Jarrod Lucas
Reporter and Photographer at ABC News (Australia)
ABC reporter/professional photographer living in Kalgoorlie. Cricket and football tragic waiting for Adelaide Crows premiership. Views my own.
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abc.net.au | Jarrod Lucas |Tara de Landgrafft
The endorsement comes after Perth Mint's reputation was significantly damaged in 2023 by reports of breaches of anti-money laundering laws and gold "doping". The mint opened in 1899 and is owned by the Western Australian government, trading as Gold Corporation. Gold prices have traded at record highs this year and are forecast to remain strong, amid a global trade war.
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abc.net.au | Katrina Tap |Jarrod Lucas
A cash-strapped regional shire in Western Australia's Goldfields is pushing on with plans to hike mining rates despite significant public backlash. The move has drawn the ire of industry titans in Perth and local prospectors. The Shire of Coolgardie, which was founded on the discovery of gold in 1892, has taken drastic steps since March when it revealed it was facing a $6.5 million budget deficit.
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abc.net.au | Jarrod Lucas
In Australia's resources sector, Tim Goyder has been the man with the Midas touch in recent years. At one point in 2023, his stock holdings in one-time market darlings Liontown Resources and Chalice Mining saw him become a paper billionaire with an estimated net worth of $1.09 billion. But as fast as the Perth-based mining investor joined the Australian Financial Review's annual Rich List, such is the swings and roundabouts of commodity price cycles, he slipped off.
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abc.net.au | Jarrod Lucas
Western Australia's vanadium industry literally went up in smoke in 2014. A fire in the processing plant at the Windimurra mine near Mount Magnet in the state's Midwest cost its owners millions, forcing its closure, and WA has not had an operating vanadium mine since. While there have been plans to reopen the mine and develop other projects, the lack of any home-grown vanadium producers looms as an obvious hurdle in a key promise by WA Labor at the recent state election.
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1 month ago |
abc.net.au | Jarrod Lucas
The head of a Perth-based gold miner that is the target of a $3.7-billion takeover bid expects there will be further consolidation in the sector as prices for the precious metal reach record highs. The ASX-listed Gold Road Resources emerged from a trading halt on Monday to announce that its South African joint-venture partner, Gold Fields, had increased its previous bid of $3.3b by 43 per cent.
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