WA’s next gold miner Bellevue has struck a deal with a leading independent power provider to help it become Australia’s first net-zero producer of the precious metal (reports The West Australian).

Pilbara Minerals CEO Dale Henderson says the lithium and tantalite miner is diversifying some of its downstream processing away from China but maintained the company’s relationship with China is in “great health” and plans...

Develop managing director Bill Beament has again warned there was not enough underground mining talent to skill the growing number of Australian underground operations (reports MiningNews).

Lithium prices are set to extend their recovery from a brutal sell-off of 70 per cent as demand outstrips weaker-than-expected lithium supply growth, underpinned by the growing take-up of electric vehicles to meet carbon...