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• 25 June 2026The 2.5-Billion-Year-Old Lava That Built a Nickel FortuneHow 2.5-billion-year-old komatiite lava flows in Western Australia's Yilgarn Craton created the Kambalda nickel deposits—sulfide droplets that settled from the hottest lavas Earth has ever erupted.
• 20 June 2026The Nickel That Fell from a 1.9-Billion-Year-Old Fire: Western Australia's Kambalda DomeHow 1.9-billion-year-old volcanic eruptions in Western Australia's Kambalda region formed some of the world's richest nickel sulphide deposits—a story of magma, metal, and the Archaean seafloor.
• 24 May 2026The Magma That Forged a World of Green and Black: Tasmania's Serpentine HillsHow 500-million-year-old oceanic crust in Tasmania was thrust onto land, altered to serpentinite, and created a landscape of toxic soils, rare minerals, and the state's only nickel mine.
• 24 May 2026The Magma That Bled Nickel: Western Australia's Kambalda DomeHow 2.7-billion-year-old komatiite lavas in Western Australia's Kambalda Dome concentrated nickel sulphide into one of Earth's richest ore systems.
• 17 May 2026The Volcano That Built a Nickel Mine: Western Australia's Kambalda DomeHow 2.7-billion-year-old Archean komatiite lavas in Western Australia's Kambalda Dome concentrated nickel sulphides into one of the world's richest ore systems.
• 15 May 2026The Nickel That Grew in a Meteorite: Western Australia's Burek DepositAt Burek in Western Australia's Yilgarn Craton, a 2.7-billion-year-old meteorite impact created a unique nickel deposit where extraterrestrial metal mingled with ancient crust beneath a vanished lake.
• 11 May 2026The Nickel That Sank: The Kambalda Komatiite FlowsIn Western Australia's Kambalda Dome, 2.7-billion-year-old lava flows—komatiites—carried nickel from the mantle and deposited it in channels that still define the world's richest nickel province.