BHP is seemingly trimming its nickel operations as much as possible before making a decision on the continued existence of Nickel West.
Adrian Rauso
A tenement tug-of-war between two beleaguered mining heavyweights is on the precipice of being decided by a 50/50 lucky dip.
BHP, the world’s largest miner, has reportedly stood down around a quarter of the workers constructing its West Musgrave nickel and copper project in WA.
Georgina McKay
BHP boss Geraldine Slattery says Australia needs to find its competitive edge again, with decades spent relying solely on bountiful iron ore discoveries and natural gas for prosperity now firmly in the past.
Simone Grogan
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has confirmed options to support the beleaguered nickel industry are still under consideration – but stopped of committing to a rescue package in the upcoming Federal Budget.
Dan Jervis-Bardy
Macquarie strategists believe the worst of a jarring nickel price bust that has cost jobs and mines in WA could be over.
Federal Resources Minister Madeleine King will make for North America to get her counterparts on board with a green surcharge for Australia’s priced-out critical minerals.
A leading commodities forecaster has confirmed the worst fears of Australia’s drowning nickel producers.
Andrew Forrest has called on the London Metal Exchange to differentiate between “dirty” and “clean” nickel, after his privately-held metals business announced it would be forced to shut mines.
Paul-Alain Hunt
Investors who resisted the temptation to expose themselves to the miners in vogue this time last year have been richly rewarded.
With the Prime Minister and his Federal Cabinet in town this week, there was hope he would throw the nickel industry a lifeline as it teeters on the brink of collapse.
Libby Mettam
Swiss miner Glencore will keep churning out nickel from one of the last mines standing in WA despite a big slump in production during a hellish year for the commodity.
BHP has confirmed government assistance could be too little too late in rescuing the drowning WA nickel operations that caused the Big Australian to cut its interim dividend.
The State’s peak mining lobby has reheated calls to slash bureaucratic red tape as the besieged WA nickel industry faces a nervous wait for Tuesday.
Australia’s hard-won economic advantages are being eaten up by global competitors, warns Minerals Council boss
Tania Constable
Roger Cook will use a speech to the Federal Cabinet in Perth on Monday to drive home the urgency about Western Australia’s ailing nickel industry.
Dylan Caporn
As Australia’s nickel industry crumbles, the future of a small mining town 60km out of Kalgoorlie hangs in the balance.
Anneke de Boer
Nickel miners will receive a 50 per cent royalty deferral for 18 months in a lifeline the Cook Government hopes will prevent the total collapse of the embattled industry.
Josh Zimmerman
The fallout from the looming collapse of BHP’s WA nickel business would spread beyond the battery commodity and bring a double whammy of economic pain to Kalgoorlie-Boulder.
Resources Minister Madeleine King has belatedly placed nickel on the critical minerals list, giving companies in the beleaguered sector access to billions of dollars in Commonwealth support.
The final domino in the WA nickel sector is still standing — for the time being — after Glencore confirmed its “current focus” is continuing to run the massive Murrin Murrin mine.
The future of the national nickel industry hangs by a thread — with thousands of jobs in the balance — after BHP revealed it was considering mothballing its entire WA operation.
Josh Zimmerman and Adrian Rauso
The nation’s teetering nickel sector requires urgent government intervention to save thousands of jobs and preserve any hope of one day establishing a battery industry in WA.
The Shire President of Leonora believes the town known as the oasis in the desert will never be the same again if BHP shutters its WA nickel business.
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