Plans to revive Focus Minerals’ Coolgardie Gold Project in Western Australia could get under way in July or August, by which time the miner expects to award a refurbishment contract for its Three Mile Hill plant, which will have a historical name plate capacity of 1.2 million tonnes per annum.

Demetallica has made a promising debut on the stock exchange after completing its significantly over-subscribed $15 million Initial Public Offering.

Australian Vanadium (AVL) subsidiary VSUN Energy has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with North Harbour Clean Energy (NHCE), specialist in renewable energy and energy storage projects.

Chase Mining Corporation has expanded its Barkly North Rare Earths Project in the Northern Territory. It has applied for two adjoining Exploration Licences (EL) to the northwest to secure a 160-kilometre stretch of the rare earths trend revealed by a Geoscience Australia-conducted North Australian geochemical survey.

A shipment comprising 35,002 tonnes of manganese concentrate from the Element 25 (E25)-owned Butcherbird Manganese Project has departed Port Hedland in Western Australia.

Australian green energy leader Fortescue Future Industries (FFI) has teamed up with Qlimate, a quantum computing net-zero initiative based in Silicon Valley dedicated to help mitigate climate change, to explore quantum computing solutions in green hydrogen.

Western Australia-based Suvo Strategic Minerals and C&D Logistics Group have agreed to work together to develop and grow specific kaolin product markets, with a view to forming long-term relationships with downstream customers in a range of industries and locations.

QEM’s vanadium and oil shale pilot plant has been formally commissioned and is set to be running for up to six months.

The 500,000th ounce of gold has been poured at Alkane Resources’ Tomingley mine.

Ausgold’s 100 per cent-owned flagship Katanning Gold Project (KGP) in Western Australia has recorded an increase in the mineral resource estimate, which now totals 2.16 million ounces of gold, representing a 17 per cent rise in total contained ounces compared with the previous figure.

Bryah Resources is upbeat about a significant upgrade in the previously reported base metal mineral resource within the Australian Vanadium Project deposit, located at the company’s Gabanintha Project in central Western Australia.

The 2022 Prospect Awards are set to be a major event in November, with more opportunity than ever to celebrate the talents of the industry.

Earth Resources Regulation has overseen a range of routine maintenance and annual works at the Waxlip Spur former mine site and nearby tailings storage facility in East Gippsland.

Western Australian explorer Olympio Metals has recommenced trading on the stock exchange as it begins life as a gold and lithium explorer focused on discovery at its Goldfields and Halls Creek projects.

Wayne Bramwell is the new managing director at Westgold Resources, replacing chief executive officer Debbie Fullarton, who has resigned after four years with the company to pursue other opportunities.

Zenith Minerals has secured a new lithium project in Western Australia, Mt Ida North, under an option-to-purchase arrangement.

Resolution Minerals has named Steven Groves as its new managing director.

Leading mining company Rio Tinto and bp have agreed to work together on a one-year biofuel trial to help reduce carbon emissions from Rio Tinto’s marine fleet.

Develop has kicked off underground work at Bellevue Gold’s Bellevue Mine in Western Australia.

GR Engineering Services has been awarded a preliminary works agreement for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of the one million tonnes per annum gold processing plant and associated infrastructure for the Bellevue Gold Project in Western Australia.