The Burrup Peninsula in WA - home of more than one million Indigenous rock engravings up to 40,000 years old - is understood to have been nominated for World heritage listing.
The US aluminium giant is confident it can mine the WA jarrah forests critical to its business for decades despite a short-term environmental approval delay.
Technology Metals Australia Ltd (ASX:TMT) has potential financing support on the horizon for its Murchison Technology Metals Project (MTMP) in Western.
Mineral Resources has told analysts it can build a lithium hydroxide plant in the Pilbara for $1.3 billion and might tap into funding support from the Albanese government.