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Bellevue Gold is going back to the future as it builds Western Australia’s next gold mine of scale (reports MiningNews).

Early construction works are underway at Liontown Resources’ A$545 million Kathleen Valley lithium project in Leinster, Western Australia (reports MiningNews).

Carmakers face a battle for the rest of the decade to secure the lithium needed to help power the electric vehicle revolution, as demand threatens to overwhelm supply, one of the biggest producers of the metal has warned (reports The Financial Times).

Catalyst Metals says its ability to access the barely-explored Cradle Zone at its Henty gold mine in Tasmania is pointing to resource and production growth (reports MiningNews).

Labyrinth looks to have figured out the route to riches contained within its namesake project with the first three holes extending the currently defined gold lodes at depth and along strike (reports Stockhead).

Astral Resources says the latest results from infill and extensional drilling at its Theia gold deposit in Western Australia’s Eastern Goldfields continue to suggest a resource update next quarter (reports MiningNews).

Emerging producers like Bellevue could be on the menu for the big producers, ditto for Peel in the copper space. Stavely shareholders soak up SPP and Creasy punts on Galileo neighbour Greenstone.

Confidence returned to financial markets this week even as central banks continued to tighten the interest rate screws, with nowhere more positive than Australia’s resources sector, which partied in a wet and windy Kalgoorlie.