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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1 week ago |
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 week 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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2 weeks ago |
abc.net.au | Jarrod Lucas
The City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder generates millions of dollars by selling recycled water to a newly-opened rare earths refinery, but it's led to water shortages in the community. A legal firm has reviewed council's dealings with Lynas Rare Earths and found no misconduct. Council is working to address water shortages in the long term with its Water Bank project.
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4 weeks ago |
abc.net.au | Jarrod Lucas
Australia's biggest gold miner Northern Star Resources will add the country's largest new gold find to its portfolio after shareholders in De Grey Mining overwhelmingly voted in favour of a $5-billion takeover. The owner of Kalgoorlie's Super Pit gold mine announced its proposed acquisition of De Grey in December in a bid to get its hands on the six-million-ounce Hemi discovery in Western Australia's Pilbara region.
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4 weeks ago |
abc.net.au | Jarrod Lucas |Katrina Tap
Goldfields Women's Shelter chief executive Suzie Williams says domestic violence perpetrators will move outside Perth to avoid being captured by electronic monitoring. WA's Justice Department conceded this week that it was unable to monitor people accused of serious DV offending outside Perth. Concerns have been echoed by domestic violence prevention groups across country WA.
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RT @SamTomlin539: Western Australia's Goldfields have ridden the ups and downs of nickel prices since the 1960's boom - an era coming to an…
RT @SamTomlin539: WA Police Commissioner Col Blanch has confirmed a review is underway after bungled forensics allowed two alleged Kalgoorl…
City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder councillors have voted 1-5 against a plan to deregulate trading hours, but have agreed to extend retail hours in the city from 80 to 82 hours a week. https://t.co/w1HxnnVGEC
