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Sandfire Resources has appointed South32 lead team member Brendan Harris as its new managing director and CEO (reports MiningNews).

The forgotten product’s vital role in lithium batteries is set to underpin its renaissance. The bright outlook is a boon for juniors like BlackEarth, which has just released a highly favourable DFS on its Maniry graphite project. And Hammer Metals awaits assays on 25m zone of copper-bearing sulphides in Queensland.

Costs, especially the cost of money, weighed heavily on financial and commodity markets this week with the U.S. central bank warning after its latest jumbo interest rate increase that rates will keep rising until they hurt.

Strandline Resources boss Luke Graham says the timing of the company’s $260 million Coburn minerals sands project is still ideal despite “jittery” global markets (reports The West Australian).

An initial ore reserve for the LN04a discovery will extend the life of Mincor Resources’ newly restarted Kambalda operations to six years, the company has announced (reports The West Australian).

New gold miner Calidus Resources has largely overcome early production issues at its Warrawoona mine in the Pilbara, according to managing director Dave Reeves (reports MiningNews).

COVID absenteeism and unplanned processing plant downtime have hampered the ramp-up of production at the King of the Hills mine, but Red 5 remains confident it will achieve commercial gold production at the Leonora operation this quarter (reports The West Australian).

Bellevue Gold says workers’ mental health and wellbeing was a high priority in the design of its 343-person camp which has just been completed (reports The West Australian).

The delineation of two strong anomalies at both the Ichucollo and Huancune targets has increased the total strike length to 6km following the completion of two surveys in September (reports Stockhead).

Having delivered a disastrous quarterly production report on Friday, Gascoyne Resources managing director delivered some good news this morning, suggesting its new Never Never lode discovery has all the hallmarks of a major gold system (reports MiningNews).