Rio Tinto’s CEO took the unusual step of hosting the company’s earnings from Washington, as part of a whirlwind trip to understand what Trump intends to accomplish with his expanding trade war.
Joe Deaux
Donald Trump’s war on free trade is not expected to cut into the WA arm of South32, which saw half-year profit more than sextuple on the back of rising commodity prices.
Adrian Rauso
South32 will forge ahead mining more aluminium feedstock bauxite at Boddington within months after securing a crucial environmental approval from the Federal Government.
Simone Grogan
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said President Donald Trump has agreed to consider an exemption for Australia from planned US tariffs on steel and aluminium during a telephone call.
Ben Westcott
The State and Federal Governments will spend $3 million looking into building a shared pilot plant for downstream producers of critical minerals.
South32 and Anglo American have now claimed almost $400 million from insurers to repair their cyclone-ravaged Australian manganese operation.
The world of looking for pay dirt can quickly build up fortunes and just as easily wipe them out. With the year drawing to a close we take a look at eight junior miners that exemplified this rollercoaster.
Environment Minister Reece Whitby has signed off on South32’s contested plans for a major expansion to its bauxite operations in the Peel region, coinciding with a surge in prices for the aluminium feedstock.
WA’s Environment Minister has yielded to appeals lodged by South32 to loosen emissions and forest restoration rules as part of its long-awaited expansion to the Worsley Alumina operation in the South West.
Simone Grogan and Daniel Newell
Post-election turmoil in the southeast African nation of Mozambique has put a South32 mining operation that turns over more than $800 million a year in limbo.
Aluminium giant Alcoa will reactivate a mine site unused since 2014 in a last-ditch bid to replace ore from a stalled transition project and keep the Pinjarra refinery filled.
Matt Mckenzie
A South32-controlled venture has banked about $150 million from external insurers to rebuild a storm-ravaged wharf that ships all of the miner’s Australian manganese.
The livelihoods of 1700 Worsley Alumina workers will be at serious risk if WA’s environmental scrutineer is not overruled by the end of this year, South32 boss Graham Kerr has warned.
Demand for aluminium is continuing to grow – making it a key metal now and into the future. What is also key, is that this demand is met through responsible mining and processing.
Alcoa Australia
Aluminium’s ever-growing relevance and importance to our everyday lives.
Thousands of jobs in the South West are in limbo as South32 struggles with green tape wrapped around its plans to keep digging up bauxite from the Northern Jarrah Forest.
Locals worry dust blowing from waste stockpiles at a refinery near a primary school on the outskirts of Perth is toxic and dangerously radioactive.
Adrian Rauso and Simone Grogan
Fascinating 3D technology in trapdoor spider research is one of the many initiatives transforming our mining landscape in WA.
Beyond the big mining and processing equipment you might automatically associate with Alcoa lies a deeper story.
Lynas and South32 are both feeling the pinch from weaker Chinese demand for a bevy of commodities, as the shares of the duo slump to levels not seen since 2021.
US giant Alcoa has made a $3.4 billion play to buy partner Alumina Limited after a nightmare two years shredded the target company’s value in half.
Matt Mckenzie & Daniel Newell
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