Develop Global boss Bill Beament says he has no interest in growing his mining and resources service company into a top 100 ASX-listed business (reports The West Australian).

Aussie hard rock lithium major Pilbara Minerals (ASX:PLS) has just sold a 5,000t cargo of 5.5% spodumene via its auction platform for $US6,350/t – its equal best result ever (reports Stockhead).

Two lithium company bosses have called for a spot price index for the battery metal in its concentrate form to boost transparency, trust and investor confidence (reports The West Australian).

Despite cost pressures, an enlarged Sandfire Resources has beat full-year production guidance (reports MiningNews).

Shares in Mincor tracked higher after the company unveiled a maiden 22,600 tonne resource for its Golden Mile deposit dubbed LN04a (reports The West Australian).

Labyrinth’s maiden surface drilling program at its namesake project in Canada is off to a rousing start with its first hole intersecting high-grade mineralisation of up to 44g/t gold (reports Stockhead).

With its first new bar poured last month from its new King of the Hills plant at Leonora in Western Australia, the Red 5 team is already thinking about how to boost production far beyond nameplate (reports MiningNews).

Resurgent Mark Creasy-controlled iron ore play CZR is at an exciting juncture. Yes, Creasy is everywhere (reports Stockhead).

Bellevue Gold has awarded the engineering, procurement and construction contract for its 1 million tonne per annum Bellevue plant to GR Engineering Services (reports MiningNews).

A lithium producer for car makers including BMW and Tesla is beginning work to assess battery metals projects in Xinjiang, deepening links between electric vehicle supply chains and a region at the heart of human rights allegations against China (reports Bloomberg).

E79 Gold Mines (ASX: E79) has started a major new phase of aircore drilling at its flagship Laverton South gold project in Western Australia (reports Small Caps).

Trigg Mining has announced the completion of a sighter evaporation trial on brine samples from its flagship Lake Throssell sulphate of potash (SOP) project in the Laverton region of Western Australia (reports Small Caps).

Rare earth stocks, like the rest of the mining sector, have been sold down for much of the past six months, but three clues can be found, which point to the potential for a strong recovery (reports Tim Treadgold on Small Caps).

Even at almost 50, Boss Energy managing director Duncan Craib recognises he’s a relative youngster in the uranium sector, especially in Australia, having kept the faith in a sector that has spent a decade in the doldrums (reports MiningNews).

The past 12 months have been transformative for copper explorer Coda Minerals (reports MiningNews).

Global action is needed to ensure sufficient supplies of minerals required to build renewable energy generation assets because without it the cost of the zero emission projects will soar, the vice chairman of S&P Global and energy markets expert Daniel Yergin has warned (reports The Australian Financial Review).

Boss Energy has hit “extensive mineralisation” outside the existing resource at its Honeymoon uranium project in South Australia as part of the company’s strategy to grow inventory to support an increased mine life and production (reports Small Caps).