Auric Mining has planned a starter pit at its Munda gold project near WA’s Widgiemooltha, aiming to extract 6100 ounces of gold and generate $5.3m in free cash.

A hefty $500 million tax bill has threatened to scupper a multibillion-dollar deal between 138-year-old Perpetual and a private equity firm.

Receivers KPMG says all of the embattled fashion retailer’s Katies stores will shut, while dozens of stores across its Millers, Rivers and Noni B brands will also close by mid-January.

Suvo Strategic Minerals has entered a JV with an Indonesian management company to turn its nickel slag stockpile into low-carbon cement and concrete products.

Terrain Minerals has wheeled in an RC rig in search of the bedrock source of gold unearthed during air core drilling at its Wildflower project in WA.

Strickland Metals’ Gradina prospect in Serbia is showing all the hallmarks of a company maker. One lode is now within 150m of surface and mineralised to at least 603m.

China has targeted Nvidia with an antitrust investigation in an apparent escalation of its response to the latest US attempt to cut off its access to advanced computer chips.

The stakes have almost certainly changed in the battle between warring factions of the family over who will control the empire of Fox Corporation and News Corporation.

In a scathing 96-page ruling, Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch were found to have acted in “bad faith” in their effort to amend the family trust.

The move was an attempt by the 93-year-old to cement his eldest son Lachlan Murdoch’s control of the family empire after his death.

Sports broadcaster, NRL caller and journalist Mark Levy will take over as 2GB Mornings host.

Peter Beck has come a long way for a former dishwasher engineer with no university qualifications.

News Corp is edging closer to selling its pay TV and streaming business, with a deal potentially putting the company that broadcasts AFL and NRL games into foreign hands.

Latitude 66 will sell its WA Sylvania project to Capricorn Metals for $1.5m in Capricorn shares, potentially two or more $750,000-milestone payments and a 1% royalty.

The Australian sharemarket closed flat on Monday after initial losses behind the banks and mining giants, but things looked up after lunch thanks to consumer and healthcare stocks.

Marmota Ltd has nailed multiple high-grade gold hits in its first ever drilling campaign at the company’s Campfire Bore project in SA, with one hit going 16 grams per tonne over 4m.

Sarytogan Graphite has reached a milestone by growing higher-value synthetic industrial diamonds using its ultra-high purity fine graphite as a feedstock.

The Big Four bank’s decision to fly in an overseas star banker is at the very least curious – and potentially risky.

Star Minerals shareholders have backed the company’s proposed earn in deal at the Cobra uranium project in the world-class Erongo district in Namibia.

Terrain Minerals has kicked-off a ground-based EM survey to better define four very curious, potentially nickel-copper conductors at its Lort River project in WA.