• BHP’s Samarco class action shrinks as Brazilians quit (AFR)

• BHP, Rio, Woodside and BlueScope will partner on an electric smelter iron-making pilot project at Kwinana as part of WA’s green iron push (BN)

• Tasmania’s huge Savage River iron ore project at risk as prices fall (AFR, GRR)

• Peru orders definitive closure of Tucari mine due to pollution of the Coralaque River (MiningNews)

• Capricorn Metals CEO Kim Massey to retire in January (CB)

• Uranium spot prices to climb in ‘staircase’ pattern, Sprott forecasts (NM)

• “Pump and dumper” behind NSW mining application wave (AFR)

• A judge hearing a secrecy push by Chris Ellison & MinRes has raised doubts about the usefulness of their lawyer’s reconciliation of sensitive Federal Court allegations with recent publicity (West)

• Idemitsu has taken majority ownership of Australian battery start-up Vecco it intensifies its pivot away from Australian coal mine ownership (AFR)

• Two white-tailed spider bites & sleeping with the lights on have been blamed for a train crash that sparked a major safety overhaul by BHP (Australian)

• BHP expects increasing uncertainty in the near term as US President-elect Donald Trump prepares to implement a slew of tariffs (Bloomberg)

• Vulcan ties up $1.45b in part funding for Germany lithium project (CB)

• BlueScope wanted to build a major green iron pilot plant at Port Kembla but lost out to WA after the state put up a $75m assistance package (Australian)

• The DRC has filed criminal complaints against Apple subsidiaries in France & Belgium, accusing it of using conflict minerals in its supply chain (Reuters)

• Kazatomprom said on Tuesday that Russia's Rosatom was selling its stakes in some uranium deposits which the two groups had been developing together to Chinese-owned companies (Reuters)

• MinRes completed the sale of its gas assets to Hancock and confirmed receipt of the initial consideration of $780m (MIN)

• Iceni Gold has entered up to a $35 million farm-in with Gold Road over their Guyer gold trend, GOR has also acquired a 9.9% interest in Iceni for A$3m

• Fenix has acquired the Beebynganna Hills Iron Ore project off Spartan, paying $250k cash with a $1m milestone payment (FEX)

• Ironbark Zinc (renaming to Skylark Metals) has agreed to sell its Citronen project, leaving it with +$10m cash and touting a Nordgold strategy (IBG)

• Altech announced a heads of agreement with Axsol, with offtake for 10MWh (yr 1) and rising over 5 years, commencing Q1 2027 following commissioning (ATC)

• QLD-based Novonix has been offered a further US$754m in loans from the US DoE to support the construction of another synthetic graphite facility (MiningNews)

• Vulcan signed a €879m conditional debt commitment letter with Export Finance Australia and a syndicate of 7 commercial banks to develop the company’s Phase One Lionheart project (VUL)

• Skeena’s Eskay Creek bulk sample permit unlocks US$200m in gold project funding (NM)

• Antipa Minerals is in a trading halt to raise capital (AZY) raising $15 million at 2.5c… A head scratcher why raise when they are cashed up from recent aset sale?

• Tungsten Mining completed its $4.5m convertible notes capital raising (TGN)

• November Fund Performance (MrQuick’s Newsletter) Aussie fund performance

• Trader Ferg and Emanuel Datt catch up (Substack Podcast) coal, energy, tin, PGMs discussed early: WHC, YAL, BTU, MLX, WA1, ADT, KAR, JMS, ZIM

• China's steel sector is not as gloomy as it appears (Reuters)

• Critical minerals manufacturing dream tempered by harsh reality (AFR)

• Strictly Boardroom: a Champions League of critical minerals (MiningNews)

• Critical metals will be a key battleground in US-China trade war (Reuters)

• Coal stocks down with broader energy, materials (Coal Trader)

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