restaurants and crèches, Mineral Resources says there will be bigger rooms to encourage couples to work and live together on site.

Danielle Le Messurier

Huge returnsPremiumLiontown plans long life in Kathleen Valley

Liontown Resources is roaring with a bullish outlook on the lithium market and its flagship project near Leinster where it has projected a mine life of four decades.

Jason Mennell

Dream come truePremiumMiner’s evolution benefits women

Sinead Kaufman used to be one of a handful of women in senior operational roles when she was climbing the ladder at Rio Tinto.

Danielle Le Messurier

MinRes dealPremiumMinRes pays $400m for slice of West Pilbara project

The group says the deal is part of its ambitions to develop the Ashburton hub and quadruple its iron ore production.

Sean Smith

On the chargePremiumHow Rio lithium boss went from sheep to battery metals

Marnie Finlayson’s work ethic — instilled through a remote upbringing and from building her career from the ground up — is a driving force behind the waves Rio Tinto is making in the lithium space.

Danielle Le Messurier

First moverPremiumRio expands in battery metals with $3.3b lithium mine

Rio Tinto will spend $US2.4 billion ($3.3b)building a lithium mine in Serbia, in the latest sign that the biggest miners are pushing into metals poised to benefit from the green-energy transition.

Thomas Biesheuvel and Misha Savic

Huge peakPremiumChris Ellison’s Mineral Resources stake surges to $1.3b

Mineral Resources chief Chris Ellison’s stake in the mining and services group has been revalued above $1.3 billion after a sharemarket rally today that propelled WA companies to record highs.

Sean Smith