
Mark Wembridge
Resources Reporter at Australian Financial Review
Resources Reporter, Australian Financial Review
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afr.com | Mark Wembridge |Peter Ker
May 27, 2025 – 3.59pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Mineral Resources managing director Chris Ellison is taking analysts and investors on a road trip, looking to restore confidence in an accident-prone highway that is key to the miner’s strategy to develop the new West Pilbara iron ore province.
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afr.com | Mark Wembridge
May 26, 2025 – 12.25pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Gold mining rock star Raleigh Finlayson has consolidated his dominance over Western Australia’s Leonora district by inking a $250 million buyout of a China-backed mine.
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afr.com | Mark Wembridge
May 26, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Mineral Resources founder Chris Ellison isn’t known to be a retiring type. On analyst calls and in interviews, the mining industry veteran is not afraid of browbeating anyone who questions his management style. His blunt-speaking approach is said to be no more refined in the boardroom.
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afr.com | Peter Ker |Mark Wembridge
May 23, 2025 – 4.58pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? One of the biggest jobs in world mining is up for grabs after relations between Rio Tinto chairman Dominic Barton and chief executive Jakob Stausholm strained to the point where the Danish executive reluctantly stepped down at talks in London this week.
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afr.com | Mark Wembridge |Jesinta Burton
May 22, 2025 – 5.06pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Rio Tinto chief executive Jakob Stausholm will leave the iron ore giant after close to five years at the helm of the world’s second-biggest miner.
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#uranium was one of the hottest trades of last year. Now the commodity dominates the list of most-shorted stocks on the @ASX. @ElouiseFowler and I look whether investors' bearish bets are warranted. @FinancialReview https://t.co/v7S7qYpyuW

Lithium miners have endured a torrid run of late. The outlook is even worse for downstream processing. In the @FinancialReview today, @ElouiseFowler and I look at how Australia's downstream dream is turning into a nightmare. https://t.co/kmCgntdv3x

Another week, another @FinancialReview story with @MarkDiStef about @MRLMinRes. A leaked report into the miner's $3 billion Onslow Iron Ore project is quite the eye-opener. https://t.co/sdsGojLjaY https://t.co/PJoPCilWBX