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Andrew Forrest blazes a nickel trail
Nickel’s dismal performance so far this year has hurt investors but there are three reasons to believe that it will bounce back, all connected to Australia’s richest man, Andrew Forrest. The most obvious Forrest/nickel link is the completion last week of his takeover of Mincor Resources (ASX: MCR), one of the small but successful miners […]

Australia can punch above its weight in critical metals — both with mining and processing
Australia has just 3.4% of the world’s rare earth element (REE) resources but is the fourth largest producer in the world, with other minerals also posing significant future potential for the country. And that is just from one mine, Mt Weld in Western Australia — while several other projects are at the advanced development stage, […]

Ardea Resources creates battery-grade cobalt and nickel sulphate from Goongarrie ore
Ardea Resources (ASX: ARL) has generated battery-grade cobalt and nickel sulphate crystals during a pilot plant trial on its ore from the Goongarrie nickel-cobalt project near Kalgoorlie in Western Australia. The pilot trial used a refined flowsheet on the Goongarrie mineralisation which was an optimised version of the flowsheet developed in the pre-feasibility study. Using […]

Ardea Resources upgrades cobalt resource for Goongarrie pre-feasibility study
Cobalt and nickel explorer Ardea Resources Limited (ASX: ARL) has announced a significant increase in resources to support the pre-feasibility study (PFS) at its Goongarrie nickel cobalt project in Western Australia. The company today reported an updated resource for the KNP cobalt zone of 108.3 million tonnes grading at 0.10% cobalt and 0.79% nickel, including […]