Lithium bulls looking for analyst support need not look much further than UBS, with the investment bank expecting demand more than double consensus numbers by 2030 (reports MiningNews).

Chalice Mining has confirmed an institutional placement to raise A$100 million (reports MiningNews).

Develop has completed the acquisition of the Woodlawn zinc-copper mine in New South Wales (reports MiningNews).

Bill Beament’s Develop has entered into an agreement to acquire Premium Mining & Civil and Premium Mining Personnel (reports MiningNews).

A battery metals explorer backed by some big-name identities in the WA mining industry has defied volatile equity markets to make a strong debut on the Australian Securities Exchange (reports The West Australian).

Two leading lights of the WA resources industry have emerged as major shareholders of battery minerals explorer Bellavista Resources (BVR), which makes its eagerly-awaited share market debut today (reports Stockhead).

Kerry Harmanis isn’t the first practising lawyer to throw in the towel (reports The Australian Financial Review).

Bill Beament’s Develop Global has flagged a significant upgrade in the resource at its Sulphur Springs copper-zinc-silver project in the Pilbara following another batch of high-grade drilling intersections (reports The West Australian).

He’s back!

The Australian government has awarded Pilbara Minerals and partner Calix a A$20 million grant under the Modern Manufacturing Initiative for a lithium salts demonstration plant at Pilbara’s Pilgangoora operation in Western Australia (reports MiningNews).

The International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) Uranium Production Specialist Dr Adrienne Hanly has flagged that uranium inventories are precariously low (reports Stockhead).

The maiden diamond drill hole at Catalyst Metals (51%) and Navarre Minerals’ (49%) Lawry prospect, within Victoria’s prolific Bendigo Zone, has delivered a stunning high-grade intercept (reports MiningNews).

Analysis from Benchmark Mineral Intelligence has shown the lithium industry needs a massive US$42 billion in investment to meet projected 2030 demand (reports MiningNews).

There is a “sense of achievement” that first ore from Mincor’s Kambalda nickel operations has been processed and the company has re-established itself as a producer after a six-year hiatus, the company’s boss says (reports The West Australian).

Nickel failed to dodge this week’s sector-wide mining sell-off, but with the battery metals and electric vehicle (EV) business model intact it could be the first commodity to recover (reports Tim Treadgold on Small Caps).

Orion Minerals has struck a long-awaited draft $US87 million ($124m) funding deal for its Prieska zinc-copper project in South Africa (reports The West Australian).

Calidus Resources has defied WA’s tight labour market and cost inflation to bring its Warrawoona gold project in the Pilbara into production (reports The West Australian).

Just weeks out from the ousting of long-time directors Terry Topping and Bruno Seneque, the new team in charge at junior explorer Kairos Minerals has wheeled out some big guns to help run the gold and lithium explorer (reports MiningNews).

A soil sampling program by DiscovEx Resources (ASX: DCX) has produced what the company calls an “exceptional” gold target at its recently acquired ground at Edjudina in Western Australia (reports Small Caps).

Chalice Mining has highlighted the underground potential of its Julimar project 70km north-east of Perth, with recent drilling at its famed Gonneville polymetallic deposit revealing mineralisation continuing at depth (reports The West Australian).