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06/15/2026

Stan Hilditch didn’t set out to find the iron ore body that would help change Australia.

He was looking for manganese.

In 1957, Hilditch was prospecting in Western Australia’s Pilbara with his wife, Ella, when he came across a vast iron ore deposit near the Ophthalmia Range.

At the time, the discovery was almost useless on paper.

Australia still had a federal embargo on iron ore exports, driven by fears the country could run short of the mineral.

So Hilditch had found something enormous before the market was ready for it.

That changed in 1960, when the export ban was lifted.

Suddenly, the deposit that became Mt Whaleback went from remote curiosity to one of the great mining prizes of the 20th century.

Hilditch and Charles Warman secured large temporary reserves across the Mt Newman area, then worked to bring in serious development backing. Their reserves were eventually sold for $10 million.

BHP later took over the development that became the Mt Newman Project, pouring more than A$2.2 billion into mines, railways, ports and new towns across the Pilbara.

Mt Whaleback opened in 1968, and Newman ore began moving to Port Hedland soon after.

Today, the mine is known as one of the world’s great open-cut iron ore operations.

But before the rail, the port and the billions of tonnes shipped, there was a prospector on the ground.

Stan Hilditch saw the hill first.

Australia’s iron ore boom followed.

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06/13/2026

Triple Flag has made a $440 million move on Queensland gold, as reported by Mining Weekly.

The Toronto-listed royalty and streaming company is buying a gold stream over the producing Ravenswood mine, one of Australia’s ten largest gold mines by ore reserves.

The deal gives Triple Flag the right to buy 5.5% of payable gold from Ravenswood, before the rate steps down after 194,200 ounces and again after 253,000 ounces.

It isn't a small bet.

Ravenswood has already produced more than 4 million ounces over its operating life, and more than A$830 million has been invested in the site.

In 2025, the mine produced 134,000 ounces of gold.

At steady state, it’s expected to deliver more than 200,000 ounces a year.

Triple Flag expects first deliveries under the stream in the third quarter of 2026, with the transaction set to close before the end of June.

The company said Ravenswood also lifts its 2030 outlook to 150,000 to 160,000 gold-equivalent ounces, up from the previous 140,000 to 150,000 range.

The mine is owned by EMR Capital and GEAR, part of Indonesia’s Sinar Mas Group.

For Triple Flag, Ravenswood adds another Australian asset beside Northparkes, Beta Hunt and Fosterville.

For Ravenswood, it puts fresh financial weight behind one of Queensland’s biggest gold operations.

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Photo: Rob and Stephanie Levy from Townsville, Australia / WikiCommons

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06/13/2026

Ian “Pidge” Pigden didn’t build a career around mining.

He built a life around one mine.

In 2026, Pigden marked 55 years at Rosebery Mine on Tasmania’s West Coast, one of the longest-running mining operations in Australia. The timing made the milestone even sharper. That same year, Rosebery celebrated 90 years of continuous operation, dating back to the commissioning of its mill in February 1936.

The deposit itself goes back even further, after being discovered in 1893.

Rosebery is not a coal mine. It’s a polymetallic operation producing zinc, copper, lead, silver and gold, the kind of mine that survives only when geology, skill and persistence keep lining up.

Pigden’s career stretched across generations of workers, changing equipment, new safety systems, tighter procedures and a town that has lived with mining as part of its daily rhythm.

He said he never imagined he’d still be there for a milestone like that.

But his explanation was simple enough.

The people, the pride in the work and the West Coast mining community kept him coming back.

Rosebery today has a 650-strong workforce and MMG says the mine now carries its largest-ever mineral resource, with plans to push the operation beyond 100 years of continuous mining.

For Pigden, though, the real story is less corporate.

Fifty-five years.

One town.

One mine.

A working life spent inside the same mining heartbeat.

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