About MiningNews.net

MiningNews.net

Overview

MiningNews.net is an Australian online news service covering the mining and resources industry, published by Aspermont Limited from Perth, Western Australia. Operating on a subscription model, it delivers high-frequency daily coverage of mining companies, exploration results, mergers and acquisitions, project development and resources capital markets, with a particular focus on the Australian Securities Exchange-listed sector from juniors to major producers. Aspermont describes it in its 2026 investor materials as the group's "origin digital news brand", providing the fast, high-frequency coverage that drives the group's market penetration and audience reach across the resources industry.

The service is the Australian news engine within a wider Aspermont portfolio built around mining media: it sits alongside the long-established Mining Journal, Mining Magazine, Australia's Mining Monthly and Energy News Bulletin, and its reporting draws on the same editorial group. For subscribers — mining executives, investors, financiers, analysts and service companies — it functions as a daily market wire for the sector, tracking share-raising activity, drill results, board changes and commodity sentiment as they happen.

History

MiningNews.net was launched in 2000, at the height of the first wave of online business publishing, and Aspermont has long pointed to the depth of the archive that has accumulated since: when the company relaunched the site on a new publishing platform, its managing director Alex Kent noted that the service held an extensive archive of more than 70,000 mining-related news and information items dating back to 2000, when the site first launched. The relaunch moved Mining News onto what Aspermont called its next-generation platform, with responsive design for mobile devices, improved search access to the archive, a dedicated section for features and company profiles from sister publication ResourceStocks, a mining jobs board, and a restructured subscription offer with standard and premium tiers.

Alongside the main service, Aspermont operated MiningNewsPremium as a premium subscription tier; in September 2013 the Association of Mining and Exploration Companies (AMEC) gave its Electronic Media Award to Kristie Batten, editor of both MiningNews.net and MiningNewsPremium, for a series of articles published on the premium service. Batten had joined Aspermont in about 2008 and was appointed editor of the two services in May 2012. In 2015 she won the Diggers & Dealers Mining Forum Media Award, with the forum's chairman noting that as editor she was responsible for three newsletters a day — an early-morning pre-market update, the main daily bulletin and an after-market wrap. An Aspermont announcement to the ASX in April 2017 recorded the editorial team as led by Batten and Michael Quinn in Perth, joined that month by veteran resources journalist Barry FitzGerald as a Melbourne-based columnist; regular contributors at the time included Stephen Bell, Allan Trench, Robin Bromby and Noel Dyson, together with the long-running Dryblower column. Batten has since also written for other outlets, and Aspermont does not prominently name a current editor for the title; FitzGerald's byline remains a fixture of the site.

Programming and Content

The site's coverage is organised around the way the mining investment community follows the sector. Its principal news channels are Capital Markets, covering equity raisings, listings and market movements — a weekly Capital Watch roundup summarises ASX resource raisings — together with Miners, Explorers, M&A, Exploration & Development and Project Finance, which track operating companies, exploration plays, deals and the funding of new projects. Data and ESG channels cover market data and environmental, social and governance issues, while an Editor's Picks selection highlights the day's significant stories.

Commentary is a substantial part of the mix. The Forum section carries opinion and analysis, Strictly Boardroom examines directors and governance, and the Barry FitzGerald column provides a veteran correspondent's take on the sector. With sister title Mining Journal, the service also produces periodic Outlook Reports on individual commodities — gold and copper editions appeared in 2024, following a uranium edition in 2023 — and country supplements such as a report on Argentina's lithium and copper sector. The publishing rhythm remains the one established in the Batten era: news posted through the day as announcements land, framed for readers who follow the market from the pre-open to the close. In October 2026 the homepage was leading with capital markets stories, lithium and gold coverage and a weekly summary of ASX resources raisings for the week of 16 October, confirming the service's continuing daily operation.

Audience and Reach

MiningNews.net is aimed at professional readers rather than a general audience: mining company executives and directors, institutional and retail investors in resources stocks, brokers and analysts, and the legal, financial and technical service firms that work with the industry. Access is by subscription, with Aspermont offering standard and premium levels of access so that subscribers can choose the depth of content that suits them, and the service's archive — accumulated since 2000 — is itself a significant part of the product for readers researching companies.

Audience figures published by Aspermont relate to the group rather than to this title alone. In its 2026 conference announcements the company described itself as delivering content to over 3 million users and 5,000 corporate clients across 150 countries — a group-wide claim made by Aspermont about its whole portfolio, not a measured audience for MiningNews.net specifically. The title's reach is extended by its events role: MiningNews Select, the investment showcase the brand hosts in Perth, puts selected mining companies in front of institutional and retail investors, and the brand's social channels, including its long-standing Mining News & Jobs Facebook presence, distribute its coverage beyond the subscriber base.

Digital Presence

MiningNews.net is a digital-only publication; there is no print edition. Its website is built for continuous updating, with section fronts for each coverage channel, author pages for its journalists and columnists, and a subscriber paywall over its premium reporting. The relaunched platform was designed for viewing on mobile devices and for search-engine access to the archive, and the service has long been distributed through daily email newsletters, the format in which many subscribers consume it. Beyond the website, the brand fronts the MiningNews Select conference and maintains a social media presence that Aspermont has previously put at more than 30,000 followers for its Mining News & Jobs Facebook page.

Ownership and Organisation

MiningNews.net is published by Aspermont Limited, the Australian Securities Exchange-listed business media company (ASX: ASP) that specialises in the global resources industries. The copyright notice carried on the site's articles gives Aspermont Limited's address as Level 33, 152–158 St Georges Terrace, Perth WA 6000 — the company's Australian headquarters and the base from which the MiningNews editorial team has historically been led. Aspermont's June 2026 investor presentation also listed offices in London and Singapore, and its portfolio spans Mining Journal, which it describes as a 190-year flagship, Mining Magazine with Australia's Mining Monthly, Energy News Bulletin, the Mining IQ data platform and the Future of Mining events series. In recent years the group has described its model as Content-as-a-Service, combining subscription journalism with data products, marketing services through its Nexus agency and live events.

The brand also operates as an events business in its own right. MiningNews Select began as an investment showcase at which mining companies, screened by Aspermont's research team against a 13-metric index, present development projects to investors; the 2024 edition was held in Perth with Rule Investment Media, the 2025 edition at Crown Perth, and in June 2026 Aspermont co-located Future of Mining Australia and MiningNews Select at Crown Perth, announcing that the combined conferences would draw more than 2,000 mining industry participants, including over 500 executives and 100 speakers.

Contact and Availability

MiningNews.net is available by subscription at miningnews.net, with standard and premium access tiers; headlines and selected content are visible to non-subscribers, and the full news service, newsletters and archive sit behind the paywall. The publisher, Aspermont Limited, is based at Level 33, 152–158 St Georges Terrace, Perth, Western Australia, and subscription and advertising enquiries are handled through the website.