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https://www.abc.net.au › news › 2024-02-16 › nickel-to-be-placed-on-critical-minerals-list › 103476096Nickel to be placed on critical minerals list, giving WA miners access ...Feb 16, 2024
It will allow nickel miners to apply to access a $4 billion fund. Federal Resources Minister Madeline King says she will put nickel on the critical minerals list, allowing nickel miners to apply ...

https://www.abc.net.au › news › 2024-07-11 › bhp-to-close-nickel-west-mines-until-2027 › 104087638BHP to close Nickel West mines until 2027, blaming global oversupply of ...Jul 11, 2024The mines will close from October and the decision will be reviewed in February 2027. Mining giant BHP has announced it's putting its WA nickel mines on ice for at least three years, blaming an ...

https://www.minister.industry.gov.au › ministers › king › media-releases › nickel-placed-critical-minerals-listNickel placed on critical minerals list | Ministers for the Department ...Feb 16, 2024Federal Resources Minister Madeleine King has placed nickel on the Critical Minerals List, giving nickel companies opportunity to access billions of dollars in Commonwealth funding. The Commonwealth Resources Minister has the discretion to review the Critical Minerals List at any time, and to make interim amendments if there are significant changes to technology, trade, domestic capacity or ..

https://www.abc.net.au › news › 2024-07-13 › bhp-nickel-west-mine-closures-impact-on-people-leinster-kwinana › 104092170
Nickel operation closures leave towns in WA's Goldfields facing ...Jul 12, 2024The impact of the decision is expected to affect many bushiness and workers in the nickel mining communities. ... It is an option the WA secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union ...

So nickel as well as rare earths minerals prices have crashed due mainly Chinese economy weakness
Oz Gov should have kept away - keep Fed Gov cheque book locked in its hip pocket
but they will never learn