Australia’s Paydirt magazine is a highly regarded mining magazine which circulates internationally and features diverse coverage of the metals and minerals industry.
For 30 years, the monthly publication has delivered news, opinion and features focusing on the latest developments in the resources sector worldwide.
Paydirt’s journalists travel far and wide to bring its readership in depth coverage of companies and emerging projects within Australia and around the world.
The magazine plays an important role in the sector and thrives on providing key insights on the mining industry to a loyal and receptive audience, including senior mining executives, financial institutions and investors.
Latest Issue
June 2026
Issue 349
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MONTHLY CONTENT
NEWS 6
The gold sector’s first major M&A deal of the year has been unveiled with Regis Resources and Vault Minerals to join forces. The proposed $11 billion tie-up will create Australia’s third largest gold producer, boasting a total production profile of more than 700,000 ozpa, utilising up to 22.3 mtpa of milling capacity across nine facilities in WA. Dominic Piper reports
COVER 26
Galan Lithium is about to become the newest member of the ASX-listed lithium producers club with first chloride concentrate from its Hombre Muerto West project in Argentina expected any day now. The company’s journey from concept, through development and into production hasn’t been without its twists and turns along the way. Michael Washbourne sat down with Galan boss JP Vargas de la Vega to reflect on a success story more than eight years in the making.
CRITICAL BATTERY MINERALS REVIEW 32
Lithium has finally started to thaw from its second prolonged winter of the last decade. To ensure all participants are appropriately dressed for the commodity’s next sunny season, the WA Government has doubled down on its support for the sector, offering fee waivers to the State’s two lithium hydroxide producers. WA Mines Minister David Michael’s exclusive announcement was the opening act for the 11th edition of Paydirt’s Critical Battery Minerals Conference. We capture all the major talking points across our 22-page wrap of the two-day forum.
EUROPE 54
ASX-listed juniors continue to lead the changing of the guard in Europe, which has put mining and exploration back on the agenda after more than two decades focused on advanced manufacturing, services and the digital economy. Beginning our coverage, Rhonda Malkin examines the political discourse driving a new chapter for the industry on the continent.
MINING SERVICES 69
High commodity prices have supercharged the services side of the sector over the past 12 months but a leading advisory firm has warned against complacency. Michael Cameron caught up with Grant Thornton’s Will Kendall, asking how mining contractors should approach project-level risk in the current market.
Cover: Galan Lithium managing director JP Vargas de la Vega. Photo by Matthew Reilly, Rift Photography
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For over 30 years, the Australia’s Paydirt monthly publication has delivered news and opinion on the business of mining, from gold and precious metals to base metals and battery minerals; international news with a particular focus on Africa and Latin America; feature stories include project site visits, events coverage and mining services features.
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