Revenue jumped nearly 70% to A$202.7 million ($145.56 million) for the December quarter.

Iron ore production from Western Australia was 73.9mt in the three months ended December, up from 70.4mt a year ago.

After sitting dormant for more than a decade, miner is positioning itself for a return to large-scale M&A.

The mine has faced opposition from environmental activists and local communities over concerns of environmental damage.

The world's biggest iron ore producer shipped 84.1 million tonnes of the commodity in the three months to Dec. 31.

The gold miner posted record production for the year, with a total of 1.4 million oz.

Ranking of world’s 20 best selling electric cars and their battery metals show automakers grappling with soaring raw material prices.

“We’ve got decades worth of high rates of investment into infrastructure as the world seeks to decarbonize. That’s a widely held consensual view."