Mining

Hillgrove, east of Armidale, started commissioning in July 2026 and produced its first concentrate in September. On 14 October, Larvotto announced that 68 tonnes of antimony concentrate had been collected at the mine gate by Wogen Resources, satisfying a delivery condition under the offtake …

Underground ore mined rose 9% quarter on quarter to 388,568 tonnes at 1.4% lithium oxide, and underground development reached a quarterly record of 4,021 metres. Liontown said underground mining ran at about 1.6 million tonnes per annum, in line with plan, and is expected …

Mt Weld mined 320,800 tonnes of ore and concentrated 2,862 tonnes of NdPr at an average grade of 10.0% against a planned 9.9%. Total rare earth oxides (TREO) produced were 3,432 tonnes. At the Lynas Advanced Materials Plant in Malaysia, 2,082 tonnes of NdPr …

A billion-tonne magnetite deposit backed by Hancock Prospecting and an underground gold restart in the Eastern Goldfields — Hawthorn Resources Ltd(ASX:HAW) is running two distinct value creation tracks simultaneously, with major partners picking up much of the bill.

Five consecutive quarters of rising copper output, a fully permitted underground mine 55 kilometres from Adelaide, and one of the fastest share price re-ratings in the ASX materials sector — Kantra Copper Ltd(ASX:HGO) has delivered a textbook mining turnaround at Kanmantoo.

The global steel industry must decarbonise, and it cannot do so without premium magnetite concentrate. Hawsons Iron Ltd(ASX:HIO) holds one of the world's most distinctive feedstocks for that transition — a 70% Fe Super-Pellet resource near Broken Hill that no conventional iron ore mine …

The Cobar Basin has a history of producing deep, high-grade copper mines with exceptional vertical continuity — and Helix Resources Ltd(ASX:HLX) just landed its first compelling evidence that Bijoux belongs in that tradition.