The Western Australian Department of Energy, Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety has approved Element 25’s planned expansion. 

The project aims to achieve steady-state nameplate capacity in the fourth quarter of 2025. 

A construction decision was announced on January 13. 

Work on the vertical shaft is scheduled to start this month and will be completed within three to five months. 

Aura Energy has received firm commitments to raise about A$9-million through the issue of 64.28-million shares at A$0.14 a share. 

Syrah Resources has been awarded a tax credit under the US Inflation Reduction Act’s Section 48C Qualifying Advanced Energy Project Tax Credit Programme. 

Platinum group metals production from the project remains on track. 

Syrah Resources declared force majeure at its Balama graphite mine in December 2024. 

The project has completed the permitting process. 

European Metals has announced a substantial increase in planned lithium production. 

Gem Resources has successfully completed the refurbishment and upgrades to the processing plant. 

Sovereign Metals has completed the test pit backfilling and started soil remediation as part of its pilot mining and land rehabilitation programme at Kasiya. 

The project is scheduled to restart in the third quarter of this year. 

Uranium production has restarted after a five-year hiatus. 

Coronado Global Resources announced the opening of its Mammoth underground mine at the Curragh Mining Complex in December. 

The bankable feasibility study is scheduled to be released this month. 

The county council has approved the Parys Mountain mine environmental-impact assessment scoping report. 

An interim economic study released in December 2024 has proposed a project life of 16 years – two years longer than the one envisaged in the October 2022 preliminary economic assessment. 

Lithium Americas has raised the reserve estimate for the Thacker Pass lithium project. 

Legacy Iron Ore Limited and Hawthorn Resources are buidling a 12-million-tonne-a-year, high-grade magnetite project in central Yilgarn. 

St Barbara Limited's has updated the prefeasibility study on the project and has proposed average production of 74 000 oz/y of gold over the 11.1-year mine life. 

The South West Arkansas project’s design is being updated from its original preliminary feasibility study. 

Horizon Minerals has started hauling ore from the project. 

Evolution Mining has received regulatory approval from the New South Wales Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure to extend operations at its Cowal gold operations until 2042. 

Spartan Resources is fast-tracking a production restart with a A$220-million placement. 

Morgan Stanley has said the project faces economic and execution risks, even after receiving A$400-million ($258-million) of fresh funding from the Australian government. 

Greatland Gold has successfully poured its first gold bars at the Telfer processing plant. 

Larvotto Resources has announced a capital raise to continue advancing the project. 

BHP has selected ABB to deliver, install and commission three friction hoists and a further electrical system for a Blair service hoist.