Deals Deals Deals! Whitehaven’s Wins BHP’s Mines and LPI gets scooped up by Codelco

A day for the deal junkies! Whitehaven (WHC) have been confirmed as the preferred bidder for BHP’s Blackwater and Daunia assets, in one of the more long-winded asset sales the mining market has seen. Lithium Power International (LPI) also announced that they’d sold themselves to the Chilean state-owned copper giant, Codelco. The deal valued them at $385m, or 57c a piece. We touch on the decision made by Glencore (GLEN) to shut it’s Mt Isa copper operations in the later part of 2025. We round ...