Mark Wembridge

Industrial salt the next hot commodity? Kerry Stokes is hoping so. And Australia is stepping up to the plate to supply booming global demand. bit.ly/4k2kunE

The photographer, the mother-in-law and Ellison’s lithium windfall - how the $15m IPO of @Kalimetals has become a point of focus for ASIC and its probe into @MRLMinRes. Another @FinancialReview joint effort with @MarkDiStef. bit.ly/3SZMc9F

A Walkley Award winner...who spent time in a Myanmar prison...using multiple online identities...to moonlight on @HotCopper...to talk up gold miner @AuricMining ...where he heads Investor Relations? It's a lot to take in. Here it is in @FinancialReview bit.ly/4kqFGVH

From beach summits to broking for billionaires - @FinancialReview today looks at Perth's colourful brokerage firms. (Just don't call them cowboys). They do things differently out West. bit.ly/3HhkSBl

Another week, another @MRLMinRes story in @FinancialReview. Does the new "cleanskin" chairman with zero mining experience have the gumption to go toe-to-toe with battle-hardened Chris Ellison in the boardroom? bit.ly/43mgh80

#uranium was one of the hottest trades of last year. Now the commodity dominates the list of most-shorted stocks on the @ASX. @ElouiseFowler and I look whether investors' bearish bets are warranted. @FinancialReview bit.ly/4jWQx9f

Lithium miners have endured a torrid run of late. The outlook is even worse for downstream processing. In the @FinancialReview today, @ElouiseFowler and I look at how Australia's downstream dream is turning into a nightmare. bit.ly/4c3GFYw

Another week, another @FinancialReview story with @MarkDiStef about @MRLMinRes. A leaked report into the miner's $3 billion Onslow Iron Ore project is quite the eye-opener. bit.ly/4io1kZ2

For our long read on unionisation in the Pilbara, @rabe9 and I interviewed a former WA premier, ministers and shadow ministers, unions, mining companies, lobby groups, and a bunch of FIFO workers drinking beers at a "skimpy" bar near Perth airport. bit.ly/3EnkwaP

Lynas Rare Earths cuts production as prices languish. @AmandaLacaze outlines why @LynasRareEarths is not rushing to increase output when prices are low bit.ly/4howU9u

@JohnCon14159894 Best of luck, John. The FT won’t be the same without you.

Today, the FT subs' bell peels for the final time. Farewell to all my followers. Retirement beckons. Ding a ling

@primroseriordan Best of luck! You did some brilliant work for the FT.

Excited to go home to take on a new challenge as a senior reporter covering private companies & family wealth: (That or starting a new CSI: Sydney🔍🕵🏻‍♀️😆) afr.com/companies/medi…

🚨After chasing down North Korean “businessmen” & encounters with HK’s pro-Beijingers, I’m finishing up as the FT’s South China correspondent⌛️ My time here has been during one of Hong Kong’s toughest periods and was a privilege as well as heartbreaking to cover it…

@RKWinvisibleman @AnotherAngryRed Sorry for your loss, Robert. Condolences to you and your family.

Earlier today, with me and @AnotherAngryRed by her side, my mother finally succumbed to the vascular dementia that gradually ate away at so much of herself. But it was a privilege to be with her and say the words of the prayer book: "Go forth from this world, o Christian soul..."

@SebastianEPayne @FinancialTimes @ukonward Best of luck, Seb. We will miss you.

Some personal news: after seven fantastic years at the @FinancialTimes, I'm delighted to be appointed director of @ukonward, Westminster's finest think tank. With politics shifting back towards policy, it's a great moment for some real pep and fresh thinking.

@ClaerB @PenguinUKBooks @EburyPublishing @FinancialTimes @FT_FLIC Will you record an audiobook version?

Some personal news... My first book, What They Don't Teach You About Money will be released in March 2023 'Need to know' stuff about money, written in a way that anyone can understand (with a pinch of sass!) Preorder here smarturl.it/ClaerBarrett @PenguinUKBooks @EburyPublishing

@katie_martin_fx Barbie Girl? Ice, Ice, Baby?

@JennHughes13 @FT Welcome back! We missed you

Excited to be heading to NYC in a couple of months and rejoining @FT. I will of course miss Hong Kong and my great colleagues at Breakingviews and Reuters. Still, onwards!

@mibruning @Bloomberg Congrats!

👉 New career adventure: I’m excited to join @Bloomberg as a breaking news editor, covering US politics and regulation. It’ll be busy! Grateful and thrilled to be able to stay in NYC. 🗽

@Zoe_Curtis_ Such sad news - she was a wonderful person. Her stories about being an air hostess were hilarious (as was her distaste for Frank Sinatra's behaviour on one particular flight!)

Any Herald Sun and Leader journos who happened to get their 120 words a minute (or not!) in the last few decades of the '90s and in the first few decades of the 2000s will likely have more than a few fond memories of News Corp's shorthand stalwart Loreto Kelly. (thread)

@henrymance The IEA also seems to have invented a day that begins with R (point 2). Impressive