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Why bet millions on one of Australia’s richest forgotten copper mines?

Deep in the QLD rainforest, the Dianne Project once produced incredibly high-grade copper from a tiny pocket, before it ran out.

🌏 Maps: Google Earth
📸 Photo: RevolverResources
#Copper #ASX #Mining #Queensland #Australia
November 18, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Why is Rox Resources betting $200M on restarting the Youanmi gold mine?

Shut for 20+ years, Youanmi could return as WA’s next gold producer if construction stays on schedule.

Maps: Google
Photo: Rox Resources

#ASX #Youanmi #RoxResources #Gold #Mining #WAgold #AustralianMining #LykeShares
November 17, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Why is South Korea building a $4B iron smelter in WA? 🇦🇺

POSCO has approval for a huge plant in Port Hedland, turning Pilbara ore into finished iron worth far more than raw exports.

#IronOre #Pilbara #POSCO #WA #Mining #ASX #Australia #PortHedland #ValueAdd

📸 Photo: Tom Fisk
🗺️ Map: Google Earth
November 15, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Mt Weld secured a major capital boost as Lynas completes its $750m raise to ramp up production.

#RareEarths #MtWeld #Lynas #CriticalMinerals #WA #Mining #EVs #WindTurbines #LykeShares

📸 Photo: Lynas Rare Earths
🗺️ Map imagery Google Earth Pro
November 13, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Why is South Korea spending $1.2 billion on this WA lithium giant? 🇰🇷⚡️

MinRes has just sold 30 % to POSCO, valuing Wodgina and Mount Marion at $3.9 billion, a deal that boosts expansion and strengthens Australia’s lithium edge.

🇦🇺 #Lithium #Pilbara #ASX #Mining 📸 Photo Tom Fisk | 🗺️ Map Google
November 12, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Why is America backing this WA rare-earths mine?
November 11, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Why is #BHP slowing down Australia’s biggest copper project?

Olympic Dam’s expansion is on hold as energy costs surge and Argentina offers better incentives. Yet $840m in works are still rolling out.

#OlympicDam #Copper #MiningNews

Credits: Google Earth, The Chronicle (Olympic Dam refinery)
November 10, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Rinehart just backed Arafura’s Nolans Project with $125M.

The NT rare-earths mine is closing in on a $475M raise, with Rinehart lifting her stake to 15.7%.

Credits: Google Maps, Arafura Rare Earths Limited

#RareEarths #Arafura #NolansProject #Rinehart #Mining #ASX #Australia #CriticalMinerals
November 9, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Why did this $2 billion lithium refinery shut down?

Albemarle’s Kemerton plant, 150 k’s south of Perth, was meant to double output. Now it’s being mothballed as lithium prices plunge.

📍 Google Maps | 📸 Albemarle Corporation

#Lithium #Albemarle #WA #Mining #BatteryMetals #LykeShares
November 8, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Why bet $1.3 billion on this gold mine?
North of Melbourne, Australia’s biggest gold mine, has approval to run until 2045.

🗺️ Map Google Earth
📸 Mine photo by Tom Fisk | Swift Parrot photo by Chris Tzaros

#GoldMining #Melbourne #Victoria #LykeShares #SwiftParrot #Australia #MiningNews
November 7, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Why spend $500 million expanding this lithium mine?

Talison’s $500 million plan adds new dams and haul roads to lift output and secure water.

#Greenbushes #Lithium #Mining #Australia #EV #LykeShares

🗺️ Map © Google Earth | 📸 Photo © Darren Gray
November 6, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Australia has world-class resources, but do we turn them into long-term wealth?

Norway used oil to build a $3T sovereign fund. Australia has one too, but ours isn’t built from mining royalties.

Credit: Google Earth; CSIRO
#Australia #Mining #Pilbara #Dampier #IronOre #LNG #Norway #ASX
November 5, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Australia exported 20 years worth of gas in five.
83% now goes overseas, while local industry and households face rising prices.

We can power the world, but how do we keep it at home?

#Australia #Energy #Gas #LNG #WA #Dampier #Economy #Industry #Mining #Perth

Credit: Google Earth, Diego F. Parra
November 4, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Australia supplies ~40% of the world’s zirconium, used in jet engines and heat shields.
With a new $13B US–Australia minerals deal, can we build more capability here too?

Maps: Google Earth
Photo: Tom Fisk

#zirconium #auspol #australia #criticalminerals #mining #westernaustralia #china #usa
November 3, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Why put $363m into red dirt in WA?

Kathleen Valley — Liontown’s lithium project — is scaling underground and building long-term battery supply for Australia.

Imagery: Google Earth
Mine photo: Liontown Resources

#lithium #kathleenvalley #liontown #criticalminerals #auspol #ausbiz #wa #miningnews
November 2, 2025 at 5:16 AM
A $5B bet on empty desert. Six-million ounces buried under red Pilbara earth — could Hemi be Australia’s next modern gold rush?

Northern Star Resources Limited

#Gold #Mining #Pilbara #ASX #NorthernStar #DeGrey #Hemi #WesternAustralia #GoldRush #NST

Credits: Google, De Grey Mining, Blastcuse
November 1, 2025 at 4:48 AM
⚡ 1,000 JOBS AT RISK — TOMAGO’S FUTURE IN DOUBT

In NSW’s Hunter Valley, Rio Tinto’s Tomago smelter, Australia’s largest aluminium plant, faces closure as energy prices surge.

🗺️ Maps Google | 📸 Photo Enes Çimen
#Tomago #RioTinto #MiningNews #Energy #LykeShares #HunterValley
October 30, 2025 at 2:06 AM
150 BHP JOBS AXED: YANDI MINE SHUTS EARLY

China pricing dispute stalls shipments – Pilbara’s oldest iron-ore site winds down after 30 years.

🗺️ Google | 📸 Graeme Churchard
#Yandi #Pilbara #MiningCrisis #IronOre
October 29, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Another huge rare-earth mine is about to be dug into Victorian farmland.
$VHM Limited’s $75M Goschen Project, will produce nearly 10,000t of rare-earth concentrate each year

#RareEarths #Mining #Australia #CriticalMinerals #Goschen #VHM #LykeShares

🗺 Maps © Google Earth | 📸 Images © VHM Limited
October 28, 2025 at 5:19 AM
How did a Sydney factory end up protecting Europe’s skies?
DroneShield’s $60M European deal has sent sales soaring 400%, proof Australia’s defence tech is taking off.
🛰️ Built in Sydney. Deployed worldwide.

📍 Visuals: Google Earth / DroneShield
#DroneShield #Australia #Defence #Tech #LykeShares
October 27, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Why can’t Australia refine its own rare earths? 🇦🇺
Iluka’s $1.8 billion Eneabba refinery, north of Perth, is the first outside China, but it’s still 18 months away.

🎥 Google Earth / Copernicus
📸 Iluka Resources

#LykeShares #RareEarths #Mining #Australia #Iluka #Eneabba $ILU
October 26, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Can Lynas’ new refinery in Kalgoorlie break China’s grip on rare earths?

For the first time, Australian ore is being processed on Australian soil.

🎥 Google Earth imagery | 📸 Lynas Rare Earths

#Lynas #RareEarths #Australia #Kalgoorlie #LykeShares #CriticalMinerals #Mining
October 25, 2025 at 6:03 AM
450 jobs lost at Mount Gibson.
A major rockfall has forced the early closure of WA’s Koolan Island mine, ending production years ahead of schedule.

#Mining #WesternAustralia #IronOre #Kimberley #LykeShares

Credits:
Maps 📍 Google Earth
Photo 📸 ABC Kimberley / Erin Parke
October 24, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Astron’s $ATR $183 million Donald Project, 250 km NW of Melbourne, has been granted major project status.

It’ll ship 7 000 tonnes of concentrate to Utah each year.

#RareEarths #Mining #Australia #CriticalMinerals #Astron #DonaldMine #LykeShares

📸 Credits: Google Maps / Cowboy State Daily
October 23, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Every year, Australia ships out rare-earth minerals worth billions, refined overseas, never to be seen again.

#LykeShares #RareEarths #Iluka #Eneabba #CriticalMinerals #Mining #Australia #EnergySecurity #USAustralia

🎥 Maps: Google Earth 📸 Photo: Honeywell
October 22, 2025 at 5:18 AM