Demoted for mentioning ‘the glass cliff’? Chris Bradley was just speaking truth

Leonardo Maria Del Vecchio has given a wide-ranging interview as he ramped up his criticism of the leadership of his family’s company.

Flight QF6 was cancelled at the weekend and the Boeing 787 Dreamliner involved was booked for extra cleaning after passengers on an earlier flight complained of being bitten.

The sharemarket has started the week higher after banks rallied in anticipation of US earnings season.

Larvotto has hit high-grade gold and made a new discovery at its NSW Hillgrove mine, with multiple high-grade hits from the Blacklode and Midas lodes, in addition to a new lode dubbed “Echidna”.

There is plenty of blame to share and no shortage of schadenfreude at data centre player Firmus’ failure to launch. But it’s hardly a “great loss for Australia”.

Critical Resources has boots on the ground in Suriname, advancing due diligence on two gold projects as big players like Gold Fields plough capital into the region.

Drivers in Australia have not faced pump prices this high since the opening weeks of the Iran war. Things are unlikely to change until the situation is resolved.

Horizon Gold has struck 44m at 5.08g/t gold at its 2.3Moz Gum Creek project, pointing to growth beyond its 728,000-ounce definitive feasibility study reserve in WA, as drilling continues.

Dalaroo Metals has logged a 34m altered and veined zone 1.25km from its recent high-grade gold discovery in Africa. The geology appears similar, with assays pending.

With a very odd agreement with Moscow, Trump has made another desperate bid to try to bring oil prices down.

King River Resources has kicked off an 11,000m drill blitz at its Mindoolah gold project in WA, targeting extensions to high-grade hits and large, untested anomalies.

Critica Limited has delivered a maiden 160 million tonne indicated resource at its giant Jupiter rare earths project in WA, lifting confidence in 10 per cent of the deposit ahead of a scoping study.