Mining

Lion believes the current boom began early last year and remains in its early upswing. Historically, mining cycles have lasted from several years to around a decade, and managing director Hedley Widdup said Lion expects this cycle to sit towards the upper end of …

Queensland introduced new tools this year to support critical minerals and other strategically important projects. The state's critical minerals amendment to its development and public works legislation gives ministers powers to fast-track priority projects and empowers the Coordinator-General to coordinate developers, agencies, councils and …

Cobre announced in February that it had agreed to earn into the Sierra Atacama project, a district-scale copper property in Chile's Antofagasta region. The project includes an operating underground mine that produces copper cathode through heap leaching, solvent extraction and electrowinning, and Cobre has …

Citrine is a transparent variety of quartz, a mineral composed of silicon dioxide. According to the Gemological Institute of America, its colour ranges from pale yellow to brownish orange and is caused by traces of iron within the crystal structure.

At the Orson Project in Western Australia, reconnaissance soil sampling over selected magnetic targets returned coincident gold-copper anomalism over the northernmost targets, according to Danakali's quarterly report. Pathfinder elements, including nickel, platinum, palladium and niobium, were interpreted as suggesting a possible intrusion-hosted copper-nickel-platinum group …

The month as shaping up to be quiet for new listings. The ASX upcoming floats page, which notes that proposed codes and dates may change, shows a modest group of resources companies seeking admission over the coming weeks. Each of the offers is described …

Sunrise told the ASX that its board had approved the final development decision for the Syerston Scandium Project, which the company owns outright in central-west New South Wales. The project is designed around open-pit mining and hydrometallurgical leaching to produce high-purity scandium oxide over …